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The head of Books after late 92 was not terribly interested in coordinating with Games, and at least some of the authors he brought in...

The plan from the start with Dark Sun was for the RPG and fiction content to be related. Mary Kirchoff, then head of the Book...

There are only 30 or 40 actual tabletop rpg players. We just buy a lot of books.

Yes, I worked in the Book Department from 1988 to 1994 and was at one time series editor for both the Ravenloft and Realms fiction...

Totally. I've often wondered why there was never a setting with similar vibes but not in a desert. Scarred Lands for 3e is the closest I...

I’m a fan of both.

I’m big on psionics and settings after apocalypse, but not wild about heat and deserts. Give me a vast dangerous forest, or archipelago...

TIL about the "Italian Forrest Gump". In 2020, during the pandemic lockdowns, a man had a discussion with his wife, left and began to...

It's an interesting read. I think my view of D&D was coloured by what brought me into D&D, namely Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, the old...

I feel that this 2010 quote from Rob Kuntz is relevant here. He posits that medieval fantasy was only a weighed commerical decision...

I’ve had PC’s who were born into noble families, or in one case the daughter of a bishop. I’ve seen all sorts of backstories, and...

That's what I'm getting at, though. I specifically don't have a fixed preference for level of "inherent protagonism", as you put it...

This this this. From D&D’s first year, the field has been going in several incompatible directions. So it makes all the sense that it...

Both can give skewed projections, I don't think there's a single thing one can point at and say that this represents the state of the...

No way! Don’t you know that when a new edition of a game comes out, a series of genetically engineered techno-bacteria travel throughout...