More old articles that I wrote in 2001. Boy, that’s a long time ago now. I wasn’t 30 yet! In terms of dating, these are just before the Greyhawk Wars, circa 581 C.Y. My current campaigns are set in 596 C.Y. or thereabouts. TRITHEREON The Temple of Trithereon lies in the River Quarter of the City of Greyhawk, attended by only a very small clergy. … Continue reading Greyhawk – Trithereon, Heironeous, Zilchus and Hextor
Is it just me, or is the Petrelli family looking a lot like the family of Oberon of Amber? Inbred, manipulative (or manipulated) people with links to everyone else? Oh, and they’re effectively gods to normal people. Just watched "I am Become Death" (Destroyer of Worlds), and I was really struck by the resemblance to the characters of Roger Zelazny’s Nine Princes in Amber… which … Continue reading Heroes and Amber
No, not really. Just according to these really stupid Amazon stats I pulled from their site. Continue reading Castle Greyhawk (AD&D joke module) outselling Pathfinder!
I posted a number of articles on Canonfire in the past. I’d like to put another copy up in my blog just in case CF disappears. So, here is a pair of linked Greyhawk articles which may have relevance to current campaigns… The Church of Xan-Yae (September 2001) The Church of Xan-Yae never had a strong following in the City of Greyhawk. A few years ago, … Continue reading The Church of Xan-Yae
Peter Lee on maxminis.com The visible figures have an uncommon rarity assigned for collectability purposes, but the average number of the paint steps for those figure exceeds the current rare paint step allocation. Effectively, the visible figure has double the paint steps that an average uncommon had in the old system. Continue reading Peter Lee on visible mini quality
In response to a post on Wizards.com forums: I’m certainly not ready to show miniatures from a set that won’t release for nearly half a year, but I’ll take your desire to see the paint master next to a production figure under consideration when it is time for me to write the previews for the set. Continue reading Peter Lee on previews
At present, I’m running one of my groups through the H series of Wizards adventures; we’re about half-way through H2 at present. To some extent, I think the adventures published for a game display the feel of that game far more than the core rulebooks do. When I think about AD&D, it’s not really the rules that I concentrate on: it’s the early adventures. T1-4, … Continue reading Thoughts on Wizards’ 4e adventures
Well, another weekend – and my parents are back from Europe. More on that later. I also had my regular D&D 4E sessions, and both were excellent in very different ways. The Castle Zagyg campaign was wacky and really enjoyable. Martin and Peggy were fairly tired, so it was left up to Adam and Nate to do the running… oh, dear. They reached the … Continue reading Weekend D&D 4e Gaming
Peter Lee WoTC‘s ability to co-ordinate the miniature releases with the adventurers released at a similar time continues to be less than impressive. Yup, you’re right. I’m working on it. Here’s the problem: The miniature path is close to 18 months to go from concept to your FLGS’s shelf. The path for getting a module from concept to your FLGS’s shelf is a lot … Continue reading Peter Lee on issues facing D&D Miniatures
Scott RouseWas the 8-mini for $15 model not profitable? Why the change to a 5-mini for $15 model. What exactly does WOTC see as the value-add here? I tried to explain this in my post but I have to be careful on the level of detail I provided (publicly traded and all). Costs were (are) climbing so to maintain the business at its current level something has … Continue reading More official responses to the change
