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Steampunk tends to go for monarchy, even if the author doesn't live in one.

The ingredients are very variable, aside from the basic ingredients of bread, cheese and apple. Possibly adding sweet pickle, pickled...

I had a witch give the party cucumber sandwiches, which they enjoyed. Until she mentioned that they where sentient cucumbers.

I don't work from a master plan - creativity doesn't work that way - and I don't expect it from others. Clearly Perkins started...

Nah, Vecna can't do comedy. Strahd is Skeletor.

Good list, but I would add "a culture of deference to the monarch".

Its not something I've ever heard of, but its a good example of how idiosyncratic regional food variations can be*. I remember how...

I think quite a few steampunk settings do have megacorps (or at least their Gilded Age equivalents, robber barons and their feudal...

RAW is important to some people, and switching nick’s off hand weapon attack for anything else is definitely not RAW. But for myself I...

Conan wasn't created in a vacuum. REH was very much influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Tarzan (who had been in a couple of...

Given what we have been told about the Vecna product - that Perkins completely stopped working on it when his job changed - it seems...

The comparison isn't with other tabletop games. D&D needs to compete with all games if it is to grow rather than shrink as older...

This is why iterative changes are most likely for the market leader. They can be the second favorite for a large swath of players. But...

Gives a new meaning to "murderhobo"

Certainly this is a better idea. Perkins’ original plot was bad. What replaced it was bad. And the main problem was the selection of...