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    Your Favorite Holiday Special

    Billy And Mandy Save Christmas A Muppet Family Christmas Olive the Other Reindeer EDIT: Partly because "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" "Where The **** Is Santa" "Muppet Christmas Carol" and "Mister Hankey the Christmas Poo" are disqualified EDIT: Might have to switch one of those out...
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    Fun ways to do a "warlike" people [+]

    Like the energy being from the Star Trek episode "Day of the Dove" And possibly they habitually abuse the land so that this becomes a pattern EDIT: As was implied of the titular civilization from Spaceballs EDIT: Although I suppose that technically the Spaceballs abused the air.
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    AD&D 1E What was the reason for Demihuman level and class limits in AD&D?

    The problem is that this is a doylist fix to a watsonian problem. It's deus ex machina. (Or perhaps even worse than deus ex machina, because deus ex machina at least implies some in-world explanation, however contrived.) EDIT: Rather than even being deus ex machina, it's closer to something...
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    D&D General The History of Alignment: Why D&D Has the Nine-Point Alignment System 4 UR Memes

    Has anybody commented yet on the 2-axis alignment system's similarity to this diagram: from the Principia Discordia in the late 1960's
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    AD&D 1E What was the reason for Demihuman level and class limits in AD&D?

    That's what I heard too. A gamist answer to a narrative question that solved nothing narratively and merely raised fi=urther questions
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    Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

    I've got a couple of half formed christmas adventure/story ideas. One of them is jamming christmas memes into an Army Of Darkness esque adventure ("This is my boomstick! It's An official Red Ryder Carbine-action 200 shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that...
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    Metal School

    In Born to Be Wild when they say "fire all of your guns at once" do they mean 'simultaneously' or 'immediately'? I want to say they mean simultaneously but it could plausibly be immediately.
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    Spoilers TV Shows with Great Endings

    "You are, Number Six"
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    Spoilers TV Shows with Great Endings

    For my money the most well executed series finales I've ever seen are the Aqua Teen Hunger Force finale, The Greatest Story Ever Told* and the Young Ones finale, Summer Holiday** *It starts by briefly taking the piss out of the maudlin fake series finale that aired the week prior. Then The Aqua...
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    Grittiness and Lethality in Game Combat vs in Read-Only Fiction

    More than for 1000 Worlds and the Githyanki?
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    GMing: What If We Say "Yes" To Everything?

    I think it would look a lot like AI Dungeon
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    Grittiness and Lethality in Game Combat vs in Read-Only Fiction

    Treating it as luck makes it silly in the other direction "you fall into the volcano but are prevented from hitting the lava by the leidenfrost effect"
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    D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

    And if it doesn't remain the game we just switch to Pathfinder again like during 4e
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    Cookin again

    The trick to cooking good vegan food is that you need to pack it with salt, corn syrup, and artificial flavorings (cf. Oreos and Sweey Spicy Chili Doritos)
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    nevermind

    Can't they emulate the old hardware? I'm pretty sure a touchscreen could trivially be turned into a touchpad Until that time we can fight it on our end by using ad blockers. Blokada and Netguard seem to work well on Android And also tampered with to prevent removing Google's bloatware and...
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    Old Man Wants to Play Online

    Maybe Tabletop Simulator
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