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Not really looking forward to a lite/comedic PG take. The fantasy that I've most enjoyed -- Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian, Game of Thrones -- has been more serious.

The article that the original article linked to (from Deadline) just says his is 'in talks' to do it. Are we sure he has signed?

I would like to nominate: Rolemaster (Unified): Iron Crown Enterprises http://www.ironcrown.com/ICEforums/index.php?topic=19986.0 (The link is to the latest update on the game. Arms Law and Character Law, Spell Law, and Treasure Law have passed through editing and are going to layout and art...

Thanks for the help Talien. I have a workaround (family in the USA that I can ship it to), but maybe someone else will benefit from your suggestion.

Yes, I get that too when I switch the delivery address to a US location. When it is my default address, which is Canadian, though, it says currently unavailable. I guess they don't want us Canadians getting the American price? Shame, because the Canadian price is much, much higher (3x the cost).

Yes

There's a difference between Amazon.com and Amazon.ca (the Canadian version). Prices on the CDN version are often much higher (those of us here in Canada sometimes shop on the .com/US site because even with the exchange and the international shipping, prices on .com are often still cheaper than...

Yeah, that is $102.73 without shipping CDN!

Great ideas! The TidyBoss Battle Grid Mats seem to be unavailable from Amazon though :(

How then do you explain away the fact that Tolkien says specifically that they are evil by nature -- literally he says they are 'naturally evil'?

Ok, then here is where we will have to agree, respectfully, to disagree. To me, that cover plays on racist tropes of black people as savage and childlike -- the idea of Africans boiling people in pots. It seems the sort of unwelcome depictions you see in racist movies. I understand that you...

I'm not saying you literally said 'malleable' was in the text; I never meant to imply that. I used quotes because you said that word specifically, and I don't see anything in that quote that suggests Orcs are malleable. Yes, actually, that's what it does mean: they are, by nature, evil. Their...

Ok, I think I understand what you are asking now. But let me ask: Do you see any racism in the cover of Drums on Fire Mountain?

Where do you see 'malleable' in that quote? What he's saying is that God/Eru accepted their creation, so we can't say they are irredeemable in the sense that we can't say nothing good can come out of them. (See: problem of Evil). God allows evil to exist, so it must be part of his plan, and he...

Yes, but the full quote specifies that they were 'naturally evil'. Here it seems he is saying that they are inherently evil -- just that because they are part of Eru's creation, and Eru is infinitely good, they should not be considered as contrary to the divine plan. They're still evil...

Wizards is actively doing that right now, so I'd encourage them to continue until this isn't a problem in published material. If individuals at conventions or home tables keep trying to inject racist tropes into specific races, then we should call them on it, and let them know that it is racist.

Tolkien changed his mind several times on the matter of the origin of Orcs, it is true. He seems to have originally presented them as a result of Morgoth's evil, then thought of them as corrupted Elves, and then finally as corrupted Men. So their origin is definitely ambiguous: Their nature...

One problem I have with these changes is that there are some settings that have races that are irredeemably evil. In fact, several of these settings heavily influenced D&D. Tolkien's Orcs and Trolls, for example, are inherently evil. They are corruptions of creatures who were once good, true...

Yes, they exist to represent common sense racial differences, just like racial attributes do. There are many things Powerful Build does not apply to. This is why, imho, it is not sufficient to represent all the many differences massive size entails. Your mileage may vary of course. I am just...

Sure, but the scrawniest bull in the herd is still a bull, and therefore larger than the largest Halfling. This is why we divide bonuses due to individual attributes from bonuses due to race.