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Beowulf was overpowered.

WotC don't pay its staff enough for them to read through the vast pile of largely terrible novels.

There is a lot more progress being made on that in Europe. But there is still a long way to go and needs more people to get behind it. Some people seem to massively overvalue PDFs. It's already obsolescent and in a few years most people people won't be able to read it. All formats suffer from...

Never said it was. And your efforts would be better spent joining those campaigning for better consumer protection when services end than trying to reverse the clock. There are a great many people for which print (or this PDF is forever nonsense) is not a valid option, who would still like to...

Sure. I bought the 1st edition rule books in paper form, but I don't have them now and I have no idea what happened to them. But it's not a big deal, I don't need them and at least they are not taking up space I don't have. As for PDFs, I'm pretty sure that within a decade they will only be...

Yeah, turning to stone is overrated as a power. In three rounds its easier to turn something to dead. The most useful thing I can think of to do with it is use it on fellow PCs as a form of suspended animation to survive lack of food/air travel into the future, etc.

I think that stretches credibility a bit far. Vest would make sense, but face protection needs to be angled to dissipate the kinetic energy of the attack, or you neck will break anyway. I think animatronic duplicate ghostfaces seems more likely, given we see one acting robotically in the...

That always make me think childish rather than adult. There are things that can make content appropriate for adults only, but pictures of boobies aren't amongst them.

What make you think ones and zeros will last? Or paper for that matter. Everything is ephemeral. So long as it lasts as long as I'm interested in using it that's not a problem. Might be an issue for historians, but that's something they can sort out for themselves.

This. All this is in the public domain, and WotC are well aware of that and try as much as possible to avoid reprinting it. The new books even point readers to FRwiki. Also, WotC are interested in creating places to adventure. They are interested in locations that lean in to certain types of...

Here is the thing: nothing in VGR is required to run a game in Ravenloft. Curse of Strahd managed perfectly well without it for years. So can a follow-up. Adventures don’t go heavily into player options. One or two perhaps. Oh, and dhampirs are not undead, that’s kind of the point.

Minus One is a great movie, but it’s more a serious movie about post-war Japan, and what it’s like to be on the losing side generally, than it is about giant monsters.

I think Athlete is much better than mystic. But my personal preference would be to axe the class and have an unarmed combat fighter subclass instead.

Even if there is a Ravenloft "something" - possible, but far from certain, it's more likely to be an adventure than a book of species. I wouldn't expect dhampr in anything but the vampire product. It's not like they are massively popular.

Jim Hawkins is given a treasure map by a mysterious stranger in an inn. But there is no reason to suppose those diverse authors were familiar with the others*. Writing something commonplace is something they could do on their own. *I certainly would be very confident in saying Tolkien had...

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that the use of towers for hunting was a couple of hundred years later. What got me was why didn’t the poachers drop everything and lie low until the nobles had gone? I think it’s closer to so bad it’s good territory.

Odysseus says “hold my retsina.”

So, what’s the origin of the trope “character eats food”? It’s perfectly reasonable to engage by pointing out an idea as clearly and demonstrably wrong, despite all the falsehoods that are propagated by modern media.

Something taken from reality does not have a singular origin. It's like asking "what is the origin of the trope of a character eating lunch?" Doing something people do normally isn't a trope at all. If you want some characters to meet in your work of fiction, the chances are you are going to...

This follows the real world history of Egypt. Tombs were often robbed within a generation of them being occupied, sometimes by the original workers who built the tombs. There was the death (by torture) penalty if caught, but the wealth was worth the risk. There were people who made a profession...