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Indeed, they can be great hunters considering the survival skill DC is only 10 to: "Get along in the wild. Move up to one-half your overland speed while hunting and foraging (no food or water supplies needed). You can provide food and water for one other person for every 2 points by which your...

I started playing D&D in 1976, when only a beamish tweenager, and sporadically role-played through a stint in the Marine Corps and college at UC Berkeley, although more often Runequest or Villains & Vigilantes than D&D itself. I had a long hiatus during graduate school in Oxford and law school...

He's got that contingency covered with "British". ;)

I think you could go either way with this. The "alchohol is a poison" approach seems reasonable, but can't be directly proved or disproved from the rules. Moreover, it depends on a specific and somewhat vexed definition of "poison". There are plenty of substances, in concentration, that alter...

George MacDonald Frasier's novel "Pyrates" is comic but nails all the major tropes and archetypes. I'd recommend this highly.

Receipt forwarded to the Worshipful Piratecat.

I like that one - reminds me of Scaramouche. I use the term in my campaign, along the lines in the novel, for the bully/duelists who provoke quarrels with the Empress's political enemies in the Senate, to "remove" them from public life . . .

This explains much. I was going to disagree with your thoughts on speed of levelling as well, since neither I nor any of the folks I played with for a few months got any of our characters above 5th. But I think your definition of "casual" player is quite different from mine. We definitely...

Yes, I got a lot of last minute ideas for my Friday games with some well-worded keyword searches. Recently, I've mainly been checking in just to see if the function is back up yet. I'm catching up on "work" work though . . . so that's a plus.

Same train of thought. From the facts as stated, I think you did the right thing, but I can't help feel sorry for your grandfather. I'm not sure what my grandfather would have thought/done if Christmas was canceled that first winter after his wife died. But, obviously, that's my family not...

Great observation. I hadn't noticed at first, but that's exactly how it strikes me now. I think such scenes have become such a staple, and so commonplace, that it's sometimes hard to recognize the ugly/cheap side of the "big put-down" moment.

She was born in 1972. So I guess in Cinema-Television years she is indeed . . . "really old."

Well said.

I haven't seen that, and how would that work out? Even with the top leadership score of 25+, you only get up to level 6 followers. If you want a follower with a prestige class he'd have to be 2nd level according to the rule above . . .

I wanted to like this film, but didn't. I even rented the DvD recently, to give it a second chance since I have always been interested in the period, but found it even less likable and ended up only watching the first half. There haven't been many specifics/spoilers, so I'll avoid giving much...

Nicely stated - I was thinking of the "nature, red in tooth and claw" model as well. I think even non-evil druids could take a fairly broad view of their role in protecting nature. I'm not sure they need to focus on particular animals. After all, whatever task is worth their attention/rising...

Good to know. I haven't read any Goodkind, but I object to fantasy novels that depict historically unprecedented sex scenes as a matter of principle. ;)

I'm not a teenager any more, so thankfully I need a lot less sleep. I probably average 5 to 6 hours, and never get more than 7.

Available at BestBuy evidently.

Ah, the male is clearly Skarp-Hedin, the Mad King of Stjordvik, for our Birthright campaign. This noble, but unbalanced, northman began his career as a rough barbarian (and onetime guardsman of the White Witch), but later delved into the forbidden arts of arcane magic, eventually gaining great...