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Yesterday I learned that Sean Connery was the first choice to play Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Ian McKellan gave such a...

Even back in the day though, those modules were presented as discrete units. The Saltmarsh series is definitely inter connected...

When someone suggests something is a relatively new phenomenon and I very much saw it otherwise, I'm going to say that. If that offends...

Might be, but it still existed and didn't seem exactly uncommon. Acting like it was all random sandboxes just does a bad job describing...

The problem has been these always treated a normal hit as enough to deliver poison. As such you pretty much have to assume some damage.

Uhm, that was my point? I was noting that it was pretty overt about it.

From my point of view it doesn't matter much; it was already waaay too far from that to be a good choice from day one. The combination...

I'd somehow missed that first part entirely. Learn something every day.

is it though, or do you need to handwave a lot away because there simply is no good in-world explanation. Not sure what the game you...

Applies in a slightly more refined way to Eclipse Phase too, for similar reasons.

Well, you know my usual response to that: "You're using D&D why then?" Its been a poor choice for that from the day it came in three...

There are animals big enough to hurt you without meaning to--big bears and great cats come to mind--and there are animals big enough to...

Huh. I wasn't even aware here that the original version of John Stewart was an archetect. I'm so used to the animated JLA version...

Though it kind of existed before that. The first time someone decided to run a game that was trying to capture the Tolkein feel (this...

Yeah, its pretty much "Let's look at all the D&D tropes and say "Okay, all these things have to at least some degree an in-world...