She’s still writing, btw. The rest of her blog is actually worth reading, even if she hasn’t changed much.

“There is a long tunnel ending with T.”

In DnD players go to end of tunnel and decide which way to go.
In shadowrun players starts to panic.

Though last time I messed with the map, I think I just went ahead and edited it with pixelmator, rather than hand editing.

4E D&D is like being thrust into Secondlife…anything’s possible…if you code it. My last D&D Campaign was heavily invested in immersion into the Forgotten Realms history which was woven into the ongoing official storyline. Having that effectively removed I’m left with the rules…which are good, fast paced, and completely malleable…but with “setting” stripped from any other set of rpg rules the completely malleable remains.

And to help the players feel invested, they get to weigh in on the campaign world’s history. They think of a cool idea, even in the midst of gameplay, I’m not going to tell them “no, not in this world” unless it countermands something already established.

But, yes, I do mourn the passing of the core fluff books (they published core books for Forgotten Realms, Eberron and Dark Sun, but not much more than that). The game is worse without the option of a solid, well rounded “official” world.