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I've gotten a whole lot more relaxed and less anxious since I was forced to unplug Cable TV. Without the daily doses of gloom, doom, and anxiety that the "news" peddles in a desperate attempt to climb in the ratings, I've found that life is a lot less stressful.

It could also be Hasbro-style management practices taking hold. Hasbro managers understand boardgames. They don't understand roleplaying games. So there's likely a push to make D&D more boardgame like, so that Hasbro's managers can use profitability check tools designed for boardgames on the...

Hasbro understands boardgames. Hasbro does not understand roleplaying games. Therefore, to make the products comprehensible to Hasbro exectutives, WotC will likely turn D&D into a board game over time.

I'm not going to comment on the bit about "being on the computer too much". Second, if she were really interested in limiting the girl's access to the internet, which seems to be the main point, I'd uninstall the "time limit" software and go to the router. You can set access times for each...

"to prevent a bypass on limit software." What does *this* mean? Are you proposing to run this tool as part of an installation process for a program you've written and are attempting to sell? If so, please tell me what the product is so that I know never to buy it. I have serious issues with...

Hero System: Brainlock: 3d6 NND (defense is being in a faraday cage or having Electrical Control powers of your own), Indirect. Just as one example.

All of them and none of them? The most story-oriented is probably Amber Diceless Roleplaying, which simply minimizes the mechanics of the characters and removes the randomness of the dice, thus forcing the players to be more descriptive and imaginative during play. It depends heavily on there...

I played in a rather short lived Hero system conversion of Judge's Guild 'City State of the Invincible Overlord' D&D setting. I suppose that would count. Of course, your question also begs another question: "What do you mean by Dungeons and Dragons fantasy?" Is that Greyhawk? Is that Forgotten...

HERO system is the old Champions.

Ooh, that's bad... I mean, perfectly bad. The well-written kind of perfectly bad that almost makes sense until you reread it. Plus, there's automatic character death in boxed text, or automatic character insertion and then death in boxed text...

Or, you're loading the DVD in "upside down" from the point of view of the drive. Some drives want to see the DVD shiny side up. Even these days.

Twenty of twenty, five times in a row.

I remember a Living Greyhawk module; The adventure was actually a fairly good one. Find out what's causing the disturbances and disappearances in this relatively remote and normally peaceful community. But. In boxed text. The writer of the module made the mistake of naming the specific kind of...

I don't know about you, but I've had dozens, possibly even hundreds of pieces of software I've used over the years, most of it released commercially. Very little of that software crashed or was completely unusable on Release Day, and those that were were quickly discarded in favor of software...

On the contrary: I might understand that there are bugs in a program, and I understand that some of them are unavoidable. However, I *expect* that software is stable when released commercially, regardless of the kind of software it is. Most software released commercially *is* stable, or it...

Let him play but don't be swayed. If he starts complaining and making strong suggestions that the group should play "his way", then dump him; tell him frankly that he's being disruptive and that you're just not willing to tolerate it.

I got into MMOs from tabletop gaming, because I couldn't find a group... so I joined NeverWinter Nights on AOL. Then Dark Sun Online on TEN before TEN turned into an "adult entertainment" site... Then Star Wars Galaxies, and Dungeons and Dragons Online when it launched for a few months, and...

There's two kinds of cursed items. One kind is the subtle curse that the players may never realize is there, like the old "-1 Shield of Missile Attracting." It was a +1 shield vs. melee weapons, but the moment something was thrown or fired at the character, it turned into a detriment. When the...

That didn't change between editions. Once you'd actually gotten to higher level in your new class, you could use the skills of your old class pretty much without restriction.

Or there's the way I'd interpret it. "Thrice Three."