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Mark Twain thought that Scott played a significant part in preparing the South for secession and civil war by making utterly groundless...

In the 1800s Walter Scott was huge. From writing novels that massively romanticised the past. So long as it’s long enough ago that...

Never played that (or Alternity). I think I was playing WEG Star Wars d6 and FASA Star Trek when those were current.

2e? Think Fallout with the 1e AD&D rules. It was okay. Only played a couple of times.

I'm saying most people who have opinions about genres are not, in fact, "purist fanbois" nor engaging in "one-true-wayism" or...

Complement accepted! The job of a teacher is to get someone to think for themselves, not to tell them what is so, so asking questions is...

The past was horrible is fact. But letting the suspicion that some people might be guilty of romanticising it inform the way you define...

Are you trying to claim its not true?! How would you know? I wasn't aware of the genre in the 80s, and you are 9 years younger than me...

Sure, you always get purist fanbois with their gatekeeping and one-true-wayism. But the fact is most people just liked mixing up...

It’s called “punk” because cyberpunk. Cyberpunk was called that because it was dystopian, but the things that follow the same naming...

A) Forgotten Realms isn’t remotely medieval. B) It’s not remotely true. There is another Eberron book this year for a start.

It’s players who are stuck in medieval fantasy mode, not the games. D&D hasn’t been that for decades.

If they are not certain that something is certain, then it must be uncertain.

Yep! Mazzy explicitly had some paladin powers like Lay on Hands despite being a fighter. She even breaks the 4th wall, and cracks a joke...

Lumping the two authors together is a bit misleading, two different people writing in different places at different times (Wells was...