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I thought it was awful. Even worse than Season 1.

Late to the party, but what the heck. I'm a firm believer in OP magic items which hand over lots of strategic power to players and which push the game in unexpected directions. So the amulet of the planes, cubic gate, and mirror of mental prowess all get my vote. Daern's instant fortress, the...

That's fair enough, but beyond mapping obvious Orientalist tropes onto Middle-Earth (Rhun=Hunnic Steppe; Far Harad=Africa or whatever), I'm not sure what that really involves. I mean Arda is definitely "our world" in as much as its calendar, seasons, celestial bodies etc. So if you mean simply...

@Hriston The characters and events of Tolkien's legendarium represent a "mythic prehistory" - complete with a cosmogony - which doesn't map remotely well onto what we know about established prehistory, any more than the Enuma Elish does; nor did it in Tolkien's own time. Certain events are...

I tend to think of D&D as the inevitable result of historical processes - that something similar would have emerged, regardless. Whether that other thing would have had less - or more - social traction is a much harder thing to gauge.

From the 1e DDg: The source of a deity's god head is in some way connected to his or her earthly worshipers, though in what manner the gods derive this power is a mystery totally beyond mortal (or immortal) comprehension. However, it is true that a god's power often increases or decreases as...

This. Awe-inspiring and fear are the same in Hebrew (תירא). “Phobos” is used in the Greek, also with the explicit connotation of reverence.

I feel that the grognards are the OG rpgers, who cut their teeth on mass combat games in the 60s and played pre-1e D&D. I’m Gen X and too young. Proper grognards are also boomers.

I'm not sure how I feel about Tarantino anymore; I used to love him, but I fear I'm getting old and he speaks less to me now. Reservoir Dogs was the most impactful for me. I saw it in the cinema when it came out and it was a true WTF moment; completely blown away. Taught, slick, minimalistic...

I haven't watched the show - honestly, I think the KotOR game was the last time I was interested in SW - but I have been paying attention to the toxic sh*tstorm that certain internet vultures have been leaning into, and the "anti-woke" dog-whistles (more like foghorns) that they've been...

84. Various Nehaels 85. Various Soneillons

Various others. 77. Portraits of Nwm 78. Le Prélude à l'Après-midi d'Ortwin With apologies to Debussy 79. Chepez the Vicious A feral succubus. Servant of Graz'zt, later Soneillon 80. Dhatri, Mother of Ghouls Cheshnite immortal and Necromancer 81. The Irrefutable Argument...