Troll Lord Games

Alcahaelas wrote: ... ...Especially since the group will have three kids (ages 12, 12 and 9) who've never RP'd before and two others (ages 19, 19) who are relatively inexperienced. ... FWIW, with newbies, some of them younger players, I don't think you can go wrong by neing heavy on the rewards and...

rabindranath72 wrote: Hi Gary, an LA question: can the Theurgy activations in LA Essential be used to define an "evil cleric" type of character? It would seem that almost all the activations in the book are designed for "good" types. Thanks, Antonio Malign ecclesiastics practice...

Alcahaelas wrote: Here's a question for you Gary--with no puns, I promise! In my previous campaigns run long and long ago I had a decent amount of magic (as in physical treasure mostly) available to the characters. I've played in games where magic was over the top, I've played in others where magic...

No more bad puns, hear!

Gary

CODE MONKEYS "APPEARANCE"

For those interested, I'll be on next Wednesday's Code Monkey program in the 9 PM slot. It is D&D-based, of course.

Cheers,

Gary

Fat Dragon Games wrote: You sound like my wife. She keeps telling me we're never going to have a booth babe for the FDG booth, but that a "booth dude" would be totally acceptable to her. Set up two booths, one with a babe, one with a guy, and see which one grosses more. At GenCon I'll lay...

serleran wrote:
The sketch is decent, but I prefer the photo. Its like comparing anime to porn... the anime might look cool, or be amazing, but the porn is real. Real is better.

"Real" is in the flesh methinks. Everything else is a shadow of that reality.

Gary

Storm Queen wrote: Mini brains-in-jars? I expect so. Possibly used as stress-balls. I'm thinking of crossing the pond next year and visiting GenCon in person. I wonder if there are nicely leanly-muscled booth-men in loincloths to offset all of the booth-babes? Not many in a gathering that is about ...

Buttmonkey wrote:
You obviously never smelled my dad's gas back when we ran 1E in 1982. So many snack foods, so much held breath! My skin still hasn't returned to a healthy shade.

Heh!

I make beans for the pre-LGGC porch party, dude
By natural color skin, do you mean Cheeto orange?

Gary

Well now...

How can I not be a friend to my fellow gamers? (At least those that are not making themselves a royal pain! )

Gary

To All That Have PostedL

My thanks, and excuse me for not taking the time to reply individually to each and every response here. There are so many here and on other boards that I just haven't the time and energy. (That'll teach me to put up the con report )

Gary

Deogolf wrote:
Yeah, that "Mr." Gygax guy is pretty cool (and special too!)!
Thanks a million, Gary!!

John,

Stop posting here and come to the game sessions! Mike Johnston says he hopes to be able to return to thursday night serrions soon
Cheerio,

Gary

Fat Dragon Games wrote: No worries about not getting to the booth Gary, I've already got your stuff boxed up and will get it off to you in the next day or two. I'm just glad we met up at the Troll Lord booth on Saturday! Hey Tom! Because of the press of gamers, getting around the floor in that scoo...

moriarty777 wrote: Thanks for sharing Gary... I sincerely hope that I meet you in person one day. I do have one question... something that caught me attention when I was reading your post -- the house rule which I quoted above. Could you give me a bit more info on it? Is this something used every t...

Gary was so swamped by fans that he hardly had time for a break
Otherwise I would have enhoyed shooting the breeze with those at the TLG booth.

Where were those lovely sailing ships, and why were there fantasy figures in the pic with them?!
Cheerio,

Gary

Thanks fellows
Remember that I am a gamer too, so do call me Gary
Cheers,

Gary

<r>A BRIEF GENCON XL REPORT<br/> <br/> This is being sent to several lists, posted on the websites I frequent, so as to not miss anyone.<br/> <br/> As this is written on the Wednesday after our return I am still not fully recovered from the whole event. What follows is a terse prcis of my trip to In...

<t>I am on a lot of boards, so it is no rare treat to have me poking my nose in and sounding off <br/> The card game series is a winner though, and when all four are available having them on hand will answer many a gaming need when there's not enough time for a longer one...and they are bound to be ...

Winning is great, but enjoying the play of the game, win or lose, it paramount
Cheers,

Gary

I'd rather play the chess-like combat game as a break from fantasy
Cheers,

Gary

<t>Heh...<br/> <br/> The designer of the card game is K.R. Bourgoine, and I plated a couple of games with him at Lake Geneva Gaming Convention III in June. It is a fast and enjoyable...even if I lost one of the two forays.<br/> <br/> The concept of a chess-like battle game where the powers of the pi...

<t>That much of what was considered hard SF back when totally missed the computer, not to mention its permutations, and its pervasiveness in virtually all contemporary activity sort of makes even the science-based speculation fantasy I should think.<br/> <br/> The easiest fantasy genre to describe i...

<t>Most assuredly there are diverse opinions as to what constitutes Swords & Sorcery as a literary sub-genre of Fantasy.<br/> <br/> In my view Treebore's comments are spot on. Howard and Leiber were light on the sorcery, while Moorcock and Saberhagen include more of it. All of them write materia...

concobar wrote:
Empire of the east by Fred Saberhagen and the book of swords have influenced many of my games. IMO those are some of the best adventure stories ever put on paper.

Old Col. Pladoh won't argue with you there...that might offend the Emperor John Ominor
Cheers,

Gary

old school gamer wrote:
Pot-boilers are not neccessarily bad novels. A Christmas Carol from Dickens was a pot-boiler after all.

Surely you are not comparing the wretched prose attempts of Lin Carter to the writing of Charles Dickens
Gary

All I can say is:

What fo you mean, "just" ?!

Gary

Jim Ward informed me that Studio 2 will be selling his MA game at GenCon.

Cheerio,

Gary

serleran wrote: Jim will be at LGGC this year, yes? If so, and I can get there, I think I'd like to get my copy then... makes it easier. But, no reason to have him lug a copy about i I can't show up, so... maybe its best if he doesn't. Would be nice, though. Definitely have to make it there, again,...

Yup!

I too would enjoy seeing some interesting support material for the MA game
Cheers,

Gary

gideon_thorne wrote: Hmmm. I'll talk to the main man and see what he might need. I have a few designs for ships of the Millinium Falcon sized variety, but I think it would be fun to come up with some designs for 'generation' ships. ^_^ Good Show! As a matter of fact I did one myself. The maps are l...