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I'm not arguing against funding crewed and robotic space flight, but . . . Yes, we spend plenty of money on our problems here on Earth...

Not broken down between manned and unmanned projects, but in 2023, NASA had a budget of about $25 billion. In that year, NASA generated...

I support crewed (not manned; last time I checked crews could be of various genders) spaceflight, essentially because of the PR value...

It is impressive. It's very impressive, despite being just a line item for the USA. It's larger than the GDP of 70 countries. And 25...

Not that I want to turn this into a D&D thread, but I'm with @SlyFlourish and view 5E as the broader ruleset/system, and D&D as WotC's...

I didn't think it was clear on the Backerkit page, but you can just get the digital core book for about $30.

We all know that Dungeons & Dragons is the most popular TTRPG brand in the world, and that the 5E edition(s) have reached more people...

people can always draw their own conclusions, so it is never necessary to point something out directly? That premise is very flawed… If...

eh, there were misogynists then, there are misogynists now. Times have not changed all that much, esp. since those guys are attempting...

Obvious. Simple. You have a disagreement with the authors of "The Making of Original D&D", WotC, and some folks in this thread . . ...

Eventually, most threads do. Welcome to the internet!

Yes, I do in fact think that people who are experts know more than people who are not experts. A claim of retcon, as was thrown at the...

Mmm... I see what you're saying, but the consequences of people's bodies getting flabby are ultimately personal to those people. The...

given the reaction to that foreword, I am not so sure about that… if everyone agreed with that, why was the reaction not just a shrug...

Now we're to the point insisting that a PhD in English Lit and Philosophy isn't qualified to write a history book because they don't...