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The Dunlendings are basically the widespread inhabitants of parts of Middle Earth who have been pushed aside and off their ancestral lands by other, high-competitive migrant cultures - the Númenóreans and later the Rohirrim. They have long memories, at least in their stories, and long-held...

Yeah, and I wonder if we're thinking of the same person.

There was also the 'zine scene. All of these debates about how to run/play D&D from adversarial (even extremely so) to far more cooperative with the players have been raging for virtually as long as D&D has existed. Jon Peterson's The Elusive Shift is quite the chronicle. Granted, the 'zines...

As I see it, this is just one of the trade-offs involved in game design. Sometimes, you know the game will be easier to work with on the back-end as a designer or developer if you do make a particular decision - so it's a mechanics-first decision, rather than fiction-first. And, honestly, all...

It was, in fact, a forest of huorns.

I don't think that's really unexplained. Just mysterious to the men of Rohan who heard it pass by. But the answer you seek was in the following paragraph wherein the people who stayed at the Hornburg witnessed the departure of the forest - herded by the ents. The strong implication is that the...

I can see this is a serious discussion.

I think being less restrained and more open in the use of his power probably has less to do with being a new reincarnation or even being promoted to the white robes. Rather, this is his time. The job he was sent to do is coming to a climax, for good or bad, and the time for the subtlety he used...

Well, that's the thing, right? If you approached it with that attitude, it was never going to work for you. But if you had buy in from all the players and DM, it would work just fine. Just because D&D has stuff in it doesn't mean it's gotta be deployed in every campaign. The fact that it's...

Yeah, that's one of the Peter Jackson changes that didn't sit well with me in the Two Towers. I'm not sure what the grammatical error here would be. It's largely the same sentence in my version, just with crawled and groped reversed in position. I think it may be a layout error to leave an...

I'm not sure I've ever seen anything described as an "illusory pretense" without that being pejorative. Seems like a label that comes loaded with judgmental implications to me.

As far as the three variations go, they're all sold as separate games, so there's tons of rules overlap in the books if you own all three. But as @JConstantine points out, each involves different, fairly incompatible subsystems keeping the PCs hungry for work, and having played all three...

Two of my favorites are from Breaker Morant. "Well, Peter... this is what comes of empire building." "Shoot straight, you bastards. - Don't make a mess of it!"

They're mainly more separate because the action at Parth Galen is broken across a couple of chapters that form the division between two books. As soon as Aragorn starts back down hill while looking for Frodo, he's hearing the orcs and Boromir's horn. Peter Jackson basically moves Chapter 1: The...

Well, that's the rub isn't it? If you need to increase the power of the opposition to the PCs, in a systematic way, you use the system to do so - and that may very well mean raising the stats of the NPCs to appropriate levels for their estimated CR. I am utterly non-fussed at this. The Guard...

I can understand that too. Teen is a bit of a misnomer in the sense that these aren't kids anymore - at least not as of the New Teen Titans time period. They're all distinctively adults. But the age gap between Slade and Tara would definitely be on the gross side.

My group went the other way. Champions was the first supers game we encountered, but V&V was a lot easier and faster to run and play.

For me, it's like playing Traveller with a scout or a merchant. It generally takes being one of those two characters to muster out with a starship. But once someone in the party has one, they're all able to jump from one star system to the next. Having one of those characters opens up the option...

For the most part, this kind of complaint has largely been a "Yeah, so?" kind of issue. Wizards, and to an extent other high level casters, open up new ways to play or move across wide areas via plane shift, teleport, astral spells, wind walk, etc. But in my experience it's rare that they do it...

I can't say that I've seen wizard partisans arguing that the class should be the best... like, ever. I don't think I've ever actually seen that, at least not that I can actually remember. What I have seen is people arguing that magic should be, well, magical. That it should transcend the bounds...