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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?.Sure, most of the editions work as core rules plus one book, but as you said, the more books you add, the worse most editions become... -
Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.I finished reading Bradbury's The October Country. Positively loved it, and I've no idea how it's taken me this long to get to reading...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past.100%. It's gritty, with a lived-in sense of desperation. Even the well-off aren't exempt from the conditions of the world.
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it?.Is there any edition of D&D where that isn't the case? 1e, maybe, but even then, people will debate Unearthed Arcana's additions until...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 3.x Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play 3rd Edtion D&D? How Was/Is it? with
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3E has the distinction of getting worse more books you add. Early on we played it like 2E. Once the splat books turned up things... -
Ralif Redhammer reacted to Koloth's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
The Thieves World anthology.
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to DrunkonDuty's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
Hard agree. Discworld is definitely one of those fantasy series that doesn't romanticise the past. Can you imagine Granny Weatherwax...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?.They could expand the story massively, as Dragonlance did so much backfilling of the story as it progressed. But I think that would be a...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
I mean, the thing about the controversies around the end of the show? The stuff people don't like is really clearly where the books have...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Marc Radle's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
I just re read the originally trilogy recently and it really holds up. I kept imagining it as a TV series as I read and it made me...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Dire Bare's post in the thread D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up? with Like.
Well . . . if they include the "Lost Chronicles" and other disparate elements of the story. If the script writers start with the...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Staffan's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
The big counterexample is Discworld, where a significant portion of the books are about making the world (or at least Ankh-Morpork)...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
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...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past with Like.
The Dying Earth - post apocalyptic decadence and decay The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Tragic, cynical and morally ambivalent The...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread Hours actually playing RPGs, non-D&D?.About 150 hours of Cyberpunk Red this year, plus Shadowrun, DCC RPG, Shadowdark, and some other games at cons.