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Glantri City, from Mystara, is also a canal city and has its own setting book.

Besides 4E, there's Iron Heroes, Book of Nine Swords, Arcana Unearthed/Evolved, Path of War, Spheres of War, Level Up, and even BECMI's Weapon Mastery rules ... there's been a ton of work done in creating interesting, capable martial characters in the d20 chassis, and the 5E designers drew on...

I guess I must have hallucinated Doc Savage, the Shadow, the Spider, Operator #5, Raffles, Sherlock Holmes, Allan Quatermain, Tom Swift, Sir Denis Nayland Smith, Flash Gordon, Scarlet O'Neil, Buck Rogers, Tarzan, Zorro, Captain Future, Sir Percy Blakeney, John Carter, G-8, and all the other...

I'm not sure Blades in the Dark is the best example of a "bespoke" system, given how many Forged in the Dark games have been spun off it. And I've long since stopped believing D&D is a "generic" or even "big tent" system. I've seen too many fantasy concepts ruined because the DM or designer...

In nearly 44 years of playing RPGs, I cannot remember ever seeing a player cheat, unless you consider juvenile nonsense like making up deliberately overpowered classes back in the 1E days cheating. And the definition of "exploit" is too vague. For some people, if I decide that I want my...

The Principalities of Glantri (in D&D's Known World) had canals patrolled by water-elemental-powered boats with wands of magic missiles mounted on their bows. Glantri City also minted coins with continual light cast on them. None of this making-magic-into-technology approach is in any way new...

If you're thinking of concentration as a spell duration, see the Sustain a Spell action. It's important to note that in PF2, just getting hit does not make it impossible to Cast a Spell, Sustain a Spell, or do other actions with the Concentrate trait (unless you have an ability that says you...

Probably one of the Chaos Scar adventures from Dungeon.

Yes, healing between combats is important. Also, if you're used to PF1E/3E, be aware that attacks of opportunity are much rarer; among the core classes, only fighters automatically get the ability to make attacks of opportunity, and only some monsters can make them.

While I agree with your larger point, this isn't correct. The PF2E playtest was free. They did print and sell some hardcover copies of the playtest rules, but those were aimed at collectors and completists; you didn't have to buy one to participate in the playtest. I seriously doubt they sold...

Pathfinder 2E's Book of the Dead includes a skeleton ancestry, plus feats for various other kinds of undead.

If you want morale rules to work, there has to be an incentive for the players to not just continue every fight to the death. If enemies who run away alert everyone for miles around and come back with massive reinforcements, then of course players are going to want to fight to the death...

Keep on the Borderlands. Zero interest in running or playing it again.

I think Night Below is probably one of the most influential 2E adventures in that it's an entire campaign in one box; I can see it as paving the road for future adventure paths. The Tomes adventures (particularly Rod of Seven Parts and Return to the Tomb of Horrors) were pretty good too.

Tarl Cabot is the main protagonist of the infamous BDSM-fantasy Gor novels. This write-up inspired a running argument in the Dragon letters page because it gave Tarl an evil alignment. Dossouye is interesting because she's an African warrior woman inspired by the historical Dahomey Amazons...

Angier is committing suicide every time he performs the water tank "escape."

The Malazan Books of the Fallen? Gardens of the Moon came out in 1999 but the rest are 21st-century. Agreed on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and the Southern Reach trilogy. Also, I don't think anyone's mentioned The Martian yet. Does Cloud Atlas count as SF? A couple of the stories in it...

K. W. Jeter's Infernal Devices was steampunk before the term was coined. Cherie Priest's Boneshaker and its sequels. Felix Gilman's The Half-Made World is a particularly unique weird Western. Chris Wooding's Ketty Jay books (Revelation Falls et al). Michael Moorcock's Oswald Bastable...

I've read most of them. I haven't read any Brackett or St. Clair or much of Burroughs, Saberhagen, Williamson, or Fox (whose novels were mostly Conan knockoffs anyway). In any case, as good as most of the Appendix N books may be individually, most of them are not standing the test of time...

One of the things that made the 4E fighter stand out for me was that weapon choice actually mattered because of the feats and powers associated with each weapon type. Axes were less accurate but got bigger crits, spears and polearms were better for tripping and forced movement, swords were more...