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I have it at 110% normally and 100% has the same effect for me.

130% here. I can read it at 100% without particular ill effect, but... it's annoying, and I don't have to. Non-forum reading is generally at around 180%. Why read small print when you can read big?

So, uh. When you say new, like. What year are we talking? Because just post-tolkien leaves a lot of space to work with. Pre-tolkien was pretty out there at times, too. And for all T was the baseline for a long time, it definitely feels like we're starting to get some standard output more along other lines -- urban fantasy, steampunk, etc., sorta' feel like they've grown in popularity over the last... while.

Throwing some stuff out there, relative to the bog-standard sword&sorcery though...

Concept: Urban Fantasy.
Description: ... urban fantasy. Fantasy with bits of sci-fi or modern-day stuff thrown in, or the other way around.
Some notables: Dresden Files (books). Shadowrun (books, pen&paper games, video games). Mage: The Awakening (P&P games, apparently books).

Concept: Postapocalyptic Fantasy.
Description: Again what it says on the tin. Fantasy worlds set after the proverbial "end".
Some notables: Dark Sun (books, P&P, video games).
Concept: Dragon as major characters.
Description: As per tin!
Some notables: There were several Krynn novels along those lines. The Basil Broketail stuff also went some interesting directions with that. There's more that I'm forgetting, obviously.

... actually, limiting it to at-most three per day sounds kinda' interesting. At least partially because my memory's failing me. Actually remember where all the off-beaten-path fantasy concepts I've ran into came from? Ach, me head. There's so bloody much, especially if you trawl used book stores and whatnot. E: And that's not getting into anime and related works. Anime has done some shit with fantasy settings.

... you wouldn't happen to have verse for that rebellion bit, would you?

Yeeaaah, them, of any gaming-related company, worrying about that is almost a joke. I mean, even if it does, it's still going to go through steam so why should they care? Money either way, and easy PR going loose reigns.

Still. The worry is that, joke or not, someone in corporate doesn't grok the punch line.

I somewhat doubt that. Remembering that D&D is generic "swords and sorcery" fantasy, not Real World Middle Ages, so "those time periods" is a little ambiguous.

It actually did occur from time to time in human history -- particularly influential whores, mistresses, etc., etc., etc. Some achieved nobility, generally through marriage, and it's not a particularly era-locked thing, having occurred off and on pretty much all throughout history. It's not really a terribly out there claim -- there's a reason the influential fleshworker is as common a literary trope as it is.

For D&D shenanigans, you'd expect it to not only be possible, but likely. I mean, hell, you have Ishtar. Probably others, too. You're dealing with a world that not only has prostitutes, you're dealing with a world that has prostitutes that could jam a morning star down your throat and go on to immolate the surrounding countryside with high level divine magic. There's definitely going to be some in high positions, if only because they happened to have kicked everyone's ass that said no.

People, sometimes... "Teach me how you cook that, <Frumple>?"

"O... okay. Step one: Read and follow the directions on the container.

There is no step two."

Less acerbic, but... still. Still. Reading comprehension, people. These are not complicated instructions. Somehow, you still manage to screw them up ;_;

I feel like this has come up before, but have you tried Popeye's? It's basically completely replaced KFC as my go-to source for fried chicken and everything related. Especially the biscuits. Oh sweet merciful Emperor, the biscuits. They're so good.

I've not been asked about popeye's specifically before, to the best of my knowledge (though fast food joints have come up a time or few, previous), but... well. I have been to a couple, but there's apparently regional differences because the ones around here are quite thoroughly mediocre. Like, worse than KFC level stuff. Only marginally worse, but it is what it is. Was a fair ways back, so maybe it's changed since I last visited one, but...

Honestly, I'm not really aware of any really good chicken places in this area. There's a lot of them, but they're all kinda' iffy, insofar as I recall. Generally edible, but not something to make specific note of. You want good chicken without doing the cooking, you walk around the neighborhood(s) until you find a little old lady willing to cook it and unwilling to shoot you. Same for biscuits, really.

That's disseminating heard opinion to a degree, though. I've been to a fair number (perhaps something of an understatement) of places that serve fried chicken over the years, but my tastes in chicken are notably against the apparent norm -- I like my chicken considerably drier than most people seem to. Juicy chicken is generally a turnoff for me, so most fried chicken -- most chicken I don't personally cook, really -- is a bit of a letdown.

Still, chicken wise, popeye's and KFC is about on par, here. Taste about the same, even if the taste doesn't entirely suit me. Don't recall the biscuits for the former, though... it has been quite a while since I last went to one. Still, I may give popeye's a shot if at some unlikely point in the future I feel like eating chicken in a fast food place.*

*Note: Chance of this actually happening is basically zero -- I haven't personally chosen to eat at a restaurant/fast food joint in... something like four or five years, I think. Maybe more. Rode along with others during the interim, but of own choice... no. Rather cook. Prefer to by significant orders of magnitude. Better food, cheaper food, usually quicker food (counting the ride), much quieter, etc., etc., etc. I just don't like eating out anymore