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I like to think of them as "guidelines" or "hopes and dreams" rather than "rules"!

I see people talking smack about the Marbula One and the Marblympics. As a proud member of Team Galactic, I chide all of you -- these are athletes at the peak of their game, doing their best to win and do their supporters proud! The least you can do is show some respect to these fine examples of...

Carlos Queso

It's a local chain called Havana Central, with Cuban food. It was a great place attached to the Menlo Park Mall, and they had a curved room that was glass-enclosed on three sides along the outside of it, which they could put up partitions in and rented for parties. The food was excellent --...

TIL Germany's first successful soap operas were adaptations of Australian soap operas, but all German soap operas died out. Now they make their own telenovelas!

Let's see. The Fisher King had Howard Feuer as its casting director. And Howard Pyle reinvented stories for young redaers about a number of characters, including King Arthur! And then King Arthur was the subject of Camelot (1967). In 2023, a stage version of Camelot was put on, based on the...

Had the players in my 1870s game go to Las Vegas. They were very disappointed! It's basically a tumbleweed town of less than 800 people in that era!

The whispers are coming from inside your head.

I was running a table at a gaming Con here in NJ in the late 90s or early 00s, in the huge General Gaming room, with maybe 70 tables of gamers around me. It was pretty deafening. Then, quite clearly, in a sudden lull in the noises, you could distinctly hear the tail end of someone's...

You got your water in my chum-ocean.

Hastur? begins frantic chanting

My daughter has found the fedora she was given by the place we held her first birthday party. She loves it, and tries it on every conceivable way even though it doesn't fit, and many ways I didn't conceive of. I think she's ridiculously cute in it, but I'm biased. We're not sharing her photos...

Speaking seriously, I don't really care about player characters' stats. A lot can be adjusted in-game by adjusting challenges, a standard DM tool. When I ran 5E at the Hobby Shop, I allowed players to try 4d6-drop-the-lowest place-them-where-you-like once per character, and if they didn't like...

Yes. D&D. It's the only true D&D! But that's a discussion for a different forum*! * Honestly and speaking seriously, Edition Wars belong in the dumpster!

I feel like current ability score generation systems result in numbers just way too high. I've felt that since AD&D 1st edition, which had (ugh) options for different generation systems. My current method, I think, is very fair and leads to good characters: Roll 2d6 for each ability score, in...

None of those apply to me, practically the image of the Patriarchy. But like I tell people, I'm straight, not narrow.

Sure. And my actual boss would have been exactly arrogant and dumb enough to do it, but the HR person was extremely careful to ensure that the evidence would be massaged to support the official line. Small companies are sometimes Hell to work for.

... "Wrongful termination"? What is that? I don't think we have that in the US. At least, not after this administration... Speaking seriously, I work in a "Right to Work" state, which means they can let you go at any time for any reason.

I got put on a case, where it seemed clearly to me the guy was guilty based on the evidence presented, but most of the rest of the jury was dead-set on acquittal, since the only witnesses were police officers and they didn't trust the police. I finally caved in, so as not to be away from work...

I think the thing to do is to be a judge. Then, nobody can kick you out for going to court in your underwear.