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Agreed. I’d also clarify, for myself: I don’t feel “offended.” I’ll reserve a personal “offended” state for things of greater personal importance to me than an OSR Kickstarter book. I’d rather say, again for myself: “I am bothered by the implications I perceive in what that author has casually...

I like weird folk tales, but I am also generally in favor of miscegenation, I play with a diverse set of players, and one of those players is my “half-____” spouse. That (stuff) is not well-received at our table. YMMV. 🤷🏽‍♂️

That stuck in my craw, as well. And that is not reassuring. 😕

The first three are excellent- and unlike so many of my childhood favorites, I enjoyed them more upon rereading as an adult.

I absolutely love the Old Forest passages! I find them incredibly evocative. The one part of the novel(s) that always feels like a slog to me is Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli’s hunt across Rohan. I first read that in the middle of the night, repeatedly falling asleep and reading the same pages...

This. If one insists upon chopping up Tolkien the way the publisher insisted on chopping up Tolkien, then Fellowship of the Ring is still the best.

My aging eyes are thankful for A4

I’m in! The rather extensive Dolmenwood preview pdf is wonderfully strange and evocative.

I’m not sure a rogue modron can just hop back to Mechanus for repairs.

I love that the great Fortune’s Wheel cover illustration is composed of characters who were relegated to the periphery of his DM screen. DiTerlizzi’s characters are absolutely the best. I want to live in his world (Planescape).

Plus his DM screen! It’s a glorious set.

Same! I far prefer gaming with friends over doing so with strangers. Even awesome nerdy strangers! 90's Gen Con was our chance to discover all the things we didn't even know existed. When not in the exhibitor's hall, we'd most likely be admiring various artists' works, or maybe dropping by...

Milwaukee was perfect for me. I always stayed at Grandma’s place downtown- the Astor Hotel, a mixed apartment/hotel that many other Gen Con gamers had to pay to stay at… and they didn’t get to have breakfast with Grandma! ❤️

Marc, Have fun! Any chance of any Gen Con livestreams/recordings for homebound kobolds? (I’m listening to a Goodman Games panel on Twitch now while watching my son at gymnastics practice*.) *: They’ve relocated to the one part of the gym I can’t see from the lobby at this moment.

“Oral tradition” was I believe the preferred term in my cultural anthropology classes at the time I was learning about genetics and reading Dawkins in my biological anthropology classes. (Favorite thing I know about Richard Dawkins: he married Lalla Ward after being introduced to her at a party...

And for decades before that! I remember them from Wisconsin playgrounds in 1976. Parody lyrics: you can’t stop a good cultural meme.

This. My first D&D campaigns were with a bunch of Boy Scouts, often playing while camping. Probably why I (still) love traditional low-magic Rangers.

I mostly loved the 1e ranger - or a cleric/ranger if I wanted spells. I only played one cleric/ranger in 2e, and that was in a wahoo campaign where the actual rules seemed pretty irrelevant. The 3.5e ranger was great, and mostly spell-free at the levels I played. (The 3e Ranger suffered from...

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