Paul Farquhar's latest activity

I suspect that if I ran a Dark Sun game with cannibal halfling as a player option, I would get a 100% halfling party.

I never understand how so many people seem to be scandalised by the traditional Athasian second breakfast. D&D is already full of...

So what’s the difference between fantasy medieval and fantasy imaginary?

The problem is, "Conan-esque" is even more elusive than "Tolkien-esque" as a term to nail down a kind of fantasy. Not only did Howard's...

Which part? Pretty much everything I have said is matter of fact, not of opinion.

There's also the art of Jeff Dee, Errol Otus, and the like that were decidedly zany and not medieval.

Maybe they were doing their best, but our understanding of history has changed since the 70s, and American education has always been...

The OPs argument is invalid - they claim it was medieval (which it never was) then they list a bunch of things that have always been...

One thing worth mentioning: Ed Greenwood was a hippie (and still is). Ergo it's unsurprising that FR is more influenced by Tolkien than...

I was there, I can validate.

Of course it's useless, because the OP clearly has no idea what steampunk means (or medieval for that matter), and appears to be using...

How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? I am 50 this year, and we were assigned The Hobbit in 5th grade. We also had the Bashki...

The idea that D&D popularized Tolkien is wild, indeed.

1E had monks because karate and ninja stuff was a big craze in the U.S. in the 1970s. It had spaceships and laser guns because some...

The DM would make something up? I mean, you're talking about 2nd ed AD&D!