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I bought that issue when it came out and that adventure was pretty good overall.

I think it is very lazy to write off the Orcs being evil as a default as limiting. I don’t see any limit there at all. Exploring why they are the way they are is interesting and the exploration as a topic of the nature of evil has been the fodder for literature (and religion) for thousands of...

Holmes Basic boxed set in 1981 or 1982. I think at a hobby store on Ste-Catherine’s street near the forum but could have been at the closer to my HS hobby store on Sherbrooke in NDG (Montreal locations). The set had dice.

The first episode of the anime is good if you ever wondered about the new players TPKing at the first encounter in Lost Mines of Phandelver. It is aimed at RPG players or at least viewers well versed in the tropes and it shows the effects of what are often standard storylines or backstories. It...

Supplemental sets have inherent lower appeal. If you are not reprinting existing powerful cards to be played in other that Standard formats, you need a set to be standard legal for the number of cards and draw of needing it for the main format for a couple of years. The real truth is that they...

If it sold well, WoTC would be fools not to do more D&D sets in the main Magic releases. Hasbro has profit expectations.

I was a long time SCA member and picked up Runequest to try because of the SCA reference in fhe fumble tables (2e). I ran a long camping for my friends and later moved to the SF area when he had been one of the SCA founders. I will miss him and the work he still could do.

No, a small bunch of people did similar to this thread. They posted a obviously racist drawing from WW2 times and then posted the picture of Hobgoblins from the AD&D MM and declared them to be the same. Finding some writing that ascribe moral characteristics to genetics (the period where that...

I read that thread (and similar ones) a while ago. The problem I have is the equivalency given. Orcs are not as they are as a culture because of their genetics. They are how they are because of their god who directly influences them. It sounds nice to directly conflate the pseudo-science...

If I were to summarize my feelings on this thread’s original post and the framework it comes with, it is sadness on the finding problems where there are already solutions or where there is a reasonable argument that the problem is not direct but from sin of origin. The fear of Redcaps being...

Combat in AD&D was much more dangerous than 5e. You got XP for the treasure, not the fighting. The AD&D games I ran were super heavy on RP to get treasure without fighting and any fighting was planned well in advance. 3e to 5e very heavily emphasizes XP for killing monsters (the rule is...

The MM is pretty darned clear: “The alignment specified in a monster's stat block is the default. Feel free to depart from it and change a monster's alignment to suit the needs of your campaign.”

My daughter plays a goblin bard in my long running campaign. The campaign is set in the Forgotten Realms and goblins are basically as the monster manual describes them. There is a small goblin community in Waterdeep and they are not well regarded because they do act like goblins at times. We...

Which clearly shows that it is not samurai armor (it is like) and was not intended by basic design but just what the artist did. Pig faced orcs were also not intended. Hobgoblins were not intended to be the Japanese in monster form, and from that one drawing they have had that motif for a while...

I like the way my discussion on the actual armor in question is dismissed as “obviously wrong” without any counter points. It is in response to a post claiming that the 1e hobgoblin like drawing is a direct link to racist propaganda WW2 images. I point out that the armor and weapons is not...

That image is not particularly Japanese. The weapons in hand (axe and mace/morning star) are western and the sword is a scimitar. With the exception of the helmet, the armor and weapons actually look more Arabic/Islamic than Japanese and the helmet could be Chinese or Mongol as well. I really...

I am running 2 campaigns right now (Monday and Wednesday evening). The sessions have been 3 hours since I started (4 or 5 years ago). I am in my mid-50’s and most of my players are no younger than mid 30’s. We all have work and kids and life. 3 hours is plenty.

Backed Hyperborea. Have the 2e book and it is quite good.

Different countries have different rules. Football matches (using the non-US meaning) and Basketball and Hockey playoffs (I went to some games here) in the USA don’f require masks. Conventions are all starting to open up and each will have to make their own choices. I am fully vaccinated and I...

If you analyze who provides content (use One Bookshelf as the source), you will quickly see that there is a tiny number of publishers that have employees or publish enough content where they hire a steady stream of contractors. As much as communism (I wonder how many have lived in a communist...