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That seems like a really random name to use, but it refers to Glenn Blacow, a contributor to Alarums & Excursions who also had his own APA, The Wild Hunt. He wrote an extremely influential article about the four main approaches to RPGs (roleplaying, power-gaming, wargaming, and storytelling)...

Good find. According to that threat, it looks like the first post-DMG use in a TSR product was likely Polyhedron #4 in January 1982. Also, that Alarums and Excursions link is cool.

After its use in the DMG, the earliest use I'm aware of is the RPGA AD&D tournament module R1 - To the Aid of Falx from 1982. It's used in monster stat lines.

That was the case with a lot of people. I suggested adding it to the timeline because that's when people really started to talk about the rumor in a more focused way, either to give it credence or downplay it.

I would add two things to that timeline: November 10th, 2022: YouTuber Indestructoboy put out a video saying that a source he trusted told him that there wouldn't be an open game license for the upcoming edition of D&D. Speculation about the end of the OGL had been swirling for at least a...

Thank you! This is something I hope to get to if I can compose the post I'd like to quickly enough for it to remain relevant. Yes. Not only was he familiar with The Hobbit, but he put wargs into Three Hearts and Three Lions as an homage.

AD&D gnomes are not like Anderson's woods dwarfs solely in terms of mechanics, though. Like woods dwarfs, AD&D gnomes have brown skin. Like woods dwarfs, AD&D gnomes are explicitly described as living in burrows. Woods dwarfs have an arrangement with the lesser animals of the forest, which is...

They definitely predate 1977. Gnomes appear as far back as 1971's Chainmail. They make it into OD&D in 1974, and the illustration of gnomes above the alignment table in Men & Magic depicts small men with beards and Phrygian caps. Even without the helpful caption "GNOMES", we would probably...

I'm not worried about the sales difference at all, and I'm not making an argument that Spelljammer sold poorly or well. All I'm saying is that there's a funnel effect. If someone's making a supplement for a supplement, then that's going to limit sales. You're not selling to 5e D&D players...

My original post was a little longer with more steps in the funnel, but I decided to simplify things. I haven't bought any WotC products since Tasha's, so I'm not familiar with the new Spelljammer release, but I remember reading that people were disappointed that it was missing stuff that they...

Three more dwarves: Mid-Renaissance, 17th-century Baroque, and early 20th-century Expressionist. I forgot to specify armor in the prompts for the first two, but it was a happy accident, because I think that the Baroque one turned out really well.