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I mean, there are plenty of dichotomies you can use, as long as you recognize that these things are always a spectrum, and there will...

Oh, I'm sure I've used 5.5 myself at various times. I'm not a fan of it, but in spite of appearances here, I'm not going to argue with...

I think the final piece is perhaps what sort of morality the world at large has. For example, Eredane (the setting of Midnight) is...

The one thing I tried to do in my musings was point out that hope and despair are trends, not absolutes. Good people fall to temptation...

At least for me, much of my exposure to (as you put it) "Wellsian" worlds is that it has to be a world where real change is genuinely...

Just to pontificate for a moment. Not sure if my thoughts are totally organized here. One of the big divides in SF fiction is Wellsian...

So when I used "Certainly." above, you then instantly interpret everything else I've ever said as inherently uncertain? When I use...

Weren't mini-adventures like this called "Side Quests" in Dungeon magazine back in the day? Or I am just completely making that up?

You gotta check your autocorrect! Hilarious.

Fair, here is how Shannon Applecline describes the situation on the DMsGuild labe: "A Series of Setting Books. While AD&D was...

I think it fills a couple useful niches. Build around. The concept for some of these can be finished into longer adventures if the DM...

I think arguing about hobbit gentry is a clear signal of a setting of despair. 🤪

They are common, in the sense that matters in the Tolkien context - they are not nobility, or even leaders in their communities...

Yeah, there is a lot of social class represented in the Shire. Pippin is ancestral gentry, all breading not actually much money or...

I'm not sure the text actually bears that out. There are problems in Tolkien's world, yes. But most of the folks in it are not yet in...