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I do. In 1988 I knocked up a homebrew called 'Gehennum' that had a tropical and maritime (as opposed to cool-temperate and continental) geography and biome, flyers, divers, leshy, giants, and sprites (instead of the usual races), an animist pantheon, cultural features inspired by Classical, New...

Oh yeah? What about Julius Caesar? Ever heard of him? Early career was as a politician and relligious administrator. First military experience was as a general, conquering Gaul.

Yes. Our approach also allowed me to enjoy the encounter between Harrington and the Tongka in the stance of an audience. Anthony's stiff-upper-lip witticisms would have been lost (or at least partly lost) if I had been expelled from the room. RPGs are a game in which players amuse one...

By the way, "A request to all EN World gamers" is a really unhelpful title to give a thread. It gives the reader browsing the forums no hint of what material it might contain, and it doesn't really help the jaded habitué to remember which of the hundreds of request-for-help thread he or she has...

What sort of personal accounts are you hoping for? Accounts of playing RPGs as a story-telling game? Like this?: Back in about 1987 I was playing in a Pulp-adventure genre campaign set in the USA in the 1920s, and as a result of a setup that was too complicated to remember, let alone explain...

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Yesterday. Not for weeks! Unless you count thet fire in the fireplace with which I heated the house last night. But I'm recovering nicely from surgery and I'll be fit again soon. I have a big bonfire planned for my pirate-themed birthday party in September. Wednesday. Wednesday, if the...

I'd suggest that 'plastic' be expanded to include other organics, such as petroleum. Metal gets my vote: there's an unprecedented quantity of the stuff about. Stone, ceramic, glass, concrete and other inorganics. Wildstuff, perhaps? Wood, bone, ivory, living things, plus perhaps water: in...

How far down do you have to tunnel to hit lava? (Sure, it may be near the surface at volcanoes, but what if there isn't a volcano near yourbest iron-ore deposit?) How do you tunnel in conditions near the melting point of rock? Would anyone dare to live underground near an active volcano?

Iron can be smelted without melting. That is why classic wrought iron contains threads of slag. Smelters hot enough to melt iron (other than by lowering its melting point with large quantities of dissolved carbon) are quite a modern innovation: 19th century, I think, but perhaps late 18th.

You also need reducing conditions.

It is hard to pick between the last three or four. And I have a strong feeling that people who have player in games with me would rte me differently from the way i see myself. But my guess is: Tactician Storyteller Powergamer Method actor Butt-kicker Casual gamer Specialist.

Good God! Does that really happen?

I think it is a tadpole, but you'd do best to ask an native speaker of and American English dialect in which it is used.

If they are, it's news to me. I thought 'bullywug' was coined from a combination of 'bullfrog' and 'polliwog' ('polliwog' being chiefly an American and specifically US word).

Practice. "Men learn to be lyrists by playing the lyre." Experiment. And by that I don't just mean 'try different things in a haphazard way'. I mean that when you hear or think of an idea that you think might be useful you ought to try it out sytematically in a few sessions and make a careful...

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Thank you. I agree. The best advice my psychiatrist gave me was to keep up social contacts, and especially scheduled social activity, for as long as possible when going into an episode of depression. Keep doing it even when it's not enjoyable. Keep doing it even when it has become actually...

:) Indeed. People I have palyed RPGs with (and not counting at cons) have included a detective-sergeant in the Australian Federal Police on secondment to the National Crimes Authority, an officer of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (our counter-intelligence/counterterrorism...

I'm mentally unstable too: I have bipolar affective disorder (type II). But I don't think we can blame D&D for this one, because my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my father, my father's eldest sister (who had type I), two of her daughters, two of their six children, one of my sisters, and at...