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Well, I did state that fantasy fiction was allowing more women (e.g. le Guin) to use their full names without issue. Likewise, my point was that the 70's was the turning point for a lot of this....but the fact that it was still prevalent is indisputable. If it wasn't we wouldn't be having this...

I'd totally do it, but I'm a GM and when I get to play I tend to like the core conceits of classic D&D more than the flashy extras added on over the editions. However, I can tell you my player group is deeply invested in finding weird stuff to the extent that they hardly ever roll from the...

I have both but consider them two different takes on 5E. Tales of the Valiant is designed to be more closely compatible while still tweaking the experience...it kind of fits what I want out of a 5E clone better, honestly. A5E is more like a revamp of 5E, changing up how one thinks about it. I...

People seem to forget (and I include people my age who were alive back then) that most women who wrote in science fiction and fantasy genres had to abbreviate or even change their names. Go find a book by C.L. Moore that identified her as Catherine Lucille, or locate A.C. Crispin somewhere...

I started with Gamma World, then B/X D&D for all of about three months before I snagged the AD&D 1E books. Despite those being the early years, I spent more time in middle and high school with Tunnels & Trolls, Runequest, Dragonquest and other games until college when I picked up AD&D 2nd...

So if you go back to the (what I consider; YMMV) good old days of D&D style skill systems, I really felt D&D 3.5 and PF1E hit the sweet spot. Some of these skills are now "folded in" to other skills, or are accessible through feats, but in essence the skills I find I constantly wish were still...

That's funny, I was thinking of those exact movies when responding to this topic. Also very true, back then there was a diagetic focus on punishment rather than a "away from table" talk about it. Although, in defense of players in general I haven't had anyone try anything like that in literal ages.

I would posit that it is a strong stance, once which is using an ironic/amused voice to suggest what is considered plainly obvious. But it feels weak compared to the much more baseline level of aggressive language we now use on the internet. I had that exact issue at that exact time it was new...

I remember my days with 1E, where I read the initiative rules, then picked up my worn copy of the Otus cover Basic red book, read it's initiative rule, and used that instead.

Licentious giants murdered by hobos.

I ran PF2E until I ran out of juice with it. I think the revised edition fixes or tweaks some issues I had with it, which is nice, but I realized in the end that I prefer systems which are more swingy and less mechanically balanced. PF2E is a good experience so long as you embrace its specific...

I am also really keen to see how Starfinder 2E will look.

A little too cartoonish for my taste.

My recollection was that players who had paralyzed PCs often just assumed more control of a secondary or other tertiary character (or even a henchman) while waiting for the group to get to the point where appropriate cure removal could happen. We very rarely played for hours with someone bored...

Everything you just wrote there made me suddenly feel really damned old, and I have to go find a wiki page to understand what you are talking about.....gah!

People reacted so negatively that they dropped midichlorians, even if they crop up these days stealthily in some shows. Even if they had developed it more, it would still be equivalent to handwavium, as despite suggesting something aligned with mitochondria or something, there's still no...

I just moved recently and uncovered all my Pathfinder 1E books. Good memories, and I have decided to drag them out of retirement to run another game soon.

Greyhawk will make an excellent sample setting for the new edition. I have never been one to appreciate its appeal (I'm one of those contrarian old grognards who did not happen to like Greyhawk overly much) but it's sufficiently general in purpose and can work really well as a demonstration on...

As PHB covers go this is one of the more dynamic ones and I rather like it. I actually kind of like the 5E PHB cover currently, and also liked the 4E PHB cover, but was never a fan of the faux grimoire look of 3rd edition, and despite being a huge stan for AD&D 2E I concede it had All The Worst...

Decades of experience have taught me that gold is never a true motivator, it is instead an intermediary currency for what the players may really want. If you build mechanical effects for gold expenditure that lead to XP (a problem in and of itself if you are using a milestone system to level up...