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It's weird. It's weird when people start talking about alternative systems to D&D - then just go back to talking about D&D. You'll never...

While I think it is possible to read it this way, I would personally disagree. Sauron is incredibly confident when he thinks Aragorn is...

Nice post. I did want to comment on your take of Frodo. I think part of Tolkien's point is that literally no one could have truly...

I agree with your take. Also, while published in the '50s, at least in the USA where TTRPGs were primarily invented, LotR didn't really...

Really good analogy! Absolutely. And there are people who explicitly avoid Tolkien type worlds or tropes. They might well like Tolkien...

I'm firmly in the fringe camp as well I have multiple notebooks scattered around each dedicated to a different game or campaign but the...

Yeah, that was my experience as well. I say that as someone who absolutely loves 4E. The combat was boring because it was almost always...

That would make sense for Harn, as such a detailed and Medieval-realistic setting - so it probably drew a lot of the "world-builders...

Not to veer too far from the thread topic, but what came to mind when I read this is that 4E combat was really fun at first, both in...

Wow, you sort of won the thread, @Retreater . I'd only add: Want to play fantasy RPG with a simple d20-based system and you ate and...

Like D&D 5E and you want to remain compatible with your existing system, but you want more tactical depth and character options, try...

Well, I think that's the thing: Fringe is "ongoing/permanent casual" and also involves greater interest in RPGs as a whole, be it...

Back to the OP, and to address it more directly, as someone more in the 1970s, my interest emerged around the same time. I was...

I agree with you and Pratchett, with a few significant caveats. One, see my Babe Ruth analogy above. No single baseball player changed...

Over the years I have come to realize that I firmly exist in a kind of nebulous, liminal zone of RPG fandom that could be described as...