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On Paizo's part, though I'm not sure why that's relevant here.

I've already spoken to this in my previous post on this subject: "Honestly, the entire idea that "phylactery" is a synonym for "tefillin" is one that's near-totally gentile in nature. While there might be Jewish communities out there that use the term phylactery, it's exceptionally nonstandard...

It wasn't a ridiculous video. He was expressing a frustration that I've also experienced as a member of the Jewish community (and have heard others express): that the widespread insistence of using a Greek term for a religious implement that we (near-)universally refer to with a Hebrew word is...

I thought you were kidding before, but that's not what the video was about. He wasn't upset about other people being upset about anything; he was saying that the Jewish community doesn't call teffilin "phylacteries," and was expressing frustration at the insistence that the two are synonyms.

Assuming you mean the David Carradine series, then it's questionable how much of an influence that was on the OD&D monk; and, for that matter, it's questionable how much Gygax had to do with the original monk class at all. To quote from Shannon Appelcline's product history for Supplement II...

A little over three years ago, it looks like: https://www.enworld.org/threads/paizo-drops-use-of-the-word-phylactery.683609/

Well, that video is seven years old, so if nothing else you have to give the guy props for getting in on this debate rather early. :P

As a member of the tribe, I can tell you that no eyebrows were raised in the Jewish community that I was ever made aware of. Honestly, the entire idea that "phylactery" is a synonym for "tefillin" is one that's near-totally gentile in nature. While there might be Jewish communities out there...

I just finished reading a copy of the Tao Te Ching that I found at a local bookseller last month. Being the seminal work of Lao Tzu, this title needs no introduction, nor is there much that I can say about it here that hasn't already been said. I'll simply note that this 2024 release by Sirius...

I thought you'd made three monster books so far: the Bestiary Malfearous, Bestiary Nefarious, and Bestiary Fantastic...or does that third one not count because the monsters aren't "mostly from scratch"?

Just seeing that list makes me glad that WotC dumped ardlings, since I suspect that at least some of those would have been swept under that umbrella.

From the chapter six of the novel Once Around the Realms, published by TSR in 1995, I give you the following excerpt:

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It's Jareth, not Jared, you philistine. Now go perform the Magic Dance© ten times in repentence, or you'll be banished to the Bog of Eternal Stench.

This is kind of unrelated, but there's a fun fact about the first film that flies under a lot of people's radar: in the scene where the titular character confronts his friend who's working as a translator for the occupying Japanese army, calling him a traitor for working with them while his...

Isn't that what Jeff Lindsay said?

Just nuke the planet from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

I'm skeptical, since I have it on good authority that 73.6% of all statistics are made up.

That's only "problematic" if you remove the context that it's a fictional activity in which participation in no way facilitates the real-life inculcation/justification of the activities depicted. And given that context is, I would argue, inherent to the activity in question, that makes it a...