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It's really not subjective. And people can tell me that water ain't wet all day long but as a person who showers regularly, I know better. But since people are almost never convinced of things that they really want to believe for emotional reasons, I really have no intention to continue arguing...

If that's what you call evolution, that's got to be punctuated equilibrium on crack. I fail to see how either of those observations is relevant. I turned The Shadow Over Innesmouth into a D&D scenario, but all that says is that I like The Shadow Over Innesmouth a lot.

I've read every single REH Conan story multiple times and I don't see it. Every time he sneaks around and finds a monster, like Tower of the Elephant or God in the Bowl doesn't make it anything like a dungeon crawl.

I don't either, I see it as kind of brilliant, actually. I wish more settings explicitly followed this design parameter.

The mines of Moria sequence is nothing at all like a dungeon crawl with the exception that it's underground. It's a brief travelog that serves as character development and world building, capped by a brief fight and chase sequence. There are no traps. There is no treasure. The characters didn't...

No, that's not true. By the end of the 80s, I'd read almost everything on the appendix N and D&D only resembles anything there in extremely narrow and specific ways. And literally nothing in sword & sorcery, or any other literary subgenre resembles the core activity of older D&D, namely dungeon...

Yeah, I know every setting has regions with geological or cultural tropes. But in Golarion, each region also has unique mood, tone, theme and even genre AND each region is specifically more self contained and autonomous of every other region than any other setting in familiar with. There's very...

... It's multiple settings jammed together, and because the tone differs so much from region to region, any given campaign is usually best handled by treating the region you're in as if it's the whole setting. Ustalav, for instance, has a very specific tone, so if you have a campaign set there...

If you've been happily playing 3e without even updating to 3.5, I can't imagine any reason to switch to pathfinder. The whole point of pathfinder was to keep 3.x style rules in print when 4e was imminent so that they could continue making the same kinds of content for it. In my experience, the...

Strip them for parts... If I get around to reading them at all. I intend to read them... Most of them are just kind of tedious to read, though. And they're never structured in such a way that I could actually run them. My style just doesn't accommodate such strict rails at all.

Sunless Citadel is the classic 3e adventure. I don't know for sure if there is a 4e adventure that meets the same level of "iconicness" but wasn't there something in the core books; a mini adventure, at least, that probably most people would have tried out?

Apparently, Bigfoot pr0n is a huge seller. What a world we live in. Meet The Stay-At-Home Mom Who Makes $30K Per Month From Her Bigfoot Porn Novels Although even that story is ten years old now.

That may be true. Either way, "Millennial" for someone born up to nearly twenty years before the Millennial turnover doesn't make much sense. Nor does Gen Z following Millennial without a Gen Y to follow Gen X. The original designations all made sense, the current formulation is super wonky. But...

No kidding. And maybe Gen Z really is the near future of D&D, but if so, WotC probably has to be an order of magnitude more innovative to figure out how to monetize them. EDIT: Of course, the other possibility is that Jemisin's success is manufactured and fake. There's a lot of manipulation by...

That's why I think the older practice of making the "marketing" generations last about ten years made sense. That's about the window, more or less, in which people have a common perspective based on pop culture, current events and socio-cultural trends during their formative years. Anything...

I've been a fan of hand drawing maps ever since I first saw Christopher Tolkien's maps in the front of my Ballantine Lord of the Rings books with the Darrell K. Sweet covers. I've attempted to go digital, but unless I spring for a Wacom tablet (and even then, I dunno) it'll never happen. No...

That's what you'll see now, but back in the late 90s, the Millennials and Gen Y were routinely referred to as separate generations. I was in a marketing class for my MBA at the time, so I can confirm by personal experience. Nowadays what they do is call them all Millennials, but if you scratch...

Scan, snip. So I'm imprecise sometimes in my action verbs. Where are you going with this? Are you suggesting that those AREN'T the covers of the of the AD&D PHB or that the blurb that it's an adult RPG wasn't on the cover of the Holmes book? Because unless you are, what's your point? Also, I...

I'm a little confused, although it's not your fault. There used to be a cohort in between Generation X and Millennials called Generation Y, and they were significantly different than either of the generations on the border. For reasons that were never clear to me, the Powers That Be in marketing...

No, clearly not. Even in a worst case scenario Monopoly Go can subsidize any number of poorly performing brands elsewhere.