Recent content by mara

Ouch. It's one of my favorite purchases, I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get your cut.

Take that beyond games. I'm still dumbfounded by the LGS employee who is known for being able to blather on for hours about the most obscure and inane trivia possible being seemingly unable to explain the rules or appeal of his inventory when some Black kids stopped in. "They weren't going to...

I used to look in occasionally, but I don't bother anymore. If anything truly important happens it'll show up somewhere else eventually.

Second worst gaming session involved a game of V:tM with my old group. The DM had the brilliant idea to invite a couple friends to join in without asking the rest of us, who brought their own characters. One problematic quirk (among many) of this group was that characters were assumed to exist...

Which was followed by people claiming men are naturally repulsive.

Side effect of thinking straight men are the default setting of humanity, with painful implications for their personal relationships were it true. Women being attractive to some men and women isn't some weird power or advantage because men are also attractive to some women and men. It washes out.

Met my first gaming group while working on play with a community college theater group, which was pretty much the best thing to come out of that production. Mara

I interpreted that question as why the cleric was shooting, not the target of the spell.

My group uses the 1 inch graph paper from the store. We laminate as large a section as possible, then use that with dry erase markers to sketch maps/terrain. It's easy to replace if it gets stained too badly.

My condolences to you and your friend.

I like it. I've become increasingly ambivalent towards 4e and the alpha version looks like it works some of the things that were bugging me about 3.5. I'd rather buy adventure paths than more splatbooks at this point.

Classic. It's scenarios like these that make me wary of including "represent your kingdom" as a plot hook.

Or they'll conclude their parents have so little real accomplishments that they have to point to dumb luck and call it virtue.

And the going underground. Homeless obsessive-collecting spelunkers with swords and sacks of gold!

I've lost interest in paying full-retail for 3.5 products. The stuff that looks interesting will be on sale eventually to clear out for 4e. 4e news runs from awesome to what the heck?, so I'm waiting to see what gets printed before judging that. (By the way, does anyone know where to find...