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Um. Since I reread The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings this month, I can say with confidence that we are told these things. It matters for the story at hand that the Shire is very nearly ungoverned, and that this contrasts with Gondor’s and Rohan’s functional (though declining) feudalism. And more...

Cormac McCarthy has entered the chat.

Oh, is it now? I remember when confession bothered me, too. But it’s really a reflection of some interior defect of yours… :)

I spent some time this weekend looking at the 3e Gazeteer and thinking about Ironsworn and Loner. It’d work with very little fuss, I suspect.

You are Dennis Detwiller and I claim my five pounds. :)

This is wonderful work. This is the level of fantasy fantasticness I like in my RPGs.

Okay, I’m done with this loop. I’ve got cyberdusty archives to look over for solo RPG potential.

Hey, cool! Thank you for pointing that out.

Maybe you have a wildly inappropriate one in this case. I mean, seriously. Your intended audience is…let’s see. * Probably almost entirely over 40 or so, to be throughly familiar with any previous version of Greyhawk. There’ll be some (relatively speaking) kids in the mix, because some of us...

Would it, though? It’s got these other races and mechanics not previously mentioned. Okay. Did settings get rewritten when there were weapon proficiencies? No. Did settings get rewritten for skill systems? No. 4e listed where gods fit in the new alignment zorro and carried on. And so on. I...

I don’t see step 2. Greyhawk is a hodge-podge world of things that interested Gygax and/or his players. It runs on the same general principles as other hodge-podge settings, with things like magic now having always been whatever way the new edition does magic, classic basics, and such. I don’t...

When i ran Serpent’s Skull, I told the players that characters would get shipwrecked in the first session, and lose all their stuff. I asked them to make notes about what characters’ usual starting money and gear would be and promised them I’d see that characters got the equivalent within the...

Time is a flat 1d6, not eligible for dis/advantage.

Bohemian ear spork Brogit Jeddart East-Northeast Scottish halberd Haggis-on-caber Phalanx glaive trident Trident glaive falx lance I’d just like to note that kids today have it easy. Wikipedia makes it so much easier to be a smartass. In my day we had to trudge fourteen miles to the central...

Dear sirs, re yours in other thread(s),

“And that little elf boy grew up to be the greatest bard in the land!”

Herein is much truth.

Fate. Several of the freebie Worlds of Adventure supplements cover just that, in various ways.

Honestly, it’s pretty boring. You know how the eighth million argument here is more or less indistinguishable from the 7,999,999th? You spend a few threads learning the particular rhythms of a particular forum, play a few Mad Libs for specific terms associated with the subject, and then it’s the...