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To add to what I posted above, there's Sam's description of the event: He heard Frodo's voice, but it seemed to come from a great...

I think he was remembering the song Gildor's company had been singing when he met them, which had driven away the Black Riders. Eta...

Why don't a party of adventuring NPCs recruit a few PCs to fill their gaps? The way you're describing it seems to import a type of...

I don't want to debate the semantics of the term gnome. What I consider its misappropriation, to refer to household spirits, bothers me...

For me, it's not necessarily collaborative PC creation - or, at least, not in a strict sense. But the starting situation has to have...

I've taken to skipping from the end of Three is Company to the start of At the Sign of the Prancing Pony. Speeds things up dramatically...

I like to play generic D&D with the campaign starting at the mouth of a dungeon.

Gnome was coined by Paracelsus in the 16th century. It refers to the Bergmännlein or "mountain manikin", a class of beings believed to...

While I don’t actively seek out Christmas music*, there’s plenty I like or even love. “Skating” by the Vince Guaraldi Trio is probably...

The description of Santa Claus as "a right jolly old elf" is misguided and similar to the name Gandalf being applied to the maia Olórin...

I recently discovered this. It's my current favorite.

Like most of the UK, its Fairytale of New York by The Pogues.

I don't think that it really makes sense to talk about a "sim aspect" to fiction writing. Simulation is an attitude towards, or an...

Cora Weiss, longtime peace activist, died on Monday at the age of 91.