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It is kinda funny seeing the narrative pushed along the lines that wizards are OP. Im seeing the great wizard extinction event. The...

While Wizards still generally get to cast the most spells per day of any long rest caster due to their ritual mechanics . . . . . . I...

It depends on were you consider the “edge” to be. There is a lot of stuff that is gravitationally part of the galaxy beyond the visible...

For me? Because we freely threw out any of the rules from 1E we didn't understand or like, which mostly left us with 5E!

Coming from a world of Video games and sports, TTRPGs is the only hobby that I know that is a completely flexible, open-canvas...

Well, it’s important when you’re making a show, because it informs what happens in your show.

Canon is the stuff you like. I find this is a much better way to approach the question, "what is true in fiction?".

I rather like the idea of Alien: Earth has a soft reboot of the whole thing. Rather than worrying about where it cotradicts, I mean.

"nameless things gnawing on the roots of the Earth" really stuck in my head. Right - he was not a novelist. He was a really good...

One of my favorites: LotR isn't a trilogy, it's one book that was split into three volumes by Allen & Unwin prior to its initial...

I don't doubt it - he could make the phone book sound good. Look, I'm not denying that there is some good dialogue in Tolkien, just as...

Have you listened to the audiobooks of LotR as read by Andy Serkis? He brings the dialogue to life.

He was never satisfied with Orcs. He didn't want them to be irredeemable but he never wrote any objectively heroic ones either. They...

I think that how many second world creators for TTRPGs and fiction novels imagine Tolkien's world-building is heavily skewed by what...