Message board archive

[an unfinished sandbox]

Tales of D&D: The Storytelling Game

Link to my writings at the official Mystara amateur site, The Vaults of Pandius

The Sea Kingdoms: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mystara.reborn/permalink/2526044904106726/

Using previous D&D miniature games or boardgames to make a simpler D&D RPG?

Castle Mistamere, Tower of Zenopus, and other early sample dungeons

"If I were the steward of the imagined world of Mystara"

"Ancient Oerth texts found by TSR?"

"Is D&D Next a translation of the 5th iteration of Pluffet Smedger's proto-rpg?"

"A Setting for all Settings; an Open Game for all Imaginative Worlds"

"After Ed Greenwood's FR, Gary Gygax's Greyhawk"

"Things that probably won't happen, but man would be cool if they did." (and part two)

"Which 'foreign' languages have seen D&D?"

"Grand History of the Multiverse"

"Appendix E: Worldbooks for all 57 Authors?"

"The many worlds of D&D? The many multiverses of D&D? The many realities of D&D?"

"The Realm of the D&D Cartoon Show as a 5e campaign model"

Connections and Inspirations from Other Worlds, or Six Degrees of Separation from Mystara

Tales of the Comeback Inn

"History of Level-Limits in Krynn?"

List of "Illegal" Monsters in Krynn?

Bruce Heard's "Talking 3e For Mystara"

The Un-Setting: the Default Core World in 5e

Gazetteer of the D&D Worlds

Forget d20 Star Wars...bring on The Galactos Barrier as a "D&D Future" setting.

12 Heroes, 12 Anti-Heroes, and 12 Villains of the D&D Multiverse

To Mike Mearls: C'mon, bring back the whole D&D Multiverse!

Who would you cast as Drizz't? (Tiger Shroff Bollywood martial artist)

How I would design Spelljammer

What's cool about Mystara

Talking 5E for Mystara

Explaining Realities:: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?645464-Planejammer-Spellscape&p=7442150&viewfull=1#post7442150

Making a case for mapping whole multiverse: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?645464-Planejammer-Spellscape&p=7442773&viewfull=1#post7442773

Eight realities: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?652325-The-D-amp-D-Multiverse-How-it-Was-and-How-They-Might-Be-Screwing-it-Up&p=7471878&viewfull=1#post7471878

Combining SJ and "real-life" outerspace: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?652091-Sage-Advice-Plane-and-world-hopping-(includes-how-Eberron-and-Ravnica-fit-in-D-amp-D-cosmology)&p=7471869&viewfull=1#post7471869

Crisis on Infinite Oerths: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?659867-The-D-amp-D-Multiverse-needs-a-quot-Crisis-on-Infinite-Oerths-quot&p=7616188#post7616188

ND&D...Narrative D&D: https://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?660097-Narrative-D-amp-D-ND-amp-D-Imagine-if-the-game-played-just-like-the-D-amp-D-novels&p=7621306#post7621306

Hellenic Adventures / Theros: https://www.enworld.org/threads/16-more-details-about-theros.670691/post-7933275

Hellenic Adventures: names for Bard and Entertainer: https://www.enworld.org/threads/16-more-details-about-theros.670691/post-7934410

13th Age 2nd Edition: convert entire OGC SRDs from start: https://www.enworld.org/threads/multiclassing-in-d-d-3rd-edition.670888/post-7946014

My EN World messages: http://www.enworld.org/forum/search.php?searchid=3340720

Zelda: An Interpretive Toolbox for Sifting and Integrating the Timelines, Dimensions, Realities, and Maps of Hyrule.

D&D Alignment - J. Tweet: https://www.enworld.org/threads/alignment-in-d-d.671817/post-7979332

As a historical aside, I think I may have invented the word "Psion." Back on the old WotC message boards, back in the run-up to 3E, back when Ryan Dancey was posting a lot...in those conversations I posted a list of core classes I'd like to see for 3E. At that time, I assumed that the 2E "class groups" (Priest, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard, Psionicist) would continue in 3E. In my chart of proposed classes, I introduced "Psion" as the name of the class group. I felt the "-icist" was not essential to the name. Soon after that, "Psion" entered the discourse.

Of course this more succinct name could have been readily intuited/invented by others, and it would be hard to prove, without looking back at the msg board archives and interviewing the designers from back then. Anyway, it's just a little detail within the D&D Multiverse. And, off hand, I don't even remember my msg board handle from that time. But a bit of speculative history.

Also co-authored, with Shawn Stanley, the name of the official Mystara website: Vaults of Pandius.