Man, I thought he was kidding.

[thebitterguy]

Over on RPG.net, there's a guy, Lev Lafayette who's been reviewing old stuff. No, OLD stuff. Like, the newest thing is a New Infinities book.

He recently did Tomb of Horrors. Now, I've enjoyed his work, in the same way I enjoy those fan films I keep showing y'all.

I thought it was a strange art project of some kind, but apparently, I am wrong. He even has an LJ: tcpip.

I encourage everyone to give it a look. It's... something like fun.

Comments

[artbroken.livejournal.com]

Lev's a local; I know him, but not well.

He's very much an old-schooler, but not a D&D old-schooler; been playing Runequest and the like for decades. So the reviews are very much legit, even if there's an agenda behind many of them.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

You're weird.

[uhlrik.livejournal.com]

Talk to the man, not to the mirror.

[thebitterguy]

Ah. Runequest. That probably explains a lot.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

You need to check out his review for the AD&D DMG, along with the the comment thread that it generated.

::B::

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Oh, ye ghods, how I hate Tomb of Horrors.

One of my favorite reviews is this 1999 one of the D&D Basic Set, first edition. (http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_1491.html)

[thebitterguy]

That's a passionate debate. I like Bill Coffin's contribution.

[thebitterguy]

I ran it for some friends when 3E came out. They cheated, and I still killed them. Hah!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

He's very much an old-schooler, but not a D&D old-schooler;

Not so! I think it was the end of 1981 when I picked up the D&D Basic and Expert sets (the Moldvay sets), and spent about an irregular two years playing them (including all the old classic modules, B1, B2, B3, X1, X2, X4, X5); about a year into it I ran into some AD&D players so started doing that as well for a couple of years. Then I started going to Unigames (UWA) where (apart from a game of the newly released MERP and Star Trek etc) I ended up in another AD&D game (this time Dragonlance).

Becoming actually old enough to attend uni as a student rather than just a gamer I started a gaming club at Murdoch which, as was my want, was initially heavily orientated around Rolemaster, but not without an annual AD&D mini-gaming con. As the club moved on to GURPS and Champions, AD&D2e came out and I played a bit of it.

After moving to Melbourne I managed to find some WoD gamers which was fun enough, but then discovered another group who were old school AD&D1e players - so we started another game. That one went on for over three years. Eventually we decided to give D&D3e a whirl for a year or so, which was quite mighty...

At the moment I'm playing/running (rotating DMs) AD&D1e in a game that's been going for almost a year; A1-A4, G1-3, D1-3, Q1... I'm thinking about "upgrading" (ha!) after this to AD&D2e and doing a Planescape game..

Crazy talk, I know..

[artbroken.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I knew you'd played plenty of D&D, but had the impression that your heart truly belonged to Runequest.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Well, I do think RQ is a better game overall (although maybe not with D&D3.x) and certainly Glorantha a better game-world than Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft etc, but I've played a lot more xD&D.