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1.) How many players in your group? group a) 4 group b) 5 2.) Do you DM? a) yes b) yes 3.) Do other people in the group DM, and how many? a) 2 others b) 3 others 4.) What's the Male/Female composition of the group? a) all male b) 4 male, 1 female 5.) Got a good gamestore near you and...

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I wish there weren't that background behind the text.

Well, the UK is an agglomeration of kingdoms/nations. In Celtic languages (and Latin) which have grammatical gender, the country name is invariably feminine Britannia : feminine, Hibernia : feminine Éire : feminine Cymru : feminine Alba : feminine Kernow : feminine Mannin : feminine In Old...

I did mention that later in the same post: I find it interesting that singular "them/their" has taken over as an anaphoric pronoun (making reference to a noun earlier in the sentence), but English speakers have yet to develop something similar for subject pronouns. I suspect it’s because...

In writing at least, the subject “they” is still odd: “The DM first gives the players a description of the room. Then they indicate what monsters are present” (where “they” refers to the DM). Here there is real ambiguity as “they” could easily refer to the players. Agreeing with some earlier...

The 18th century grammarians (see Bishop Lowth for more info) added in a bunch of stuff into English in an attempt to fix the language, that is, make it more like proper languages like Latin or French. So we get stuck with a bunch of rules that never existed in English previously No...

At least in the English spoken around here, I’d suggest that generic "his" is more archaic or ultra-formal than sexist. "Is there anyone outside waiting to hand in his paper" is very old-fashioned to my ears, use of "their" is more correct in my variety "Is there anyone outside waiting to hand...

Qin, Shatterzone, Victoriana

Noble knight still has some.

You can still get the d20s numbered 0-9 twice from Gamescience and I use them exclusively for percentiles as well as 1-20 d20s. Also, the sprues are very easy to cut off with an exacto knife.

A Chessex d20 beside a Gamescience d20. Notice the rounder edges on the Chessex die. And then a whole pile o' dice