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Ah, a refreshing commentary. Thank you for paying my little effort such flattering attention. You indeed deserve a considered reply. I'm imagining that Solong secretly wrote the Iliad, not the Aeneid which was just an amateurish rip-off of his work, if ever there was one. It wasn't even in the...

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods ...

Yup. :]

As they relaxed on the magic carpet on the way back to meet Clone Fu, Hermione chatted to Solong. "It must be tough, being Archon all the time," she suggested sympathetically. "All that law-making and so on." "Oh, I've hardly got started." 1 "What do you do for κέφι ? Solong sat up and became...

Throg and Hermione followed their noses and found the fish market eventually. Oddly, as well as fish, the venue seemed to involve oratory. A man was standing on a stack of upturned fish boxes declaiming poetry in an odd sort of sing-song way, as if the rules of metre were just getting started...

They hovered the magic carpet over ancient Athens, having evaded the thunderbolts flung at them by the gods as they flew over Mount Olympus on the way, and wondered where to land. There seemed to be a building site on the flat top of a large hill in the centre of the city so they put down there...

High on a hill was a lonely flounce herd, etc. etc. "Wake up, you lot," said Clone Fu. "We've got a job for you. I take it you still have the magic carpet?" "Er, yes, probably," said Throg, who wasn't at all pleased at being disturbed and was considering going passive aggressive but wasn't...

The aim of the game is to have fun. It may be easy or hard to have fun, depending on the people you are playing with, but it's not a function of the game rules unless they are so complex or onerous that merely operating the game becomes a major preoccupation that is too much like hard work to be...

Guys, there is a crisis looming. Having fun is one thing but this thread is currently #2 on 502 laughs and the #1 is Gary Gygax's thread on 506. Another five laugh-with-this-posts and we break his record. Do we seriously want to go down in history as collectively more fun than GG, or should we...

If you hold the picture upside down, it looks like one of those weird fish you see swimming around, about 4 miles down in ocean trenches.

Moonsong's sockpuppet ignored everything that had gone before and concentrated on the here and now. "I am," it declared in pink writing, "therefore existentialism exists." This caused the insane Bar De Door, already having difficulty with the concept of being a bar in a bar, to regret ever...

I thought all dungeons were like this. Have I been doing it wrong?

... because fish jokes? Look, can we just get on with this game? Make a damage roll. That's a six-sided dace. I can do worse than that ...

I say, I say, I say, Spiton, what's your favourite Oxford tavern? What's my favourite Oxford tavern? What's your favourite Oxford tavern? The Bard and Baby. Is that an inn joke? BoBoom! Trainger ... Sorry, Sir. Take a hundred lines, boy. "Puer sed non puerilis". Yes, Sir. Thank you...

Satisfied with his Belt of The Crayon, The Two's thoughts turned to that evening's D&D session. After the recent disastrous TPK, they would all be rolling up new characters. "Have you thought what class you want to play this time?" he asked 4T. "I was thinking Cleric, or maybe Druid," she...

You know, I've just re-read the first 17 pages of this thread and it's quite amazing the way people's posts there foreshadowed so much of what was to come later. There are subtle references to all kinds of ideas that were not going to have been seen again for maybe hundreds of posts, and yet...

Throg The Two, so called because his elder brother had been Throg The One, looked carefully at the bar of soap. He gazed thoughtfully at the ceiling. He peered carefully under the bar. He looked at his glass of lemonade and noted that the suds floating on top had formed into a smiley face. He...

The Machine of Lum the Madder was confused. All of its mortal enemies lay dead on the battlefield, flattened by an inexplicable cataclysm that had left it miraculously unscathed. "Talk about rolling a double 20," it thought to itself, "That was a double 20 in spades." Nothing now stood in the...

Fun is when everybody laughs. So far, the "Laugh with this post" score for this thread is .... zero. This thread is no fun at all. Whose responsibility is that? Everyone, including me, now that I've posted in it. What does this tell you? What does it tell all of us? That we are all taking the...