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I'm not sure what you mean or how it relates to what I said. Can you elaborate and explain your position?

That's literally what I said.

It is. If you want a true reality simulator, I would think a world with dragons would invent their own new weapons appropriate to the task Right, but including something that allows emulating the quintessential fantasy story in a fantasy game is hardly out of bounds for the game. This is a...

For reference. I always thought of it as 1) to cut off the 'no, he's a Maiar!' response, "fine. but then he's a Maiar cosplaying as a Xth-level wizard," and 2) he's playing a spell-point variant of the game*, where he could be 7th or 8th level but still cast more than a dozen 3rd level spells...

I suspect the point is that the Monk, overall (throughout editions) is a dog's breakfast of tropes about martial artists. Also that it is still wedded to a version of that concept dreamed up by Brian Blume in 1975 with a lot of celestial cattle-ness about it that it can't shake. To the former...

It is possible that they waited to decide who the Mule would be until later on (either to be topical, to avoid leeks, to make it impossible to accurately guess, or just because they wanted not to be able to telegraph it). In that case, contradicting information would be natural and is just...

I think this is a non sequitur, in that that's not what AIViking stated. There some significant ground between "our ancestors have been killing everything in their path with stone-age weapon" and "Stone age hunters did not go toe to toe with massive predators." Few if any groups ever hunted*...

Historically they were at least worn in mass combat as the sidearm a lot more often than commonly depicted. They were serious weapons, and are deadly. They are not smallswords or modern fencing equipment. Note also that the common spear (decidedly a weapon of war) and falchions (not generally...

Oh definitely. Nothing says 'just read the Silmarillion and thinks you're the first kid to do so' like going on the internet and thinking you are going to tell the other nerds what it really says.

Sure, why not? Why, what sword do you normally use to fight dragons in your day-to-day life? Seriously though, a rapier was added so that people could live out their 3 Musketeers/Inigo Montoya/Zorro (maybe Puss in Boots? now also Lara Raith?) fantasies. ... Just like every other fantasy trope...

There are bard classes built for OSRIC and Labyrinth Lord dotting Dragonsfoot. I won't link them because they mostly link to sites whose security I cannot vouch for. By all accounts, they seem to be the same class, just adjusted for the differences Osric and LL have from 1E. As for making it...

I remember that one (note: I haven't seen ToS in since the 80s)! The guy's hand getting crushed in the door and revealing that he's a robot. Reading the wikipedia synopsis, yeah, definitely the polar opposite.

But at the point when 'Thomas' Riker was reconstituted, the Federation considered them both to be William Thomas Riker, and the writers explicitly indicate that the differences in personality are that 'Thomas' is displaying the personality Riker had that many years ago. Later in DS9, he does...

I'm not seeing the difference. At the point of divergence, they were both Riker, not just one or the other we deem to have been 'the real' one.

Star Trek seems to be firmly wedded to the notion that you are your memories, personality, hopes&dreams, etc. and that an exact copy of you that happens to have your memories for all intents and purposes is you. From replacement O'brien to replacement Harry Kim to how transporters work to...

I am reminded of a Knights of the Dinner Table issue where the secondary protagonist group (game shop crew) were running a game and introduced a new character. The player wanted to be 'deeply immersive' and would answer questions about what level he was or similar with 'prey sir, what are these...

Mornard had it right when he said (paraphrasing): 'I don't know what a 'pacing-mechanism' is, and whatever Gary said about luck was post-hoc justification. When we played, hit points measured hit points, and they stood for hit points.' They are a gamist measure used because they are...

But wearing a robe with a cape is perfectly reasonable IRL--Cardinal Richelieu typically depicted doing so: Wearing two suits of armor, otoh -- well, of course layering armor was a real thing, but in D&D terms that's probably all considered a single 'set' of armor.

Both use the notion of swamps as places of death and fetidness. I wonder where that comes from. Swamps (wetlands that support trees) are generally pretty neutral in pH, and full of life. Admittedly, some of it iconically poisonous (and Gary seemed to like Chlorine gas, but not regular poison...