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There were instances when feudal (or feudal-ish) governments imposed price caps on goods, particularly farm produce, and on movement of people. This usually happened in times of upheaval: disease, famine. England and Spain, at a minimum, did this on occasion.

If you want verisimilitude, don't be afraid to go gonzo. Look up Sergius Orata, for instance. Around 100 BCE, he developed oyster beds near Naples on an industrial scale, then used his profits to invent the heated swimming pool. He bought up properties and installed his pools and sold them on...

Bigots of a feather...

Yup. In 2E, level 11-13 was about the max before the XP requirements became so awful that you'd play for two years before advancing. I've DM'd up to around level 16-17 in 3.5, and that required more effort than I cared to put into the game. Our group's other DM absolutely loves high levels, and...

Sure. But it's not my groups' mode. That doesn't mean that we "don't really understand what a TTRPG is."

I've been playing for nearly 40 years. Never once has it devolved into a "cooperative storytelling game". We roll dice and pretend to kill elves. If a player wants a character with a joke name, so what?

I've paid more to put my cats in a cat hotel while I was on holiday. I've won more as a randomly selected "Congratulations, you're the tenth caller!"

Tolkien would have been aware of the elves in Sir Orfeo. Who are beautiful, human-sized fae.

Well, if it's a fire sale...

Clearly the powerhouse is powered by lots of money.

"One does not simply walk into Mordor. One must first travel to Faerun and gain 20 levels. Then one can walk wherever one wishes. Or teleport. Or planeshift."

Not bad. Not sure it adds much compared with the previous trailer, except the explicit reference to Thrawn.

Agent Jack Danger, on the job!

And, in this case at least, what's left of your human decency.

Someone's plumbing new depths.

Stith Thompson is the Thompson in the Aarne-Thompson Types of the Folk Tale, which I drew on heavily when I was writing my Master's thesis on the Breton Lays in Middle English literature.

Athas and Tenerife... actually quite similar. Lots of bald, muscled blokes looking for a fight, grizzled people focused on their single purpose, street markets where strangers try to rip you off, and of course dragon trees!

Oglaf is the highlight of my Sundays.

Like a bantha!