Recent content by Umbran

Oh, your arguments make it quite clear that this "debate" isn't going to end. So, let's not pretend, hm?

Sure! I've been a starving student, and know it isn't fun, so if she's interested at least exchanging e-mails with me about it, we can see if she'd like to take a stab at it. I can PM you an e-mail address she can use to contact me. Would that be reasonable?

Yeah - that's the thought. In a previous multi-year game, we developed a tradition of players making things for each other. This is my way of carrying that into this game. Huh. It is a thought. If I am polite, it can't really hurt to ask. So, onto the list that name goes! Thanks for the...

Some of that is gorgeous stuff! What I'm looking for is far simpler than those pieces, but there'll be no harm in asking - so I can add his name to the contact list, thank you!

Excellent idea. Unfortunately, there aren't local cons at this time of year, and I need to consider the lead time for the artist and then also getting patches made. Thus coming online to check. And, you know just wanting to support my community. If there's an artist on the site (or a short...

I am looking to pay someone for a little artwork for a game. For an upcoming live-action game, I would like to make faux NASA "program/mission" patches (and possibly stickers, magnets, etc) for my fellow players for costume use and as mementos. I intend to pay for them out of my own pocket...

I don't usually include firearms in my D&D games, but that's for purely aesthetic and thematic reasons. If I do include them, players will be made aware that their performance will be in line with other weapons in the game, simply for balance reasons. I don't play or run contemporary games on...

Be a little careful of that, though. Such numbers are obtained by polling, and then how you ask the question matters, but not everyone is thoughtful about how they report on the numbers. As and example, the questions, "Do you believe X occurred?" And "Do you believe it is possible that X...

If I have a gaming question, I ask it here. I don't go to gaming sites for civil engineering information. Nor is anyone likely to turn to admonishing voices when looking for further information. (Edit to add: BTW, "slip lane" is an equivalent term. Thanks for looking it up before telling me I...

Those are for highways. My reading suggested that slip-lanes are a bit different in layout, and used on smaller streets. But not worth arguing over.

If I required posters to make sense, I'd have gone round the bend some years ago, man.

He said, "You", meaning me, and I'm American, so shrug. I've never heard them called anything in particular in common parlance. They don't get referenced as a separate thing.

In the 21st Century, they have ways for you to pre-order and schedule delivery of pizza....

I have lived in the USA my entire life (minus a couple of vacations) and I have never heard that term before. Sounds like something civil engineers might call them.

You are unaware of Poe's Law?