Mars: The OTHER OD&D Setting
I've spoken before about implied worldbuilding, how fun it can be to tease apart the world that the rules of Dungeons and Dragons build. This has been done before for the setting of OD&D , and it's a fascinating read, but something that's stuck with me is the fact that the example for an alternate setting the players can venture into isn't some other plane, time, or even something like the Hyborian Age, but instead Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom . One of the odder details of Barsoom that pretty much every adaptation has left out is that the Martians may or may not have been naked all the time. (NSFW LINK) There isn't anything particularly deep about this choice. As has been well documented , Gygax had a fondness for the books, which he passed on to his children, and it makes sense he'd put them in his game because Lord knows he didn't mind getting his ass sued for copyright infringement. Curiously, however, while things like Balrogs did g...
