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I have a nice plan for 2026 IF I find the time. So I never read the classic dnd novels and my plan is to tackle The Dark Elf trilogy... -
I read them lots of times - especially VotDT at #3 - as a youth. Now I find myself having to ignore a lot of the symbolism or they feel...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to payn's post in the thread Dungeon Crawl Classics What is cool to you from a player perspective? with
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That idea was scrapped (for the best). Though, it wasn't a confederacy is awesome idea, it was going to be the opposite. -
Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread What are you reading in 2026?.There's a lot going on with The Silver Chair, to be sure. The irony of Puddleglum, the most pessimistic character, articulating against...
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It feels to me that the proto-Underdark is as much about depression and despair as it is about an extensive subterranean ecosystem. A...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread Dungeon Crawl Classics What is cool to you from a player perspective?.Even as late as 2017, there was the Confederate series that the GoT showrunners proposed as their follow-up.
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Broncosaurus Rex, Deadlands, Firefly, romanticizing a fantasy Confederacy was a late 90s/early 2000s thing, unfortunately. You can even...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread D&D General Revisiting the Red Box..The Basic Red Box remains one of the finest D&D products to date, in my opinion. I know part of that is nostalgia talking, but when you...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Shades of Eternity's post in the thread D&D General Revisiting the Red Box. with Like.
Every so often, I look at the Red Box and wonder whether its approach could be replicated today—not as a one-and-done product, but as a...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread What are you reading in 2026?.The Shadow of the Vulture is a solid story. I could see it making for a good film adaptation. I've seen the first two of the BBC...
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I've been reading some Conan comics, the dark horse volumes as well as going back and reading some of the old marvel savage tales...
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Weird and dark is probably why this one is less well known, although the BBC did do an adaptation a long time ago with Tom Baker as...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread When and where did you learn about Greek/roman and others mythology?.The art in those books has a...crudeness isn't the right word, but a style that feels primal and old while still being (at the time)...
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I missed their book of Norse mythology and only found out about it much later (I still haven't read it and learned about Norse mythology...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread What are you reading in 2026?.One Who Walked Alone does drive home the tragedy of Robert E. Howard's young death. He desperately needed therapy, maybe medication, yet...