Recent content by J_D

I served in the USAF from 82-85. I played in a few D&D games in tech school, then when I was stationed at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory I had no problem finding a game. There were always games running in the barracks (the most common were D&D and Star Trek), and towards the end of my time I...

I think the John Wayne movie you're looking for is "The Undefeated", a 1969 movie. John Wayne played a Union cavalry officer, and Rock Hudson played a Confederate cavalry officer who left the south and headed into Mexico rather than surrender to the Union. John Wayne and his men left the army...

Thanks - that answers my question. It would have been nice if the blog functionality could have been separate from the message boards, but if it can't then that's the breaks. To paraphrase a famous quote, you have to go online with the software you have, not the software you'd like to have...

Yes, my question is why the management of Circvs Maximvs made their fora unaccessible unless the user logged in, thus locking out all unregistered people from even reading them. My understanding is that both CM and EnWorld are run by the same people and many people are active on both sites, so...

Never. As I already said, I will not register with a site that I have to log in just to read. My m.o. is to browse, read, then log in if I want to post a reply. Too bad, too, because if things had stayed as they were over there I might well have registered in a month or two to contribute. I'm...

I go to the main CircvsMaximvs site and get the main page just fine. I click on the Forums link and see the forums links just fine - the Senate, the Amphitheatre, the Coliseum, etc. Then I click on the link to the Senate, and I see the list of thread links just fine. I click on a thread link...

What happened with CircvsMaximvs with the mandatory registration, anyway? When I first discovered the site around a year ago or so, I never registered or posted there but I still enjoyed reading the forums for the politics and opinion content which isn't allowed here. Sometime around last...

I think you've got part of the idea, but you're missing a vitally important aspect. First, let me state my bias - I'm a software engineer by profession, so I'm strongly inclined to view the subject in those terms. I'm fully aware that many gamers will vehemently disagree with the views I state...

An unusual combination of free time and piqued interest have prompted me to insert several random replies... :) I of course agree that different gamers have different tastes and styles, and many (but not all) of my comments are just my personal tastes. That's not my view of fantasy. To me...

Volo's Guide to Cormyr describes the Falling Tower in Kirinwood. It is all that remains of the seat of the Kirinar noble family, and has been floating about 60 feet off the ground for centuries. Ardest Kirinar founded a college of wizardry and a brotherhood of wizards he intended to control...

I've been lurking and reading this topic with interest, and decided I had to put my opinionated two-bits in. I know absolutely nothing about C&C, so I'll stick to general gaming preferences — and my gaming preferences are probably more extreme than JohnSnow's (or perhaps he's just toning his...

That was a very interesting read. I'm going to think about buying the PDF to look at the whole thing, since this is a topic from the RAW that badly needs fixing if your campaign does anything involving crafting. I did something in the same vein myself some time back for my own group, because I...

Let me add my voice to this, just for additional incentive... If you bundle Western Europe and Ecology & Culture into a single hardcover, and add a War section to boot, I'll buy it! Even if it costs $50, I'll buy it! I bought the softcover versions of both and I'm planning on buying the PDF...

In 1520, four master armorers were able to complete a set of masterwork full plate armor for Henry VIII within two months so that he could attend a tournament. That'd be about 8 man-months. The following link tells you more about it: http://www.plessisarmouries.co.uk/studies/tonlet/ This is...

I've now read a couple of times where people criticize the old FASA Star Trek game. I was a devout fan of that game during the mid-to-late 80's until FASA lost the license. I thought it was a good system for the time, and just as good as AD&D. Sure, it had a few imperfections, but what game...