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"N-word" wasn't the name, but that was their fake Star Frontiers.

It's really not, except inasmuch that it's all "playing the game", and we're all on a continuum. Every one of us. Somewhere down at one end of extreme optimization is the guy who wants to play Pun-Pun in an actual game. And somewhere at the extreme opposite end is the guy who for the lulz...

Wut? I'm revising history, Stalin-style, if I suggest that people who think "optimizer" is a pejorative might be doing so due to associations with the "Character Optimization" forum which spawned Pun-Pun? I didn't spend a lot of time in those forums specifically because the average level of...

It may help to note that historically (to my recollection), "munchkin" originated in the early 80s as a pejorative nickname to refer specifically to young players who had no experience in grown-up wargaming/sci-fi/RPG culture and this had not acculturated to its norms and were frequently...

I think this is leaning a bit into prescriptivism, to be fair. I tend to agree that in my experience there is a difference between optimization and breaking the rules/munchkining, but I have to concede that these definitions are not universal. The origin of Pun-Pun was the WotC 3E and 3.5...

'Struth. "Vagabond". ;)

I think you're excluding the middle. It's at least partly an advert, and should be a showcase for the awesome things the game does better than/differently from D&D.

That's wild. Rock follicles? :LOL:

I did manage to get back in last night. Dumbbell bench, dumbbell behind-the-head skull crushers, dumbbell seated inclined curls, and dumbbell lateral raises, three sets of each plus a few drop sets to extend them. It felt good to get back, and the temperature seems to have broken a bit today...

Well, every now and then I DO kick the living s*** outta me. Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk?

Yeah, it's tricky. Ideally the players should learn the rules and know what the heck they're doing. OTOH, quite a lot of our players in real life don't do that, so playing with those kind of players is showing off an extremely common use-case.

Quick selfie at a local Irish pub for a punk show recently. Burly Girlies and The Worst were both amazing.

That does look pretty.

I got a shipment notice three days ago, but it hasn't shown yet.

This heat wave has been death to my motivation, and I was up late both nights over the weekend, so I have not made it back to the gym since the 18th. Which feels crappy. OTOH I have been willing myself to continue the daily PT exercises regardless; I think I skipped one day after being up...

Love this whole post. This bit jumped out at me though.... In my last campaign the party found an undead-slaying sword and I gave it a similar detection ability, although that sword glowed at all times, so I had the brightness double (from a 15' radius light to 30') when within 60' and LOE of...

-3! ;)

My brother's birthday was over the weekend, and I got a few of our friends together to run a D&D one shot on Friday night. I decided to try out Shadowdark, and the Wavestone Monolith module which Bryce had praised and is available free online. We had a great time, and I resisted my urges to...