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Exactly. I won't say I hate my old Mac SE, but I won't use it regularly again. If someone had one fired up and was playing Wizardry, I'd give it a shot for a few minutes, fondly remembering how much fun I had with that game, and then go back to playing something newer. The numbers are not...

I miss the evocative prose. One of the reasons that you have so many people that hate 4e even though they have never played it is that the books are just soooo dry. I think that is also one of the sources of the "4e is about combat not roleplaying" misapprehension. The books aren't written in...

Had a PC once who was a junior member of a high-powered organization. He was always reporting in, asking for advice and help everytime the party advanced the quest one more step, to the point of being disruptive and annoying. One day, when he reported in a particularly disturbing tidbit, I had...

Difficulty getting a sitter?

Jethro Tull pronounces it meh-LAY in Thick as a Brick, and if Ian Anderson isn't an authoritative source for gamer pronounciation, then I don't know what is.

When has that ever stopped anyone? This community thrives on people's propensity to interject how much they hate something into every conversation about that thing. And to identify every bit of information about a thing as further evidence of that thing sucking.

It wasn't enough that you couldn't play in a public room at a college without "normals" poking their heads in and giving you crap for playing this weird game. You travel halfway across the country and pay a pantload of money to sit in a convention center with other people who supposedly like...

Voted Wizard, because Gandalf wasn't one.

Well all those criteria are pretty subjective. Just playing RPG's is "weird" enough to get you some strange looks from certain corners of society. GenCon is a place where you get the full spectrum. It's also a place where people go to hang out with fellow gamers, have fun and feel accepted...

Why yes there is... http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/264248-wizards-forums-up.html

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Very nice PowerPoint. What's your source for the music and art?

Color me interested. I'd buy a 4e treatment of SL sight unseen.

Thank Bog no one has yet used the term "Old School" Aiie! I just said it! Bad Barcode! Oh well, off to cut myself.

I get attached enough that if they die, I want them to die well. The same applies to NPC's and villains when DM'ing. I don't need them to live forever, but it does piss me off when they "die like a punk" when they are supposed to be a memorable, scary villain.