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I'm still on the first chapter of Shared Fantasy (just reading casually on lunch breaks so far), but there's a great bit talking about the APA zines, and Gygax's feuds with them, with a Gary quote I don't remember reading before, expanding on and clarifying the venom he expressed in a famous The...

To my understanding Bledsaw does sell on Amazon and/or eBay and may use at least one alternative business name. I have a vague memory of someone in this thread or a related one mentioning that they sought out and purchased a copy of a JG book on one of those sites with the intention of getting...

You work in a restaurant at present, I gather?

Agreed. I don't think we have much data on how common archers sniping people in shield wall combat was historically, so much as we have data that in mass battles archers and melee-focused troops tended to be segregated a bit in different units (at least until later, with stuff like pike & shot...

I agree that he fit in very well. I liked the movie a lot and laughed out loud several times, though it came off a bit slight on first viewing. Missing the amount of emotional depth and pathos of his best works. But I suspect it'll reward re-watching, and I'm a little more enthused to do so...

I suspected as much. :)

I hiked a few miles Monday evening after wrecking my legs on Sunday, resulting in my calves complaining for two days and my quads for three. Got back to the gym last night and it wasn't crowded (didn't have folks waiting for benches), so I did circuits on a single bench. Dumbbell bench...

The conditioning needed for fighting in armor is no joke. I know several folks from The Knights Hall in Nashua, and tried out soft kit sparring last year (regular helmet, though). I remember sucking wind and how badly I needed to get the helmet off after a single 3 minute round going at it with...

Yes, IME players cheating on rolls was a much bigger topic of concern back in the day. I still occasionally encountered it with younger players into the 2000s. Gary explicitly endorses the DM fudging rolls in the 1979 DMG, in the interest of a more fun session. The specific example I'm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_fountain Calling it a pop fountain makes sense in the areas where "pop" is the predominant term over "soda". Here where soda is the term, it's still a soda fountain. . :LOL: What term do you use for this machine?

Yup. Soda fountain is IME in the US the standard term for the mixer/dispenser of "fountain drinks" (as opposed to bottled), especially at fast food restaurants. The single-nozzle hose device used at bars is a "soda gun" or "bar gun". The Coca-Cola Freestyle machines are also a variety of soda...

For me it's another area where I feel like 2E lets down new DMs by not giving clear guidance. It prioritizes "you can do it however you want" over teaching how to run the game and then offering variations to try once you have the baseline. Of course, there may have really been no consensus...

Finished this yesterday. It's good, overall. There's details Flint doesn't get into because he doesn't want to offend, and clearly some stuff is a little skewed by his perspective, but as a memoir about working in Hollywood in the 80s it gives a really good glimpse. Especially if you have...

Looks great. Could be up there with 1978.

Here "soft drink" is usually an umbrella term for non-alcoholic beverages in general (alcoholic beverages, of course, are "hard drinks") . For example, the "soft drinks" section of a menu will commonly feature soda, seltzer, juice, and maybe milk, depending on the restaurant and what kind of...