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2e produced lots and lots of really good setting material. Even if the game system of 2e AD&D was mediocre (at best) and hasn't aged well at all, I'd expect it to still be good source material.

I've seen people have YouTube videos taken down on copyright claims. . .while playing their own original music that they have written and performed and hold the copyright on, or for performing classical or folk music that is in the public domain due to the copyright having long expired...

I'm surprised it wasn't explicitly illegal. Lorraine Williams controls the Dille Family Trust, the legal entity that owns the rights to all Buck Rogers IP. Whenever TSR made Buck Rogers products, she directly financially benefitted from them. She got paid directly for having TSR license...

Truth be told, it wasn't just TSR. In the early/mid 1990's, a lot of companies didn't know how to deal with the rise of the internet. They interpreted fan pages the same way they'd interpret an unauthorized 3rd party book being published about whatever their IP is. Viacom did the same thing...

There were definitely little niches within WW culture, rivalries based on preferred game. There were the Werewolf players, the Vampire players, and the Mage players, mostly. At least around where I lived. You had the oddballs that liked the other WW games as their focus, but usually went to...

Oh, in the late 90's/early 2000's, I knew a number of White Wolf players who refused to play D&D, and I even caught them telling new players that White Wolf literally invented the RPG. As one WW player put it "Before White Wolf invented the roleplaying game, there were just wargames like D&D...

I've honestly never liked Rangers getting spellcasting by default. To me, a ranger is supposed to be a woodsman, a hunter, an archer, not a fighter that gets some druid spells. Robin Hood as a typical ranger. Then again, I like low-magic and historic games, where a spellcasting ranger doesn't...

I recall that purging those various odds-and-ends rules nobody could remember, was a specific selling point of 3e. In the 2e era, I knew some DM's that still would pull out random 1e AD&D rules into a 2e game, surprising (and confusing) players with them, because the DM's learned under 1e and...

I'm not exactly a huge fan of 5e, but I will say that it's clearly a form of D&D. The biggest deviation that WotC did was 4e, 5e definitely comes closer to the 2e AD&D era than 4e ever did. The TSR era gave us OD&D, then a number of different versions of Basic D&D, then AD&D (in two editions...

My father died of it four months ago. He was under 75. Over half a million people in the US have died of it in a year. It's killed more Americans in one year than World War II did in four.

I don't know if it ever came from any official, canonical D&D source, but I've widely seen it played over the years that high-quality Dwarven liquor exceeds 200 proof. Yes, that's physically impossible. Any race that has alchemically-enhanced alcohol as a normal part of their diet is going to...

It wasn't the ONLY problem with 4e, but it certainly contributed. As a fan of the Great Wheel, I recognize that not EVERY D&D setting is normally a part of it, that there have been official D&D settings that didn't use it or used another cosmology (Mystara and Eberron come to mind as alternate...

It flew over my head because I'm not too familiar with 5e rules, I play and run 3.5e mostly, and am only vaguely familiar with 5e, so a 5e-specific rules reference eluded me. It sounded like you were trying to say that 5e was the first time D&D had depicted dwarves as having any special...

I'd say that would be a Gnomish invention. My general guideline for Gnomish tinkering and inventions is that if it was available in ~1810 or before, Gnomes could figure it out or make it. Early/mid industrial revolution technology is their "thing". Basic steam and machinery, but very...

They also had a bonus to poison saves in AD&D, they got between +1 and +5 to their saves vs. poison depending on how high their Constitution score was, a 11 to 13 would get you a +3, a 14 to 17 would get you a +4, and an 18 or higher would get you +5. (I just checked my 2e PHB)

There were official D&D rules for alcohol in 3rd Edition. The Arms & Equipment Guide for 3e had alcohol rules. It treated them as mild poisons that essentially did 1d2 temporary Dexterity and Wisdom damage (that, unlike most ability score damage, wears off at a rate of 1 point per hour...

It's my understanding that, while corned beef and cabbage isn't particularly Irish, because of the cost of beef in Ireland traditionally, it is very Irish-American. First generation Irish immigrants to the US apparently made the dish pretty often, as it would be a somewhat expensive luxury item...

It seems more like there are rumors that there are rumors.

This is definitely something some Ravenloft DM's need to learn, and I'm glad WotC is approaching it. Back in the 90's, our campus gaming club had one DM that absolutely, positively loved Ravenloft as his favorite setting. . .but fairly quickly word got out to never play under him, because he...

Yes, but not for 5th edition that I know of. Before 5e, it was pretty common. In fact, in the 2e and 3e eras was usually at least one book coming out a month (occasionally more), and releases lined up for months to come.