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  1. fredramsey

    Looking for advice from parents: Gaming with baby

    My group has a baby as well. In fact, he has influenced the outcome of dice rolls, while still in the womb. It seemed rubbing the dice on the mother's belly made the rolls come out better (only dad and mom did this ;) ) The only "problem" now is the occasional crying fit (how can something...
  2. fredramsey

    GMs, why are *you* doing the GMing in your group?

    I enjoy GMing. I consider myself a good player, as far as figuring things out and using tactics, but there's always my inner GM that wants to step in and exert control. So it's a bit of both, really.
  3. fredramsey

    What's "rules light" to you?

    I feel there is no objective way to define Rules-Lite. Way too subjective. It is more like a spectrum, with many different shades.
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    Sorry - I think the point was missed...

    (long) First of all, I'd like to apologize, not to anyone in particular, for my previous tone. Sometimes I am far too sensitive to statements that sound like someone is saying, "You are playing a game of Let's Pretend wrong." That irks me to no end, but it also does not do me or anyone else any...
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    Sorry - I think the point was missed...

    To each his own.
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    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    Watch out with that logic, there, you might hurt someone ;)
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    Sorry - I think the point was missed...

    Oh, please. Let's be reminded, in his own words: My opinion is that most people think "rules lite" games are simpler and better because they desperately want them to be, not because they are. How can anyone, in good conscious, not take that as an insulting statement? Desperately? Just because...
  8. fredramsey

    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    My apologies. I used your post to rant on what I feel I have seen in others. No insult intended.
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    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    Not the current version, but amazingly, the old version. And so what if that is how "business works"? What's your motive here? Why, when I read your posts (and those of the other so-called "free-market" people, do I get the distinct impression that it pisses you off that people buy from their...
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    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    It means that because of those two very limiting factors, a negative will not be statistically significant. Which is fine, unless proving that no one owns their own building is the goal. It doesn't even really qualify to say it's rare, even. Not a big enough nor varied enough sample, that's all...
  11. fredramsey

    Do you like D&D?

    If it were presented in that spirit, I would agree. However, the bold part of your statement below defies good sense, IMO. Perhaps if you had added, "to that person" it would have made sense.
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    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    A hundred. And those are all on a particular website. Ok.
  13. fredramsey

    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    Have at it. No one is telling you what to do. I just don't think Wal-Mart is going to carry Burning Wheel, or CoC, for that matter. :cool:
  14. fredramsey

    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    Ok, it was a not-so-subtle dig on GW. ;) But, it is BIG at my FLGS, and we have a master painter that displays his stuff in a glass case that is at eye level when you come in the front door. I'm sure that has helped. I choose to shop there, but I'll be the first to admit I spend (and have it...
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    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    My FLGS is packed every weekend with Magic players and Pokemon. I'm certain that helps things out a lot. As does the high price of GW stuff. ;)
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    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    He was responding to this: Attackers usually get it back in spades. Hard to resist, really. ;)
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    What is your primary game system?

    Jesus saves. Feints... passes to Moses... get's the rebound... SCORES! :p
  18. fredramsey

    Interesting Ryan Dancey comment on "lite" RPGs

    As finished as anyone who has tried to "push a chain" can be. :p
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    Interesting Ryan Dancey comment on "lite" RPGs

    You know, you've managed to tire me out. And all it took you was to say the same thing, over and over and over again, with no proof. Have you considered a job in talk radio? An interview show on Fox News? Because man, you're good. / for the sarcasm impaired OD&D and everything that came after...
  20. fredramsey

    What makes a good RPG product review?

    Don't be overly biased. Now, it is impossible for any human being to be completely unbiased, so if you like/dislike the product being reviewed, of course you should say so. But don't make that the biggest feature of the review. If I wanted to hear how much the reviewer hated the product, I'd ask...
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