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Memory isn’t that good, but there was stuff in White Dwarf, along with non-D&D RPGs, such as Traveller (and Travellers’ Journal). Bunch...

I mean, it is a business model.

An Adversarial game of D&D is a very specific thing, and if everyone is on board with it it’s a perfectly fine way to play. A...

Again, that is not what an adversarial game is. The DM tries to kill the PCs. They don't care about plot or NPCs. See The Temple of...

Sure, there was lots of different advice given then, just as there is now. None of it is "right" or "wrong" you just have to get with a...

There were people giving that advice, at least by the early 1980s. It was TSR that was still driving adversarial gaming - as mentioned...

I think we can all agree that Charles Dickens traded in vicious Anti-Semetic, Anti-Catholic, and misogynistic stereotypes and was a...

They are also very similar to Alan Dean Foster’s Thranx.

Those two get plenty of attention (and they aren’t any better than the others I mentioned). They couldn’t realistically do Foundation on...

Maybe he decided he would get more attention by going nutso.

I don’t think either Fezziwig or Fred’s party would be approved of by any of those.

Plymouth Brethren, Quakers, Wesleyan Methodists, Tea Total movement…

Comment to add one should always pay close attention to what names Dickens' characters have, often the flag they fly.

Yeah it's a shockingly shallow and rather unevidenced take from this blog. The idea that 5E14 was "internally consistent" but 5E24...

Exactly. I think sometimes people forget that “serious D&D table” is an oxymoron.