Recent content by MonkeyDragon

I am! I'm Monkeydragon on the nano site, too. I'm procrastinating my words RIGHT NOW!

My vote was: own no books, never played. I heard about the 4e release at my very first gencon. I got the tshirt with the beholder on it. I liked the beholder shirt. I did not like, however, that 4e was coming. At that point, I had been playing 3.5 since it came out, and had several hundred...

1) Much love for the vinegar on the battlemats technique. I use windex with vinegar on my vinyl mats and it works great. 2) General note on markers. Red seems to stain more than other colors, so avoiding red and purple helps. Also, if you accidentally use a regular marker on a dry erase...

I went to MSU, and my tae kwon do teacher was on campus at the time. AND he had been in the tunnels. He confirmed that they were wet, cramped, and basically impossible to larp in. Not to mention the fact that you can't larp alone any more than you can play tabletop games alone. I didn't read...

I've not made this for gaming, but I HAVE made it to keep a group of weary baristas sane during Christmas day rush. White Turkey Chilli 1lb ground turkey 1 quart chicken broth 1 large onion, diced 2 ribs celery, diced 2 cans white northern beans, drained and rinsed 1 bag frozen corn salt...

This. Many times this. Theron is fairer on her ugly days than Ms Stewart, whose defining feature is the inability to keep her mouth closed. I agree with a lot of the comments I have heard. Weak, meandering plot and generally mediocre acting. It did look pretty cool, but even watching with...

Huzzah!

This thread is an excellent reminder for something I was going to stick in my campaign somewhere. Mimic village! Everything's a mimic! Big advanced mimic houses, regular mimic sheds and wagons, little baby mimics, mimics everywhere! The idea was that a party fighting all those mimics would...

This sounds like an awesome starting point for a board or card game. "You are a beautiful maiden. Zues is pleased. Hera is pissed."

I think that the problem that some of my (and possibly some other) players would have is not the idea of a world that involves taxes and the presence of such laws. It would be the ADDITION of such laws to the game. They would not think "Here is an interesting bit of flavor added to the world...

Moral Dilemma Actually I had a few too many of these in a row and my players got antsy, so I've had to scale back. Unpleasant Good Guy The good NPC that the party wants help from who IS a good guy, but is just an :):):):):):):). Generally the party suspects that he's really a villain, but no...

There are always several blocks of "You too can Cthulhu" for people wanting to learn the game. It looks so exciting! Looks is all I know about it, though, cuz I haven't been able to get into one, EVER. So if you see one open, snatch it up!

Done! I met you and your wife when you came to Michigan for my comiccon a few years ago, if you recall. She's a total sweetheart and I hope she wins.

Ditto that, and when I started my newest campaign, I didn't want raising the dead to be like paying a parking ticket. However, I also didn't want to limit my player's access to that magic, because I would rather encourage them to stick with characters they've developed. What I decided was that...

Words can hardly describe how much I loved this movie. Sure, the plot was predictable and nothing new. Ditto the characters. But it was well done, and the animation was great. The way that Toothless moved and all his subtle facial expressions were so unendingly adorable that I can't think of...