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I think of history as being less what happened in the past than it is about why it happened. We all know the stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, that the true king of England died on October 14, 1066, and that World War III was started on October 23, 2077 (October is a bad month), but...

The paperclip scenario sounds suspiciously like the gray goo scenario. I've got to admit I find the OP intriguing as I've never considered what happens after the menacing AI rids itself of its pesky human infestation. There was an RPG that came out in the late 80s or early to mid 1990s, I...

I would have to agree. Gygax worked very hard to establish himself as the face of D&D, but it also reinforced by him being the primary defending of D&D during the Satanic Panic years by being heard and seen on national television and radio. Until fairly recently, Williams rarely got credit for...

I watched that scene from NCIS in real time when it first aired and was embarrassed on behalf of everyone involved. I simply cannot think of a more surprisingly terrible scene to appear in a series than that one.

Even before the internet, she was the villain of the story. The evil outsider who stole TSR from it's righteous creator, Gary Gygax, and while I do think Williams' legacy deserves to be reassessed, there's some truth to that. The way she took over involved more than a little skullduggery on...

I finally finished the series. Holy cow! I had no idea TSR offered Gygax a sweetheart deal to settle his suit out of court. He would have gotten the AD&D trademark and $500,000 in royalties annually for five years, but his own hubris prevented him from taking the deal. Gygax must have truly...

I decided to take my time and work on some areas, skin and hair, I need to improve on. I’m not looking forward to painting all the leather straps on the legs. It’s going to be the most tedious part of the mini. I agree with you about the base being too small. It’s also a bit boring.

I’ve got something else nice to say about this model. The hair is easy to paint. It’s just really easy for a novice painter to practice painting hair because separate strands are so well defined. Hair is tough, but I’m actually pretty happy with this.

I used to be so worried about exerting control over a player's control over their character that I would be indirect when telling them their character was about to do something stupid and/or ruin session or campaign for everyone else. Star Wars (West End Games version): The PCs were on a...

So I’ve run into a problem. My original plan for this giant was to make her a nice goth giant with tattoos. Pale skin was the original plan, but now she looks like a California girl who drinks kale smoothies and does Pilates. I didn’t do the face because I planned on goth makeup. What to...

I’m working on this giant from Dungeons & Lasers. It’s technically fine. At only $35 it’s a good value, but my biggest criticism is that nothing about this mini screams giant except the small owl on her left hand. It just looks like a bigger version of a regular sized mini.

Very often a new edition is a good thing because they typically fix problems with the previous edition. I can only think of a few games where the new edition was a disappointment. Legend of the Five Rings 2nd edition I'm looking at you. With D&D 5th edition, well, it's not a new edition, so I...

Now I want a Cyberpunk version of WotC who sends edgerunners to your house when you use third party products or your house rules go too far astray of the orthodox.

Bingo. D&D was produced by Americans for an American audience. In the 1970s, TSR was happy to sell to foreign markets when they could, they had a nice deal with Games Workshop to distribute D&D, but I think D&D continues to be produced for and by Americans. And since most of us currently...

I feel like we've been in the age of D&D like games for just about the entirety of the last 25 years. At least since the Great d20 Glut of the early 2000s. In the 1990s I could walk into my FLGS and see AD&D side by side with GURPS, Cyberpunk 2020, Dark Conspiracy, Traveller, and a myriad of...

I hate using those because it takes players a while before they can stop thinking about what the card is before just knowing it instantly on sight.