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Great opening sentences, today featuring Peter H. Wilson’s Europe’s Tragedy: The Thirty Years War—

Yeah. There are definitely subgenres and styles of murder mysteries that are too much for me despite being a fan of the genre generally...

This one wasn't graphic about it, but it seems to be a theme that a lot of the British mysteries on TV (for example) hit for at least...

Finished Nicola Upson's "Angel with Two Faces", the second in her mystery series starring a fictionalized version of Josephine Tey. I...

Yes, exactly like 5E is intended to work. Almost every version of D&D except 3.x, really. That is the only edition that demanded NPCs be...

The fact that one of the coaches involved was THE Heisman adds to the awesomeness of this story.

I have known for many years that the most insane score in football history was Georgia Tech 222 - Cumberland Gap College 0. TIL the...

Today I also learned that the Cyndi Lauper concert I went to at the Hollywood Bowl was the last show on her last tour. It was a...

I got hooked on the original via reruns on A&E. Watched many seasons, but now it’s the occasional indulgence…usually via a rerun. I...

When UA came out my group was famished for new 1e content. We were playing with material from Dragon but a new book was special and...

Unearthed Arcana was a mixed bag for us. The new weapons, armor, magic items, and spells were largely well-received, but the new races...

I loved the book (in theory). It was full of some really new, experimental things. In practice, not all of them were good- if used as...

The bad off the top of my head The cavalier is way overpowered and designed differently from all other classes. Comeliness is a...

I got into AD&D in 1986, so UA was already available. I bought it even before the DMG and basically used almost all of it back then...