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Thanks for the link, although I don't see using logs as closely related to ball bearings. Marbles would be a better description as...

Call them dwarven marbles. If the setting has no machines advanced enough to need bearings, dwarves make them as children’s toys using...

Ball bearings for 1gp, the same price as a ale, is the real sign its a post industrial age setting. When you can mass produce small...

Been a lot of inflation since 1980 when KotB was released, and a small beer was 1 sp and an ale was 1 ep. I'll bet there are no...

A lot of jokes in here about a typo.... (Thank you for pointing it out!)

As someone who has no kids, I can confirm that we also get old! :ROFLMAO:

You have that backwards. They have kids, then they get old :D

This is what got me from the post. Reminded me of these from Wizkids where the claim to 'miss the mark'.

I think you underestimate how many fantastical bean counters were playing AD&D, especially among the former wargamers, despite the fact...

This is one of those fun thought-experiment ideas that I think most tables got sick of after a while. Players love it, until you...

Lewis Pulsipher is one of my favorite contributors here. Thanks for the insights. Oh by the way if that photo is recent you look way...

I think most of my groups lean strongly vicarious but it is a continuum. We like immersion though more so in building their story as...

As a history nerd in grad school I loved Katherine Kerr's articles. I remember this issue specifically for Gygax's recommendation of...

I wonder how closely “New Jobs for Demi-Humans” matched the expanded rules for demi-humans in Unearthed Arcana, released this year...

lol, I must be a curmudgeon as well! I just never found the joke articles very funny - they were clearly straining for a gag. Folk such...