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MLP: Friendship is Dungeons & Dragons - MLP and D&D archetypes, and
Unknown Ponies: Failure is Awesome - an MLP RPG using the Unknown Armies system.

Both by Erin Palette.

Warhammer Chaos is just Runequest Chaos. I'm pretty sure it's mostly Nemesis 'Khaos.' Seriously, reading about Torquemada and his Terminators and their anti-alien crusade really makes you wonder how GW didn't get sued out of existence as soon as 40K dropped. At the time 40K:RT was fermenting GW had...

So many problems with party balance are solved if you've got one guy running a party. It makes me wonder if perhaps the hobby would best be moved to a group of 2-3, one GM and a small number of players each running multiple characters at once, rather than the current setup of one character to a pla...

I'm getting it because it's three bucks, will entertain me for a couple hours (more if it's especially bad or good), and then will be fodder for a review. On top of that, I like kickstarter in theory and practice, I strongly approve of the low price point, I prefer products which have been distille...

What's the USP of this book? Any reason you'd buy this if you already have something like Magical Society: Silk Road?

The OSR is a cat herd loosely definable as those guys who play 'not-WOTC-D&D' (except for those who do). Really, anything you can say about the OSR crowd has at least one counter-example. Some have never stopped playing AD&D. Others are 3E or 4E exiles. Some play retro-clones or licensed D&a...

Sounds a bit like the original Outdoor Survival , albeit with an objective of "find new stuff" rather than "get out of the wilderness". The similar Trapper (you play a beast-skinning mountain man in the Canadian wilds and score points for getting canoes of skins to rendezvous) ma...

"Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things." (after Lord Dunsany) The ongoing work of The Den in red...

OD&D has (sketchy, but present) rules for mass, naval, and aerial combat, building castles, running baronies, and hiring retainers. All but the last was absent from core 1e to 4e (note that 3e was the "back to the dungeon" edition). BECMI had all those too, albeit often a bit ropey. B...

The old Dawn of the Empires and Champions of Mystara box sets for BECMI had rules for building things like flying ships and floating islands chunk-by-chunk. The latter set included some simple equations for surface area and weight calculation of hulls.

The point is that warhammer/Games Workshop gets away with a level of classism/racism/regionalism that is both disgusting and astounding. I really don't understand how they get away with it. Easily explained. Identity isn't such a hot button issue in the UK as it is in the US, and Brits have a long-...

Dwarves = Scots has been pretty much gamer orthodoxy since John Rhys Davis did Gimli with a wandering Celtic accent, but the idea took root long before. Thrifty types who hold a grudge for centuries and live in dour rocky places full of sheep and hairy cattle. Yep, sounds pretty Scottish to me. Who ...

The Taer in "Unapproachable East" are another M-sized Giant type creature.

Single favourite thing?

The scaling feats of "Races of War"; what "Iron Heroes" meant all along.

WG4 - Forbidden Temple of Thurizdan. It's a module that requires careful reading and thought by the DM, and a sense of genre-savvy wariness on the part of the exploring party. It also deviates radically from the trad. "kill the monster, take its pie" model of D&D dungeoneering in that ...

I think it's pretty cool. I wonder how many other instances of gaming penetrating the Iron Curtain there were. From a Gaming History angle it's fascinating. Clutch A blog post on the Polish fantasy heartbreaker RPG "Krysztaly Czasu" (Time Crystals), originally published 1993. One of the c...

It may not be germane, but the Old Schoolians use a random table format (natch) they call "The Devil's in the Details" to generate factoids, rumours and common knowledge about particular in-game groups. You have your monster book S.O.P. stuff: initial description and maybe a picture of [th...

Inspirational material for Gygaxian D&D: Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions , Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, E.R.Burroughs, R.E.Howard, Klarkash-ton, Tolkien. IM for 2E: Pern, Shannara, Eddings' copypaste-verse, Vald Taltos (multi-volume frilly shirt coffee klatch fantasy). IM for 3E: TSR D...

Didn't "Rune" have an entirely adversarial player/GM relationship built into the game? IIRC the GM scored by killing characters, the players by defeating the GM's evil schemes. The highest scoring player became the GM for the next session. How was the GM kept in check? Anything he did to t...

OD&D: Incomplete Edition
B/X: Otus Memorial Shroom Edition
BECMI: Gateway Drug Edition

1.0: Gary Does Coke Edition
2.0: Comedown Edition
2.5: Self-Destruction Edition

3.0: Caster Fap Edition
3.5: MOAR Caster Fap Edition
4.0: Epic Failcraft

Eh? How did that happen? I'm sure this was an active thread.

*has teh shame*

The Stone Thing[/U], a work of either extremely broad handed parody or possibly just the very worst of the crap he put to paper in high school.[br][br]-Username17 "The Stone Thing" was Moorcock consciously parodying the totemic weapon aspects of his own Eternal Champion franchise. At leas...

James Mishler's Chartistry: A History of D&D has commentary on the various editions, and a family tree of pre-3E editions, variants & spin-offs

Given the shortage of people on the Den interested in the idea of games that encourage a given behaviour through anything other than mechanical effects, do you honestly expect anything would make that happen? Elennsar, anyone and his dog can change the fluff/flavour text/skin on workable mechanics ...