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I dunno, man. The Ottomans, Iberians and Byzantines loved to do it, though. Whoever moved there. On time scales of less than tens of thousands of years, migration trumps adaptation -- assuming that there's even such a thing as evolution in a fantasy world. What, like the Levant? Or...

This is another common misconception about the past. Ethnic homogeneity in other times was higher because people were less mobile, but the funny thing is that coherent definitions of people based on race are decidedly post-medieval and were fairly undeveloped until the Enlightenment, when...

Fight Quest is the best of them, IMO.

This is a common error. Tolkien's work was a conscious attempt to create an English myth cycle to match similar Norse and Celtic traditions. It is not a recreated medieval romance at all. D&D is pretty clearly derived from pulp fantasy, from the basic style of play to what Gary Gygax actually...

These two examples really highlight why diversity is important. The default whiteness of fantasy stereotypes is distorting representations of real fantasy literature. The genre is actually suffering for it.

If Trip is getting monotonous, then find different ways to describe it. In the gae of t3h Internets, this is trivially easy. Go to http://www.judoinfo.org and http://www.arma.org, look at all the stuff that related to dumping people on the ground, and steal it for descriptive purposes. Look at...

If you mean violent power over others, social prestige and the ability to prevail in situations where you yourself cannot, your observation is actually less true in RPGs, because unlike non-interactive power fantasies, an RPG character's ability to achieve any of these is not guaranteed. All...

The film's great, but its subtext is a fascist apologia. I don't see what it has to do with D&D, really. 4e is remarkably vague about what powers represent in the story. This is good for some people and bad for others. But really, if people envision them as superpower-like and don't care for it...

There should be a thread where we collect old school D&D inspired RPGs and blogs. So how about this one? I was following http://grognardia.blogspot.com and discovered that OSRIC's creator is working on yet another system. Did not know this. Any other scoops?

I like BW. Not so hot on the marketing.

You could have designed RPGs whenever you wanted.

To my mind, the two basic issues are: 1) Games are not really the same as software. 2) Open source's effects and culture are not without flaws and differences of opinion. With the first point, marketing and parts of the d20 design culture have very much promoted the point of view that there...

No, it's terrible factual data. It's not "hard" at all. Amazon rankings are relative to other products, not based on absolute sales, and are updated at different rates depending on where they rank. There have been workups done to convert rankings to absolute sales, but the positions of each can...

I should clarify that there are differences that make the metaphor less than fully applicable. Full time busboys and line cooks in my country make more than 18K a year to start, for instance.

Because of course, there's no way evidence of sincerity and shared risk would have influenced anyone. Nosiree. 'Cause everyone thinks like a 'bot.

And my point is that your point isn't relevant. It is about what he said in an accessible public forum. Yes we do. He failed to express even mild regret that his own material wouldn't qualify and in fact, didn't extract anything from any commercial work he had ever done to demonstrate that...

But strawmen are still strawmen, apparently.

You can unlock a restraurant dumpster and find willing takers, too.

I'm sure you didn't. But you sure didn't raise the same kind of stink about your own stuff as you did about, say, everyone else's.

I'm referring to how he approached this vis a vis telling other people they shouldn't complain about their stuff being wiki'd, which is something he would have to discuss publicly, given that it relates to a public position. He didn't. If you really don't get that somebody who just rode off of...