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I saw him at the AM/PM in Baker, California in 1996 at three in the morning. According to the world's largest thermometer (RIP Bun Boy!), it was ninety-seven degrees Fahrenheit at the time. Most surreal night of my life.

Now that's tasteful! Just wondering how Eric's grandma feels about those Caesary ads.

I think that's a matter of what you consider to be "thematic material." Is an encounter which is appropriate to the genre but not tailored to the specific adventurers in the campaign 'thematic?' If not by an encounter from a random table, then perhaps by some other kind of random generation. In...

In most cases I simply assign what I think is appropriate to the location or the character - sometimes I'll mix it up with a random roll.

Most of the games I play don't use classes or levels like any version of D&D, and that's how I voted on the poll. If I were to run some form of D&D again, most likely it would be 1e AD&D, in which case the vast majority of the human population of the game-world would be zero-level. Classes and...

That's cool.

This.

Flashing Blades? A Facel Vega HK500 - sporty, stylish, French.

Turn ons? Randomness, lifepaths, speedy generation - 5 to 15 minutes max. Turn offs? Point-buy, generation > 15 minutes, and too many fiddly bits - a reasonable number of attributes, a few broadly drawn skills, and a standard gear package make me happy.

Xanth. I'd rather be punned to death than eaten by a grue.

You should've tried Flashing Blades - still one of the best cape-and-sword rpgs out there.

31. Shoveling. And fighting crime.

No, and anyone who thinks that should have his ass kicked royally. . . . what?!

Our Flashing Blades group meets monthly. I also play a couple of one-shots each year involving some iteration of old-school D&D.

Those examples demostrate that human beings are extremely expedient. I mentioned the Cossacks because I just finished reading With Fire and Sword this weekend, but there's actually nothing specific to the Wild Lands about those examples, which crop up all over the world through human history...

Vulgar. Hey, kid's gotta grow up sometime.

Really? What if the fireball-attracts-fire-elementals effect was something specific to particular areas of the game-world? There's a right to know that? What if some trolls are affected by sunlight and cold iron but not fire and acid? Right to know that, too?

Henryk Sienkiewicz describes Cossacks driving herds of cattle ahead of their advancing armies to force their opponents to waste powder and shot. He writes about how the Cossacks loaded captives with bags of gravel and forced them into the moats in front of their enemies' castles, giving the...

Neither. I like games in which the adventuers begin as competent. They're not schlubs, but heroic is beyond their reach - for now.

Fair 'nuf. Well, I can whip mine out, too, if you really want to compare. I've seen some dungeon masters bollocks it up by favoring their character over the other players, and I've seen those players tell the dungeon master to knock that <excrement> off or suffer the consequences, from getting...