Recent content by Mannahnin

In 1E? So Spider Climb off the Defensive roll, Read Magic automatically... what were his Offensive and Misc spells? Not that it's impossible to have four low-utility spells. Could have gotten Push for offense and Erase for Misc, say, but 1E tends to mitigate against this better than if you...

I don't remember it getting discussed as much as WSF, but I put that caveat in there for a reason. :LOL:

Adding to the chorus on how dependent illusionists are both on DM goodwill and reasonable adjudication and on player creativity. If you've got both they can be excellent (though vulnerable to stuff like undead). If either element is missing you probably suck. There was a very good article in...

Unearthed Arcana was, perhaps oddly, the first AD&D book I got. Having acquired Mentzer Basic and Cook/Marsh Expert in 1985, UA was the new hotness on the shelves when I went looking for more. The additional complications and stats in the book confused and intrigued me. As a wee munchkin and...

There are other fruits which sometimes digest invasive insects, ja? Like pineapples.

My favorite seasonal read might be Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. It's divided into one chapter for each day of October, and I know some folks online who make it an annual shared read. Sometimes folks will post a video reading a given chapter aloud. I've read it aloud to...

Nice. All the fairy stuff in the Lyonesse books heavily informs how I see and run Fairie in games. The one long campaign I ran of 5E was split half and half (via portal travel) between the Feywild and an enormous, decadent city populated by also-Vancian miscreants and aristocrats. When the PCs...

I didn't really play there, though I made a point to stop in and shop when I was in the area. Cool small world connection, though. :)

I was searching back through the thread for references to Foundation and spotted this, which I must have overlooked before. How did you like it, and did you read the other two? I love the series unreservedly. Up there with LotR for my favorite fantasies. Just finished F&E, which shares most...

Maybe Your Move Games, in Davis Square? That place was a mecca for card gaming, and the hub for Boston area competitive MtG players back in the day.

IME dragons were more a mid to high level opponent. At low levels you'd usually be running/evading if you saw evidence of one in a dungeon or got unlucky on a wilderness random encounter and had them turn up. Too high a chance of a TPK. So at the levels where you're taking on dragons the...

Battletech I've played again fairly recently. One of my closest gaming buddies bought into the most recent release, and we've tried both it and Alpha Strike out, so I expect it'll see the table again before too long. Same with Blood Bowl. Still an excellent game. I bought deep into Car Wars...

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The homelessness stat I think has a lot to do with homeless children having somewhat better access to services (and thus their caretaker parent with them), and with homeless women having more of an option to (depressingly) trade companionship for shelter. :/ But yeah, lots of challenges with...