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    D&D General LotR and Forgotten Realms mashup - your thoughts?

    "One does not simply walk into Mordor. One must first travel to Faerun and gain 20 levels. Then one can walk wherever one wishes. Or teleport. Or planeshift."
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    Star Wars: Ahsoka - Official Teaser Trailer

    Not bad. Not sure it adds much compared with the previous trailer, except the explicit reference to Thrawn.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Agent Jack Danger, on the job!
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    And, in this case at least, what's left of your human decency.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Someone's plumbing new depths.
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    Magazines Dragon Reflections #67

    Stith Thompson is the Thompson in the Aarne-Thompson Types of the Folk Tale, which I drew on heavily when I was writing my Master's thesis on the Breton Lays in Middle English literature.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Wild Speculation: Athas, the World Without Dragons

    Athas and Tenerife... actually quite similar. Lots of bald, muscled blokes looking for a fight, grizzled people focused on their single purpose, street markets where strangers try to rip you off, and of course dragon trees!
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    D&D General The D&D Memes Thread

    Oglaf is the highlight of my Sundays.
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    Star Wars The Most Overused Tropes?

    Like a bantha!
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    Roman Bloodline?

    Thanks, ChatGPT! We'd never have known otherwise.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    But the 10% new ideas in Dragonlance was kender!
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    Constant Cookies Queries

    Thanks. This worked on my tablet, but not on my Windows laptop.
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    Constant Cookies Queries

    Me too. Windows, and Android phone and tablet. It says "You control your privacy". But it seems to want to make sure I choose ... wisely.
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    TSR Appendix N Discussion

    Just chiming in to say my next Barbarian PC is going to be called Thews the Mighty.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    The struggles of a recognisable everyman character facing overwhelming evil. Beginning in a rural area that's largely been sheltered from the effects of the world's evils. A party combining different races and different skills. A quest to destroy the evil facing the world. A split in the party...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    That was a deliberate choice by Lester Delrey, who'd been hired by Random House to establish "fantasy" as a genre. By copying specific elements from LotR, he helped to define what modern the elements of "epic fantasy" were. A few years later Weiss & Hickman took many of those same elements to...
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    Duh! Let's just say it was the lack of coffee in my system.
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    WotC The other snake in the grass: the Wizards Fan Content Policy

    You want to use D&D 5E, but you also want to "take them down" (presumably meaning WotC)? And you're looking for free legal advice on a public forum instead of paying an expert in IP law? Is your name by any chance Justin LaNasa?
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    So what does a Pool of Magic do precisely? Besides smell, presumably.
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