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A debt can be real, I can agree with someone that I owe them something, Or they can legitimately feel that I owe them something due to a promise made, without a legally-enforceable contract being in effect.

This may just be you missing vocabulary for a device you never talk about personally. Soda jerk is archaic terminology because it referred to an employee whose primary job was to operate an old fashioned soda fountain with a lever arm they pulled down on (the "jerk"). I will accept correction...

Fair. I don't normally complain about the 20' move when playing TSR editions. 3E-5E give Dwarves and other short folk a slower base movement rate, but they also give Dwarves a special ability to not be slowed by armor, so DCC really went out of its way to put the boot to Dwarves on this issue...

It's also silly because it's founded in an old misconception about plate armor that it significantly slows the wearer at tactical engagement distances. Which it simply doesn't (at least for people trained to fight in it). But that was what D&D said in OD&D through 4E, so DCC follows suit. If...

I don't know what to tell you. It's a "soda fountain" because it dispenses "fountain soda"; sometimes also more broadly "fountain drinks", as occasionally they also dispense non-carbonated drinks like lemonade or Hi-C. Fountain vs. bottled drinks being a standard distinction at fast food and...

Thanks for the reminder! This is still in my to be read pile, but I bought it on release as I'm a fan of Zach Weinersmith. Same artist/writer as the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic, for those unaware, so no shock that it's smart and good.

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?