Jeffro Johnsonさんのイラストまとめ

Oh, they have a box of player characters, too.

Blood of Amber finally delivers on a full on Wizard Duel, complete with an in depth description of the workings of Chaos magic that ends up sounding very much in line with Vance. No idea if Zelazny is channeling Dying Earth or AD&D here. But it works!

Zelazny's Trumps of Doom (1985) moves on from the carton of Salems of my earliest memories and solidly into the icons of my youth. Highlights include travel agents, the small independent book store, and the ease with which guns could be acquired and sold.

Dan is the only person that can even come close to making a credible argument against me. However, I have to say he elides over a DEFINING element of our cultural heritage here. https://t.co/4DGR3aQzCI

The science fiction authors singled out by Gary Gygax in the now notorious Appendix N of the Advanced Dungeon Masters Guide? Stanley Weinbaum, Jack Williamson, Fredric Brown, and (the biggest of all) Edgar Rice Burroughs.

More snake woman.

The things that make AD&D and Chainmail look terrible and poorly designed are exactly the things that make them work so well at the table. These large battles combined with real time and wilderness travel create the tone of epic fantasy novels better than anything. It's amazing.

Why does AD&D produce many more distinct character roles and archetypes than competing systems? Because of its many modes of play: dungeon delve, wilderness travel, chainmail-type battle.... Each class impacts each mode in striking ways. Eliminate the modes, lose the archetypes!

I'll tell you something, though. I know scads of authors here on Twitter. A common complaint among them is that people are always asking them where they get their ideas. Annoying, right? When it comes to Tolkien, though, that is exactly the question people should be asking! /6

No really! How in the world can someone be persuaded to desire mercy for a stinking, skulking, thieving, traitorous, backstabbing, baby-eating monster Gollum? It's a mystery to me. But Tolkien has Bilbo, Aragorn, Gandalf, Sam, and Faramir all demonstrate that. Astonishing! /5