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Have you had a chance to read The Nature of Middle-Earth? It's literally a collection of every piece of scrap paper on which Tolkien ever scribbled anything about his setting.

Granny lost her teeth again.

I read Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire (the first book of his Thrawn trilogy), and came away unimpressed. While I understand a lot of what Zahn was trying to do, a lot of what he had in there didn't feel like Star Wars to me, even if many of those elements would later be built upon and...

I pointed it out before: pages 29-32 of that same book. It lays out a mechanic whereby a preserver can choose to defile, and it works with both of the methods laid out on pages 13-16. So if you opt to use "Method Two," and then make use of "The Road to Corruption" (p. 30), then you have a...

No, it's both; the aforementioned book outlines (pages 13-16) that you can use a "gather power when preparing spells" method, or a "gathering power when casting spells" method. The rules for preservers being able to defile (presented on the pages noted in my previous post) work with both...

Untrue, see pages 29-32 of Defilers and Preservers: The Wizards of Athas (affiliate link), which was an AD&D 2E Dark Sun supplement (1996).

I just finished reading C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, and find myself wishing I'd picked it up years ago. That I didn't was because I somehow managed to grossly mischaracterize the book's nature in my mind. Apparently from nothing, I hit upon the idea that it was akin to how I've always...

I think this needs to be highlighted, because it's a major aspect of play that seems to be glossed over in these discussions: symbolic rejections of cherished values is a form of catharsis, and does not represent an actual repudiation of those values, despite there being a vocal contingent...

Fainting Goat Games' memetastic Gorilla vs 100 Dudes (affiliate link). It's technically not a TTRPG, but I can't not see my group playing it like one!

So I recently picked up d20 Modern supplement Modern Collection 1 from Ronin Arts, being pleasantly surprised to find that Paizo still had a number of products from that company for sale (veterans of the d20 System era will remember that Phil Reed made the decision to pull pretty much all of...

I'm trying, but I can't seem to take my eyes off of Circe.

It's not surprising, though still disappointing, when you make a statement that you're sure is entirely innocuous (e.g. "If you stand outside when it's raining, you'll get wet"), and someone jumps in to not only nitpick on a point that doesn't actually speak to what you said, but is weirdly...

If you want to define what something is, you have to be able to describe it, which means citing what characteristics it has. If a particular characteristic isn't present a large portion of the time in that thing's general population, then it's not part of what makes that thing what it is. Why...

There's absolutely no logic to what you're proposing. You keep falsely saying that just because male medusa are also a thing, a "medusa" is still understood to be female, even though that's not going to be the case 50% of the time (assuming that there's a 1:1 ratio of male and female medusa as...

The male medusas are, in the 5E 2024 paradigm, held to be just as much a medusa as their female counterparts. Hence, the inherent understanding that a medusa is a female creature is no longer inherent.

I don't know what you mean by "yet again," but your line of reasoning here doesn't pass the laugh test. Having a characteristic be part of what makes something what it is, and then saying that sometimes that characteristic isn't present, isn't something which can be taken seriously.

No, I think it's a good choice. Marlos Urnrayle was artificially transformed into a medusa via magic gone wrong, and so functions as an example of an exception proving the rule. Likewise, other instances of a "male medusa" were the maedar, which were a separate kind of creature with their own...

I think part of the issue (and, I want to stress, only part of it) is that there's a difference between changing things by adding to what's come before, and changing things by removing part of their definitional characteristics. This is something I saw during the debate around 5E 2024 giving...

So to be clear, you're positing a type of creatures that are recognizably human in their functions/biology (hence why tactics which can work on humanoid creatures, such as blinding them with a bright flash or drowning them will work), and which have the same basic psychology (including a sense...