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Anime, Degrees of Freedom, Warrior Culture Legacy Another poster commented that I was off topic. Judge for yourself, but I don't think so. I believe the topic is something like why do grognards have a bias against anime? First, I point out that anime has many degrees of freedom (a lot of...

I live in Houston. Anything that eats mosquitoes is a blessing not a nightmare.

An Analogy - culture and reality I've been playing since about 1978 and I'm glad a few posters have explained what anime was, since I'm not sure I ever had a name for the freaky cartoon kids with spiky hair carrying spiked chains jumping over trees on late night tv for a millisecond before I...

There are two design essays on the Wizards website that show that the mentality if not the rules of 4e are a bit more old school than 3.5e. The first is called Dungeon Design in 4e. Many grognard types point out that the gigantic stat blocks and obsessive "CR matching" in 3.5E logically...

SPOILERS BELOW DIFFICULTY. I do think that many of the classics were very difficult. There was much less fretting over whether something "was an appropriate threat." As a player, you felt a sense of accomplishment, if you merely survived Tomb of Horrors, the Giants/Drow series etc...

Castles and Crusades is basically 160 page 3e d&d with some of the 1e/basic spirit

A&8 at Third Planet I just saw it at Third Planet in Houston. One copy. It is in a brown covering. It is within five feet of where dragon and dungeon are. Hope that helps

There are many ways to play any alignment, including CN. One way is to become ID Boy. That's right, have a very low threshhold of self restraint. Want to smuggle some gems, sure why not. Want to uphold your promise and be generous, sounds great. Its because you want to, no external...

You can expect insightful summaries no doubt! There was just almost nothing to recommend the module (other than 1 interesting encounter) imho. There is no real plot - the whole is extremely linear. The monsters are mostly neither old classics nor new curveballs for the players. The treasure...

Dont buy it. It was a very very disappointing purchase.

The abominable snowman in bugs bunny. Drrrrr, which way did he go, which way did he go, did anyone see my little cleric of rao. I want to hug him and squeeze him and call him george

Elminster. Is that a pipe in your pocket?

...hell froze over

There is a semi-famous essay online called something like "putting the grey in hawk." Basically, from the ashes was generally flawed because it violated many of the internal dynamics of the setting. Having some wars or Iuz playing a practical joke on the barbarians to get them to invade some...

Aerie of the Crow God, Dragonfiend Pact, and the Temple of the Dragon Cult are the top three in my view.

go ghouls

I have to disagree wtih Erik about one thing. I really dont think that he is selling as much nostalgia as he thinks he is. Look, Im not interested in 'Return to Puppets.' Maure Castle and Isle of Dread were interesting long ago modules with interesting settings. Dungeon got good people to...

blimey, filthyIke is a traitor! Next think you know, he'll try to blow up Congress on Guy Fawlkes day. hey wait, that wouldnt be so bad. As usual, the Scots get short shrift -- despite their own parliament. Is there a scottish version? How about Canadian, eh? By the way PnP, I really dig...

colonel pladoh, the original 'cowboy dm'

just out of curiousity, is there really that meaningful a difference between proper (i mean US) English and British English? With devolution, will there be a Scottish English version?