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Yes. Just like every other adventurer, except perhaps Adepts/Monks. :)

Choosing to use or wear equipment that fits means you take on the possibility of losing it due to a mishap or a rust monster.

Yes, of course! I am not a professional, I think some acting is essential part of how I like roleplaying games to be played. Most of my...

Yeah this, totally this, this is great advice as to small things that one can do that really make a difference! One of the things I...

I think it’s broadly accurate to say that a lot of English-language fantasy media created since 1930 or so has some elements of built-in...

An article concerning the influence of Arthurian cycle (whether specifically from Geoffrey of Monmouth, or Mallory, or Chrétien de...

Oh yeah. I hadn't thought of adaptions to other media. I do get the feeling that many adaptions like to interrogate the assumptions of...

This is completely FINE, and not unwelcome at all. I've had lots of fun as a player at a table that has more or less portrayal...

I lean this way also. Most of this is mentioned in public or oral speaking, and it isn't necessary to be theater trained to use above...

I'd mention that theatrical productions of fantasy stories happen with more frequency, and most, if not nearly all, place their...

Along with James Ellroy, Barbara Hambly, Lindsey Davis, Ian McEwan, Caleb Carr, Victor LaValle, Robert Harris, Joyce Carol Oates…

Hard agree. Discworld is definitely one of those fantasy series that doesn't romanticise the past. Can you imagine Granny Weatherwax...

Turtledove was a professor but shifted to full time writing in the 1980s. A collleague of his in this regard is Barbara Hambly, who left...

When I read the Banneret, I thought immediately of the draft Paladin class proposed for Shadowdark. Why has the Paladin migrated away...

You are probably thinking of The Old World RPG, which uses a d10 pool system. This is a relatively fresh product line - so fresh in...