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Well, as the thing went crawling through a mall, there were some gamers playing and one smiles and points at the huge snake and says, "Look, a dragon!" the other kid says, "That's a basilisk." and the older geek/DM says, "you're both wrong, that is clearly a wyvern. It's your turn."...

With the special ooze monk martial art, Hok-Tooie! :heh:

I was watching an old movie and saw the name Theobold Holsopple in the credits. Great character name, especially for a gnome!

The next time you have a translucent wall and they make that comment have it be a vampiric translucent wall and let them see how that sucks! ;)

I would look at it as a test - do you accede to one person-in-power's desire or do it right and take the consequence of possibly offending that person? As Dannyalcatraz pointed out it would likely be an error that some other committee member(s) might fault you on. Is there a style guide for...

At this point, New Line is not looking for an "appropriate director and company" as you put it. I admire your optimism but New Line wants the two movies made to cash in on the LotR gravy train. It is an unfortunate ploy by New Line to try and link the suit and the movie. We can look...

RW, do you ask your doctor about what prestige class to take? Just asking, get well soon!

I always liked Xylarthan, the example wizard from Men & Magic in the tan booklet. We met him as an npc in my first D&D campaign, back in '70, but we called him Xylaphone. A few years into the campaign it was a trivia question for those same players! I used the name a couple of years ago for...

I chose Birthright as my favorite published world. Most of my games have been in homebrew campaign worlds; those are the best, imo.

Here's the best FLGS I know of, and I am bummed that I am not local to it currently. Days of Knights Note the calendar of events. This was a case of businesspeople who were gamers and worked hard to make it a success.

Our super group back in the day was called the Vindicators. Our GM thought our heroes were confused by the name. Instead of bring justice to the wronged our team seemed to think 'to vindicate' meant 'cause copious amounts of collateral damage'. We were based in Philadelphia and destroyed...

One guy I saw at a party wore white pants, a white shirt with a bar code on the back and white makeup. He was a generic person. I once went to a larp and used green base makeup, red under the eyes and under my bottom lip and black on my eyelids and cheeks to make them look a bit hollow. I...

It improved my social life with the gaming, obviously, and the fact that most of the groups I was in had one or more women in them. I met my wife at a game of D&D along with one fellow who later hired me for a job and another woman who became a very cool supervisor of mine at that job; it...

In RuneQuest there was a supplement that had a menu from a Troll restaurant (Trolls were as civilized as any other race in that game). They would tie a live herd beast of your choice to a stake in the courtyard and let the diners enjoy themselves.

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Read the Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters. It is an English monastery with a wide range of personalities. Not everyone gets along, either. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadfael

In RuneQuest there was a very cool game mechanic Ransom that all intelligent creatures supported. A creature would call out Ransom and the offer, or sometimes just ransom and the attack on them would stop. They had to sit peacably and they definitely had to make good on the ransom.

A world in which no one dies soon will. It's not as much fun if there is no real danger to the characters. Just make sure there are options for recovery sometimes, for good reasons. [edit: let me add, I love the -10 before death rule. knocking most of a party down into the negatives is as...

IIRC, the area around Greyhawk and Dyvers was based on the area of Wisconsin around Lake Geneva. I don't recall the exact map correlation, however. There was a book, "Always Coming Home" by Ursula K. LeQuin, that was based on a futuristic San Francisco bay area after a massive cataclysm that...

I started gaming in '79 with a group at Temple University (Hence Temple Trolls as the group name, and thus, my handle). There were about 15 pretty steady players and at least 8 DMs with none using published material. There wasn't a lot around then and everyone had their own ideas on how a...