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Gnomes can definitely be evil, but the whole evil gnome thing I think is a little played out, lately.

They seem to be from a pocket universe that is almost entirely but not quite unlike Dark Sun.

They didn't actually use the OGL then, either. They acquired the use of those two monsters under a private license, then released them under the OGL. That always seemed petty to me.

The classical sai is a dagger. The blunt sai is mainly a modern martial arts invention, patterned after the similar but single-pronged jutte.

The original description of Thor's hammer was that it had an unusually short handle. I've tended to assume that's a Norse dick joke.

The first time they meet him, they mistake him for an ally, and he mistakes them for dupes.

The TSR Buck Rogers line also had licensed Gold Box computer games, a strategic board game, and tie-in novels. So my guess is that TSR does not own that version of the property entirely.

Immersion is very valuable to me. However, I think the players should be "in on" the rules; there is nothing more jarring to the play experience than a mismatch in expectations, because the GM isn't showing the players what they can do in the game.

Probably the coolest and most star-like thing, I think, would be to make it a punching dagger with one long blade, and a smaller blade a each side.

Beep beep boop! Wandering Star

Gnolls are now kholos. This is one of the least legally necessary name-changes, as D&D style gnolls have existed in WoW and Everquest since forever. However, it makes sense to me, because it ties them more closely to Golarion lore, particularly the large gnoll population in Mwangi that are...

And it throws! I've actually held a couple of African throwing knives. Stranger than what? The urumi is a functional weapon, so it's not stranger than a starknife.

You've been Starro'd.

This is a little different than simply unrealistic weapons. I can't even visualize how you would wield this.

I've seen a PC death in two different playthroughs of Phandelver. So if your standard is, does the game regularly kill characters during the introductory adventure?, then the answer is no, D&D is not easy. A lot of DMs keep saying, "Well, this was supposed to be a level-appropriate encounter...

That's more effective than any method I could come up with.

The starknife makes no sense. At first I thought it was a bit like wind and fire wheels, but you can't actually hold it a plane with your arm because of its ring body. You can't really use it holding it up and down, because it doesn't even have a point going down, they go at diagonal angles...

D&D came right out of fantasy wargaming (and is, in fact, a fantasy wargame, albeit one with unconventional facets at the time), and in turn, is a "Braunstein" of fantasy wargaming, with Braunstein also being a wargame scenario. Superhero games had no miniatures game to come out of, and there...