Also, they are as close to Rules As Written a game designed for DOS can allow - complete with coinage having weight. (Unfortunately, there isn't really a bank in the games you can use to stash some of your cash in, like Bethesda would later use in Arena & Daggerfall.)
My town recently had a FLGS open. Their stock distribution was: a bunch of shelves of Warhammer, A ton more shelves of MTG and Pokémon behind the counter, and one small set of shelves (basically a 1x3 set of Kallax) for RPG books, mostly D&D.
The do have table space for play, but they also do...
There was a bit in a KODT strip with a throwaway gag about the uses of purple impalers "With Brian talking about 'slay and filet'" until they got into the main gag that was BA's new Critical Miss tables.
Man, I wish there was a tabletop gaming equivalent of the Video Game History Foundation for stuff like those convention programs and art slides to go to (the kind of ephemera that everyone thinks isn't worth anything and throws away until the time comes where a researcher actually needs it and...
Probably taking out another Ancestry that's too close to 3rd edition, rather than retconning the damn thing to something closer to the Creative Commons licensed 5e SRD.
Sorry for the Necro, but I've found a teeny bit more information on this from a Japanese perspective - specifically an interview with Ryu Mizuno (creator of Lodoss) among others, for the anniversary of Lodoss and the new edition of the Lodoss RPG.
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