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You know a bebilith's ability to rend armor? Yeah, uh, the rest of her armor was ripped apart by a bebilith. That's the story. Sure. We'll go with that ;-)

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Probably a mix of the Dragonlance artwork that doctorbadwolf used, and Tony DiTerlizzi's Planescape art.

Yeah, for a while my boy wanted to be a YouTube star. I told him he couldn't upload anything to YouTube (he was about 10 when this thought hit him), but he could make all the videos he wanted. After playing around with his iPad and trying to record himself talking, or playing with his toys, or...

In some ways, I hope Waterson doesn't come back. He's basically become the JD Salinger of the comics industry, he's become famously reclusive, very rarely gives interviews, and what few he's given have made it clear he's pretty grumpy and a little bitter about the world. I absolutely loved...

Given how licensed RPG's have been some of the most successful, I'd say yes. For a good chunk of the 2000's, WotC's Star Wars RPG was the 2nd best selling RPG out there, after D&D. For much of the 1990's, West End Games's Star Wars RPG was one of the top sellers. TSR's Marvel RPG was one of...

Or, people like to have at least one thing in their life where they aren't having modern day politics thrown in their face. I play D&D to get away from real-world problems, not to have them constantly brought up. It's a fantasy world. Orcs are usually evil because they have strong tendencies...

No, but apparently it's WotC's new policy that 21st century social and cultural values (including modern concepts of gender identity and gender roles and racial and ethnic diversity and tolerance) are a presumed constant in all D&D settings, so presumably that now extends to a modern...

Well, let's take some of the more controversial metaplot changes as examples. The Spellplague, the big event for Forgotten Realms going from 3e to 4e. . .they advanced the timeline over a century, killed off most of the gods, completely re-drew the map (to the point of adding a new continent...

The writing and design skills are fairly common. They're common enough that most gaming groups have someone in them that possesses the skills to at least a mediocre level. I've seen SO many homebrew game systems that were at least as good as mediocre professionally published games, and I've...

I always thought the reason that shows like X-Files or Battlestar Galactica did that was that so many shows are cancelled early, that statistically it means a show is likely to get cancelled before it becomes obvious that they really don't have an answer. You will probably look awesome and...

White Wolf was particularly bad about that. I have no idea how their internal editorial process worked, but I quickly realized that either there was nobody trying to coordinate plotlines and canons and various authors were just trying to do it informally on their own, or that the efforts that...

For the record, there was no big "Realms Shaking Event" for the transition between 2e and 3e. They had a few minor events to explain some things, like the Red Wizards of Thay giving up on attempts at conquering the world and going for a more economic hegemony, and starting to openly sell their...

Metaplots, that game setting design convention of the setting timeline moving forward and the setting changing over time in future books. It was quite the rage in game design in the 1990's, but seems to be a little less popular now. We've seen a pretty broad spectrum of how games act with...

Also, when discussing the research that was in 1e OA, the context that this was long before the internet needs to be taken into account. Nowadays people can jump online and find a wealth of information from around the world in moments, but in the early 1980's it's quite plausible that a...

Games Workshop definitely has a certain toxic wing to its fandom. There's a certain part of society that basically idolizes the Imperium of Mankind. . .they look at them and think THAT's what they want things to be like. Vehemently anti-science, xenophobic, authoritarian, religiously...

Depending on the exact nature of the complaints made, and if the person making the complaints had retained counsel, they might have felt they needed to do this. If the complainant had hired an attorney, even if just to dash off a letter, they might have felt the need for a CYA, or they could...