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From now through the end of November, Precis Intermedia is offering their Iron & Gold Expanded RPG for 20% off! Click on the link to apply the discount. Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

To help pay for their cat's medical bills, Darrin Drader Designs is currently offering 25% off their entire catalogue! Pick up some great stuff and help keep a kitty sitting pretty! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

For the next two weeks, Marshal Games has made their Savage Worlds campaign setting Amanar - World of the Dawn available for only $2.00, a 50% discount! Pick it up before the sale ends! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

Today's Deal of the Day at DriveThruRPG is Infinium Game Studios' system-agnostic supplement FlexTale Adventure Generator: Dungeons, which is 70% off for the next twenty-four hours! Grab it before the price goes back up! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

For the next week, DriveThruRPG is having a Teach Your Kids to Game Sale! Get up to 20% off thousands of products and help bring the next generation into gaming! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

I recall an anecdote when, upon written poetry becoming a thing in Ancient Greece, one storyteller denounced it as marking the death of human memory. Unfortunately, I can't recall precisely who said that, so maybe he was right. :P

For a limited time only, Skirmisher Publishing has created a Veterans Day Weekend Bundle, packaging more than two dozen titles together for only $9.99! Grab it before it goes away! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

MageGate Games has marked their entire catalogue down by 60% from now until November 12th! Check their stuff out before the prices go back up! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

For those interested in the sources for those quotes, the Monte Cook one can be found over on a January, 2012 Legends & Lore article, while the quote from Mike Mearls apparently comes from a 2012 Ask Me Anything that he did on reddit.

For reference, the underlying principle being referred to here is that of Hitchens's Razor, i.e. that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. And the way you know I'm right about that is that I made sure to link to the Wikipedia page which confirms it. ;)

Today's Deal of the Day at DriveThruRPG is Star & Flame Games' system-agnostic Land of Eem: The Mucklands Sandbox Campaign Setting, which has been marked 80% off for the next twenty-four hours! That's just $5.00 rather than the $25 it normally costs! Please note my use of affiliate links in...

It's interesting to place that in the category of "giant-class creatures" that's used in AD&D 1E (from the entry on rangers): Now, that list is alphabetical, but if we arrange it by Hit Dice, it'll be like so: kobolds -> goblins -> orcs -> hobgoblins -> gnolls -> bugbears -> ogres -> ogre...

For the entire month of November, Renegade Game Studios has marked all of their Transformers, Power Rangers, G.I. Joe, and My Little Pony RPG products 20% off! Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

This is similar to why I stopped counting how many books I read in a year. Different books are of different sizes, have different numbers of pages, etc., so counting the number read quickly became meaningless to me. And that's not even taking into account the quality of the books.

I was going to say Big Purple, but yeah.

No, it wasn't. I'll refer you to this article about the "ivory tower design" of 3E.

My understanding is that WotC thinks otherwise. And if you meant that "Ed Greenwood's original contract specifies that Realms content (written by him) is canon," then all I can say is that I've heard variations of that for decades now, always with differing details, and I've never found it...

For the next week, you can get Ennead Games newest title, Fake Scientific Document Titles, for just $1.00! Click on the link to apply the discount. Please note my use of affiliate links in this post.

I ordered a book from Amazon yesterday, with overnight shipping. When it was delivered this morning, the package contained no book, instead having a pouch of magnesium gummies that were marked as being a sleep aid. Being quite tired due to having stayed out late partying with my friends last...

I just finished reading a 1994 reprint of A. W. Reed's 1965 book, Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales, and I have mixed feelings about it. As the title makes clear, this is a collection of seventy-three tales from the native people of Australia. All are very short, averaging two pages in...