Recent content by Wolfram stout

Yeah, I was wondering where the rusty farming tools hanging from the ceiling were in the first picture.

Cracker Barrel use to be our go to place driving to or from vacation. We have them local but t it was always just for road trips. Over the last 2 years we have noticed a very real decline in the food. MEH to it was fine is about their norm now it seems. Sad.

WHAT??????? (Runs to Google) There is a 31 year old movie based on this book that I have never heard of before now. I had no idea and once I get over the shame of that I will be elated.

It made me think of Poul Anderson's The High Crusade where aliens land in a medieval French village and the villagers proceed to kill them and take their ship. Goodness I really need to reread that book. OP.. very fun idea.

I watched The sandbaggers in highschool every Wednesday night on local PBS. I have recently started watching Peter Gun on Prime. The use of music to quickly set tone is amazing.

Also remember as GM/DMs that the answer is not in the adventure write up either. I think in this case the players were creative and did solve the problem. Be glad they didnt just get focused on using brute force on the plate. You did well by allowing their alternative solution to work. Some...

While I would prefer Count Zero or something by Walter Jon Williams I am not going to quibble and look forward to this greatly.

I for one miss they sound of the dialing up screeching sound and either getting kicked offline if someone called you or plugging the modem into the main jack so no one could call in. Esp with a roommate that could easily spend 80 percent of his waking hours online.

Why would an optimizer need an easy buddy DM? By my definition (and I don't think I am off the wall here) an optimizer builds characters that thrive on hard mode. Their thrill is going in and punching above their weight. Problems come in when you have another player that doesn't like...

Yeah. I'm kind of stunned that I seem to fall into the disruptive ego-driven jerk camp because I put my highest score in the class appropriate stat and chose spells that seem best for the job at hand. Of course I do that in real life, I did not major in math back in college cause I am not very...

If you don't mind, and this is not a gotcha question: if the difference between optimizer and munchkin is pedantic where is your preferred line? For example I am making a character for your game or as a fellow player and I decided on a warlock. At what point is it going to bug you: I put my...

Doh. And I liked up the title b posting. Thanks for the correction

Mine was F4 and superman (due to my wife). But then, just this week, we became aware of Abraham's sons. That jumped to number 1 very quickly.

He was also in Rambo type movie called Ruckus that came out in 1981 a year before Rambo I believe.

Yeah, I know. I worked in my university library periodicals section back in the 90s, and saw how they charged them mag subscriptions based on "approximate readership". From the librarians here on the site I can tell it is that same type of logic. I appreciate the books I can get off Libby...