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So which part of medieval history does the beholder come from?

Well and DND is tolkieneque/ elric of Melnibonesque/narniaesque/dying earthesque etc. it was built out of all of those ideas and more...

I would agree that there are better systems out there if you want to run a full-on Conan-esque setting. But there have also been scads...

To expand on your point, I'll add some D&D-specific pedantry: "species" is used in the 1989 AD&D 2e Player's Handbook, page 29: "Before...

Its really, really hard for some people. It just feels wrong if you can't step back a bit.

This is literally my entire point. Characters in your game don’t ask each other what character class they are or talk about their Wisdom...

1E had monks because karate and ninja stuff was a big craze in the U.S. in the 1970s. It had spaceships and laser guns because some...

Obligatory pedantry: “genus” and “species” are used in Roman-era Latin translations of Aristotle, which made them standard terms through...

I can’t think of ANY past 5E adventure where any characters have ever done this, so, again, I’m failing to see the big, “anachronistic”...

I, on the other hand, love Old Ones and eldritch entities and work them in all over the place! Partly because I have a lot of really...

Is Lord of the Rings medieval fantasy? No. It's High Fantasy. Here, we can see Frodo wearing pretty standard Hobbit garb. Trousers...

I would say that the Forgotten Realms was loosely Tolkienesque, but core D&D has always had at most a veneer of Tolkien by way of its...

We had some tussles during the Adventure play test with one guy whose breakout wanted more detail for his field of expertise, who just...

That would make sense as skill-splitting is often a syndrome of people very knowledgeable about a subject who can't or won't step back...

Man does this timeline suck.