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I used to joke that my character took cartography as a non-weapon proficiency so he would know how to fold the map. (Which I now feel is a very specific joke for D&D-playing Boy Scouts who always had needlessly large orienteering maps, up to the mid-90s.)

Can I have a stern conversation with the giant rat?

I had not gotten that far, but it will be now.

Well, I have my next character concept. Thanks, Snarf. (I'm sure it's been done, but it hasn't been done in MY current group.)

Yeah, "Broadsword" was always an infuriatingly vague term in 1E/2E. I played at tables where "broadsword" was interpreted as "one handed sword with edge on both sides of blade that gets wider toward the hilt" and that interpreted "broadsword" as "sabre" and that interpreted "broadsword" and...

That's how I learned it too. I took a "European Longsword" class via local community college...(does math, winces) TWENTY years ago, and one of the first things they did was have us un-learn and re-learn the correct terms. I was shocked that what 1E/2E called a "Bastard Sword" IS a longsword (or...

And speaking of both, they made Ms. Scarlet an Asian-coded vamp as far back as "Clue Master Detective" in 1988. Edit: Huh. Earlier. 1972. Clue's Miss Scarlet - Her Changing Face Over the Years

I could see that; I definitely get the "Transformers: PTSD" (sing that to the tune of the G1 "More Than Meets the Eye"). One one hand, much of the character development DID make (a kind of) sense in terms of a narrative arc; they really pushed how the "last survivors" would react and change...

Dinobot was amazing. It's like: Dinobot-tier Everybodyelseinclosesecond . . . . . . Scorpinok and Terrorsaur (Note: the original form of this joke used Botanica as the punchline, but was edited because 1. We're talking Beast Wars, not Beast Machine, 2. I crossed Botanica and Transmutate in my...

The plot thickens! Eh. My $74 got charged, so I'm in for a penny and a pound, it looks like. More than I'd like to lose if this doesn't happen, but one doesn't pledge without accepting the risk. I'll post thoughts if/when it shows up. That doesn't mean I don't have concerns about creator...

Headmaster Brisko, if only because he gave us "Evil Power-Hungry Cartographer" as a possible career choice. (Also, his Headmaster partner robot as "Fangry," which is a word I have used to apply to grumpy cats since I was like eight.) My first two Transformers were Thundercracker and Prowl, so I...

Huh. This kinda goes along with something I've been thinking since I chimed in on this thread: It almost feels like "if they've had a mini made in the WotC era, they might be an 'iconic'." Lady Vol and Lord of Blades both have minis (admittedly, I know just about nothing about Eberron. Not a...

Yup. Legends. And he had his own novel, as well as a few appearances in others. Like I said, I largely remember him from Ed Greenwood's Dragon Magazine articles. Plus he had a mini (finally). I'm wondering it Krynn would be better recognized by classes/archetypes than specific PCs: Solmanic...

Fett, Jedi in general, Snake-Eyes, Gambit, Wolverine...

I've also been trying to pick the Dragonlance iconics. I agree with everyone who has answered, but I think I'd add Dalamar, thanks to Wizards Three in the real world and head of the Conclave in-world. But overall, for non-Krynnophiles, Soth and Raistlin are really the only ones I think a...

It's kind of a shame. That sort of controversy doesn't seem to hook teens like it used to.

I COMPLETELY forgot to address Mark David Chapman, John Hinkley, Jr., or Kurt Cobain in my response. :) (ETA: We do talk about it in my class, though. I take a day to go thought the censorship history.)

Ooooh boy. /Sam Beckett voice. There are a few things working against Catcher, starting with what @overgeeked mentioned: Americans like to be pissy about what they're assigned to do in school. And yes, Holden Caulfield is whiny, especially when you look at the fact he's from a VERY...

Agree. I tried to run the Rebellion starter (with the remains of a Pathfinder group that kind of dissolved), but the players just didn't get into the narrative "explain how they succeed" part of dice rolls and were content with math rocks addition and subtraction. Beautiful books though.

Sounds like a suggestion to add to my "The Next 'Catcher in the Rye'" Essay prompt. (Basically, my students need to find a coming of age story, read it, compare its tenets against "Catcher" and argue for it as a replacement for "Catcher" in the curriculum. For kids who get stuck or don't know...