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Stith Thompson is the Thompson in the Aarne-Thompson Types of the Folk Tale, which I drew on heavily when I was writing my Master's thesis on the Breton Lays in Middle English literature.

Athas and Tenerife... actually quite similar. Lots of bald, muscled blokes looking for a fight, grizzled people focused on their single purpose, street markets where strangers try to rip you off, and of course dragon trees!

Oglaf is the highlight of my Sundays.

Like a bantha!

Thanks, ChatGPT! We'd never have known otherwise.

But the 10% new ideas in Dragonlance was kender!

Thanks. This worked on my tablet, but not on my Windows laptop.

Me too. Windows, and Android phone and tablet. It says "You control your privacy". But it seems to want to make sure I choose ... wisely.

Just chiming in to say my next Barbarian PC is going to be called Thews the Mighty.

The struggles of a recognisable everyman character facing overwhelming evil. Beginning in a rural area that's largely been sheltered from the effects of the world's evils. A party combining different races and different skills. A quest to destroy the evil facing the world. A split in the party...

That was a deliberate choice by Lester Delrey, who'd been hired by Random House to establish "fantasy" as a genre. By copying specific elements from LotR, he helped to define what modern the elements of "epic fantasy" were. A few years later Weiss & Hickman took many of those same elements to...

Duh! Let's just say it was the lack of coffee in my system.

You want to use D&D 5E, but you also want to "take them down" (presumably meaning WotC)? And you're looking for free legal advice on a public forum instead of paying an expert in IP law? Is your name by any chance Justin LaNasa?

So what does a Pool of Magic do precisely? Besides smell, presumably.

"LaNaza".

I've only ever had a casual interest in FR, but my impression was that 3.X had loads and loads of books, but 2E had boxed sets and poster maps (that said, I seem to remember 3E-era Dragon including four massive maps of the FR at some point).

"Smacking" distance "Shooting" distance "Yeah, that's right, you'd better not come any closer" distance

Polymorphs, Rogue Simulants and Psirens from Red Dwarf. (And possibly whatever species Tarka Dal and Bhindi Bhaji of the Vindaloo Empire are supposed to be.)

Loved it. Played it through, deleted my saved games and played it through again. The character interactions, the different locations, the graphics, the sheer inventiveness and quality of the story-telling. Realising that I could talk to characters that had been in my party for ages, and they'd...

I just had an idea for a D&D zodiac system: twelve zodiac signs based on the twelve classes, in nine-year cycles named after the races. For example: "I was born under the sign of the Rogue, in the year of the Dwarf." "Well, that certainly explains why you have trouble making friends." If...