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Morrus' thread on her passing: https://www.enworld.org/threads/tsr-alum-and-fantasy-author-jean-rabe-passes-away.717523/

https://www.enworld.org/threads/tsr-alum-and-fantasy-author-jean-rabe-passes-away.717523/

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If someone writes fan fiction making the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery sides of a conflict morally equivalent, or, worse, the pro-slavery side the good guys, and we choose to completely suspend judgement and shut our eyes to the implications there, that's a moral abdication. As Neil Peart...

I don't think anyone suggested that, no. I think was more making a point about how being deliberately uncritical about bad things and evil ideas can have negative consequences. Besides that, one can often make useful inferences from what things a person chooses to romanticize and what...

Making D&D a "lifestyle brand" where people who were formerly active players still pick up occasional products like quick pick up and play video games, or simple boardgames they can play with their kids, or licensed, branded merch (like the sneakers and collectibles and such) also would seem...

Somewhat Encouraged New World The Sound and the Annoyance The Way of Some Flesh Roughhouse-Five Somewhat Obscured Man A Few of the Prince's Men Go Tell It on the Hillock Supervisor of the Flies

That size seems to be a good match for most of the hex maps Dyson has on his blog. I've gone through ten or twelve and most of them are more open, but this one he did for a Mork Borg game looks like it could be a decent fit: https://dysonlogos.blog/2025/10/20/grafvenhusk-regional-map/

Still not 100% recovered from my flu/respiratory thing I've had since at least 12/30, but getting better each day. Went in Sunday morning instead of Friday or Sat. Smith barbell inclined bench: 95x14, 95x14, 95x11; up 2 reps, up 1 rep, down 1 rep from Wednesday. Machine biceps curls: 60x20...

RotJ is the one I have amazing memories of seeing in the theater; the hours-long line to get in, and the wonder of it. Allegedly my dad took me along for the first two but I can't remember them from the theater. Same on the first but I swear I'm aging ok. 😅

I did watch the first season a while ago. I think I kind of swallowed the premise that the tournament was a local culture phenomenon at the time, that Daniel had traded on that youthful fame, and that once he opened his dealership(s?) his face on billboards helped keep him a visible local...

Some of the classic B/X adventures have definite swords & sorcery vibes. B4 The Lost City, or X1 The Isle of Dread are good examples. In the OSR scene, over the ~20 years since it cohered and people started publishing modules and retroclones, originally AD&D 1E and OD&D were the primary...

I don't think we're meant to believe it's true. It's Severian's opinion (himself a young, ambitious judicial torturer and executioner), and these two sentences tell us a couple of related things about the character and give us clues about how he's going to act and what he's going to do in the...

No argument, but out of curiosity, are you referring to the modern one or the original, at the time of which Karate was much more of a cultural fad?

The Nightmares Underneath calls it Disposition, explicitly relates it to both your energy and morale (you re-roll it at the start of each day, get to roll more dice if you slept in a safe & comfortable place, and Bards and Paladin-equivalents can let their party members/alignment-sharers roll...