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I'd be willing to bet that more than 1% of all rules complaints are about the rule that says the referee can change the rules.

Nah, evil (and Evil) can't trust each other the way the good guys do. Calling in a fellow avatar just gets them backstabbing each other while the heroes breeze through. Darth Helmet was projecting his own side's faults something fierce when he claimed good is dumb. Evil is even stupider about...

May I reiterate how uncomfortable I am with sand-based metaphors based on childhood experiences with cat poop in playgrounds? I hate to sound like that mealy-mouthed cretin Anakin but I just don't like the stuff. I'm pretty beach-negative too.

I can remember people saying prepainted figs would be the end of the minis hobby and GW would be out of business in no time once MK dropped. Then again, I can also remember how Warzone and VOR and and War Machine and Deadzone were also going to be GW Killers. :) Buying any game solely because...

Accurate. It also suggests that we can be more forgiving of even quite complex mechanics that only matter during parts of the gameplay loop where no RP is involved. The character generation systems in some superhero games are good examples of this - they take up a lot of mental space in...

Hmmm, I think we have a drafting conflict. I think I'd take Herbie Popnecker for sheer unstoppable power, Barry Ween for smarts, and Bugs Bunny because he's Bugs Bunny, for cripe's sake. Never bet against the Rabbit. Miaowara Tomokato (aka Samurai Cat) would be my reserve pick. He's nearly...

If we're going that route, Gollum clearly rides with Bert, manages to corrupt him into lusting after the Ring during the trip and the two of them wind up wrestling each other into a lava dive while fighting over Precious. Poppins carries the Ringbearer, but probably has her own Galadriel...

So (spoiler questions, I guess)...

It really isn't. Miniatures collecting is a perfectly legit hobby even if you never game with them, and hundreds of thousands of people share that interest worldwide. While pre-paints are less popular traditionally than stuff you paint yourself (or pay a mercenary brush to do for you to a...

The temptation to claim responsibility and apologize grows with every new page on that thread. "It was me. I done it, and I'm sorry. I didn't think anyone would mind."

A mashup of Fantastic Four's cosmic rays with the Amazing Colossal Man/Beast movies and a whippothrope that (by the coloration) was apparently caught in Hulk's gamma bomb explosion? Yeah, that checks out.

Were-cops really should have gotten a fourth season. I know the writing went downhill in season three but the acting was as good as ever, and the cancellation was more about budget than a ratings drop anyway.

I knew artiodactyl already, but that's a new on me. Pretty widely useful word too, it passes the "can I use it in relation to a Kamandi cover?" test with flying colors. Revenge of the Whippomorph! That is an alarming prospect on many levels, and is arguably even worse in coastal areas than...

I was reading a nearly Ron Goulart novel the other day that had a brief side scene involving a Big Boy statue that had fallen into the surf following an earthquake. One of his odd semi-dystopian pieces where the US basically falls apart and balkanizes into micro-states somewhere in around...

One of the local diners was built in the early 1970s and has its original menus hung in a few spots around the place. Not quite as cheap, but close. They're still pretty inexpensive to keep their senior citizen customer base, but I think it's slowly killing them - they've massively curtailed...

Yeah, they're basically indestructible in normal use and beyond - mine's been through both an apartment fire and two floodings. Provide good spill protection too. The bulk of a big sheet of plexi is an issue but it's easy to store propped up against a wall in a closet or behind a door or...

There are certainly examples of that out there. Savage Worlds is descended from Great Rail Wars, which was a pretty excellent minis game - and SW's combat system remains so today with no RP required. FASA's Star Trek had a starship combat system that was strong enough that it got expanded...

On the plus side, it ceased being animal abuse and became molestation of a corpse quite some time ago.

I can tell you've never stepped on one of GW's pointier sculpts while barefoot. Lego bricks and d4s have nothing on hard styrene with more spikes than a porcupine. Outed himself as an android duplicate would be my guess.

Is getting a table-covering paper map laminated cheaper than investing in a similar-sized sheet of plexiglass these days? I know it wasn't back in the 70s, which is why I've been hauling around a big plastic rectangle for ~45 years. That was not a waste. Played a lot of paper-map wargames and...