Recent content by Athiev

Well said! This was very much what I was trying to express, but I think you've said it far more effectively and clearly.

Just to add some context; the US campaign to pass an Equal Rights Amendment largely happened in the 1970s, a movement that involved countless American women and men during the same time period when D&D was being created. Gygax was a "product of his times," certainly, but he also took sides on...

It's currently for sale on Kindle, which has a separate rank system and isn't directly comparable, but the book ranks about 23,000 in the Kindle store, compared with Fellowship of the Ring ranking about 1200. But Kindle sales are obviously murkier. If you want, we can look at sales of the most...

Presumably, the relevant information would be recent sales for the novels, rather than sales figures from many decades ago. Today, the first Dragonlance novel ranks 1,163,278 among books on Amazon. This is in comparison with the Fellowship of the Rings, which looks like it ranks 2,538. At this...

This is worth keeping in mind when people go off about Twitter censorship --- they didn't even bother to ban this Nazi. How many broken stairs are there, actually? Hundreds or what?

An important difference is that an NFT doesn't automatically include a license. The terms of use of OpenSea, the main NFT marketplace, make clear that NFTs convey no rights beyond fair use unless there is an explicit contract alongside the NFT. Most NFTs don't have that, which means most NFTs...