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Thats because DnD is literally a chop suey of folklore and literary tropes, D&D didn’t create the ingredients of fantasy, it created the cooking system, labelled and measured the tropes, then handed out a cookbook, that lets the players supply the sauce and cook it to their own taste. The...

Prince Phillips Sword of Truth and Shield of Virtue is a really good example, and one that I'd actually forgotten about. That really goes to the point though that sword and board is so ubiquitous that its unremarkable and thus invisible, Other characters (like Conan) are called out for using two...

The Iron Bruiser STR + WIS Monster Role: Elite Bruiser These are monks who train by standing beneath waterfalls and holding burning coals, while the other monks beat them with bamboo poles. They build resistance to pain that lets them walk right in to combat without flinching. Actions: Iron...

Der Bremer Roland Statue with his sword and shield Beowulf had an Iron shield specially made so that he could face the dragon and not have his wooden shield burn up. The Greeks at Troy used Spear and Shield but I think that still counts. Ajax was renown for his massive Tower Shield and Spear...

Ursula Le Guin - The Left hand of Darkseid Victor HugoL Les Hulk Miserables Edgar Alan Poe: Fall of the House of M Tolkien: Lord of the 10 Rings Virginia Wolf: To the Lanternhouse

Anyone else reminded of Mork calling Orson?

The ones that alway amuse me is the ubiquity of armoured Clerics in Anime And Slimes, I am aware that Nuppeppō exist it Japanese folklore but their existence in Anime is a fusion of folklore and DnD inspiration turned Otaku weirdness.

Horses like to run and so they can be trained to charge across a paddock with a verbal signal, but it would realistically take weeks especially with a horse the trainer doesnt know and generally not without a rider to spur the the horse to respond to the signal in the first place. It was a fun...

lest my mind remain clogged with an overflow of thoughts about the necessarium of dungeon conviniences I am compelled to take the plunge and relieve myself of the accumulated flotsam so that it may be cleanly flushed from the bowl of public contemplation. Anyway your orison drops lightly into...

I think they made it a Marvel Spotlight show because they knew it was a self contained story and there isnt going to be a season 2. Simon Williams will show up else where (Dooms Day?) but it wont be a sequel

A decade really! Seems I have some catching up to do

Yeah its strange, I typically wouldn't be interested in this kind of lowburn Hollywood satire, I watch TV either for the action adventure or for comedy, yet I enjoyed Wonder Man despite lacking both. All I can conclude is that Kingsley and Abdul-Mateen and Zlatko Buric really were great actors...

What happened to the Miss Piggy Talkshow they did a few years back? I think thats the last time I engaged with the Muppets, I wasnt impressed. I didnt even know that there had been anything else since. The Muppet Show however could be a nostalgia treat, loved it as a child, but got more cynical...

I think the Dalelands are much more interesting than Myth Dranor, especially in this era of Cozy RPGs. I think WotC should publish an entire Book of Cozy Adventures for the laidback rural idyllic. I'd focus the book on the Dales themselves, detailing village life, the Inn, a major festival and...

well I find avoiding narcissists to be a tantalisingly Sisyphean endeavour. Yet such Promethean ambitions haunt me, and I am condemned, with Pythian certainty, to Icarian overreach and fall...