The Culture: Oldheads In Tabletop Need To Be Checked

This past week, Cirsova mentioned this stupidity from one of the oldheads.

I concur with Cirsova's reaction.

"Tell me you haven’t read any Appendix N without telling me you haven’t read any Appendix N.

Tell me you haven’t read the pulps without telling me you haven’t read the pulps."

I've been reading Lin Carter's Zarkon: Lord of the Unknown series of pastiches of classic Hero Pulps. There's been dungeons in each one. Those are pastiches of the old pulps, set in the 1970s and '80s, and they have dungeons that could have come out of Appendix A of the AD&D1e DMG.

The first two books are from 1975. Carter put out plenty by that point, hence his inclusion in Appendix N (and why I've been reading his stuff), and Carter was well-known by folks like Gary and Dave at that time; there is no way that the presence of those dungeons were not known, especially as Carter (along with others like L. Sprague de Camp) were instrumental in keeping Conan (another hero that delves his share of lairs and dungeons) alive and in print during the long night before the ressurrection and rehabilitation of Howard's original writing that we've enjoyed in the last 15-20 years.

Sandy's talking out of his ass and you can read for yourself to prove it. He, like so many other oldheads, are showing their ass by consistently getting things wrong that we can independently verify. Shut the fuck up already, Boomer!