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I once knew a guy that wanted to play a fighter whose name—which I never actually saw written down—was pronounced TEST-uh-kleez, but he didn't have the balls to do it.

My condolences to his friends and family. "I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance." -Mary Shelley

That seems very unusual, considering some of the politically-oriented game material that Steve Miller (head of NUELOW Games) has posted on his blog over the years.

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Huh, I knew that there was a COCd20 Delta Green sourcebook (dual-statted with whichever edition of CoC was current when it was in print), and that Fantasy Flight Games had made a CoCd20 version of their Nocturnum campaign sourcebook, but I thought those were it. Fascinating that there were more...

Emperor Vulkaran the Dark, as I recall. His Vodoni Empire conquered a dozen crystal spheres, and was leading an invasion force to do the same to Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace; it was an epic premise that should have been its own boxed set rather than a sixty-four page module. (Likewise...

In all honesty, I think that'd be for the best. There's a lot of questions there, and a lot of discussion that will need to be had, e.g. "only for the game itself" is likely to be a major point of discussion all on its own.

Accepting the premise that Perkins' statement is "objectively correct" requires having a defined understanding of not only what "canonicity" is, but why fan communities find the concept to be important. To say nothing of figuring out what the context is in which it's being discussed. I don't...

Good find! I should add that I found an archive of the full statement that Perkins made, and the overall context is less helpful, since he subsequently adds: "It can also be said that every campaign that’s ever been run in any of our published settings has its own canon. Your version of the...

I disagree that the idea of "old edition material is still canon if the 5E lore is silent on it" agrees with WotC's statement. When they say that "if it hasn't appeared in a book since 2014, we don't consider it canon for the games," that seems pretty straightforward in saying that everything...

Which means that the text from that 2E book isn't canon. Can you cite a source on that? Because as far as I can find, WotC's statement doesn't discriminate between editions. It just says that "Basically, our stance is that if it has not appeared in a book since 2014, we don’t consider it...

Warlock of the Stonecrowns (affiliate link) had a few planar beings: Ishardeel is a female greater guardian yugoloth who guards the Tower of Storms for the Warlock. A male movanic deva named Akhibel, "The Lord of Comets," is kept prisoner in the Warlock's tower, being periodically tortured for...

Wait, so one of these guys is a male medusa?!

Which is a very colorful bit of lore that fits in well with the nature of demons, but which WotC doesn't consider canon anymore: https://www.enworld.org/threads/wotc-novels-non-5e-lore-are-officially-not-canon.681553/

The nitpick is that you said there were "six more years' worth" of Gen Xers waiting to be born in 1977...which would mean that there were Gen Xers being born up until 1983, even though by then they would have been Millennials and not Gen Xers.

Sort of reminds me of Morag, the marilith "secretary" that Lolth had in Paul Kidd's Queen of the Demonweb Pits novel. Morag didn't have any particular drow-ish features, and was actually rather benevolent and well-ordered, causing Lolth to tease her about "acting so baatezu." It's all...

As a Jewish person, I've pointed out on these boards before that this isn't really the case, because "phylactery" isn't a term that we use. Rather, we call them "teffilin," and calling them "phylacteries" is a conflation that's near-totally made by gentiles. In that regard, liches using...