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Welcome to THAC0 . . . with Advantage! We’re two friends that have been playing D&D a long time. While we both love lots of other RPGs, D&D has inlaid our neural pathways with mithril.
You don’t want a railroad but you want your PCs to feel like they’re part of the story. How can we do this? Ang and Jared talk all about it in this weeks THAC0 with Advantage
You won’t find Hobbits, Ents, Balrogs, or Wargs in D&D now, but that wasn’t always the case. Early in D&D’s history, it borrowed more directly from it’s inspirational material, but the Saul Zaentz Company, which held the rights to Middle-earth licensing, filed a lawsuit against TSR. The Saul Zaentz Company was apparently a little overzealous, because they also wanted D&D to remove the words dragon, dwarf, elf, goblin, and orc from the game as well. The judge looked at this request and said, “this shall not pass
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Welcome to THAC0 . . . with Advantage! We’re two friends that have been playing D&D a long time. While we both love lots of other RPGs, D&D has inlaid our neural pathways with mithril.
You don’t want a railroad but you want your PCs to feel like they’re part of the story. How can we do this? Ang and Jared talk all about it in this weeks THAC0 with Advantage
You won’t find Hobbits, Ents, Balrogs, or Wargs in D&D now, but that wasn’t always the case. Early in D&D’s history, it borrowed more directly from it’s inspirational material, but the Saul Zaentz Company, which held the rights to Middle-earth licensing, filed a lawsuit against TSR. The Saul Zaentz Company was apparently a little overzealous, because they also wanted D&D to remove the words dragon, dwarf, elf, goblin, and orc from the game as well. The judge looked at this request and said, “this shall not pass
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