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Sure. There's also some pretty glaring sexism at play in the books. The two main blond women are virtuous, self-sacrificing and pure...

Well, the "male gaze" isn't binary but comes in degrees. Having character descriptions that focus more on female beauty than on other...

Or, that people in the book care less about trivial physical characteristics than we do...

Here's the thing about the whole "they are described as white in the original texts" argument. Old books traditionally were not great at...

No, it’s not. The only thing that’s clearly pointed out in the book is that Laurana is the only non-Kagonesti elf Silvara has met who...

What I'm trying to get across is why would anyone think that she's a Kargonesti elf if she doesn't look like a Kargonesti. Oh yeah, this...

There's also something like 200 years of black Shakespeare productions at this point. Idris Elba once talked about how Shakespeare is a...

Just revisiting this to set the record straight. Chronicles page references are as per the annotated version. I don’t have any of the...

I opened Nov 1, 1993 - 32 years ago Today! I was 19 at the time. Now my kids work here (when they are not too busy with college).

But how else are we going to read the tea leaves to support a position that's not actually in evidence but we so desperately want to be...

The physical quality of the books from looking at them at the FLGS is pretty high. From the gorgeous end papers to the binding and even...

A good breakdown, though I disagree about not getting Adventures on Beyond. I would add that, if you use the Maps VTT or you project...

You're playing fast and loose with the truth. Again. I brought up Council of Wyrms not because it was the most recent "actual"...

I mean, yeah. And again, iterating till discovering what users want is innovation and improvement.

I mean, not to get in the way of a good rant...but the recent Psionic UA was apparently well receoved.