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From today's Penny Arcade: Tycho seems to have a solid grip on the narrative playing out, and how people choose their roles in the narrative. My ability to laugh at myself is fully restored thanks to this comic (a blessed relief). I can't wait to see the news post to see how close Gabe's...

A discussion of player choices sprung up in this thread in the latter pages. Here are a few of my statements from that discussion (this time with links to the relevant TED talks). It is worth reflecting that having more choices actually does NOT necessarily make people happier. Usually quite...

I've been without a game for a long while, and I would love to jump back in to something casual. I'm in my 30s, and fairly busy, so weekly is possible, but I would be just as happy with something every 2 weeks or even monthly. I'm open to various systems, but would prefer something D&D for...

I was reading a thread on the Iron Heroes magic system: Magic Oddities and I had a thought about lightning spells. Why the heck are lighting effects lines instead of ranged touch attacks? Electricity can't just shoot out into the air. It MUST ground somewhere. It is in the nature of the...

Someone please assure me this is an April Fools Joke: http://www.thehobbitfilm.com/

Anyone else using a Mac to access the boards? As usual, IE on Mac doesn't refresh properly, but at least it will talk to the boards. Netscape (7.02) is for some reason loading incredibly slowly and often failing to connect at all. How am I supposed to waste time at the lab w/o ENWorld? :(

Is it just me, or are these boards incredibly unfriendly to Macintosh computers? When I use my PC at home, or the IBMs at work hooked up to the microscopes, everything works fine. When I use a Macintosh (as I am forced to most of the time at work), I have to manually dump my cache to get pages...