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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. In one of the later books (I forget which one exactly), one of the characters learns to fly by falling...

What does this stsand for?

Dimensional anchor. IMO Diablo and Doom type fights are things that a paladin in Hell should be reasonable to happen out of the box...

I hear the follow up book will be the Dilf's guide to Dragonlance.

Yeah, the teleporting fiends could be a nightmare. I remember a spell in 3e, not sure if it was in 2e, that locked down teleporting and...

It was annoying, which is fine for a one off villain fight where we beat him. It required a different tempo using less effective attack...

I forgot about readying an action, I could see that being useful for archers covering the party from enemy spellcasters. That ogremage...

Readying an action to get off a standard action attack was an option too to interrupt a spell, but you had to give up full attacks to do...

I think initially when I started in 2e we use the chance to learn a spell but it was quickly discarded along with maximum spells known...

Spell disruption was still in 3e but it was definitely easier on the casters as long as they put decent amounts of skill points into...

Damn birds, ruining it for the rest of us.

He's a bit of a deus ex machina for the hobbits at a key point in "Fellowship," so in terms of the plot of the novel he's important -...

Is Tom Bombadil and important character? Like, I've heard he wasn't affected by the one ring but that he otherwise didn't do much.

I just barely count as GenX. I work with some other genX people and they're much closer to retirement than I am.