Recent content by CleverNickName

Yep, I can agree with that. Times change, and pop culture changes with it.

And I'm a Klingon, not an orc. I am a completely different green-skinned, muscular humanoid with a warlike culture and rigid system of honor! We have totally different dead gods, and our jagged weapons have totally different names!

Dinehart has some...interesting energy in these posts.

I think the part that bothered me was the "just fooling themselves" dismissal. It felt a bit like my words were being twisted. But I'm better now.

From my perspective, most TTRPGs are adaptations of D&D. In my opinion, as far as I'm concerned, according to me, etc. That's what's going on. I'm not issuing edicts from on high, I'm not attacking anyone, I'm merely stating my opinion. As requested by the OP. To that point, "It can't be D&D...

Is it literal? It's hard to say. He wrote that on his blog a few years ago during one of the big edition changes in D&D...I think it was 3E, but it might have been 4E or Pathfinder, or during the early "D&D Next" days of 5E. Anyway, lots of folks in the hobby were complaining about how that...

Of course not. (sheesh)

Heh, yep...these were two local dogs that escaped their owner's vehicle and swam across the river into our construction site. I had to leash them with a spare tagline from a crane and escort them to the entrance of the site to be reunited with their (very apologetic) owner. Apparently they saw...

Yeah, that was my intent. I feel like almost every tabletop RPG out there is a variant of Dungeons & Dragons, just reskinned and reflavored for different audiences and participation levels. And this is a good thing. It's a useful touchstone that everyone in the hobby can relate to and compare...

I also collect sunrise photos from the different construction sites I've been on, over the years. They aren't selfies, but they're still pretty rad. (Click to enlarge) Laramie, WY: Hillsboro, OR:

Here's some action shots, from the exciting world of pipeline engineering.