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Hasbro has no say-so in anything like that, either. Store purchases come from two places, in general: corporate, which buys from a service provider like Ingram for things like big bestsellers, and orders from Ingram by the store staff. Once the retail store makes a purchase, that purchase is...

Nope, not that it would have mattered - by the time D&D came around, I was already 17 and past the time of Mom 'forbidding' me to do anything. If there had been some kind of conflict, I'd have simply played at other people's houses and not informed her of what was going on. There were a couple...

I'm curious about this. 'Many' do not have a contract? What sort of contract would a waiter get?

In general sorcerers don't go through 'training'. Think of them more like mutants than spellcasters. They just 'do it' and have no real idea what they're doing. In fact, it could be an interesting plot line that the mentor has actually harmed the character more than helping him, if he tried to...

It depends on a few things but in general that is true. When I was working food service, we were paid half the state minimum wage at the time, and because it was over-the-counter service we didn't get tipped. There have been some interesting articles recently with restaurants that do not allow...

Just started watching it. I'm about half-way through the first season, and I really enjoy it. The villains are terrible, terrible people that surely are immensely inspiring for use as RPG foes, particularly low-lever superheroes or horror campaigns. Spader is just the best kind of bad guy...

I am so glad that this world-building PITA has at last been done away with :) It was easy to house rule and I mostly ignored it, but the feeling it engendered by it's very existence was always there, like a tooth that has recently been pulled.

They are there to teach you to run, and that not every encounter is balanced and winnable. From what has been said elsewhere, that appears to be a definite and stated design philosophy for this edition. You'll probably need to get used to disappointment.

Gotham is a 50/50 bet. Mundanes might like it because it does seem to have some very nice casting and production values. However, the basic reaction to the first episode at SDCC was 'meh'. It's another of WB's bizarre bait-and-switch shows, like Smallville. Of course Smallville did run for 10...

Actually looks closer to a classic illustration. Very cool.

GM: Ah, good, you increased your profile 1000% to a flying creature instead of someone on the ground, like you. Manticore has advantage on every shot.

Cities have lots of people. People are sources of conflict. There is no adventure without conflict. Thus, cities are a huge spawning ground of adventure. The thing I love about city adventures are the various factions: who rules what part of the city, who has to knuckle under to whom, who is...

For those first few levels, plan on losing characters as well. In Savage Worlds you have your bennies and possibly your action cards to help you survive encounters - SW can be very deadly when damage dice start exploding, but equally forgiving for the Vigor checks and that last reserve 'don't...

Much more like Mi-Go and their false promises.

Unless he is literally talking about old-school classic literature, lots of fantasy books (esp. those written in the Nineties and beyond) use the D&D tropes these days.

I really love the Bazaar illo and 'The Delver'. Some fine old-school style indeed. (Gug's head and mouth are all wrong) :)

The premiere I'm most looking forward to is The Flash. I watched the first episode and it is just a bundle of awesome. They have some very ambitious plans, and I hope it catches on like Arrow did. I want a decent DC-based show with a real superhero in it. Can't wait for Arrow third season. Mmm.

I was most pleased by something I later read was done entirely on purpose: they do not have Ichabod repeatedly and humorously frustrated by modern technology. Throughout the first season he repeatedly adapts to the modern world as he needs to, learning how to use a cell phone, etc.

Comparing game characters to fictional ones is usually an exercise in futility. Fictional characters have all sorts of advantages that game characters generally do not, first and foremost being 'whatever the writer wants to have happen'. Hawkeye, Cap, Batman, pretty much any modern corporate...