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Yeah, there's a LOT of grandfather clauses when it comes to D&D races. Like all three of the classic non-human races have Weirdness...

Indeed, since it plays it straight (rather than comedy hiding serious allegory, which is harder), although the obvious one is Narnia...

This is why I hate video. I’m not going to devote 47m to something I could read in 10.

I don’t normally find it so, no. And that’s true even when I aim to make the audience uncomfortable.

There's a lot going on with The Silver Chair, to be sure. The irony of Puddleglum, the most pessimistic character, articulating against...

If you think art has only one point, you have a limited view of art.

Mod note: I suppose that's the cue for me to remind folks about the site inclusivity policies. If you have problems with gender...

I very much agree with this. Putting aside my personal indifference to modern romantasy, it is absolutely a sizeable demographic that...

It feels to me that the proto-Underdark is as much about depression and despair as it is about an extensive subterranean ecosystem. A...

You don’t need to “get it right”. Every table’s version of a setting is unique to that table. The point is to avoid the sense of...

But you can pick one off the peg, thus avoiding the proprietorial sense of DM ownership of the world. Even better if it’s something the...

They should have gone after it years ago*. Late to the party as usual. *I think Stryxhaven made a half-hearted attempt to go in that...

One Who Walked Alone does drive home the tragedy of Robert E. Howard's young death. He desperately needed therapy, maybe medication, yet...

Weird and dark is probably why this one is less well known, although the BBC did do an adaptation a long time ago with Tom Baker as...

I started having that thought circa 2002. Most groups playing 3E I saw weren't doing it like forum theorycrafters assumed. They were...