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Huh. That's interesting. I recall monster children being rather common back in the day, but I've read and played and DMed Keep on the Borderlands so many times that maybe I'm only remembering them from there.

Right, the point being that the conceptions of monsters you've been raising as examples are nothing like the humanoids in Keep on the Borderlands, which have parents and children and live together in communities. And when people bring that up, it isn't because they're uninformed about monsters...

RPGA... unsurprisingly stepping on yet another TSR trademark.

In which of those legends and fairy tales were these chaos monsters presented as sentient mortal creatures that mate and bear noncombatant children to be slaughtered by the heros, as they are in KotB? Where in Tolkien's published works (which you reference) were there caves filled with Orc...

I don't think there's any evidence of a community of noncombatant family members living on the Romulan ship, though.

The Horta, Medusans, Tholians, Excalbians, and many others would quibble with this characterization. Star Trek presented lots of examples of treating other sentient creatures, even decidedly non-humanoid ones, with compassion and understanding. It's also worth pointing out that both Star Trek...

Given the differences between TLotRR and standard D&D, using the existing DDB character sheet would make for a very awkward fit. This is one of the key things I'll be interested in seeing: will DDB implement a custom character sheet for TLotRR, with appropriate terms, languages, weapons/armour...

Yeah, I really wonder how DDB will implement that. The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying (and Adventures in Middle-earth before that) are quite a ways from D&D in the 5e space, with significant differences in terminology and certain areas of the rules. Alternative rulesets like Tales of the Valiant...

Try reading this quote substituting "life" for "water", as they are effectively the same thing.

That's just what they want you to think! Those KGB PsyOps folks are verrrry clever.

Maybe; or there could have been other reasons. For one, public companies have several audiences: shareholders and others with vested financial interests, certainly, but also the broader public, and (often forgotten by those commenting on company actions) employees. After a round of layoffs...

So all of us have to put with threadcrapping about unrelated business matters when we want to talk about gaming? There's nothing we can do about it but tolerate the incessant negative behavior? These boards weren't like this before. Even during the Great Edition Wars in the 3e/4e/Pathfinder...

So it's no longer possible to discuss the 2024 paladin or the 2024 monk or the College of Dance or Vecna: Eve of Ruin or Greyhawk on these boards without having to retread all of the terrible things that TSR and WotC have ever done? Where should those of us go who used to come here to talk about...

Right, a steady paycheck and benefits are huge incentives for many people. Besides, I think some folks may be overestimating how financially rewarding doing "something on your own" is likely to be; from what I've seen, I don't think most people running Kickstarters, even relatively successful...

Yeah, if only they would produce just ONE adventure or campaign setting based on original or more recent material! Then maybe you would still enjoy playing D&D!

Considering that wholesale renaming/removal of things like monsters, spells, etc. occurred, thus creating untethered references in previously published adventures, campaign settings, and rule supplements, the PF2e Remaster is obviously far less compatible with PF2e than the 2024 D&D rules are...

Just popping in to note that a pile of bricks has quite substantial momentum. I certainly wouldn't want to be in the way of a flying pile of bricks, or have to move a stationary pile of bricks, for that matter. Maybe a pile of feathers...?

Thank you, oh master of the English language, for your attempt to ease the burden upon my frail mind. But with all due humility, may I propose that this depends upon what one's view of "significant" means? The argument that WotC has a plan in place to do away with physical books is promoted by...

That may be, but I made one-time purchases for access to specific content: I never did that on DDI. When someone does that, it comes with at least an implication of ownership; the customer expectation is completely different. Could WotC remove access to paid content on DDB without providing a...

He literally said: "we did it wrong." (= "we are wrong") "And we apologized." (="we are sorry") You don't think you're bringing something extra to this?