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Then this practice would be more common in areas with diamond mines, or the community would pool their resources to buy one, or the diamonds would be provided by the Bards/Clerics in exchange for something else (social/political status, other goods, etc). I was simply giving a single example...

Many of the more successful missionaries in history were the ones that were viewed as miracle workers. Many people converted to a different religion because it was viewed as being more effective or successful than their old one. If an outside invader of a different religion conquers a different...

This video is long, but informative and thoughtful. We live in a very secular world today. Many people, even those that are religious, think of church as something you go to once a week. It is rare for it to influence the everyday activities of people. I know this because I was raised in a...

Huh. Tieflings are descended from the ruling dynasties of the first civilizations in my setting. I must have accidentally reinvented something 4e did. Again.

I am just as tired as everyone else of the endless cycle of reboots and sequels that have been plaguing Hollywood for decades, but remaking media by adapting or stealing from older stories is often a good thing. Do you not see any irony in your post in a discussion about D&D? D&D shamelessly...

Grimdark is not an entirely useless genre, but nihilism is entirely anathema to why I love, consume, and create fantasy media. Too many people and writers think grimdark means “no one can ever be happy, nothing matters, and any character that is momentarily happy or cares about anything...

I do not think mustaches are a “theme.”

Are mustaches one of the major themes of Dragonlance?

Basically everyone that was in the D&D leadership when that statement was made has since left WotC. Including Kyle Brink, who made the statement about Dark Sun being too problematic to bring back.

Thanks for the correction. I do not own Oriental Adventures, I had just heard that criticism of it before and thought it was illustrative of something to avoid when worldbuilding cultures. I don’t know much about Mystara, but the little I’ve heard made me hesitant to learn more about the...

These are the two D&D adventures I’ve created and ran that I’m the most proud of: An MKUltra adventure where the party has to shut down the mind-control experiments, rescue the victims, and kill Ted Kaczynski’s ghost. An adventure taking place in a magical underwater laboratory built on...

Dungeon Meshi and Frieren are two pretty popular D&D-esque anime. I imagine Kpop Demon Hunters will inspire many future games. Also Arcane, Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon, etc. I’ve used stuff from Brandon Sanderson’s books and the Locked Tomb series recently. I’m under 30. I played (and...

Now this post actually has a point and I think there is something interesting worth discussing here. It’s something I have been thinking about recently. One of the main criticisms of the original Oriental Adventures product I’ve heard is how it merged China, Korea, and Japan together into a...

The ability to sweat better than other species also helped. Made us the best long-distance runners in the animal kingdom.

Ancient Roman tourism to Greece, Antioch, Egypt, and more was very common. Many people would buy souvenirs. Probably not at gift shops, though.