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I'm not sure I 100% agree with that. I think there are SOME elements of Arthurian knights in armor and pop-historical medieval European/early modern-based works in the mix. The weapon, armor, and equipment lists are still mostly centered there, for example.

D&D has become increasingly self-referential, but when every edition of D&D has come out, its art, and the technology and fashion depicted in that art, has been significantly influenced by the contemporary cultural milieu (as Gygax might put it). :) D&D is "the generic fantasy adventure/RPG"...

I don't want to jinx it, but I'm feeling increasingly normal so far today. Between the double Epley maneuver yesterday, getting off the meclizine (which is great for vertigo-induced nausea, but muffles the neural response from the non-impaired vestibular organ as well and creates its own weird...

Jeff Dee doing 70s bell bottoms and (sometimes exaggerated versions of) mid-century superhero boots* on D&D characters is definitely a product of the time which I just accepted as part of the visual language of heroes. Especially since I was regularly reading comics in the 80s at the same time...

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We always rolled ability scores (with, of course, generous house rules) in 3.x. The biggest factor in "character builds" IME was prestige classes. Each had prerequisites, from as simple as a certain race to a minimum BAB or caster level, to more in-depth like having specific feats or x number...

Yup. It's funny, though, in retrospect realizing that since casters got so nutty at higher levels, perhaps prestige classes which slowed down spellcasting advancement might have made for a better game experience if they were widely (read: universally) used. Of course, it's totally...

There's definitely a cognitive bias a lot of folks fall into where they study something really in-depth and then mistakenly think their expertise confers superior understanding of another field entirely. There's also Dunning-Kruger, of course.

Vertigo has still been derailing my exercises since last Monday. :/ Thankfully meds have kept nausea under control, but I still feel too lightheaded and off-balance to do weights or even my calisthenics. I did see a doc this week and I've got a vestibular PT session this afternoon, so...

The chain I remember from childhood is Roy Rogers. They had burgers and fried chicken, and there was one in the shopping plaza just a few blocks away when we were living outside Philadelphia the years I was 12-14. Occasionally our folks would let my little brother and me walk over there (which...

I repeat myself, but... (language warning for Eric's grandma)

💯 It's a crying shame that the original crowdfunding effort didn't get enough support and the story couldn't be finished. I guarantee that if Tramp had somehow retained interest and desire into the Kickstarter era a re-try would have garnered a ton of support. Who knows how many thousands...

Agreed on basically all counts. Like with Moorcock's Elric stories, IMO the best way to go with these is publication/real-world chronological order. Deviltry isn't peak, but it's still quite good. I think Spy is the only one of his I've read; I remember selecting it by happenstance and being...

I was never much of a fan of DC comics (the 1978 Superman, and the Batman movies have obviously been a big deal for decades now and most of them pretty good), but have definitely enjoyed a lot of the recent projects. The second Suicide Squad, The Batman, Peacemaker, Creature Commandos, and the...

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'87, 85', '86, respectively. It is amusing to note that they're all 40 or approaching it, but it is valid to observe that they're not part of the first wave of RPGs, that first burst of publications when a) no one had any idea what they were doing / b) folks weren't really building / iterating...