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As for writing religion down. Why? Some religion is esoteric, gnostic, secret so perhaps it would have been sacrilegious to write down. Or perhaps just too complex for the first symbols. Certainly writing developed out of bean-counting. But there are early myths written down by the 3rd...

They could certainly count in the Neolithic. People have been making lunar calendars as far back as the Paleolithic. And even mapping. Likewise formalised burial ritual and (likely shamanistic) religious beliefs. Also a vast amount of practical knowledge about the world around them, lost to...

Ghostery user here. One 55+ female not being counted.

Partly true. For myself as a woman I am now wary of forums given past experiences. This is definitely one of the better sites. Why subject oneself voluntarily to what is worse than encountered in real life?

About 10 weekends a year. 12 hours Saturday, 8 on Sunday. Sometimes longer, sometimes about 3-5 hours on Friday also. Food, etc. breaks of course. It usually takes till Tuesday for my brain and voice to recover from GMing but it's worth it.

This surprises me. Plus, to me it is the player's choice to make, not the GMs. Perhaps I just have nice mature friends to game with.

Female here. About a quarter of my characters over nearly 40 years have been male. They range from stereotypes to well-remembered personalities that feature in our group's stories decades later. I find it easier to portray intellectual or artistic men than really macho guys (the latter tend to...

For me D&D canon is sort of interesting on occasion but as pointed out there are so many versions of canon that I pick and choose which bits of canon I want in any new campaign I run.

Too many people think that one needs to use Harnmaster to play in Harn. Certainly not true, as many fine GMs have shown in the Alternate Realities forum of lythia.com.

Harn is such a great setting. RQ will work fine with it.