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I'd love to pick that game up but for the life of me I cannot find a hard copy of it.

I am going to throw out there Mortal Coil. I suspect that if she's going to play an RPG, she's going to need it to be very narrative-driven, and the diceless nature of the game as well as the manner in which the universe is constructed might be more her speed.* * Essentially all the players...

Tonight, my players realized that several NPCs who had been obstructing them over the course of five real-time years were actually just one changeling in several guises. Several years ago, my party and I realized at the very last minute that the nice rogue named Vance Gatzert who was traveling...

You realize of course that that was just an extradimensional Ponzi scheme.

My suggestion: Get your bad guys to use rituals. "Wait, how did that guy find out so much information about us?" "Divination, duh." It serves as a useful example of play, while simultaneously making them think about how to shore up their defenses against such magic -- presumably by...

I've both played and GM'd in the RPGA several times, both in the 3E days and the 4E days. I'll try to summarize what it's like for you. Firstly, you make a character according to the Character Creation Guide. Back in 3E, this document was amazingly extensive and had a huge list of banned...

"Dungeon Columns"?

Anything that makes you go "Awesome, I am totally giving this to my players as treasure"?

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I don't agree, because in my opinion, language is the filter with which you construct and interpret culture. But regardless of whether I agree or not, you're not going to solve economic and societal sexism in a Dungeons and Dragons game. I was just pointing out something that irritates me that...

Via Google, "neighbor's wife" gets 175,000 hits. "Neighbor's husband" gets 7,630 hits. Actual numbers don't matter; it's a question of magnitude: if "neighbor's husband" were a more natural sentence construction, you'd expect it not to be as uncommon by comparison. Ask yourself: Why...

Hey shilsen -- just as a caveat, I don't necessarily agree with your premises, but mostly because I don't really run into sexism on a regular basis. This is probably due largely to where I currently live. But, there is one area where I am willing to admit that sexism runs rampant, which is...

Hah, that's tremendous. I'm in!

Yep, I do this -- I love trying to reinterpret my old characters in a new light. But I'll do you one better: I recently started up a sequel to one of my old campaigns, in which (almost) everyone picked up their old characters from 3E. Everyone has been pleasantly surprised at how much more...

Not besides simply playing music on the iPhone. Give it a shot and try scraping around -- sliding up and down affects the speed of the scrape.

Well, how about this: In v3 of the OS, you can scrape through songs by dragging a slider bar around. But the new feature they added is the ability to use smaller sliding quanta by sliding your finger down -- horizontal represents increase/decrease, vertical defines the degree of change. So...

Well, I claimed 94FERKJ7W6AK. Initial comments: Wow, editing all these text boxes is fiddly. I kind of wish I had the ability to create my own buttons for quick status editing or something similar. Similarly with changing numbers -- it'd be nice if there were a control that allowed you to...

Yeah, but there's a substantial difference between the idea that you can find a gate to another plane, and the idea that all other planes are on some level knitted to the Prime Material.

I kind of like the cosmology actually -- the idea that you can literally walk (or fly) to alternate planes if you go far enough is kind of cool. "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning!"

The trick here is to use Kundarak to do money laundering without them being aware that they are money laundering. Though I am still thinking of a sufficiently tortuous explanation such that that could be the case. Even still, though, the fundamental idea seems like it'll throw my players for a...