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I mean the whole kit and kaboodle. Or they weren't playing much but loved to hold forth on the Internet. The fact remains that people used to *never* talk about their games, and now they almost *always* do. Consider that this thread, on this very board, includes *no* reminiscing or concrete...

No, it's an assertion from somebody who worked on Mage Revised and Awakening for nearly the entirety of both lines' existence. I know of what I speak.

I'd say it's non-representative of Howard, given that Conan is a smart guy. Also, Mongoose had published racist trash before (The B5 Earthforce book), so there's a precedent for similarly stupid publications.

Your sources are? If it's Phillipe Rushton or anyone else with Pioneer Fund backing, you've essentially been duped by racists -- the Pioneer Fund is basically a well-heeled hate group. Since this is basically where these assertions come from, the chances are high that you've made this mistake.

That's fair. For 4e, my fix would probably be to have a basic Trip and a whole bunch of powers that knock people prone. Another solution would be to develop a whole bunch of power SFX you can stack with a power by spending something or by taking a voluntary penalty. In fact, that's not a bad...

Let me tell you a little story about working on Mage Revised. Back in 2005 I was at the same convention as MageRev artist Christoper Shy. I introduced myself and we chatted, since we've both done work based on each other's stuff. This is how it went: Shy: I felt a bit stung by the fans. Me: I...

Monte Cook's World of Darkness may have what you're looking for if you want 3.5 + freeform magic.

I'm unconvinced that this is the result of selection, given how different people look just because of environmental factors. European men went from 5'9" to 5'4" just because of lifestyle changes and didn't crawl back up in height until the 1800s or so. This was not because there was a sudden...

There are population groups that have similar inherited features but share less ancestry with each other than with groups that look different from either of them. It's more considered, but still problematic. D&D character types can't really be defined that way. I mean, humans and demons can...

That's where the "or" but in the rest of my quote comes from.

Doesn't matter. Original sin is not about whether you're a bastard. It's about whether your ancestor being a bastard condemns you to a shortened life of toil and pain. Elves are "unfallen." This is why they can return to Valinor and why they are greater than Men. They can do terrible things and...

I wouldn't combine "race" - an ill-defined cultural term - with "subspecies" - a somewhat better, yet still not well-defined term. Almost any sexually reproducing species with significant genetic diversity will have subspecies or variations that are obvious even if they do not express themselves...

The studies I've read about that sort of thing are pretty clearly linked to acquired changes and not inherited ones (esp with people changing from being tall to short, to tall again). Selection for skin color is something I can see happening fairly rapidly, but even then the real world is does...

No, there really was more to it. Tolkien mentioned it on several occasions. Note also that Tolkien also despised racist doctrines and wasn't afraid to express it, even when it cost him money.

You failed to absorb all of what I wrote, which was to follow the citations in the article, which are quite sound. That's silly of you. It is also very silly of you to ignore the quote from Tolkien in the article where he comes right out and talks about it. Norse dwarves are not really much...

You can start with Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_%28Middle-earth%29 The citations in the article are well-sourced. They are *also* based n Norse mythology, but many of the traits that are specifically Tolkienish aren't from there.

I wouldn't call it a good idea, but it was Tolkien's idea.

I'm really trying to find a reading of this that isn't a problem. If you have one human ethnicity it implies that the other ethnicities aren't human. If you deny multiple ethnicities to other fantasy "races" it strains credulity, as every other real world species with any significant genetic...

Tolkien actually said that dwarves were inspired by the Jews and semitic peoples and languages, as well as medieval literature about the Jews. (Yeah, that means that some things about dwarves are rather insensitive when viewed through that light.) The idea that they're Scottish-like is a fan...

I'm sure it's contingency plan #21 or something, but I would phrase it more as, "If the new edition of D&D fails to have any long term legs, we'll push DI to get as many people to transition as possible, run it for cheap and use it to market to the lead niche for anything else we do with the...