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Page 174, 1e AD&D DMG. See also this blogpost about it that you might appreciate: AD&D Monster Levels and XP UPDATE Personally I...

Started What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool. Only a dozen or so pages in so far but it's a great read. Filled...

I looked up "Julian Mays religous views" out of curiosity and got the weirdest AI hallucination from Google as the top result...it...

My reading is so haphazard these days, I've almost quit noticing if I've finished something. (Which I haven't, at least not since John...

I know that is what you said, I was disagreeing with it :D my ranking is Short/Deep (Elegant in quality, Elevating/Inspiring as effect...

It's not just that. It's the idea that the time right before the Cataclysm was "too" good. The idea that goodness, without an equal...

I’m starting my current 100-book challenge with Children of the Atom by Wilmar Shiras. This is a 1953 fixup novel collecting a series of...

There is an awful lot of the religious aspects of Dragonlance taken pretty directly from their upbringings and then (in my opinion)...

Thinking more on Anathem, and it is really striking to me how much of a throwback sci-fi novel it is in terms story structure. When you...

Yeah, “you were all pissing me off so I dropped a mountain on you and then went and sulked for a few centuries” is far from ideal divine...

I finished my final Halloween season read, Kaden love's Toothsucker. Mixed feelings on it. The book throws a metric ton at the reader...

My brother has been trying to get us to play this for ages, hoping we can in January maybe. Reading-wise I've recently read finished...

I just finished reading a 1994 reprint of A. W. Reed's 1965 book, Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales, and I have mixed feelings about...

As discussed in another thread here, I saw the 1992 Tales of Talislanta book (publisher - Wizards of the Coast before they became...

Finished Middlemarch by George Eliot this morning. It is a hefty thing - 32 hrs in audio - and worth every moment. Eliot puts a whole...