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They're scarier that way - otherwise they're just another animal with teeth.

I’ve come across a few played like that. They don’t always attack on sight, but they are always as mad as a box of frogs.

Thats basically the premise of the whole Alien franchise. Just because somebody wrote a scene different to the one in your head doesn’t...

They don’t have the education of a high school student. Did you miss that? It’s not in the corporations’ interest to have universal...

To be honest, I read it that way when I was 12. One of the reasons I thought it was a steaming pile of garbage back then. It’s been the...

That feels to me like Gygax's usual puffery and justification for, you know, stabbing strange people with swords. I never read it as...

The intro to the keep is very concerned with how the DM can keep the PCs from robbing it, so he definitely was aware of what little...

Nothing modern about the (anti)colonialist narrative in Beyond the Black River (1935). What is modern is the desire to erase it from the...

We never sided with the humanoids, but we absolutely made all-thief parties and robbed Hommlet and Restenford blind. Ah, sandboxes ...

The misty step copy is probably the best at high level. The damage riders are good if you have extra attacks or Eldritch Blast, the...

I would connect this to Santa’s toymakers. Whilst usually referred to as elves, the current pop culture depiction closely resembles D&D...

The area map? (no page numbers on DDB) why would it need grid squares? Or you could just do what I did and run the adventures with...

one thing i don't get about the gnome is that their two primary archetypes that DnD seems to want to focus on, to me seem to be directly...

Yeah, I’ve noticed that, it’s a tension that has been around since 2nd edition at least. Really some people like the tinker gnome...

Star Trek: Those Old Scientists