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Personal Pet Peeve: people "rating" an adventure (good or bad) that they have only read.

Rich is an incredibly underrated adventure designer. Forge of Fury is one of the best D&D adventures ever, and Phandelver probably has...

Now I feel like you are being a touch disingenuous.

That's allod of land! /i'll see myself out

Likewise with the plate armor and the polearms. I’m hip-deep in Peter H. Wilson’s mega-history of the Thirty Years War, and its...

So, this is merely anecdotal of course, but while I am aware of that game, I had no idea it had anything to do with Arthurian fantasy. I...

Maybe you aren't familiar with the term trappings? It means veneer or costume. That is, surface appearance of.

Well, again, we need to figure out whether we are talking about settings or the D&D metasetting. In the latter case, no. But Dragonlance...

I think the intent is that if you call something "medieval fantasy" then you are implying that the world looks as much like European...

It is too bad that there is only one well known Arthurian game, because it gives the mistaken impression that "Arthurian" is one thing.

Let me be clear, then: you are wrong. GARY had a focus on medievalism, but the D&D he actually produced was no more medieval than it...

So which part of medieval history does the beholder come from?

King & Conquerer (new BBC show about Harold and William the Conquerer) is really good. Don’t think of it as a historical piece—it’s...

Pendragon is great, but it is a particular flavor of Arthurian, being generally much more grounded than a lot of actual Arthurian...

I know I was simply pointing out that you'd have to then try the same thing with a dozen or so other hard to pin down ideas. I wasn't...