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Is this news? Did I miss a thread where it was talked about already? Am I being sucked in by Internet tomfoolery? Apparently Brendan...

I remember it being a thing at the few conventions I attended in the 80s and 90s, and running into it again when I returned to cons in...

Tangentially related to the conversation, but I would like to point out that putting someone on ignore doesn't mean that the other...

If these discussions have offended, Think but this, and all is mended – That you have but slumbered here While these opinions did...

Typically speaking, how much time do you prep for any given unit of time you actually play? For example, when I run convention games, I...

I might be the odd man out here, but I remember in 4th or 5th grade completing quizzes where I had to determine whether a statement was...

And some like to go further by declaring things objectively bad when the thing they're trying to put down is clearly a subjective...

This is why I make such a big deal about people not presenting their opinions as opinions. All it does is get people's back up if they...

Fun fact for the day: 3 Nov 1941: The Japanese Fleet receives Top-Secret Order No. 1, ordering the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Mayala, the...

“I thought it would be a low-level encounter suitable for training teenagers! CR 2, max.” “Often difficult to see, the future is.”

Got a point there

Speaking of butt crack boys, I have noticed a decline myself. However, at last Adepticon I had a 6 hour game with a BCB. This fella had...

You have a rate because the con represents a steady, reliable source of income and you don't want to kill the golden goose. If hotels...

Maybe I'm wrong that it's odd. I've not been to Gencon. I thought about GHC, but didn't for unrelated reasons, and I thought it was...

I find it weird that it's thought of an oddity considering GenCon had been doing it when I started going to conventions back in 1983. I...