Work (hope?) continues, as seen by posts at Dragonsfoot.  My gut instinct is that we will see this eventually.  Will it be worth the wait?  Doesn't seem possible...

I keep up with the Dragonsfoot L4 thread because it's a hoot....every six months or so they announce imminent release, followed by hosannas from the faithful, expressions of joy and glee, rounds of back slapping by the "editors", and lots of comments about "Finally!" (since in all this project has taken almost five years)....only to have everyone disappear for six more months and start the entire process over again.  Funniest thread on DF, by far.  

BTW, last official comment there was near the end of November, crowing of it's release....after which two months of silence have followed....!  BTW, for maximum enjoyment, the thread below must be read from start to finish.  

And yes, at this point it would have to be a combo of Dark Tower, the GDQ series, and the unpublished Castle Greyhawk to ever match the excessive wait and hype.

I find it hilarious individuals here can brainstorm, write, edit, get artwork done, submit and publish their own works here on the Acaeum in one tenth of the time it's taken DF to merely "edit" L4......but it does reinforce my understandable prejudices about people on both sites!

Mike B.

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20770

RaisedFromTheDead wrote:I'm not sure I've ever been to DraggingFoot's forum. Is it any good?

It is reasonably lively. A fairly broad spectrum of older gaming forums, and a very active general nonsense forum. There was a good deal of input from some of the big names in D&D, not sure if they are still active.

For active gameplay DF is a very good forum. All the news and discussions for all edditions of D&D as well as C&C and other minor OD&D clones.

Specifically for DMs and taylored towards design and DMing, Knights and Knaves has a great deal to offer, but it's a slower thread and you need to read back through the threads to get some really good ideas and information.

Acaeum is the only place to go if you're a collector, or if you're just interested in knowing what's what, the history behind it, what's for sale, what's worth buying, and what's worth money.

There are a stack of other minor boards dotted around, but those are the active ones.

If you enjoy 23 pages of crap about dual-classing by a guy obviously trolling, DF is for you!!!  

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=40318

I kid, I kid.

K&K is great but there is very little activity. Days can go by without useful posts.

Mike B.

The problem with DF is that you have to wade through a sea of crap to try to find the bits of good information. On one or two threads you may have nore luck that the majority, but how many of us have the time to read all that crap?

At least K&K is reletively concise and narrow in scope. Like Acaeum is, we pretty much keep focused and on topic here. DF just isn't like that. At least that's my impression of the site.

Here's another focused forum with a high signal-to-noise ratio:

http://odd74.proboards.com/index.cgi

Original D&D Discussion.

This one is focused on the original set (aka OD&D). I like this forum and K&K because they each have a dedicated Holmes Basic forum (unlike Dragonsfoot, which lumps Holmes and OD&D in with Classic).

Yaaaaayhhaaa! Its finally completed! Thank's Len and team!

bclarkie wrote:FWIW, this is about to be released over the weekend.  

Finally.  

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... &start=495

134 pages long and 40 MB of data.  

Duke Nukem Forever can't be far behind!