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I hope you're not implying there's a required reading list for fans of the post-1980's fantasy genre. Modern fantasy is (and should remain) a large tent, not an exclusive club with gatekeepers checking everyone's "nerd cred" at the door. I'm sure there are plenty of modern fantasy fans who...

Also, this wizard has obviously cast Otiluke's telekinetic sphere, which explains most of what's happening in this illustration.

It's not mentioned by name, but it's implied in the AD&D DMG, pg 157, in the Eye of Vecna section. No faster way in the game to give yourself 20/20 vision! (Consult your optometrist for a list of possible side-effects.)

A few guys? As in, more than one? And they have an entire cellar? Must be nice to live in the lap of corporate luxury. :P

My two cents on halflings: Halflings as a core species make sense if all humans are required to be Medium, since halflings can fill the "Small human" niche. But once actual Small humans are an option, halflings start looking a bit redundant, especially if halflings don't have any new...

Now I want to run a campaign where the PCs have to prevent an army of extraplanar beaver-folk from turning the entire Material Plane into a flooded wasteland.

Thank you to everyone for the recommendations. I'll have to give them a look. Related question: Are there any reviewers out there looking for hidden gems in the DMs Guild specifically?

Statistically speaking, members of my family are more likely to survive an encounter with rent-a-cops than an encounter with actual cops. Plus, corporate security has no real power to abuse and no qualified immunity to exploit if they get trigger happy. I would consider sending a few annoying...

Pretty much what the thread title says. If I were going to follow one or more TTRPG reviewers, whom would you recommend?

They should release a video breaking down the survey results in the style of a One D&D playtest video: "Playtesters reacted favorably to D&D, which came in just over the 70% positive threshold, but we were surprised to see the changes at WotC polling lower than company's flagship RPG. That...

90 instead of 60 is a 50% increase in latitude and a 50% increase in longitude. If that error is accepted as fact, it more than doubles the surface area of the world. Millions of square miles.

I'd forgotten about those City System maps! I couldn't find any practical use for them, but younger me sure had fun laying all ten panels out on the living room floor and admiring how much space they occupied.

In the post you're responding to, I provided an example of a real-world, modern-day professional cartographer making the exact mistake you say cartographers don't make. I can inspect my physical copy of the mislabelled map and point to the place where they incorrectly stated 90 miles instead of...

That could just be an in-universe cartographer accidentally assigning the wrong scale to an otherwise-accurate map. (Something similar happened in the real world when the maps in the Kara-Tur box set were commissioned. The cartographer drew proportionally-accurate maps but then assigned them an...

Now reverse the emphasis you added to the first sentence: The other two maps are detailed blow-ups of sections of the former maps, covering that region from the Sword Coast to The Dragon Reach in great detail, for use in adventuring through the Realms. A detailed blow-up of an in-universe map...

The first edition box set explicitly states the large-scale 1e/2e maps of Faerun are in-universe maps which might contain errors. I don't see any reason to assume later maps are any different. As far as I can tell, the only maps that are guaranteed to be accurate are the ones the DM has decided...

You responded to my post directly, but you seem to be addressing sticklers for setting canon, not me specifically. Given that, I'll try to frame my response in terms of setting canon (despite not being much of a stickler for setting canon, myself). Here's my current best effort: The DM's...

My in-universe explanation for the 3e map changes: the in-universe cartographers who made the 3e map used the same process as the real-world cartographers who made the 3e map. The real-world 3e cartographers decided to compress open spaces shown on older maps to fit the surrounding areas onto a...

BTW, there seem to be two different definitions of determinism being used in the last few posts. Some posters (such as myself) are talking about what is deterministic in a strictly technical sense. We're talking about what it would be possible to predict given access to any arbitrary but finite...

I believe our only point of disagreement involves your use of the bolded statement. I contend it would be more accurate to say, "not everything about AI is being predicted." I have seen enough first-hand evidence to convince me that everything about AI can be predicted. There is no theoretical...