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I was once told by a man whose wife was 23 years younger that "you're only as old as the woman you feel". For the record, my wife's older than I by several months.

My only stalker was a guy I had evicted for drugs and drinking. He took up living in his pickup and would follow me during the day and park across the street from my house at night. At the time we didn't have anti-stalking laws so I had to put up with it for months till he managed to drive his...

I split the halflings in my homebrew into three kingdoms, each with its own culture; one more isolationist with the hobbits of old, one with the halflings of new, and one remote land with the cannibals of Athas.

I too have arrived at Bullgrit's position after many years of play. While I like games where the DM has an active world, and a few house rules or game styles to show the game world off, for the first time I play under a DM I always take a human fighter with a broad range of feats (melee and bow...

One more thought, go buy an eighteen month calender and mark that renewal date on there. Of all of the things in the lease that'll mess you up, that's the most likely. Be prepared to make the decision to renew at least two months before the sixty day period, thus you'll need to decide on whether...

I only skimmed the lease (and I am not licensed in your state, so take this all as just mnusings from a stranger), but as a Realtor (TM) with all of the usual comercial initials for real estate what I can say is that there are several red flags. The triple net nature of the maintenance of the...

I'm neither a lawyer nor a professor, but do have plenty of experience with universities. One thing I've found is that they have more authority over what goes on on campus than off. An on campus game, even one with no official links, is still within your university's juristiction and thus has...

When I was a grad student teaching classes I routinely gamed with other students - just be sure to double check your schools policies on student/professor activities. Most seem to be pretty relaxed but its good to be sure. Also insist on none of the people you play with taking any of your...

It was less nostalgia and more frustration that got me back to using two stat blocks. The first appears in my notes and is just a combat summary; AC, HP, To hit, damage, grapple, and specials are all that are usually necessary. The full stat block I keep in an appendix where I can refer to it if...

For a character actually currently in play only once, and that was in a hybrid D&D/Blood Royale game. I just can't imagine it in most games, though one of my players took a venerable character recently (inspired by a thread here) and I've been using the threat of death by old age. I can't...

Here's one about prisoners who actually managed to escape a gulag. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558216340/104-0303506-9152725?st=%2A&v=glance&n=283155 It even includes a supposed Yeti sighting.

I just hate the troughs. More than once I've encountered people trying to "squeeze in" at busy venues. On the flip side recently I encountered a recessed (2 feet or so) urinal that looked a lot like a dozen narrow fireplaces side by side. No splatter! Now how come a hundred years ago they...

I generally try to recreate the character. Last time I couldn't do that I simply added some rogue and fighter levels to a doppleganger and warned the DM.

Build a cardboard mock up of the chest. Doesn't need to be pretty, just the same size. The rental company shouldn't charge you to try the fit.

I had a college course called "Sub Grade D&D", but it was demolitions and detonations in a hard rock mining eviroment. Fun yes, but I still would have liked a more gaming appropriate course.

IMC the pocket dimension of a Bachanalian type god can only be reached by performing a simple ritual at midnight at a crossroads with a buzz on. The intoxification keeps any details from being necessary. The elemental plane of fire can be entered by anyone who first throws the three secret...

I had climbed down a twelve foot deep shaft only about 28" or so wide to pull a pump. Even as a lanky teen there was too little room - barely enough to squirm. Midway into the project a large snake, probably a bull snake but I'll never know, got dislodged from above and fell down the back my...

Koplow I believe makes some. Also check teacher supply stores and educational children stores in the math sections.

Once I used my pocket knife to stab a snake that had gotten too friendly. Was I in danger, no, but in a dark enclosed space (well shaft) it sure felt justified.

Another aspect of most non modern religions is also sacrifices. We tend to think of prayers because the majority of us are from a Judeo Christian culture, but in most of the polytheistic religions ritual sacrifice was common. Animals (and people) were killed, items ritually broken or burned...