Recent content by Mannahnin

Saturday I did four sets of inclined Smith barbell bench with drop sets after the first, three sets of hack squats, three of machine triceps extensions with drop sets, and just two hard sets of machine biceps curls, though I got a nice pump. I'm also slowly losing weight again, down around...

Oh, the other system I thought of was Torchbearer. I remember reading a play report and thinking it successfully makes simple travel dramatic and difficult.

Yes, I tend to go subtler on the appearance of other species in those games too.

JS & MN is also one of the best TV adaptations I've ever seen. Though that's a different pleasure.

I did get back in last night. Drop sets to failure on most of it again like usual. Three sets Smith inclined barbell bench with drop sets, three sets machine biceps curls with drop sets on the latter two, three sets of machine rear delt flies with drop sets on the middle one (still dialing in...

The quality of the prose is one of the reasons I love Tolkien, Vance, Wolfe and Stephenson. If I derived anywhere near that pleasure from Jordan's, no doubt I would have made the time! I guess I envy you in that.

The Avalon Hill board game Outdoor Survival which OD&D used for its wilderness map is entirely focused on this. Navigating overland across the board with random events/encounters with animals, the chance of getting lost, etc. I don't think disease is considered given the time scale of the game...

Yeah, I've always liked the more subtle and varied versions which Planescape originally said were most common. When I've run 5E I tend to say that Tieflings are more subtly inhuman than the default image (derived from 4E's cosmology). It's not the smell of smoke, though. I imagine sulphur...

Yeah, there's definitely a concern about some of the things it does giving apparent short-term relief without actually fixing things. Whereas for contrast physical therapy and the prescribed exercises from it have literally fixed injuries I've had which simply were not healing on their own.

A great example of how subjective tastes in art can be. I first sampled Jordon's WoT in a novella included in the 1998 Legends anthology, and it was enough to convince me that his writing was a waste of my time. I've really loved some long works, though, including LotR, Jonathan Strange & Mr...

I still have my 1984 copy of Richard Erdoes' and Alphonso Ortiz' American Indian Myths & Legends, and it's pure gold. And one of the great things about it is that each tale specifies what tribe/people it comes from, where the authors heard it/got it from, and when.

The placebo effect is a thing, of course, but yeah. Chiropractic actually does real physical things, and certainly seems to help some people, but has a lot of practitioners making unsubstantiated and sometimes absurd claims about its effects.

Yes, I agree with the guess that "crush" might be intended as a catch-all term for monsters which constrict (snakes) or hug (bears and owlbears), and any similar future attacks. I think "continuous damage" at least is a clearer catch-all category. Including the Rock Python (B43)'s...

It's helpful to remember that "Giant class" referred originally just to all evil monsters on the wilderness encounter sub-table labeled "Giants" in OD&D, and that it never had any explicit rationale in OD&D or AD&D. One could vaguely INFER that these are all monsters which commonly raid the...

I'm all for pedantry in general, but when you take it so far that you're completely misunderstanding (and insisting on that misinterpretation, even after explanations) the point of the thread...