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I have a better idea regarding the 1-pager... include it in the book. Take a page to show the original ideas for your campaign world, and a couple paragraphs to describe your experiences with the contest and working with WotC. I'm sure a lot of people (especially those of us who entered the...

For contrast to Mythusmage's contrast, I arrived at the San Diego Comic Con at 9:30 on Saturday Morning. We had to stand in a very slow moving line, in the sun, on an incredibly muggy San Diego day, for almost three hours. We too had annoying minimum-wage security personnel yelling stupid...

It didn't really bother me that they weren't selling the 3.5 books. I have mine on order at Amazon, and they'll be here in a day or two. Plus, there was all of one booth where I saw the 3.5 books on display, ready to be sold. I may have missed more, but there weren't many. The thing that irked...

So I get down to San Diego, and after spending two and a half hours in the registration line trying to get inside, I finally make my way down to the dealer room. I'm wandering around, and I eventually stumble across the WotC booth. So I look around, knowing that 3.5 has just come out, and I'm...

But it ain't that large... I often spend my lunchtime on wednesdays in that very Farmer's Market, as do many of the people I work with. But luckily, today I had a hankering for a hamburger, and as I was driving back to my office, I wondered what all the sirens and helicopters were about...

Maybe you should start calling it OCD&D?

I work in the entertainment industry, and though I shouldn't be surfing the net, I also have to work long hours for little pay... So I think it evens out in the end. Doc

I've never used a Push spell to knock the Norse god Thor off of a very tall wall, killing him.

The WotC store in Santa Monica has smushed all of their RPGs into a single shelf unit stuck way in the back of the store. If you are looking for anything besides WotC stuff, you probably won't find it there. I don't even bother going there anymore, even though it is mere blocks from where I...

Woo-hooo! Sounds like that Gnomish Kama Sutra we've all been clamoring for is about to become a reality. "And we call this position 'The Lazy Mind-Flayer and the Jolly Aboleth'... No, stretch your tentacles just a litlle more..." Doc

Everybody complains about how 'cumbersome mathwise' the HERO system is, but here is the truth: The only time you need to use a calculator in HERO is during character creation. Once you have the characters made, no math is needed, other than checking if you hit or doing damage. And really, most...

Steve Rogers was basically a 98 pound weakling before he got the Super Soldier Serum, and it was an instant transformation. Over time, the Serum's effects have fluctuated (depending on different writers), but his powers are basically at the same level now as they were in 1941. Doc

Personally, I think it should be held in either Los Angeles or Anaheim, rather than San Diego. San Diego already has one world class convention... the Comic-Con. As there is a bit of a crossover between comic book fans and gamers, it might force people to choose attendance of one over the other...

Not much. Although he is an award winning game designer, and has sold countless copies... he works doing Quality Assurance. Sad, huh? (BTW, that's 'sad' as in 'how unfair that someone so creative has to be relegated doing busywork because his higher ups won't give him a chance to do what he...

I hear that the judges love "Leet Speak"... you are sure to win if you do the whole thing in that.

Ya know, they have an ointment now that'll clear that right up... Doc

In some ways, that's how it used to be. TV actors would sometimes crossover to being box office draws, but you'd almost never see someone cross back to TV after a successful movie career. In the past couple years, however, this line has blurred. Geena Davis had a failure of a TV show, while all...

Not to worry; LA is having one of its driest years in awhile, and Thomas lives in a second floor apartment. Unless a biblical-quality flood happens, I think it'll be safe. (And if one of those happens, we've got bigger things to worry about than water damage on some gaming stuff...) Doc

And knowing Thomas (which I do), I can guarantee that he's going to want to snap up some of the choice items to fill his collection (and give you proper recompense for it, of course). In fact, I'm sure that was one of his main reasons for doing this. And I can also pretty much guarantee that...

I've encountered situations where the person who most wanted the leadership role was also the person least qualified for it. Some were in it only for themselves, and didn't care about the other players' enjoyment; others were great people, but just didn't have the personal charisma to pull it...