I picked up the original Forgotten Realms boxed set in 1987, when it first came out. I immediately transferred my game to the Forgotten Realms, by having my player’s characters find a portal from their “Kind of the Known World but With Too Many Real World Analogies Patched On” setting. Even when I was away from gaming for a
Read moreNote: The following post is based on a Twitter thread from 11/23/2019, and I wanted to keep a record of it on the blog, as it helped to sort out some thoughts I’ve had for a while more clearly. 1)That’s right. The problem is, it jolts some gamers out of immersive roleplaying and into “what I learned in history class
Read moreD&D is a melting pot of various fantasy tropes. D&D’s parents include Tolkien (honestly, I don’t care to argue about to what degree or how much Gygax did or didn’t like LOTR), Conan, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Elric, Vance’s stories, weird sword and planet stories, Lovecraft and other horror as well as folklore and mythology. When D&D was being
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