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I agree with the overall point, but I don't think the last bit is the necessary component. Gary's greatness in game design could have been completely wedded to the D&D model, and once he lost the ability to design in that framework*, he was SOL. Likewise, he could have left TSR and made the next...

Congrats! The way it worked for me is that I kept doing my ever-loving best to die young, and failed.

It's generally considered fine on these boards (especially when acknowledged). So long as you don't expect people from X years to respond or back up their statements from then. So, going back to the OP... My recollection is that we had the most intelligent swords in my original main-group...

I'll buy that. Certainly for now. I'm not sure it will have intergenerational staying power, as AFAICT the younger generation isn't latching onto it the way they are Friends (or Star Trek). But among those who were there for it originally, it definitely has staying power compared to Empty Nest...

Amateur. I drink exclusively Kopi Luwak coffee, and have trained my band* of Asian palm civets to use tiny Nesmuk Jahrhundert Messer Damascus knives to hand-(well, paw-)chop the coffee beans after they are done digesting them. *side thought -- Asian palm civets are often referred to as 'civet...

Very true. However, there is a distinction. Casablanca has had the time to prove its staying power. There are very few memes for Alias Boston Blackie, or even Mrs. Miniver (and that film almost swept the academy the year Casablanca came out). I mean, I'm sure people were making Casablanca...

There's been a vein of that ore in the game and community since the beginning. It started out in the official products, even.

I don't know. Am I saying* "D&D players are used to reading maps, so they would be my selection" or "D&D players screw up map-reading a lot, so they wouldn't be my selection?" *aside from the more straightforward 'fandom affiliation is not the most relevant component of my selection'

The one who knows how to read a map. Snark aside, 'the best X or the worst Y' is always going to be the best X until the thing in the best category is over the top things like nazis or serial killers. Best of any fandom are going to be polite and respectful and know when to give it a rest.

Potentially. Both*,** only state (although especially with AD&D** I'm sure this is contradicted somewhere else) that treasure taken while on adventures has the gp=xp rule apply to it. Regardless, I meant in terms of broad strokes, not ackchyually-proof purity. Travelling all over a barony or...

It wasn't ever (to my recollection) stated outright, but the inference I got from TSR-era A/D&D was that answer to all questions about the fantastical reshaping the gameworld were answered significantly by rarity. Magical light did not replace torches and lamps because magic users were rare...

I remember the live-action Sheena. It and the Beastmaster show were part of the same late-90s/early-00s explosion of syndicated action-adventure/sci-fi-/fantasy tv series trying to capitalize on the success of Hercules/Xena/Highlander (/Baywatch). I don't think I actually watched it much. I...

There was. I can sympathize with this. My perspective, though, is that they just plain aren't the same fictions. The name is the same; and the premise of guy who talks to bird of prey, large cat, and two rodents small Carnivora; and that's about it. Different characters, different setting...

Works even better if it is one of those posts where you're reacting to something that happened in your IRL world and the rest of us aren't supposed to have the context. :D

I really dig* the Beastmaster IP. I watched the movie as a kid and the series as an adult. I always did like the lower scale and stakes it showcased -- where being able to have a lion or tiger (and two ferret) allies was a powerful ability, etc. *... aaas a lower-budget sploitation property...

Turn the monolithic towers into statues of Ganeesh and make the vampires vampiric squash and you have a Digger homage.