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That is data I'd love to see some day: what stores carried what in the BECMI/AD&D/2E days.

In my younger and more vulnerable years, I most remember the only place I could find D&D game books and box sets was a small bookstore on the main drag in Wisconsin Dells. When we went on vacation/work on my grandparents' summer cottage, I usually ended up grabbing a module or "Complete Guide...

I like this topic (and I missed it originally)! Some awesome ideas above! 2nd Edition D&D: I'm in complete agreement on Dragonlance. It's influence on my personal visualization of "High Fantasy" is indelible. Especially the original "Dragonlance Adventures" hardcover, "Time of the Dragon" and...

LOL. "Coyote & Crow" has a special place on the shelf of "Starter Sets I'll Collect But Never Actually Get Around To Playing" as one of the few CORE rulebooks up there.

Laughing, because that WAS my first idea. And then I couldn't remember a single thing about the city other than the High Clerist's Tower, but I attribute that more to my degrading memory than descriptive imagery.

I picked up Cahokia Jazz based on the comments here (and by weird coincidence, a friend's kid being really into Cahokia right now; this 14 year old has apparently started a correspondence with the museum director there). So...I'm on "Thursday" (the chapter, I guess). I like the worldbuilding...

Oooh...a 5.1/2.2024.E Cityscape would make me a happy nerdlinger. That's what I was hoping for in Ravnica; I should never have sold off my 3.5E copy.

Sigil and Lankhmar get my vote, although I've never actually played or DM'ed either one.

Man, I wanted to like these so much more than I did. "City" started so strong, premise really appealed to me, but I felt "World" just fizzled out. And I get why/how the real-world intruded on Jemisin'd writing; I definitely don't hold it against the author.

I used to joke that my character took cartography as a non-weapon proficiency so he would know how to fold the map. (Which I now feel is a very specific joke for D&D-playing Boy Scouts who always had needlessly large orienteering maps, up to the mid-90s.)

Can I have a stern conversation with the giant rat?

I had not gotten that far, but it will be now.

Well, I have my next character concept. Thanks, Snarf. (I'm sure it's been done, but it hasn't been done in MY current group.)

Yeah, "Broadsword" was always an infuriatingly vague term in 1E/2E. I played at tables where "broadsword" was interpreted as "one handed sword with edge on both sides of blade that gets wider toward the hilt" and that interpreted "broadsword" as "sabre" and that interpreted "broadsword" and...

That's how I learned it too. I took a "European Longsword" class via local community college...(does math, winces) TWENTY years ago, and one of the first things they did was have us un-learn and re-learn the correct terms. I was shocked that what 1E/2E called a "Bastard Sword" IS a longsword (or...

And speaking of both, they made Ms. Scarlet an Asian-coded vamp as far back as "Clue Master Detective" in 1988. Edit: Huh. Earlier. 1972. Clue's Miss Scarlet - Her Changing Face Over the Years

I could see that; I definitely get the "Transformers: PTSD" (sing that to the tune of the G1 "More Than Meets the Eye"). One one hand, much of the character development DID make (a kind of) sense in terms of a narrative arc; they really pushed how the "last survivors" would react and change...

Dinobot was amazing. It's like: Dinobot-tier Everybodyelseinclosesecond . . . . . . Scorpinok and Terrorsaur (Note: the original form of this joke used Botanica as the punchline, but was edited because 1. We're talking Beast Wars, not Beast Machine, 2. I crossed Botanica and Transmutate in my...

The plot thickens! Eh. My $74 got charged, so I'm in for a penny and a pound, it looks like. More than I'd like to lose if this doesn't happen, but one doesn't pledge without accepting the risk. I'll post thoughts if/when it shows up. That doesn't mean I don't have concerns about creator...

Headmaster Brisko, if only because he gave us "Evil Power-Hungry Cartographer" as a possible career choice. (Also, his Headmaster partner robot as "Fangry," which is a word I have used to apply to grumpy cats since I was like eight.) My first two Transformers were Thundercracker and Prowl, so I...