Knights & Knaves Alehouse

Lets face it folks, when it comes to the likes of Enworld and RPGNet they are really nothing more than the online gaming communty equivalent of K-Mart/Wal-mart. DF is like Sears in that its been around for along time now but has moved away from its roots and is ever expanding to make itself more like a discount store (enworld). Luckily there are enough old regulars still there to prevent it from selling out wholesale.

Sites like K&K and Delver's Dungeon are speciality stores that are not yet large but growing stronger and gradually getting bigger. The difference though is that becasue of the intestinal fortitude of the folks that run these sites, they won't sell out and change format to try to be all-encompassing kum-by-ya havens for every loather of old school games and gaming style. Nor do sites like these jump on the bandwagon to support every new game that comes down the pike that claims it's this or that-- when it really isn't.

Is that eleatist in approach? Yup. But that isn't a bad thing unless you believe what the crybabies from the kum-by-ya sites are wimpering about. When it gets right down to it you cannot get a hand stitched, measured to fit custom suit at the big box stores and you never will. But hey, if you prefer a polyester $20 off the rack chiwanese suit--

more power to ya. Just don't try telling me that I have to like them or carry them too.

I check in on both EnWorld and rpg.net on a more-or-less daily basis. Yeah, 90% of the stuff there (way more than that actually -- 90% of the stuff in the main/general forum, and 100% of the stuff in all the subforums) is at best of no interest and at worst annoying, but both sites have enough traffic that I'm usually able to find at least one or two threads per visit that I consider worth reading. That's more than I can say for DF recently.

Wow, gaming/game sites compared to big box stores. Now I've seen it all!

AxeMental wrote:Yeah, check it out, Strangers about to be ripped apart by pissed off giant baby geckos.

http://osu.proboards40.com/index.cgi?ac ... 046&page=4
(BTW spoiler alert: this module will be for sale hopefully (fat chance) before Christmass, so if you want to keep it a surprise don't read it).

Good luck stranger.

Axe, that's great news. I really enjoyed the birthday cake scene and actually keep saving the latest maps to my HDD. Will your module be self published or are you going to use one of the established ones? How about a name?

AxeMental wrote:Yeah, check it out, Strangers about to be ripped apart by pissed off giant baby geckos.

http://osu.proboards40.com/index.cgi?ac ... 046&page=4
(BTW spoiler alert: this module will be for sale hopefully (fat chance) before Christmass, so if you want to keep it a surprise don't read it).

Good luck stranger.

Axe, that's great news. I really enjoyed the birthday cake scene and actually keep saving the latest maps to my HDD. Will your module be self published or are you going to use one of the established ones? How about a name?

If I do it it'll be self published, it might not be pretty (unless I find someone to do my layout and proofing) but will have a great cover, great interior art (or at least I'll like it) and a deadly 1E style module. I have always been a fan of epic stories that are true adventures without bounds (Good Bad and the Ugly for instance) and I hope this is one that has that effect (I'm thinking about a 30 page module, open ended as possible so the PCs create the story. :wink. ).

There is no better feeling (OK maybe there are but you get the idea) then finding a crinckly potato chip stained character sheet from years past and be able to remember the heroic (or masterfully unheroic) exploits from this or that cool adventure. When just surviving was winning. (If it ever gets published) survivors should feel changed...like heroes coming back from WWII, unable to cope with the boredom and monotony of regular life (and in this case "regular" girly-man adventures (the kind so prevalent in many D20 products.)

I have no idea on a name for the module. What do you think of just AXE MENTAL PRESENTS Deadly Dungeons (for the series name) or something (and FES published)?

This rpg.net thread is pretty cool:

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=292927

It's about 1e and OSRIC. It was started just this morning and is already up to 6 pages.

D@mmit Bones. Good find ... though I have a meeting from 1-5 today. It'll have to wait. Bummer.

However, it is now 8 pages as of noon GMT-5

whats enworld?

messedabout wrote:whats enworld?

A big 3e site.

messedabout wrote:whats enworld?

According to the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Internet, enworld is ...

"A bunch of jerks who'll be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes."

Hey, I'm new around here. Howdy! I just thought I'd pop on this thread and mention theRPGsite.com as a place with fairly active boards. Not a lot of discussions of older editions of D&D, but not hostile at all. I find it less crazy than RPGnet and less specialized than EN World.

(In the interests of full disclosure I should mention that I'm an admin there, but that's because I find it less crazy than RPGnet and less specialized than EN World.)

Sometimes I wonder if RPGnet is actually the Exhalted headquarters on the web.

WSmith wrote:Sometimes I wonder if RPGnet is actually the Exhalted headquarters on the web.

Considering it usually dominates almost half of the 1st page in RPG Open...I'd say that's a good bet.