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I think you are both right at times. IMO, psionics in AD&D (particularly playing a Psionicist class in 2e) did feel different, but the powers (especially in 1E) also were very much spell-like. There were other factors at play, including: At the time, slight changes to the framework were larger...

I mean fine, if you want to be conventional and all. The difference is that this is real. Not even sold as a novelty (well, maybe as a novelty, but right there on the rack in (where I saw it) Walgreens and other run of the mill locations.

It's gotta be either that or just an allusion to how the author (Jason Carl, who wrote 3.0's Sword & Fist where it first appeared) interpreted IRL monkeys gripping branches or something.

Why stop there?

Let's see. For two weapon fighting: in theory you can now dual-wield flails, rapiers, whips, etc., for d8 damage or whip reach. In practice, this is very rarely going to outperform existing two weapon options that have the nick property. Perhaps some war cleric or str-based bladelock build...

I don't hate psionics as spellcasters. When we talk about spells (particularly 'spells' in the way that Book of Nine Swords maneuvers counted), we really just mean modular little packets of exception-based rules text that get put forth when a certain character does something, and that's pretty...

Ugh. That's what I meant to type. Wow is that easy to do.

Honestly, I think it is the wrong question. I think we* are too in love with the idea of geniuses (we as a culture, but even moreso nerddom fandom and those who show up in forums like this). There's something to be said for someone who sees a good idea and then just plain puts in the work. The...

I mean, we kinda did. Cyberpunk means different things to different people, but it tended to have some broad categories: An integrated information network bringing surveillance and control (or insurmountable influence, depending on if it was soft or hard control by the megacorporate overlords)...

Dear Joseph Goodman/Goodman Games, I sit here in my attic office, not going into the office because no one will be around right before Memorial Day. I do so while reading this truly execrable post from the younger Bledsew fellow, wrapping himself and his positions up in the flag those soldiers...

I'm never concerned about a game's popularity. However, if he is tying his preferences to 'the real D&D,' I feal that it is innately an appeal to authority ('the game, as originally envisioned by the creators,' or similar). In that case, it seems pertinent that it wasn't the game (version) that...

This certainly does paint a picture of Jeffro tracing a line between Gary and Dave's gravestones looking for an inverted pyramid that holds a copy of the true original D&D document -- of which only those who have have seen it know the true meaning of role playing games. ;) While I understand...

Depends on which Janeway she was this week. I always felt like she and Spike from Buffy were in a competition for who could collect more mutually exclusive inconsistent characterizations. They really amped up the return-to-status-quo mentality. The ship is always understaffed because of the...

twitches in former Anti-Money Laundering specialist I remember those days.

I thoroughly do not believe anyone on reddit who says they are associated with the entertainment industry, but the general notion is interesting.

It could well be genetic. Adenosine receptor perfusion or cerebral blood flow regulation or the like. I likewise can get up after truncated rest or wake up in the middle of the night and deal with <insert pet or house-related micro-emergency> with minimal impairment whereas my wife fumbles and...

I don't know if the act alone in isolation did it, or it validated premade notions of him people had from the promotion campaign for ZH initially. That was mostly 'overly zealous creator spams advertisements of their product, advertises product in places where advertising is not allowed...

I'm not familiar with the Greek Myth of Hughsephone.

Glad you included the specifier. He certainly didn't do the Dungeon&Wilderness Guides or Dragonlance/Greyhawk setting hardcovers, nor Manual of the Planes, Fiend Folio, or Deities & Demigods/Legends & Lore. It's become clear that Zeb Cook did much if not most if not all of Oriental Adventures...