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Potentially. Both*,** only state (although especially with AD&D** I'm sure this is contradicted somewhere else) that treasure taken while on adventures has the gp=xp rule apply to it. Regardless, I meant in terms of broad strokes, not ackchyually-proof purity. Travelling all over a barony or...

It wasn't ever (to my recollection) stated outright, but the inference I got from TSR-era A/D&D was that answer to all questions about the fantastical reshaping the gameworld were answered significantly by rarity. Magical light did not replace torches and lamps because magic users were rare...

I remember the live-action Sheena. It and the Beastmaster show were part of the same late-90s/early-00s explosion of syndicated action-adventure/sci-fi-/fantasy tv series trying to capitalize on the success of Hercules/Xena/Highlander (/Baywatch). I don't think I actually watched it much. I...

There was. I can sympathize with this. My perspective, though, is that they just plain aren't the same fictions. The name is the same; and the premise of guy who talks to bird of prey, large cat, and two rodents small Carnivora; and that's about it. Different characters, different setting...

Works even better if it is one of those posts where you're reacting to something that happened in your IRL world and the rest of us aren't supposed to have the context. :D

I really dig* the Beastmaster IP. I watched the movie as a kid and the series as an adult. I always did like the lower scale and stakes it showcased -- where being able to have a lion or tiger (and two ferret) allies was a powerful ability, etc. *... aaas a lower-budget sploitation property...

Turn the monolithic towers into statues of Ganeesh and make the vampires vampiric squash and you have a Digger homage.

Because scrolling through your feed clicking 'block ________' on all the pointless gibberish is still you scrolling through your feed, viewing ads.

It's not 100% obvious, but it seems like you missed the joke.

Similar to this. I care, but the answer can be different at different times or with different games/groups. Heck, if my range can include fantasy and hard sci fi and quasi-realistic* special ops games and weird-world** RPGs, I can certainly get behind both low- and high-fantasy fantasy games...

The crazy old man I'd see in a parking lot would have a 'spoonful of sugar' shirt with entirely different implications.

Thus far, we've focused almost exclusively on highly recognizable network (+HBO and now streaming) shows that were a big deal at the time. Also*, we're generally going with shows people think started off as very good shows. What if we open the discussion up to, say, non-HBO cable tv shows and...

Also it was a movie from the 70s gently chiding the 50s at times, and I missed that. Also saw it for the first time as an adult, in a film class, around 2000. Still, I have no strong opinions on Gangster movies (or the crime genre in particular), and I still was able to recognize it as one of...

Must preserve the sanctity of the thread, right? ;) At the same time, if it's not protectionist feelings but instead some kind of 'hey, we were having a moment here' kind of situation, I can totally get the frustration. But at the end of the day it is making demands of other people and their...

The point was that, in fairness to Payn, his comment was not utter US cluelessness, cultural chauvinism, or assuming that everyone knew how things work in Eagle-land. They had every reason to believe their comment was close to universal in broad strokes, that people would catch the relevant...

Oh, I totally get it. They are playing to the algorithms, and YouTube's monopoly power + watch-the-world-burn social media behavior + having many content creators by the purse strings is the real culprit here. However, if the content creators are warping their product so much to match it that...