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I have never put money on a lottery, except $1 once in an office pool. It's stupid. I can understand betting money at a Casino, or at the horse track. You don't have much chance of coming out ahead there, either, but at least it can provide a bit of fun. But picking numbers on a piece of...

In the early '80s I mostly played. Then I mostly GM'd until around 1990 or so. Then I dropped out of gaming for over ten years. When I got into D&D again three + years ago I was too rusty to GM, so I was exclusively a player for awhile. Now I'm turning into a GM again.

The shipments to the game stores must have been on a different truck. I picked up a copy of 139 at my local shop a few weeks ago. So if you can't wait to get your hands on one, try there.

Wow! I'm surprised by two things - how broad the curve is, and the way it peaks way back in 1979-80 when I started playing. Guess I'm not such an old fogie after all!

I was dissapointed that they didn't call their role playing game "A Song of Dice and Fire." I figured that if it was anything like Martin's series, The GM's guide would be 900 pages long, and I would have to wait five years for the player's manual to come out...

Why would I want to be "bribed?" If I did not enjoy GMing in and of itself, I would not GM. My enjoyment comes from using my creative abilities to entertain friends during a few hours of comraderie.

I voted "other." I am assuming that I would be a very talented professional GM with a strong enough reputation to convince people to pay to be entertained at my table, and that I would be charging the players directly. I'd charge per person and therefore the per hour take depends on the...

I was going to post this on Kenzer & Co's (makers of Hackmaster, publishers of KODT) forum, but Enworld is much bigger and seems to have participation from a wider segment of the industry... In the Knights of the Dinner Table (KODT) comic #116, June '06, on a panel on the bottom of page 22...

Mine came from a character in G.R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series. No personal resemblence, just thought he was an interesting character with an interesting moniker.

I've been playing (testing) at a website devoted to an online persistant "living" game (not yet open). For me, nothing can compare to an evening around the table with friends, but online is still fun, and when the gaming group isn't around (or your not around them) its the only choice. Quality...

The link to the marketing research article in the first post no longer works. The old Enworld post that it links to is there, but the link in that post goes to a missing page. Is the article online anywhere else, or does anyone have a copy?

You perhaps need not look further than Reality itself. In Syracuse, New York, there is a microbrewery called the Middle Ages Brewing Company (http://www.middleagesbrewing.com/) that puts out brews with names like "Impaled Ale," "Grail Ale," "Beast bitter," "Druid Fluid," "Ye Olde Kilt Tilter,"...

My first gaming convention was Simcon III at the University of Rochester. 1980 I think. The thing that stood out about it is that I only stayed 5 minutes, before I had to leave town. I was only visiting the University, you see, and stumbled upon it while walking through the lobby of a building...

Glyfair's reply reminded me of something that I always used to do in one shots during cons. In order to give the pre-generated PCs "instant personalities" I put a note on each character sheet stating that the character had a personality similar to character X from a popular TV show or movie...

This cries out for a Shoggoth or two (See if you can find a copy of the story "At the Mountains of Madness" by Lovecraft. Skip to near the end).

All the books I've read on medieval European society tell how peasants lived in villiages near their lord's manor or castle, tilled his land, and gave so much of their produce to the Lord. Thus the countryside was presumably dotted with many small villiages and keeps/manors/small castles...

Actually, no. It was a series of water wheels with some kind of scoops on the outside, one above the other along a diagonal. A slave would stand inside each one and power it by walking like a hampster in a big wheel.

"Not very deep" probably meant a few hundred feet below ground. I saw a special on the History Channel a few days ago that showed an ancient Roman water pump that archeologists found. It allowed the Romans to get water out of a mine from a depth of 300+ feet. That was considered impressive...

Personally, I have never sketched out more than the most important areas of a town or city (main square, area around the Inn, market, etc.) and left the rest as big white areas that say things like "residential section", "rough section of town" etc., then make up stuff on the fly if players want...

I selected "5". I incorporate all of the standard D&D magic and fantastic monsters, but I like my societies to be gritty medieval European affairs with lots of dirty and oppressed peasants, marauding knights, ambitious clerics, and boorish nobles who eat with their fingers and spend their time...