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TSR was a wargaming company before they ever published D&D, and continued to publish wargames until the early 90s, when CCGs and other collectible games emerged and they started chasing that market (very unsuccessfully) instead. (It is interesting that the wargame-derived D&D and it's clones...

PJ's LotR-Hobbit movies are a steady downward climb from the sublime, near-perfect Fellowship of the Ring to the unwatchably cringeworthy Battle of the Five Armies - one of the few movies I've almost walked out of (when the giant worms appeared, and I practically wanted to scream, "WHEN DID WE...

Adobe, for instance. :)

A few months ago I picked up a copy of the original run of The Primal Order at a used bookstore in Minneapolis. I noticed a rather... interesting... accolade on the back: I'm sure Ken had NO IDEA just how right he'd turn out to be!

My bet would be that the five-season arc will follow the forging of the rings, the theft of the rings, the capture of Sauron/downfall of Numenor, and Elendil and his sons founding Gondor and Arnor/War of the Last Alliance. Just a bet, though given the tie-in with the LotR movies, we should...

Kinda like my friend who wanted to paint "South Dakota Highway Petrol" on the side of his Crown Vic... "I'm not impersonating an officer! I run an oil services company! Really!"

Shh.....

Back in college my campaign world featured the Gnomish "Hampstire Lancers" - dragoon pistol wielding, giant "space" hamster riding cavalry inspired by the Bengal Lancers. They were actually pretty formidable...

Dude? Dude! Now imagine him six feet tall, intelligent, armed, and capable of spellcasting. Run. Not that it will do you any good.

Yes, but a big point of the Dune saga is that the agency of EVERYONE is subordinated in one way or another.

I'll probably pick it up eventually - I like the Sidekicks and Patrons system, and a lot of nice options. But it's not high on my list right now.

cis, yes.... but white and male focused? What, because the main character was? I think they portrayed a pretty "diverse" future for their time - and there was no shortage of powerful female characters in the books as well!

I use XP for kills (including cleverly bypassing or peacefully resolving conflicts) + roleplaying + achieving objectives. In the future I may add spending GP to get XP for training as a method as well. I like having multiple ways to earn XP, and not every character advancing at the same rate.

You don't even have to dig very far! Just go to the OSR section on DriveThruRPG.com and they've got enough to keep you busy for a long time. I have a lot of OSR stuff - I convert or adapt it to 5E rules. :)

Back in the 2E days, I learned this the hard way when I sent a major NPC against my PCs... in full plate, but with no helmet. Player: "He's not wearing a helmet? Called shot to the head!" I wasn't very good at putting my foot down and saying "I'm the DM" back then. He rent the NPC asunder with...

Well, given that it's 2020 there's a really easy fix to that problem - the DMs Guild. The books could do a better job tying in DMs Guild content though, and making new content accessible (for instance, elsewhere I theorized about a Mystara revival as the "Airship" setting - the core book could...

They already did this... it's called Ravnica. :)

This was never a question when I ran games in high school - my logic has always been, "if you can play an elf or a lizardman, you can play a woman - why would this matter?" I didn't even encounter it until the first time I went to a con and found that some tables forbid people from playing...

Yup, looks like he passed a few months ago or so. Darn. :( Of course, a complete L1-L5 hardback/revamp is still a great idea, in case Mr. Goodman is reading this...