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The real world origin is the reason the X-Men version all dressed in faux 18th century costume (with bulging codpieces). The original club had the stated aim to satirize and mock the rigid moral codes of 18th-century British society - they were hedonist and pornographers who existed to shock...

Eberron was new, it did well Putting out material might have just been to prove the copyright for renewal Dark Sun. If Athas does come back, its going to be a different beast to what it was, but at least there will be psionics

Which is why I looked to non-western exploration models, which tended to be more diplomatic and scholarly. Al-Masudi was a Scholar who lived in the Abbasid Empire and was commissioned by a Caliph to verify the reports of nations and beast beyond their borders - it was pure scholarly curiosity...

I did a couple based on the journeys of Al-Musadi and Ibn Battuta and the like, and they are largely a set of terrain/weather based skill test punctuated with gear loss, discovery reveals and social encounters where you meet and negotiate with the locals. It can get monotonous unless the players...

Fry bread base, venison, worchestershire sauce, beefsteak tomato, red onion, coleslaw, tomato relish Or fry bread, paua (abalone), onion

If you want the oldest reference Gilgamesh visits an Ale-House to get information from the woman who owns it.

So Minigiant :O- you're an Orc?

Stevenson was certainly aware of Walter Scott, both beings Scots writers. Long John Silver was inspired in part by Scotts novel The Pirate In "On Fairy tales" Tolkien notes having enjoyed "Red Indian stories" (sic) as a boy and been inspired to learn to use a bow. So...

Sounds like I need to check out the new version of Banestorm. I share your experience of finding GURPS Fantasy a bit bland

The Three Musketeers begins with DArtagnan having a bar fight at the Inn in Meung, Ivanhoe has an Inn encounter too iirc (while disguised as a mysterious stranger), as does Dick Turpin during his famous ride. Id guess all of those were popular reading in the early 20th century too and as...

Apologies all, going to be unable to post for a few days

Canterbury Tales is likely the oldest featuring an actual Inn. But The Odyssey is notable for powerful NPC (goddess) disguised as a traveler gives a “quest hook” to adventurers in a guest-hall

My favorites are Cliffhangers, Swahbucklers, Age of Napolean and Ice Age Japan Egypt, Camelot, Dungeon Fantasy Martial Arts, Powers, Lowtech and Fantasy Races are good too

What are the mechanics for dysentery? Anyway my PC Orbril the Gnome became Master of a travelling circus featuring reinforced wagons pulled by giant carnivorous hamsters. The wagon train included a alchemy laboratory and tinkers workshop. The tinkers added pneumatic suspension bladders...

Yes I did appreciate that detail when I wrote it:) but left it anyway as WW1 was pretty much the last hurrah and final collapse of the 19th Century empires and sensibilities. It may not be strict chronology but sociologically the 20th Century developed in the wake of WW1

can I ask what the Hags villainous plot was? While I've used a few hags and made them monstrous and cannibalistic I've not been able to sustain them as antagonist, I tend to lean heavily into their mythic role as crone representing the bleakness of winter so they most often become more guides...

As both a DM and a Player I like Factions as world building tools and ideally as story engines. Factions help signal what's important in the campaign, provide clear NPC motivation and help anchor PC engagement within the setting. Moreover Faction interactions and rivalries in particular make...

That hierarchy hasnt existed since 2e, especially once they made kobolds into runt dragons and even moreso now that goblins are fey. Orcs are in the strange place of having become increasingly more 'human' over the years, so we get the weird place of 2024 making them in to Vaqueros. I would...

Yes 2024 Backgrounds suck enough to put me off the whole game. Despite a couple of improvements I overall prefer the 2014 version.

Umm - sometimes cultures move? Maybe the Orcs got displaced and were forced to move?