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Took the survey. :) I almost skipped this thread because I thought it was someone posting off topic to get help with their probability homework. You may want to change the thread's title to "Gamer survey - please respond" and then explain in your post why you're asking. Also, by labelling it...

Given that none of the 'evils' attributed to D&D ever materialised, many media outlets, mostly in the US, owe the gaming community an apology. I don't seriously expect one will ever be forthcoming, but it would be refreshing to get a bit of probity from the media for a change. Perhaps this BBC...

Mea culpa! I'll post in the original thread paraphrasing myself. Can you please lock this thread so that we don't have two running in parallel on the same topic?

A balanced article on the BBC News site ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26328105 ) about the so-called 'dangers' of D&D that grabbed the (US) media's attention in the 1980s. Of course, none of the 'evils' attributed to the game ever materialised. In light of that fact, many media outlets...

There's an article about this on the BBC News site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26862462

Very sad to hear of the passing of David Tampier. I always found his artwork inspiring. To this day, I picture lizardmen as looking like his illustration. He had his own distinctive style yet somehow captured, for me anyway, the spirit of D&D. He will be missed. I hope that WotC pays homage to...

Thanks, freyar. Appreciated. I tried your suggestion. Hopefully, that will do it. Let's see. ;) Morrus, Thanks for the offer. Perhaps freyar's method works. I'll give you a shout if the problem persists. Zander

Hello, Mods, I'm being bombarded with e-mails telling me that a thread to which I contributed has received a response and what the response is, usually two e-mails per response. It's clogging my inbox. I tried changing my settings at EN World and using the unsubscribe link in the e-mails but...

Bravo! Tu te débrouilles bien en anglais. Si tu continues tes efforts en anglais, tu pourras un jour participer aux forums anglophones comme ENWorld sans avoir l'air d'un provocateur. Pour l’instant, tes messages font penser que tu as un besoin pathologique d’attention. Sans doute, c’est...

"Sauvage" can mean that but generally means in its natural state. "Un pigeon sauvage" doesn't usually mean an unruly or vicious pigeon. It means an undomesticated one, i.e. one in the wild.

I'm reluctant to open the can of worms marked "noble savage" because so much ink has been spilt in relation to it already that it's a corpus of literature in its own right. I will say though that the word "savage" in English has particular connotations that are negative, but originally it simply...

In the UK, liquid drink mixes are very common but not in pocket sizes. It mostly comes in large bottles. Orange squash is the most common generic kind. I think it has existed in the UK longer than the US. A former colleague from the US drank some undiluted the first time he came to the UK as he...

Really? If someone associates a group to which you belong with a positive characteristic, that's insulting? Doubtful. I'm a member of an ethnic minority. If someone outside of my ethnicity attributes to it a positive characteristic, even in a sweeping way that may not be entirely true in its...

Agree about the need to avoid insulting people but not so sure one shouldn't stereotype. What about when the stereotype is true? What about when it's complimentary? Or both true and complimentary?

You're making an apples and oranges comparison. Eating food that has fallen on the floor has some risk and no benefits (unless you're in one of the situations described in my previous post). Taking medication has some risk and some benefits. An apples and apples comparison would be eating food...

Thanks, Gabriel :angel: They used not to sell them in small quantities, but now they do. So I just ordered a few. Thanks again, Zander

Please disregard my message asking if anyone had a mint condition of Jack Chick's Dark Dungeons comic for sale. :o

Unless you're starving to death or find yourself in the very unusual situation of having to eat a particular food (or food type) or die e.g. severe hypoglycaemia, the benefit from eating food that has fallen on the floor isn't worth the risk. In contrast, the benefit of taking medicines or...

No, indeed you didn't mention kitchen counters. I did for illustrative purposes. So does the site you linked to. No, I won't. I'm already familiar with those findings. It is precisely because "food poisoning" sounds "dramatic" that I doubt many people would attribute mild digestive...

One of my regular D&D players works for the police as an administrator here in the UK and has family members who are police officers. I don't think there's an association between being a police officer and any kind of food in the UK, but I'll try to get the inside view and report back next week...