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Has anyone let @el-remmen know? He maintains the mailing list. Might want to compete, also.

Poetically spoken, sir. Like a bard.

Are you calling a shot, here?

I’m in.

The kinds of things I heard leveled against the game during high school (in the mid-90s rural Tennessee), weren’t really refutable: D&D may not have taught witchcraft, but it insidiously encouraged it. Or, even more nebulously, playing (and reading) it gave power to demons, whether the players...

It took nearly fifty years, but D&D is finally treating half-elves exactly the same way that Tolkien did!

And his friends didn’t.

I would argue that it wasn’t so much that he wasn’t good at it, but rather that he didn’t view it as the important part of his stories and thus deliberately chose not to emphasize it.

I got that exact message today as well. Not sure what’s up, though. I frequently (of late) lose all connection to the internet (but not wifi) for a while. Sometimes rebooting my phone fixes it. Rebooting the modem always does, but it’s a pretty inconvenient fix.

This divide is especially evident in the Battle of the Five Armies. Tolkien had his point-of-view character unconscious through most of it. Jackson turned it into a whole overly-long, bloated, and frankly nonsensical war-movie.

I suspect Tolkien would view them both as disappointingly divergent, but at least the content of this series will presumably have to be approved by the Tolkien Estate, whereas Jackson’s films didn’t. We got lucky that the Lord of the Rings movies were done with love and mostly explored the...

Maybe they should check out The Tolkien Professor’s Silmarillion Film (“Silm Film”) Project – the collaborative development of a hypothetical many-season Silmarillion TV adaptation that has been ongoing for years. They’ve “cast” plenty of non-white actors for such roles. I wonder how these...

Well, Conan the Destroyer felt a lot like a D&D movie to me.

From the above-linked definition:

Don’t know anything about the person that article was about, but the article itself was pure trash. What it lacked in reasoned exploration of differing viewpoints it made up for with misrepresentation and straw-man arguments. I guess that makes it journalism nowadays.

As long as you know what your NPCs’ agendas, motives, and methods are, you’ve got most of the tools you’ve got most of the tools you’re going to need to navigate through any social scene unscripted. You don’t really need to worry too much about guiding the players through it. Let the...

I, for one, do not miss skill challenges. Their implementation runs counter to my preference for challenge-resolution on a fundamental, philosophical level. To my mind, when a character wants to accomplish something, the player should establish a goal and an approach for achieving it within the...

Or, they were providing an accurate depiction of what it’s like to be a nerdy guy in high school.

Alternate possibility: Deever doesn’t care about her career because she is a skrull.