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Tag: Dragonlance

Monday Lab: Halfbreed

Character creation, Monday Labs, Racism

January 13, 2019

Ron Edwards

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition, Darkurthe Legends, Discovering Dusters, Dragonlance, Humanoids, Promised Sands, Submen Rising, Tales of Gargentihr, Talislanta, The Chronicles of Ramlar, The Secret of Bone Hill, Undiscovered, Werewolf: the Apocalypse

The recent discussion in Actual Play has prompted me to what may be quite a lot of pointed looks at racism in role-playing content. I’ve made a little video to set local boundaries & standards for all of them, beginning right here. You’ll be seeing that link again. To repeat one of the points from…
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Finding D&D: Communion

Finding D&D, Hobby culture

March 8, 2018

Ron Edwards

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition, Champions sensu lato, Cyberpunk 1st edition, Dragonlance, Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Dungeons & Dragons BECMI, Forgotten Realms, RuneQuest sensu lato, Shadowrun

It’s not a metaphor. I’m talking about D&D as religion, not merely “religious” as a colorful synonym for “passionate.” This is Finding D&D, Part 2, addressing TSR as orthodoxy and the resulting construction of culture and values. It’s still just a draft, intended for review & critique and so on. I’ve already spotted a couple…
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