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I lived in Japan for a year (and I'm actually just about to go back for at least another year!). Over there, there's a really strong 'shoes off' culture, to the extent that many restaurants (especially more traditional Japanese places), karaoke places, some doctors' offices, and many other...

I wouldn't want to do it, especially if I knew for certain that the guy coming out the other end was just a copy of me and didn't have my consciousness. Here's a further question - What if a loved one went through the machine. In effect, they'd still be the same person. They'd have all the same...

An encounter on an encounter table doesn't always have to mean that the PCs fight. It could just mean that the PCs encounter some kind of tracks or something the cultists dropped on the ground, they could hear or see them in the distance, or they could meet them on the road but the cultists are...

Even if you refluff the monk to get rid of all the Eastern flavour (very easy to do), you're still probably going to be stuck playing a character with high wisdom, which not everyone wants to do...

I've often wondered why spears didn't have the DEX option. It seems like there's a pretty strong archetype for the dancey, flippy, acrobatic spear-wielder, like Prince Oberyn in GoT and Prince Nuada in Hellboy 2 (I guess Princes have a thing for spears?).

This is a nice piece of work! You can reverse image search in Google images. I would say that in general you should always credit the artist or just don't use their work.

Organ donation should be an opt-out rather than an opt-in scheme, i.e. you specifically have to say that you don't want your organs donated after you die. I think there are a lot of people who would be happy for their organs to be used but haven't gotten around to signing up to it yet, and then...

Bollocks = Rubbish, nonsense, etc. The dog's bollocks = The very best!

If a player is especially quiet in social parts of the game then maybe you need to reframe your perception of their character. There are so many archetypes out there for quiet characters, so many examples in pop culture and literature that I really don't think it's much of a stretch of the...

spinozajack: You stated in your post that you don't play Pictionary because you don't enjoy it but those quiet players who are playing D&D, and continue to play in spite of the fact that they don't open up in the social segments of the game are presumably still enjoying being involved in the...

spinozajack: You present quite a simplistic version of what it is to have social anxieties. It's really not as easy as just 'trying' to make a contribution for a lot of people (that's kind of an offensive way of putting it to be honest), it can be a very physical response where no matter what...

By the way, Free Comic Book Day is only free for the consumer. The stores actually have to buy all those comics they're giving away. It's good for them because it increases footfall but they still have to invest into it. I don't know how Free RPG Day works but it's worth considering before...

Yeah I'll pop into WH Smith at lunch to see if they've got it!

I totally agree with you, but I'm sure there are also a lot of people like me out there who love to roleplay their characters but who are holding back out of shyness. For me, being spoken to directly helps, being in a quiet room helps, not playing with overly dominant players helps. I wouldn't...

It's worth noting that what works for me might not work for everyone else. I can imagine that for some people, being engaged with directly might make them feel like they're being put on the spot and make things more difficult for them. Does anyone else have any ways of helping out quieter players?

spinozajack wrote a long post about players who don't really contribute to the social side of D&D in this thread. I started to write a reply and then I realised that this would start to derail the original thread so I thought I'd move it here. Hope you don't think I'm calling you out or singling...

Anything in here about miniature painting/converting?

I was in a game where the GM handed out magic gems that you could use to upgrade your mundane weapons. It was a while ago but I think you had to bring them to a weapon smith who would attach them to whatever weapon you chose. It's kind of a video-game way of doing it but it also means you don't...

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

'Oh yeah sorry, I didn't get round to making a character in the 2 weeks between us deciding to do this and today, I'll just make one quickly now.' *Proceeds to spend the next 40 minutes making a character and the 20 minutes after that making adjustments. I can guarantee that if you don't do...