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Well, Chris de Burgh was popular at the time…

I’m a bit dubious about how openly Pagan these Saxons are, given that they were officially Christian for a couple of hundred years before the Norman conquest. I’m sure there were people still worshipping the Aesir, especially in the former Danelaw, but not widespread and openly.

Weis is on record as being quite angry about the lack of pants in the art. Presumably other male gaze elements as well. I think that’s why she made a point of mentioning pants in the text.

The origin, is reality, and hence is as old as the invention of inns.

Warrior of the Wandering Way. Even better if his name is Wodger.

WotC are not going to include a high level adventure in an anthology because it will inevitably be panned. They do not know what your PCs can do so they cannot write an adventure for them. You can see this in Xanthoria. It’s pathetically easy for characters of the suggested level, and the...

1) Kingdoms of Kalamar is not a WotC product or available on DDB. That matters to a lot of people. 2) Whilst I have not read Kalamar, I assume that, given it's association with Greyhawk, it is retro, low magic and aims for gritty realism. Not bad things in themselves, but very different to...

That would require the printer to be shown to be at fault.

In the Doomfarers of Coramonde (Brian Daley) a wizard attempts to summon a tank to fight a dragon. The end up with an APC and it's crew from the Vietnam war.

Nope, that one was The Final Countdown (which plays out like a Star Trek episode). The Philadelphia Experiment is based on the conspiracy theory about making a US warship invisible and accidently teleport. But the movie does involve a couple of sailors falling overboard through time.

Even if it sold like hot cakes, the reprinting and delay will still mean it makes a net loss. In the unlikely event that it sells well without marketing, it will just make the loss smaller.

Yeah, the movie implies the question, but declines to answer it. The bugs are fighting in self defence, that much is clear. And from a self defence perspective, the nature of the attack is illogical. It could be that the bugs misunderstand the nature of what they are fighting against, and...

It’s not really a space alien though, just a non-human species.

Yes, we have mentioned several times that the setting is modern, without really explaining what we mean by that. It’s not a unique feature, but it is one that makes it different from a couple of the alternatives that have been mentioned.

It was clearly an experiment, and one that ended up costing the company a huge amount of money. I doubt the bean-counters will be interested in excuses about materials or the weather. Even without the disastrous printing, it was a very marginal product, since printing a slim hardback doesn’t...

I don't recall that in any of the original stories, but it did have Atlantis and other more advanced (but decadent) lost civilisations, including a lost city that closely resembles a 20th century shopping mall.

NB when did D&D add Tolkienesque races to the game? So far as I can see early D&D was based on Weird Tales, with little input from the British fantasy.

Now, the way I would use these creatures (and the way they are used in official publications) is very different. The nothic is an insane former wizard. They are generally more interested in talking than fighting, in a Gollum/Ben Gunn deranged way. WotC also use them in this way, in Reach for the...

That’s not really one I would rate high in that category. It’s a portal fantasy, in that the protagonist starts out with amnesia in the present day real world, and part of the plot involves firearms with magic ammo, but it’s no more “advanced” than 20th century automatic rifles, and magic is...

I don’t think “we don’t play at that level” is something WotC can really admit to.