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Some of us in my gaming group back then used to refer to one particular artist as Clyde Cleavage, for obvious reasons.

I only ended up playing him in one game, but I had a bard character named Lars Hetfield. He played the lute and growled "yeah" a lot.

For me it was a gradual exposure to the game over several years. I think that I first became aware of D&D when he got the first AD&D game cartridge for our Intellivision. Either that or from seeing the Saturday morning cartoon. When I was about 10, I got really into the Choose Your Own...

I totally agree with you. Absolutely love the art that these three created in the early years of Dragonlance. However, this painting was also by Caldwell, not Elmore.

Great article! And now I feel the urge to headbang to a bit of Somewhere In Time Near to the east In a part of ancient Greece In an ancient land called Macedonia Was born a son To Philip of Macedon The legend, his name was Alexander At the age of nineteen He became the Macedon King And he...

Close. First year students at Hogwarts are 11 to 12 years old.

Yes, they've definitely been mining it for ideas, borrowing elements but usually re-contextualizing them. Lucas and Filoni did a fair bit of that on The Clone Wars. Kind of like what a lot of DMs do with adventures band campaign settings, really. It was also awesome. Love the LEGO Star Wars shows.

The Star Wars Holiday Special is not canon. It shared the same fate as the Ewoks and Droids cartoons and the live action Ewok TV movies. When they hit the reset button on the "Expanded Universe" in 2012, the official continuity was comprised of Episodes I to VI (the films, not the...

Having started playing D&D with the Mentzer Basic and Expert sets, I always find it puzzling when someone asserts that the Great Wheel cosmology is important or essential to the feel of D&D. IMO, Basic/Expert D&D (either Moldvay/Cook or Mentzer; they're close enough) is the purest distillation...

The LEGO Star Wars animated shows are decidedly non-canon. But that doesn't make them any less enjoyable, and they are absolutely worth watching (if you find them funny and entertaining of course). Likewise, the upcoming Star Wars Visions anime short films are also non-canon. They don't even...

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, they're definitely good guys. It's the vilification of "those who made stuff I didn't like" versus the franchise being saved by "those who made the stuff I liked" that gets to me. The Mandalorian is great, but it does regularly stray into Fan Service: The Series...

If you're able to mostly keep to a regular schedule -- say weekly or biweekly -- then tracking resources between sessions isn't too big a deal. When I'm actually able to get a game going, what usually happens is that we'll play every 2-3 weeks for maybe 3 sessions and then life happens and then...

My wife has described arguments over canon as people arguing about which fake thing is more fake than the other. You might be surprised. I've seen plenty of people go off on how Lucas no longer understands his own creation, or how he hates or disrespects the fans. Nothing is likely to ruin...

This. At best, the novels were the "official" continuation of the story... until they conflicted with what George wanted to do. And at the time that Heir to the Empire was published, Lucas wasn't making any films, period. He never even read most of them. I recall that when Lucas was writing The...