Recent content by Style

And if the other three seem like they're fine, then it's probably you... :D

I once lost a box of AD&D stuff during a flood. It contained a number of boxed sets: City of Greyhawk, Night Below, Ravenloft Forbidden Lore, Ravenloft Bleak House, Ruins of Zhentil Keep, the original Battlesystem, and Elminster’s Ecologies. I was able to save the contents of the Night Below...

Well, I'm not actually going to look. You have neither status nor amusing avatar and you may well simply be a clever bot. And also I don't want to get off the couch. However, I recall that there is something like this in the 2e adventure Curse of the Azure Bonds. I might check for you later...

Torg! Yes!!! If it does not win at least five awards this year, I declare the Ennies biased and rotten to the core.

A good friend of mine is the nephew of the actress who played Talon's mother in the film. Each member of the cast was given a replica of the tri-sword from the film and he got to keep her copy. We played with it all the time back in the day. It was totally awesome. Most of the above is not...

Pfft. What kind of lunatic wants a 1e-themed rug? Damn thing would only try to smother you or turn out to be a trapper or something.

Style does not actually type these posts himself. He has his minions do it while he lounges on a bed of finest french fancies (Mr Kipling's originals, not the Tesco homebrand versions, mind you.) However, he holds you in high esteem and so will consider your suggestion anon. :D

That was my thinking also. And then a friend who is an underpaid government worker blabbed to me about exactly that. Whether he was telling the truth or not is another matter, but the context was extremely peculiar and it seemed unlikely he was trying to do anything other than unburden...

The issue, my friend, is a simple one. Do you - or can you - enjoy running games of this type? If so, then do so, and entertain your players in a fashion befitting their desires. If not, then speak to them clearly and make your objections known. Do so without rancour. It is not your place...

Arnie vs. Brigitte in Red Sonja!! That was fantastic and I am appalled that it did not make the list. Appalled!!!

Lori was secretly slipping out at night and laying trails of chicken entrails to lead the horde to the farm. If you look carefully in the night-time shot of episode #11, you can see her at the back with a big bag of guts. It was actually her fault.

Good points. Thanks again everyone for your input and advice. I've passed it all to my friend and he'll be responding to the offer today or tomorrow I think. I return now to lurking and choosing my next pair of boots. Thanks!!!

Thanks everyone for your help so far. I am passing this on to my friend and he is saying that it is very helpful and just the kind of information he is looking for. He would be doing fiction writing, storyboarding, creating in-game lore and that kind of thing. Not the crunchy-wunchy programmy...

I am thinking that it is somewhere around Fort Worth. It is a senior writing position for a computer games company.

I have a friend who is considering a job offer in Texas. The offer is in a creative field that my friend would enjoy. He is being offered $40,000 per year. He has a family (wife and three school-aged kids). He knows nothing about costs of living and wages in the US, and neither do I. I am...