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I'm going with a slow loris (Nycticebus spp.) that's had the Awaken spell cast on it by a high level druid associate of the ranger. I...

I have been having this problem all day - Chrome and Firefox on Android.

It figures that I would forget about the 1E Monk, because the Monk, the Assassin, and the weird optional Bard were the three 1E PHB...

Tangent: Monks in AD&D 1e also have two hit dice at first level. It's 2d4, which is still quite terrible. I import a lot of features...

I remember this one! Both because of the cover and the Gygax Ranger article. I liked rangers, but his rules were painful. I recall the...

damn, toaster that just makes me sad, the ranger stuff...I cannot imagine no play outside dungeons, outside TSR modules (which I/we...

The Ranger was always fairly popular in my junior high school (late 1980’s) AD&D 1E groups, but more because of Aragorn from LOTR and...

I would love to see an RPG bestiary done by someone in Barlowe's scientific biology style. I have to imagine griffons, etc., would look...

Griffons have always bugged me. Even setting aside the impossibility of something that size and shape being able to fly, just try to...

Ancient cultures had lots of weird hybrid monsters mixing animal and human parts, and those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Scythian...

Gary was kind of obsessed with using the weapon proficiency system to enforce archetypes, while famously not bothering to use the...

Something in this issue I noted in my own overview that you didn't mention, is Kim Mohan's self-contradictory editorial about...

I'm going to need to re-read my own overview of this issue and compare it to your points. I'll be back with a more specific response...

Quick update…sold my OAR 1,2,3 books on eBay for a combined $330 bucks so thanks for the post on the amount these were going for earlier...

I'd be more generous and say too hopeful, but there is a degree of "ignorance is bliss" involved when starting in gaming/comic/book...