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"But my clone is different."

Doesn't count as a deductible.

It really doesn't. The vast majority of citations in the ADDICT pdf are for the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Masters Guide. Most of the rest of them point to sources used in the examples of play. While it may be helpful to stress levels to give up on the DMG's elaboration of initiative in...

How did 1e AD&D initiative work? Convolutedly. If you distilled it down to just comparing d6s per side in the fight, you were golden. Otherwise, if you tried to incorporate everything, see this link: https://knights-n-knaves.com/dmprata/ADDICT.pdf

I'm not sure it would have been the easiest target, but I'm pretty certain it's one she didn't really understand or was pretty far outside of her own experience. And nothing attracts enmity like being "different".

I don't know that it would be Gary's edition vs Lorraine's edition, per se, as much as it's just Gary's edition. I'd be surprised if many people thought of 2e as Lorraine's edition - in fact, I'd probably think something was really wrong with them if they did. We always largely played a hybrid...

My sympathy hasn't increased for her, it has decreased. I have two girls - one of whom grappled pretty hard with suicide ideation a few years ago. It's nerve wracking to be in that position as a parent. But there's a gap between grabbing onto something erroneously as a cause of a child's suicide...

Sure, but we've been here before. I certainly remember feeling that we were really watching a full-on Avengers movie instead of a Captain America movie for Captain America: Civil War. From the standpoint of the superhero stories, no, we don't need Captain America to be an inherited title. But...

You should check out B. Dylan Hollis and the things he cooks on social media. He collected a bunch in this cookbook. https://sites.prh.com/baking-yesteryear Seriously, many of them are similarly weird recipes that sound absolutely awful, but many actually turn out pretty good. Edit: The text...

In News of the Weird moments, the last living GRANDchild (not great-grandchild or great-great-grandchild) of America's 10th president, John Tyler, who left office in 1845, has died. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, whose claim to fame is really that one oddball fact, passed away on May 25, 2025 - a little...

Nice! Order placed.

Well, OK then, heavily emphasizing more than noting. I'm not sure there's a bigger or more shocking blow than having made a major distribution deal that will enable getting into the big stores... and then having those stores drop the product a couple years later due to social backlash.

It's worth noting that some of the big store chains that had started stocking D&D stopped, almost certainly as a result of the Satanic Panic controversy. That narrowed D&D's reach into broader markets.

Steep Drift - Difficulty 3 maneuver.

It's simple. Follow along with this ironclad proof. Frogs play banjos (cite: Kermit the Frog) You cannot be sad or depressed or otherwise unhappy when playing a banjo. (cite: Steve Martin) QED

My wife knew it was the finale coming up, I looked and saw nine episodes in season one and thought "nah, can't be the finale already". So I think some people are going to be caught by surprise, but then, it's streaming so watching on release date isn't as important as old broadcast TV anyway...

I'm kind of struggling with what constituted "the community" Gygax exploded. If you're talking the RPG community - that didn't really exist before D&D - there were separate wargamer and sci-fi/fantasy communities that had member that were attracted to D&D and formed a D&D/RPG community. D&D...

I think you mean The Hidden Fortress. Throne of Blood is Macbeth.

I'm not sure there's any PR that redeems working with Nazis for a hobby market.