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Middle Earth is a boring rpg setting.

look i just cant see dragonborn and tieflings wandering around my quasi-medieval gygax-tolkein-CAS-Leiber funland hitting goblins with a stick what breaks your vibe? Grell paladin-monks?

Or they think the breath weapon attack will come in handy. Why cant you kids today just be happy playing gnomes?

And that endless arms-race of ever more exotic PCs rather proves my point.

None of ‘em. Exotic PC races are a cry for help by players because they are bored. Oh alright then. Gibberlings and Qullans.

Gibberlings and Qullans. Let the mindless slaughter commence.

The best tune is You Only Live Twice. Best joke: end of Moonraker; Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence: My God, what's Bond doing? Q: I think he's attempting re-entry, sir.

Gygxaian, n. A gamer who is enamoured of ancient design errors, as distinguished from the Nongygaxian, who wishes to replace them with new ones.

Are the nonpowergamers clamouring for more Epic monsters to smack?

Don’t GURPS and HERO require a GM-player gentleperson’s agreement not to push the character rules too hard, in contrast to D&D’s Optimization Culture?

lol

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I think trying to accommodate that game and level-one-beating-up-goblins-with-a-stick in the same ruleset is a fool’s errand.

Set Bond in the 60s. Better cars, better gadgets, no mobiles or computers to undermine plots.

tbf superman is a boring dork

dont see the fuss, looks like normal LG propaganda to me /s?

and that material needs to be transform D&D into “Demigods and Domains” rather than some dreary splatbook thats a really just a bunch of munchkin tcg “+10 Ancient” cards pasted together

fair enough

Interesting, but seems tied to save-your-own-village play rather than supporting freewheeling murderhoboism. (Ive got shelves of 1E material)

Is The Problem the whitewashing of Catholicism or is it actually the inane certainties of the D&D alignment system?