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Ah, thanks! David Eddings was a child abuser, he did real harm in the real world. Piers Anthony wrote a lot of creepy stuff into his...

Like, I know the past is a foreign country and all, but it astonishes me that they were marketed as kids books.

lol! I read so much Piers Anthony as a teenager, and they are hard books to revisit.

I think most of us can agree that Piers needs therapy.

Doing post-mortems on campaigns and sessions that failed is important. Had I learned to do that sooner, I would've had fewer failed...

Dragon Publishing released Dragon #99 in July 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features magic...

About 30-45 minutes of dedicated prep time. Thinking about it, the prep time is about the same for my group that runs two hours and my...

The world is called Corona, which is fine, but it takes place in the kingdom of Honce-the-bear. I can't remember off the top of my head...

I was going to mention The Canterbury Tales as well. Inns and taverns have been blurred together in the minds of a lot of people, but...

I finished my reread of the DL Chronicles trilogy. Definitely not literature but still fun to read. Some great characters and a good...

Published in 1400, and so is likely to be the oldest version of it in print. Having a frame tale like the tavern meeting was already an...

Wait, so in Demon Wars, the world is called Honce-the-bear? How is that a thing?

So much this. I'm currently reading his DemonWars series, and some of the names in that are so bad. I think the worst offense is that...

If I recall correctly, The Canterbury Tales begins with everyone meeting in an inn to head off on their pilgrimage.

For those of us that were fairly young when we stepped into the world of AD&D, BECMI & B/X were easier to understand than the shambolic...