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I had a witch give the party cucumber sandwiches, which they enjoyed. Until she mentioned that they where sentient cucumbers.

I don't work from a master plan - creativity doesn't work that way - and I don't expect it from others. Clearly Perkins started dropping in the obelisks with only a vague idea of doing something with them down the line (and at a time when it was far from certain 5e would be successful). By the...

Nah, Vecna can't do comedy. Strahd is Skeletor.

Good list, but I would add "a culture of deference to the monarch".

Its not something I've ever heard of, but its a good example of how idiosyncratic regional food variations can be*. I remember how surprised my partner (from London) was to discover that in Northern England cheese (preferably Wensleydale) is eaten with Christmas cake/fruit cake. And of course...

RAW is important to some people, and switching nick’s off hand weapon attack for anything else is definitely not RAW. But for myself I agree with you, the sort of player who would even think you could get away with it is not the sort of player who would be welcome at my table.

Conan wasn't created in a vacuum. REH was very much influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Tarzan (who had been in a couple of successful movies by the time Conan was written) was very much averse to wearing a shirt.

Given what we have been told about the Vecna product - that Perkins completely stopped working on it when his job changed - it seems likely that the same thing happened to the Thay adventure, which I think was also a Perkins project.

The comparison isn't with other tabletop games. D&D needs to compete with all games if it is to grow rather than shrink as older tabletop gamers die off. Snakes and Ladders has a lot more players than D&D.

Certainly this is a better idea. Perkins’ original plot was bad. What replaced it was bad. And the main problem was the selection of Vecna as the villain. A boring one-note antagonist that existed only in the backstory of some magic items and is strongly associated with the Greyhawk setting.

The rules are pretty clear in this case though. Nick does not grant you an extra Attack in the game rules sense (unlike haste). It removes the bonus action cost of attacking with an off hand weapon. It’s not an exploit, it’s just a clearly incorrect interpretation of the rules. It's equivalent...

Mimics love cats.

Koto string.

Even good translations miss things. It maybe that in the original sense “koto string” referred to the type of string used to string a koto. Not an actual string from a koto. NB Google Translate translate’s koto as “thing”.

I would have to say “no” to that. Nick turns a bonus action attack with an off hand weapon into part of an attack action. If you don’t use it to attack with an off hand weapon Nick does nothing.

Interesting thing about Conan is the 2H sword comes from the cover art and the movies. In the original novels his sword is sometimes described as a scimitar if it’s described at all, he sometimes wears armour, and sometimes uses a shield. But the reason you can’t find a “definitive” source it’s...

We had the like of the 1950s British TV series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot using sword and board. That archetype was undoubtedly around long before D&D.

The English establishment ultimately derives its authority from the Norman regime, hence the ongoing attempts to suggest that William the Genocidal Dictator was really quite a nice guy who brought good government to those chaotic Saxons.