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That wasn't First Edition, it was the parallel Basic, Expert, Companion, Masters, Immortals (aka BECMI) D&D line that had 36 levels and came out between about 1980 and wrapped up i…

I was recently catching up on Dark Horse's Conan the Avenger , and sure enough, Conan and his companions of circumstance end up facing a monstrous beast from the outer dark. Conan'…

There have been a lot of versions and revisions of D&D over the years. Amongst players of the earlier (or "classic") versions of the game, 'B/X' stands for play based around the Ba…

> People should treat others the way they want to be treated if they happen to be on the "wrong" side. How should someone be treated who has made it clear that they will never foll…

I haven't read the dissertation yet. But just reading the cartoon you linked put me in mind of a friend who's spendt the last year headed down various cult/conspiracy theory rabbit…

The bean counters got their salaries and bonuses. Why should they care what happens next? It seems to me that historically the real controls on our business models were social, not…

Would you trust a source of medical information less if it declined to present or link to information that breathing CO is healthy, drinking mineral spirits is fine, and handling m…

The solution doesn't fit the problem though. Sure, in theory bitcoin-style cryptocurrencies can replace centralized financial systems. But, as keeps being demonstrated, including b…

Graphic design played a large role, I'd guess. Warcraft imagery had this unique mix of cartoon, fantasy, and realistic in a way that most of its successors (and even later versions…

One sheep rancher I knew back in college was a huge fan of wolf reintroduction. According to him, the wolves killed a few sheep and almost all the coyotes, which meant he wasn't lo…

The core problem American society is facing is bad faith participants . When a significant number of participants in a society/organization/government are operating with the goal o…

Not even a mention of the issue of bot networks? Is that because they're seen as a very real, if unmentioned, problem? Or is it a pretense that they do not exist and have no impact…

It doesn't sound quite like the story the previous poster was thinking of, but Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeu series (beginning with The Quantum Thief ) has uploaded, edited, an…

> from Apple to ... I can't think of a company name starting with Z Zeppelin? :) https://zeppelin-nt.de/en/homepage.html

Available evidence strongly suggests Trump and his campaign coordinated with representatives of Russian government interests that involved both significant lawbreaking and a target…

Along these lines, there is a wonderful quote from James D. Nicoll from back in the days of Usenet: “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English i…

Nope. Foundation was first published in 1942, and is something of an alternate take on the Space Opera w Evil Empire genre, which came earlier, with the first prominent example bei…

>> Common people had almost no sports, no games (beyond precursors to Bocce or backgammon), no literature! >No literature, sure, because they were illiterate. https://en.wikipedia.…

All with no mention at all of Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash , which included a quite detailed equivalent of Google Earth (called 'Earth', iirc).