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Tolkien was HUGE with hippies. Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” is from 1969, with lyrics about Lord of the Rings in it, and the college...

Tolkien was like 100 times more popular than D&D in the US in the 70s. It just wasn't comparable. LotR was a cultural phenomena, D&D was...

Nah, LotR was largely unknown in the US until it was embraced by hippie culture in the early 70s and became suddenly massively popular...

It should be by pointed out that waistcoats and pockets are in the book, not just the movies. Bilbo’s outfit is directly based on...

D&D was largely inspired by Burroughs, Howard and Lovecraft, but at around the time of the commercial publication of D&D LotR suddenly...

A very quick summary: Q) Is current D&D medieval? A) No. Q) Did D&D used to be medieval? A) No. Q) Is D&D steampunk? A) No. Q) Is...

If you look on the TV there was a detective with a classic car thing going on in the 80s - Bergarac, Morse. And I guess that was...

No, it's not even vaguely steampunk by any definition of the genre I've come across. It's not really anything other than "D&D'...

I think that's what it's foreshadowing. It's going to be a short and awful existence for most of these artificial children. I would...

Wasn't it just a baby doll?

What I'd say is, it was part of the completely BS pop-history hodgepodge that people mistakenly think is "Medieval". It has ladies in...

A couple of things that happened in these editions is, in 2nd more professional artists were being used, and by 3rd the printing went...

If you use monsters with 14 hp or less as minions they can be reliably cleared out with fireball in the first round. Something I...

This is an interesting opinion, because it's all about context, and I think the context you provide is, imho, rather unusual. 3...

The aesthetic changes continually, as you would expect for something 40 years old. But my point is it was never "medieval", and the...