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I just saw the movie yesterday and it's right up (down?) there as one of the worst superhero movies I've ever seen.

Same here. I wonder what's going on with the updates thing. :) I'm glad you're still enjoying it. "Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage." I'm a drama guy, with emphasis on the Renaissance and esp. Shakespeare, but I dislike over-specialization so I tend to do things in other areas too...

Thanks. I'd prefer to just reveal it when we get to that part of the story. 6 more sessions to go.

Let's just say - yes :) And here (surprise, surprise) is an update: * * * * * * * * * * Some time later, and far, far away… Honar sits across a table from the Angels, with two men beside him. One of them is heavily muscled and bearded, with the hilt of a large sword protruding above the back...

Not ... exactly :)

If by writing you mean grading and working on my dissertation, then it's going great :p As for playing, we hit a, ahem ... climactic moment and are currently taking a break from this campaign and playing a 4e Eberron game for a while. And I actually started on the next writeup this week, so...

Besides the fact that practicality (at least for me) seems a strange thing to actually rank above fairness, equality or justice, that's a pretty short-sighted type of "cold hard practicality". A similar argument was used when blacks were being introduced into the US military, with many claiming...

In which case, why try to tell them how their PCs should act in the game, as your posts are doing? Why the gender distinction? Are you particularly interested in maimed and dead males? Why is that even relevant? Being maimed, presumably, is a problem for a man just as much as for a woman...

I definitely think it's a cultural stereotype issue. Sexism always is. Ye gods, that's a lot of gender stereotypes in there. One can call it all the things you did, but hiding it under the guise of being old-fashioned doesn't make it any the less sexist. I'm all for people gaming in their own...

I agree with them (and pawsplay). It's ludicrous how skewed miniatures tend to be in sex, and not just there but with regard to how they are often clothed. Obviously it's not the only factor, but I think it's just one more of the reasons why a number of women who might otherwise quite enjoy D&D...

I don't just mention it to my class. I bring in my dice and use it to choose subjects and speakers and other things during group discussions. My students love it!

You should never play this class called the wizard then. Its words do damage. And not just damage. It rattles off some gobbledygook and people catch fire or are blasted with energy, clouds of smoke are created, the ground is covered with ice, the wizard flies through the air, etc. It's the...

Whether risk is part of the game or not depends on how you define risk. As far as I'm concerned, for example - what risk? If the player can just roll up a new character, there's no risk to the player. Perhaps the risk of not getting to play a certain character as long as they wanted to, but...

I haven't awarded XP in years, and out of the DMs I play with (currently 5, between tabletop and online) only 1 still uses XP. That involves a lot of different groups and players, and all of them seem to have benefited from dropping XP. Not only does it make things easier for the DMs, allowing...

Last session in our 4e game, where the PCs reached the culmination of their competition with an NPC playwright-cum-gladiatorial-arena-owner, whom they had challenged to a play-off. They wrote and performed a play, while he was doing the same, and the creators of the better play won (and got a...

I'm firmly in the "no XP" camp and don't see any real benefit to including it in the game. Plus [tongue-in-cheek] it's just so videogamey! PCs grinding their way through session after session, collecting every imaginary brownie point that they can, all so that they can hit the next level and...

I just wanted to pop back in and post that the session took place last night and was a roaring success. Apparently a number of the players had been a little concerned that it would be boring or fall flat, but there was lots of fun to be had. The PCs' play won, they made at least one and possibly...

I'd actually recommend talking to your players, not so much about whether they're having fun or not but whether they prefer clear objectives and an obvious large overarching plot as opposed to the more sandbox feel that you currently have going on. And make your decision based on their...

Well, there was this one time when the PCs took the mutilated (i.e. armless and legless) body of a former PC, stuffed him (and his orifices) with fireworks, and threw him at the enemy who had killed him (or so they thought) to make a point. That was kinda special.

Any time. I get a lot of entertainment out of all the weird stuff my group does, so I figure I should share the wealth.