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I'm still gradually (but enjoyably) working through Fine's Shared Fantasy. I'm in the middle of a section of chapter 3 which talks about players and referees mediating and fighting for their own view of the fantasy, though things like cheating at dice rolls and arguing over the rules and...

The first draft of OD&D used a formula rather than tables. https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2018/09/why-did-armor-class-descend-from-9-to-2.html Gary also indicated in the 1E DMG that he considered switching to ascending, but kept the old way because existing players were all used to...

Good memory on the EC Comics call out. Dr. Strange definitely had some influence as well, including famously a couple of images from OD&D being traced from/ "inspired by" images from Dr. Strange comics. https://www.enworld.org/threads/doctor-strange-the-original-d-d-grognard.663932/

RIP.

You learned it after I did, junior! ;)

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English as a Second Language. Someone suggested earlier that this could be an artifact of importing grammar from another language. Similar to how my ex-wife who was into photography always said "make" a picture rather than "take" a picture, despite her degree being in English Philology...

I played in such a convention game run by Tim Kask and even he couldn't make it particularly fun, though the players were experienced and we made a game attempt. We sure wanted to find/make the fun!

Was it someone with ESL, as hypothesized?

I am deeply confused by this response. It feels like another case of person A declaring person B ignorant and provincial because person B attests to the existence of terminology person A can't recall ever seeing used. I never suggested that anyone is "wrong" to use the same term for both a...

I've also been noticing some hamstring soreness lately, but the only exercise I've been doing recently which I think really hits those is my morning split squats in my PT exercises. I guess I could have some leftover from my hack squats Monday night. And/or from helping a friend move a heavy...

Last night I motivated to get in a quick session (despite the gym being busy and all the benches taken) between work and D&D. Three sets each plus a couple of drop sets- machine chest flies, lat pulldowns, and triceps extensions. Felt good to fit that in.

How about Hole-Heartedly?

Trap bar was my preference for the couple of years I was doing them regularly, before I injured my back in late 2022. After PT in Spring of 2023 I incorporated some lower weight stiff legged deadlifts but I've stayed away from regular deads since.* That injury seems to have more or less...

Why reply to me if you're not going to read what I wrote? Weird. Thinking about adding a third (or second, depending on how you count, as one got banned) name to my ignore list.

Oh yes, even though I started with and almost exclusively did circuits for the first few years, I learned the etiquette and to be conscious of not taking up equipment/letting people work in wherever possible. Sometimes if someone wanted to jump on a given apparatus in the middle of my circuit...

Correction: I read in another thread that 2E did it too, and double-checked. 2E AD&D makes Dwarves, Halflings and Gnomes even slower, with a base movement rate of 6" compared to Humans, Elves, and Half-Elves getting the standard 12" (see PH 119-120, and 78 for encumbrance modifiers), and no...

Didn't work out on Sunday, recovering from being up late and in the afternoon I had to help a disabled friend shop-vac out some water from under his basement stairs to prevent flooding in the main area. That was reasonably active, though, holding the shop vac steady on the stairs while he...