Recent content by Arnie_Wan_Kenobi

Not as much as I'd like: Playing? 13 sessions of our monthly online "Tomb of Annihilation" campaign (one special in-person session). DM? Three sessions for my kids and friends, one for students Ran one game of HeroQuest for my kids, taught my son to play Magic The Gathering and played one...

100% agree! I entertain an overly-optimistic thought that sitting down and sharing a plate of whatever your culture's dumplings are will break down most socio-cultural barriers. Butter-fried Pierogi is a Christmas tradition in my family.

And then the Malkavian art in 1st Edition Vampire The Masquerade wore it on a shirt, kinda coming full circle there. Let's see: Does "That Christmas" on Netflix count? A cute animated Christmas flick based on stories written by the screenwriter of "Love Actually." It's become an annual watch...

Not my purchase, but my daughter picked out the Stranger Things 5E boxed set for me, for Christmas. As for my money, I'm STILL going back and forth on the Vaesen starter set and Mythic Carpathia.

My dad is an amateur stargazer, so I came to classical Greek via that, then next to my assigned seat in our library class was the mythology shelf, so after I read the Greek/Roman book that was at eye level when I turned my head, I read the Norse one, and then started in on folktales. I remember...

I do this with the culture/s that loosely inspire the character concept.

Thank you for the response. Reframing the question: do the videos provide lore, insight, and commentary or are they basically reading/presenting basic info that could be covered reading Dragonlance Adventures?

Is it any good? It keeps popping up for me, but I have yet to watch any of the videos.

That just sounds like a failure of imagination on the part of AB-InBev to market them as major drinking holidays. (See: St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo.)

I just put the link to the auction on my office Secret Santa wishlist. It's a bold move; let's see if it pays off.

I celebrate Thanksgiving as Abraham Lincoln intended, in honor of the defeat of those traitorous Confederate rebels at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and the fall of Atlanta and the capture of Mobile Bay. [/S] And for gravy. I like gravy.

I feel like "What's New with Phil and Dixie" did a bit about this a million years ago.

As an English teacher who studied more-than-a-fair-amount-of-Latin-American-lit-for-the-90's...BORGES is pretty fantastic. (I used to push to get more of him in the curriculum on a regular basis.)

I need to add: "I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed." -North by Northwest

I also use that line from The Big Lebowski basically as punctuation. That, and the one about The Eagles. I share your appreciation for Casablanca I'm going to go with the five (or so) movie quotes I tend to work into conversation: From Ghostbusters, "Dogs and cats living together - MASS...