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So what was the verdict on playing today? My social director has some activities outlined that she would like me to take part in. But I wasn't sure if we were really playing or not.

The Clark family cape project

I might actually be able to make it on Saturday. Let me check with the social director. But I'm not working. I'm not going to New Albany and I don't have a cape to make for my son's school play. And a 4th level character sounds more interesting than a first.

Well, that is really an apples and oranges sort of question. Every class in 4e has powers. However powers come from different sources, divided by character class. For example, a fighter and a wizard both have the same number of first level at-will, encounter and daily powers. However the...

Well, to the positive, it appears that everyone will have something to do in every fight. Your bread and butter attacks are usable at-will. So there will be a lot less of "well, I used my really cool thing once today already." And there are a lot of hit points at early levels, so you don't...

We tried a little 4th edition last night and I had some initial thoughts. Caveats: This was our first attempt. I didn't know the rules outside of the abbreviated version that came with the adventure. We started late, only had two encounters and there was lots of rule-book-flipping going on, so...

It sounds interesting. I have a bunch of Vince's Planescape stuff, should it be needed.

Really, I don't think that political cartoons, such as those on an editorial page, have the same intent or purpose as the "joke" cartoons on the comics page. The form is similar, sure, but the mission is entirely different. An editorial cartoon is meant to sway a reader's opinion on a topic of...

Yeah, I picked up the three core books. I haven't really full digested them. But I would like to try the system out some day. I'm really feeling pretty disengaged with this version of D&D. I remember being excited about 3e and 3.5e. For 4e, I still remain blah. I never really understood the...

Thanks Bob. I was pretty underwhelmed by the Traveller 4th edition rules we tried a few years back, but apparently the "new" Mongoose rules are either the classic rules or a very close approximation of them. I have several iterations: Classic, New Era, 4th edition, T20 and a bunch of the GURPS...

Sounds like fun (and this isn't until the end of January, not THIS Saturday)

I just don't see a lot of hope for America. We have two increasingly hostile camps who can't even agree upon the basic definition of common words, let alone choose an agreed upon set of facts from which they can proceed to argue policy opinions. And no matter who gets elected, I don't see it...

NPR had a really good piece back in May on how we got to where we are: Link I haven't actually listened to it, but read the 20 page transcript. Eye-opening stuff.

Sure. It may be better than doing nothing. But is it better than taking the time to figure out what the right thing is and then doing the right thing, whatever that may be? I say "No." My analogy of the day. You are cooking in the kitchen and a fire breaks out. Do you just grab the first thing...

Short answers. And a caveat that I haven't read the most recent version of the legislation, so I don't know how much better the dead fish smells than it did when it was first dropped last week: 1) It is bad governance. As originally proposed it was a blank check. With no oversight. To a bunch...

The weirdest thing about this bailout, is that the extreme right (Pence), Libertarians (Paul) and extreme left (say, me) all oppose this bailout. Each group opposes it for completely separate reasons and has diametrically opposed views on what should be done instead, but if there is enough...

I would love to know how they were misinterpreted. Seriously. Maybe I took it the wrong way because I am sort of a narcissist when it comes to criticism, always assuming someone means ME when they throw a generic criticism out. I truly believe that any of our recent players, would make it to...

And all that being said, I have had a lot of fun playing Conan and other games that Vince has run. Despite my generally "blah" feeling about my as-yet-unplayed character, If I could have made the games recently, I would have, but between my dad's frequent hospital visits and GenCon, I have just...

Sure, there are alternate days. I don't know what might fit into everyone's schedule, but I would be open for a week night. Honestly, that would probably work best for me, since most of my weekends have been spent on I-65 back and forth to New Albany (as I am this weekend.) Switching to another...

Well, we certainly wouldn't want to politicize presidential campaigns that call out D&D players... Maybe we can file a TOS complaint against the McCain campaign.