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At any rate, any label WotC decided to go with is to a large extent marketing: 4E is not the fourth iteration of D&D, nor is the 2024...

Oh I kinda like the idea of counting things based on the versions of the PHB! Or core three. In that case AD&D would be the first...

To add to the two above, this is the opening line to Brigands and Bread knives, that sequel to Legends and Lattes which was a founding...

Or maybe it refers to Cosy Spice, the sixth Spice Girl who left before they were famous.

That would be why I've variously called it "Thirteenth".

It's not Goodman Games responsibility to pay backers from JG failed crowd fund, essentially paying their debts, indirectly giving them...

I feel like people are getting confused because a lot of romance novel jargon is homonymous with RPG jargon, but actually means...

It’s not even true in regular cosy fantasy. The reader may have meta-knowledge that the protagonists will be fine, but for the...

This just isn’t true in the context we’re talking about here, of a romantasy novel. In this context, cozy is just an antonym for spicy...

As with most of the problems facing humanity today, the technology itself is not inherently harmful, but it is extremely dangerous when...

Math rocks go clackity clack.

"The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow...

There were also multiple iterations of D&D after the Mentzer version, too, and one might say 3E is a straight line from AD&D, nor 4E...

It was designed to be an introduction to OD&D itself, which was still being actively printed and on sale in stores alongside it.

There was no real starter set then, that is just an approximation using today's terms. Holmes ending at level 3 and being simpler than...