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American Professional Football: It's now official: the former "San Diego Chargers" are moving their franchise to Los Angeles, California. This might be useful for jaded sportscasters when the Chargers fall behind in scoring, as they often do: "The 'Bolts' are lagging -- yeah, they're the...

In another thread, nightspaladin asked about rebuilding a deceased 4E Invoker as a 5E character for one last battle. I thought it might be a useful thing to have 5E versions (i.e. toned down in power) of the 4E Invoker At-Will powers, in case anyone else had a similar desire; so here's this...

Per ABC News: Iran has now ratified the pact. The US Congress has not approved the pact, as far as I know. (Did US Senate approval die in committee? Were the required conditions ever met for it to be considered? I've lost track on our end.) Anyway, much of the sanctions relief for Iran now...

In reporting a shooting in Boston, the daily mail (UK) shows a picture of the Boston Police Commissioner, William Evans. Gaunt face, nearly-pointy ears -- dude looks like a Wood Elf. Yes?

Article at the Sac. Bee: Jon Stewart announces he will retire from The Daily Show. It's the end of an era. A whole generation grew up watching his act.

In years past there have been many posts of news from "Winter Fantasy" in Fort Wayne, Indiana; however, I haven't seen anything here this year. Today is the third of four days for that convention. Is there anything to report? Did WotC even have a presence in Fort Wayne this year?

I tried to update my Profile to show that I like D&D 5E, but that wasn't an option on the drop-down list. Add it, please?

From the BBC: General Motors is showing a physical version of the 2X Vision GT for "Kazunori Yamauchi's seminal Gran Turismo racing series." The car was unveiled "at the 2014 Los Angeles auto show, . . ." The article does not make clear whether the physical version contains an actual engine...

An article on dailyreckoning says the following: So, does it do that? Does it violate Newton's Third Law? Any comments or elaboration welcome. (Just don't say "Impulse Drive," because that's part of the proprietary trade dress of a famous TV and movie franchise. A person might get sued.)

"They might be kingdoms!" Just google the words "north sudan heaton" and see the results. A man in Virginia has claimed the unoccupied desert lands of "Bir Tawil" (between Egypt and Sudan) as his kingdom. Alright, he's not trampling on the rights of other countries (because the land is...

The news about OpenSSL is bad: the programming of version 1.01 (that was released in March, 2012) failed to include a needed bounds check. If exploited, this loophole could allow hackers to scrape data from vulnerable servers, from user names to e-mail addresses to passwords, and even up to and...

This week's Rule of Three is available. 1. Benchmarks for Fighters at each tier (5th & 11th levels). 2. Running a business in D&D Next. 3. Natural advancement of ability scores capped at score of 20; other kinds of advancement may exceed that cap.

Link here. 1. Group stealth - built to encourage and reward engaged play 2. Medium armors - incentives for use 3. Reduction of stacking of extra actions - not aimed explicitly at rogues. Are these examples and explanations persuasive enough? What others might be more appropriate?

Would "Lawrence of Arabia" have been nearly as good without the score? Would "Doctor Zhivago" have been even fractionally as popular without Lara's Theme? On the flip side, would anything have saved "The Seventh Dawn?" The theme song [youtube video] doesn't appear to have sold the movie to...

I did not see a thread about this, so here goes: http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/dndqa/20131213 1. CON saves against breaking concentration. 2. Changes in CON reflected in Hit Points? 3. Positional effects in combat.

The (Seattle) Post-Prevaricramcer says Disney is releasing this to live theatre. Any idea who they could (possibly) cast as Fezzik?

I am informed on every page of EN World that I have 1 Notification pending. When I click on the drop-down, it gives a link for "Campaigns & Groups." When I click on that link, it takes me to the Campaigns & Groups page -- but the Notifications indicator in the upper right of the screen stays as...

Aaron Diaz, who draws the Dresden Codak webcomic, also has a tumblr account, and on it has been drawing his versions of some scenes from JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion. He says, "The black eye markings are used to mimic the dirt marks the Noldor get while working their furnaces, as they are very...

Newly-described ancient spider now named "Trogloraptor" found in caves in southwestern Oregon, and old-growth Redwood forests: (article in Scientific American) The thing is about 4 cm across, with actual hooks at the end of each of its legs; but it runs away from light. The article says that...

We all know what a McGuffin is, right? So here's the scoop (according to KMTR-TV) on the trial of Nick McGuffin, accused of murdering his girlfriend, Leah Freeman, in Calendar Year ("CY") 2000.