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I actually take Gygax at his word on this, insofar as he was talking about his own personal influences and inspiration. Instead, my feeling is that many of the clearly Tolkien-Influenced parts were "fan service" and not things that inspired Gygax himself. He cites Poul Anderson's Three Hearts...

Are you the Real Slim Shady, too?

Wound ballistics shows that a 9 mm handgun round has about as much energy as a fastball or a heavy book dropped from head height, both of which are things that humans survive (not without pain). Obviously a rifle is a lot nastier, but the killing power of guns is primarily due to the penetration...

Well I guess it depends on one's viewpoint. IMO most modern movies are essentially set on 1.25x speed. I feel like I never get a breath in before something else is happening. It's the pacing equivalent of a song mastered post "loudness wars" compared to ones that have actual dynamics. As I...

De nada. But I stand by it. They were genre films, to be sure, and not intended to be art movies, but they were paced well, made innovative use of special effects and sound, and did an excellent job blending several different genres that Lucas had made a homage to: Westerns, "Easterns" (i.e...

Not liking something != being a hater. Certainly true that the corporate masters were happy, but what I'm saying is "corporate masters make a lot of money" isn't the only sign of "is a good movie/song/TV show/etc." For instance, the original Star Wars and the LotR trilogies both made a lot of...

Selling well doesn't make a movie good from an "am I going to enjoy this movie?" standpoint. I mean, The Hobbit movies made a lot of money and, while they had some potentially good ingredients, they were really drowned under the desire to bloat out one novel into three movies. There are also...

They really have to bring Bruce Payne back or it's just not real.

Fantastic catch! Great to hear from Jim Ward.

Fantastic catch! Great to hear from Jim Ward.

BookBarbarian Beat me to it!

I don't know the legal status of Conan, but you could probably publish Con-Ed O'Barbrien as your satirical example and just have the class more or line up as needed. Modiphius currently publishes the Conan RPG and that should indicate who owns what.

That's how I built him, as a few levels of Barbarian, some Scout Rogue, and the rest levels Champion. This was not popular with some folks, though, but I think it really fits what he does well.

I'm much more Classical, though not totally. In my view, it's very important to be true to the character and if the character should be more of a hothead, then they should be played appropriately. I often use dice or randomization as an RP guide, so I'm a variant type. For instance, if I feel...

Cosmetics have indeed been common in human history for a LONG time, probably well into prehistory.

Maybe it's not nail polish?

The problem I have with all the adventures in the book is that they're deadweight if you don't want to run them or have run them already. The nice thing about the old module format was it was super light and you could leave them at home if you didn't need their content. Hardcovers are heavy. My...

Heh. This assumes that what they're giving is indeed exactly what people want. The problem I have with YP and likely this is that they're just fairly minimal effort ports of forty year old old modules. The older modules are great in many ways, but they have a lot of flaws or design choices...

There's a Greek restaurant in Queens named Mythos. It specializes in seafood and is next door to an aquarium store... um. I went there and, of course, ordered squid and octopus. I mean, well, duh.

For the company, possibly, though not totally---there are lots of ways to jack sales figures up in the short run that hurt medium to long term. For consumers? Not so much. I don't see why I should really care overly much. By that metric alone, McDonald's is the master of a good burger and...