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Theaters schmeaters. The best movies came out direct to video.

You don't need a robot to turn ultrasound into frequencies audible to humans though. A common bat detector does that. It's possible, I...

I mean, that kind of flowed from the source material: Dark Sun was always a D&D take on Edgar Rice Burrroughs version of Mars (which was...

If humans behaved rationally to conserve scarce resources they wouldn’t be in that situation in the first place.

Sorry but that's not accurate. It was WotC's D&D team at the time, some of whom are still there. The minimum people involved are the...

Guns and cannons have always been part of my homebrew worlds. Always felt silly not to have them with all the other stuff D&D has.

I haven’t been anywhere. Everything I know about America I learned from D&D. Like other people seem to have learned their history.

The “vibes” I get from early D&D are Wild West. Nothing remotely medieval. Which is why I’m asking people to explain what they mean. So...

Things that have been around since the Iron Age and are still used now. (Bronze age for armour). Pretty sure wizards never existed, and...

Early modules, such as Keep on the Boarderlands, Village of Hommlet etc. it’s the same Wild West stuff that you find in Howard and...

I’m familiar with the word. What I can’t see is anything in D&D that is identifiable as distinctively medieval.

That term again. WTF is a medieval trapping????????? And Dragonlance couldn’t be more American if it dressed in Stars and Stripes and...

So, not D&D then. Lets look at a few things: Medieval Europe: monotheistic religion dominates politics. D&D: multiple polytheistic...

If you don’t know what a medieval trapping is, how do you know if a game has them or not?

What is a “medieval trapping” when it’s at home? And why can’t I have it in my imaginary world?