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I'm reading A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits by Paracelsus.

Robert McChesney, co-founder of the advocacy group Free Press and a tireless defender of media and democracy, has died at the age of 72.

::Yes, speak with Thane Arnak,:: Bible continues, ::and let him know the Clouds have indeed abandoned the alliansk. I bear the giant-slaying sword Waythe, the Chief-killer, as a token from their Prinsk this is so.:: Bible briefly displays the sword to the giants as proof. ::And although I'd...

Seventeen-year-old Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad, the first Palestinian child to die while detained by Israel, has died in an Israeli prison.

Hossam Shabat, noted Al Jazeera journalist, was killed Monday by an Israeli strike on Beit Lahia.

Gnomes is about the Kabouter of Dutch folklore, a different creature from Paracelsus's gnome which was derived from the German Bergmännlein or Kobel. The English translation of the book translates Kabouter as gnome, but I think it might have been more accurate to use hob or brownie. As in the...

Yes, which further reinforces the value of knowing a variety of languages. I recently revised my encounter procedure for my 5E game by reexamining the relevant rules from OD&D and AD&D, and in the resulting system not having a shared language to use (ETA: or being able to communicate in some...

Common is a regional language. From Dungeons & Dragons (1974), Vol. 1, p. 12: LANGUAGES: The “common tongue” spoken throughout the “continent” is known by most humans. All other creatures and monsters which can speak have their own language, although some (20%) also know the common one. From...

I agree. @Manbearcat, you are on fire today!

Bible shoulders Waythe and looks up at the stone giant. ::I propose the giank raids cease and desisk,:: she says boldly, ::and the gianks enter into good faith negoshkiations with a represen'akive of the smalls, appointed by Lord Falldur, and find an amicable reskolution so that everyone can...

I'm not widely read in 20th century or any other era of fantasy, but, when I run D&D, I try to maintain a certain amount of fidelity to what I perceive as the spirit of the original game coupled with some of my own aesthetic preferences. So my personal Appendix N looks like a truncated version...

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It says "random location", so you must randomize! At the same time, astral travel is at the speed of thought (travel anywhere takes a "day" unless a psychic wind is encountered), so any location is merely flavor/color. What matters is what might be encountered nearby. Nevertheless, for flavor's...

Ah, okay. It looks like I might have picked that up from Robert Foster.

Nevertheless, Black Speech was made in mockery of Quenya with which it has many correspondences, so could be seen as a form, or at least derivative, of Elvish. For example, Quenya urco, orco becomes Black Speech Uruk.

Bible emits a low "Oof!" as she stands unmoved in front of Cordit, absorbing the blows of the giants' stones with her solid and enlarged form. Summoning all her strength, she steels herself for one last stand. She uses her bonus action to regain hit points. Second Wind : 1D10+10 = [6]+10 = 16...

In my D&D games, I resolve overland travel in roughly four-hour increments, and I scale my map so that's the amount of time it takes to travel from one hex to another. Depending on terrain type and other environmental factors, it may require a navigation check to move into the desired space...

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Whereas I have it take the same five or six days, but the cost per level changes depending on class. For barbarians, bards, fighters, paladins, and rangers, the per level cost goes down. For all others, it goes up, and for sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards, it goes up by a lot. The rationale...

Look at the first three definitions. Examples of definition four given are “slave to fashion/technology”, “slaves of liquidity” (speaking about markets), and “slaves to the clock”. You can speak in a similar way of someone being a “slave to altruism”. That doesn’t support your argument that such...