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The Christmas “music” in the supermarket this morning was so terrible it made we long for Wham!

Golarion tends to have more extreme variation of theme than FR. This country is this genre, and next to that is another country with a...

I have to think that whoever said "the next Forgotten Realms" was talking about it from a "kitchen sink all-encompassing setting," not a...

Yup, as soon as you start allowing PC abilities on mass ranks of troops you very quickly get a magical arms race that turns every...

Read it? Yes of course Tolkien mistrusts the powerful. The thing that makes Gandalf and Galadriel good people is that they distrust...

Even if the breath weapon is only D6 once per day a 15' cone is going to devastating on a pseudo-medieval battlefield*, since each...

Wut!? Not even PC species are well balanced. They certainly ain’t balanced for NPCs. I’m pretty sure AoE breath weapons that do more...

No, keeping their numbers very low so they don’t rule the world with their breath weapon infantry is.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has quite a lot of that, but on the other hand they are much more entertaining than the last two movies.

I think Eberron's cosmopolitan nature is a bit overblown when it comes to the uniqueness of Eberron. Yeah, it's a place where different...

What are common insults hurled at anyone we don't like?

Ease is what you want. There is no mileage in making settings massively complicated. There are no real world examples of different...

A Dragonborn with a particular damage type resistance is also more likely to work in certain backgrounds. Those who are resistant to...

Is also British, if slightly less English. Tolkien and Warhammer share a deep mistrust of the powerful.

I think maybe they are more popular in England. The Shire is ever so English.