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Wow, I'm surprised at some of the responses against DM house-ruling. I always, always, always make it clear at the start of a game that, save information in the PHB, the players should never rely on any assumptions outside of what they understand in-game. Usually with the example: "The color of...

Tell the players to suck it up and deal with it. You're running the game, it's your job to interpret the rules. Do you interrupt in the middle of a game and say "Todd, your character wouldn't say that! And I think Toddric should have more of a Welsh accent. You're doing it all wrong." I'm...

While I agree with your first assertion (that they are different modes of describing the universe -- art/culture is another), I don't think disagreeing necessarily means that one or the other is "wrong." For one thing, the whole notion of equivalence that allows them to "disagree" in the first...

Did you happen to hear this in a Visual Arts class at UCSD, circa 2000? I had a TA bring up this "research", and later admit (in private) he just thought it was a cool idea, and wanted to see if we'd believe him... I haven't ever heard of it existing elsewhere (although the cactus-needle thing...

Shavah shrugs, becoming visibly embarrassed as Aerda overhears. "'Bad omen' was a bad choice of words... Forgive me. I was merely commenting on your, ah, demeanor." She clenches her whole face, it seems. "We've been short on levity for a while now, understand. You came in a bit too soon and...

"'shmael! Thee thine thou'st 'n so forth, eh?" He snorts as the halfling chides him for his wardrobe malfunction. "Vexin' 'ound Shawggi ran out from unner me, 'n tore me trousers out from unnerneath. 'ere's some errand-lad 'round 'ere somewhere, must be." He calls out loud: "'ny lad want'n...

"Oi! Any what ye wags know tailorin' folk o' good repute, roun' 'ere?" The terrible noise comes from a dwarf, standing at the doorway. He is wearing no pants. "Big ole 'ound stole me trousers," he explains. He walks, achingly, up to the bar, although his attention is directed towards anyone...

(OOC Thread has updated XP -- Raven did not level, though Fendric, Niccolo, and Nurthk did... Oh, and WELCOME BACK! by the way.) Shavah follows Raven out, her mood remaining on the positive side. She sits next to the hunter, cheeks exceptionally expressive, asks for a double-order of whatever...

OoC: I was just waitin' for the drinking contest. I'll just assume Sturm won, and spent his prize on beatin' people up.

You know, I think I've actually gone the reverse of most people -- I'm just now starting to play characters older than myself. When I first started playing, I was just barely 18... It made more sense to start a character between the 16-18 region, cause it was fresh in my memory, something I'd...

Nurthk and Astrule both notice (as will anyone else who beats DC 20, I should mention): As much as Hiritus is avoiding Fendric, he's also avoiding Shavah... She seems to be following along, as well, being quite directly friendly to everyone but him. (OOC: I'm quite curious to see what the hawk...

Three years really ain't that long. I definitely think the "comic books to movies" analogy is good -- that is, pen-and-paper systems (and modules) will be translated more and more to point-and-click... It's been a clunky transition thus far, but there are two things working in its favor...

I just want to point out that that capital punishment, anti-abortion rallies, and bullfighting can all be construed as terrorism by this definition. This definition is a bit more robust, but I'd like to point out that by its standards, the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki were more definitely...

I hate to say it, but if I were you, I'd ban minors from my gaming group as quickly and quietly as possible. If that meant I couldn't have a gaming group, so be it. There's always PbP, you know? I know, it's not right or fair or anything like that, but sometimes pragmatism just has to prevail...

Hiritus seems quite visibly relieved at Fendric's suggestion of rest, doing his best to herd any stragglers up toward the rooms. Shavah is the worst of it; it seems that she's sobered up enough to enter that intentionally-comical stage of intoxication -- just drunk enough to want to keep up the...

Vendetta: Spot just got filled by a former player... I should have mentioned that here; it's pretty evident to all the current players, so I forgot it would go unnoticed by prospective ones who came across the thread. Tempted to open up a seventh spot, as I hate turning down a player :) but...

Active. Wrapping up an adventure.

(OOC: IIRC Aerda was actually the one who first met Nurthk, although it was brief and understandable that you may have forgotten/Nurthk may have not recognized him.) Hiritus takes a moment to read Fendric's reaction, then slowly begins to grin. The water-drinking knight, meanwhile, shuffles...

Alev, on the other hand, would think of it as stitching together. Put them in the same apartment, and you have a hilarious new sitcom!

(First, XP: 3000 for each of you. And then we move forward...) At the conclusion of Shavah's story, punctuated by a flash of something feathery out from the balcony, the water-sipping knight finally seems to become aware of your attention. "If you'll excuse me," he announces, to no one in...