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This is the best way to do that. By splitting up the initial comment into separate sections one can give separate replies to each section. You can press the Return key within a quoted comment to split it up or you can use the, more complicated, BB code option. Return key option: Toggle BB...

Quotations about D&D alignment and its sources, including Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock. And another, from Michael Moorcock: Fiction, Fantasy and the World’s Pain (2016) Mark Scroggins. Law and Chaos... cannot be simply equated with good and evil. Chaos is disorder, but it is also...

Lavinia’s Laqueatores or Lavinia’s Lassooers Orcbusters or Trollbusters Dungeon Smashers The Stormers or Silver Stormers The Niole Dra Select All This and a Ten Foot Pole (or the ATTFP for short)

OD&D (1974) Vol I Men & Magic: If you are a player purchasing the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS rules in order to improve your situation in an existing campaign, you will find that there is a great advantage in knowing what is herein. If your referee has made changes in the rules and/or tables, simply...

The post-apocalyptic rpg Rifts features loosely rebranded Nazis -- The Coalition.

List of stories set in a future now past

The D&D party, which comprises both representatives of a number of fantasy races and differing roles and abilities, is not unique to D&D but is, like Vancian magic, distinctive. The Company of the Ring in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings comes closest, imo. The Company in The Hobbit is also quite...

A D&D trope that hasn't been mentioned so far is the cleric -- the combination of heavy armour, blunt weapons, turn undead, religious office, and spells that resemble Biblical miracles. These features are a lot less pronounced now than they were in 1974. Frex some clerics in 5e don't wear heavy...

Yes. I’d say a distinctive feature of D&D, particularly in the 1970s, is the combination of the following elements: Zero to hero. Players mainly motivated by desire for their characters to go from zero to hero. Zero to hero is achieved by looting and killing. This is repeated many times. The...

There seems to be a lot of debate about whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded, warm-blooded, neither, or both. But I wouldn't have thought a pulp game would care about scientific realism.

The Lost World (1912) Arthur Conan Doyle A South American plateau At the Earth’s Core (1914) Edgar Rice Burroughs Inside the Hollow Earth The Land That Time Forgot (1918) Edgar Rice Burroughs Caprona, an island near Antarctica heated by vulcanism that undergoes much slower evolutionary...