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Irrelevant to this thread, because the initial bad quip by EGG predates his use of the name Tiamat, but the thread below has some snips from a book that I am guessing was in the Lake Geneva library at the time (it was in the suggested list in Moldvay which was out together with the help of a...

Imagine the fun experimenting trying to recreate the cloning incident...

Person they brought in on a BBC business show yesterday was effusive about paying $200 a month (or something like that) to research for him instead of needing to hire someone for $80k per year. Hated how some reporters and economists didn't understand what AI did. Never mentioner needing to...

Villager news is the best news.

I mean, I thought it was convincingly shown the clown/jester was a murderer on page 1 of the thread. What's left but quibbling about details? (Isn't quibbling about something tangential de rigueur on ENWorld).

Other half got the job offer she was waiting for!!

Gygax is quoted as saying the metallic dragons were definitely inspired by the Chinese ones. https://www.enworld.org/threads/q-a-with-gary-gygax.22566/page-94#post-1344843 The general myth books I've gone through so far from that era have a few named ones - but I didn't see Huanglong yet. I'm...

Yes. He was happy to gloat that the only obvious dragon of chaos out there was female because it fit his sexist world view, and he made a childish dig proclaiming it. (It doesn't feel like it is nearly the dig he seems to think it is if he made the comment about a random name he just chose out...

Because if someone is looking for a Dragon of Chaos and Dragon of Law in popular myth books of the time, there is (as far as I can tell) one Dragon that stands out. Tiamat with Chaos. There isn't one for Law. So one is obvious and the other is shunted into just finding a name that sounds good...

Gaugh. I should have just finished watching Vera and not checked in here.

Scholarly works notwithstanding, Tiamat is literally listed under both Chaos and Dragon in a popular general audience myth books at the time. In a few books it is the literally the only obvious choice for a Dragon of Chaos. (Including ones in the Moldvay list put together with the help of the...

The universe didn't like me mocking it. Went down stairs right after this to find a leaky pipe in the basement. And then running to the carport to get a bucket there was a snake caught in the tape holding the screen on to our crawl space vent. (Did save the snake anyway).

It's times like this I worry about my subconscious. Why would it call a post like this into being for me to read? Is it recrafting your role in this universal play of mine as the anti- @Snarf Zagyg ?

I can completely understand not liking what you describe!

I'm not sure if this is a commentary on the quality of buffalo sauce where you live or the robustness of your bowels ;-) How much do they put on? I'm used to some white/ranch sauce with a bit of buffalo added, not having the buffalo as a replacement for the usual pizza sauce.

Personal taste in how much spice each person prefers in their food is certainly a thing!

!?! I think the pineapple got to and destroyed your taste buds!

I was kind of shocked when I found out the author of a popular history book I had picked up during college and found interesting turned out years later to have been written by a really virulent racist. It feels like for some kinds of non-fiction I don't trust some kinds of people to have done a...