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Jonathan Tweet has done repeated fundraising (through a Bundle of Holding and sales from his private collection) for Planned Parenthood. Whether you recognize that as harmful or not will depend on your perspective.

Perhaps you should demand certain oaths or ceremonies of people participating on the forum or in games? Maybe a sign or certificate that they hold Acceptable Views?

Irrelevant. :):devil:

Here's the actual text from Strategic Review Vol 1, Issue 2: It may go back to the OD&D books or the Chainmail Fantasy Supplement.

There are about half a dozen different hobbies and rules sets going under the moniker of D&D, and the only one I feel I fit into is the late 1E/BECMI/pre-WotC 2E era, and even that's iffy. Part of that is that I'm not willing to worship any of the idols set up by the major factions of the hobby. :)

Cough*Asmodeus*Cough

Thanks for the update. I guess I was wrong, so apparently Gygax was already planning to include 'fine shading' as he moved from D&D to AD&D. It's of note that he says in the main text of the article that the entire game would need to be rewritten to fit with this planar structure, which is...

Lots of 2E stuff got multiple print runs; it may be a minority of the whole (mostly core game supplements and essential setting items), but you can see it in logo changes for both TSR and the AD&D game, company address changes after the WotC takeover, format changes in some cases (the...

Some notes on the evolution of the Great Wheel: While I don't own any of the OD&D rule books or supplements, a lot of development took place in early issues of The Strategic Review/The Dragon, which I do have access to. (I hunted down the Dragon Archive CD-ROM a few years back.) I'd appreciate...

No experience myself, but Mythras + Classic Fantasy or the Companion does get you the grid-based option.

I've been haunting Half Price Books and similar used bookstores for RPG materials for 30 years and have had some great finds: The Complete Book of Necromancers in 2000 for $10 (along with Nightmares of Mine at half cover price in the same trip), a complete D&D Immortals set in the mid-2000s for...

Most of what I'm seeing comes from leaks/spoilers/rumors about tonight's episode, so if you've been avoiding those, that may change the game.

Hmm....erasure and/or cultural appropriation? ;)

That is one understanding of balance--that you can't eliminate evil without causing greater evils. The other, and the one that informs things like Dragonlance and certain readings of the Great Wheel, is that evil is morally and metaphysically coequal with good and has just as much importance to...

The idea of 'balance between good and evil' was floating around entertainment circles in the late 70s and early 80s, made it into the D&D game as some point (definitely by Dragonlance, but I've seen suggestions it was in Greyhawk as well) and has strongly influenced the modern game. The paladin...

The excerpts from the book suggest Mordenkainen's chief concern is the Balance between Law and Chaos. I know very little of Greyhawk, so while I know Mordenkainen has always been big on Balance, I don't know if it's always been an L/C balance or if it was the G/E balance a la Dragonlance and...

Judging from the Table of Contents: Greyhawk: 32 pages Mystara: 24 Krynn: 30 Faerun: 34 Eberron: 31 "Inner and Parallel Planes": 13 Feywild: 28 Shadowfell (including Ravenloft): 27 Spelljammer: 24 Nine Hells: 28 Abyss: 18 Sigil: 32 "Outer Planes and Far Realm": 18 It says something about D&D...

In this case, the fiction did come first--the moons as the source of/influence on magic shows up in the Dragonlance fiction (novels and game source material) from the beginning in 1984, but doesn't get reflected in mechanics until DRAGONLANCE Adventures in 1987.