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That's one way to look at it. Another is that he included it to simulate an element of a setting where people regularly got hit with big...

So this isn't me disagreeing with you, just adding a different perspective. Some games, and some groups of players, approach RPGs with...

Yeah, I really don't think I am. Not that I disagree with you, quite the opposite. My protestation here is entirely about casual use of...

I think we'll need to be deliberate and specific in order to have a useful discussion here. People are throwing adjectives around like...

I'm not even suggesting that it's impossible that some element of that D&D inspired genre that wasn't inspired in the first place by D&D...

Clearly not when he uses the phrase D&D-inspired heroic fantasy, which is an entirely different beast than the heroic fantasy that...

Specifically, the claim was that the tropes they emulate are those of "D&D-derived fantasy". They can't have been designed to emulate...

I never said there wasn't a genre of heroic D&D-inspired fantasy, I said that it seems problematic to identify the mechanics of D&D as...

If that fantasy is derived from D&D then calling out the mechanics of D&D as genre mechanics based on those books seems, um, a little...

So what 'genre' are we talking about here? I think those mechanics certainly scaffold a particular playstyle, but I'm not convinced...

I actually had him as the third name in my draft; he's definitely one of the greats.

Thank you all for your input. When deciding on art I felt there was much to compare myself with, and the comparison was daunting. There...

The Merry Mushmen do marvelous work. Three thumbs up. Don't ask about that third thumb...

The FLGS has them! So I got the three. And they are in Bits & Mortor

First session went really well. I'm charmed by Dolmenwood. LINK to blog post.