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In our very low tech past, news travelled only as fast as the fastest form of transportation, could be intercepted or interrupted or destroyed during transit, came from only a few sources and was 'colored' by every person it passed through. Part of the reason for the success of the larger...

My sympathies to you, mate. Use the support available to you, including a counsellor. The pain is yours but others can help you until it becomes managable. And contrary to appearances, it will become managable. :) I hope you continue your life with the same intensity and joy as Kaleb did...

I find that I am starting to see the alignment system in a similar way to the real world Myer Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The system, based on Jung's work, presents 16 types of personality based on four continuums with 2 extremes eg introvert/extrovert (in the original sense, not in the...

Be very careful. It sounds like the powder keg is just that. Something that could blow up bad. Perhaps you could play at the house of one of your younger players so their parents are 'supervising'. Which parents carry the most influence in the community or the church? They would be the best...

Drop/change a letter/sound or two - Italia becomes Talia or Ital, Persia becomes Persh or Ersia, etc

Or use another real world language version of the real world name eg in Spanish - Spain / Espana, France / Francia, Italy / Italia or in German - Spanien, Frankreich, Italien. Just use an online english-foreign language dictionary.

I purchased MMS:Western Europe after reading the reviews and it winning an award. I hadn't (and haven't) seen a single copy in the stores here downunder and the couple of times I asked about it there was a lot of uhm-ing and ahh-ing and foot shuffling. But because of the reviews I ordered the...

Can anyone tell me why the title to the first book got changed for U.S. publication to Sorcerer's Stone?

G'day, As has been said, Aussie's are sports mad. There is also the Australian Institute of Sport, a government funded body. A lot of money goes into training our athletes although few get the sponsorship deals or high paid positions some other country athletes do (the Dream Team :eek: ) To...

Physical age of 40 but emotionally I'm about 2 so I come across around 21.

Aussie TV talk show 'Enough Rope' with Andrew Denton had Matt Damon on tonight. Denton: I want to talk about your childhood, your celebrated friendship with Ben Affleck. Now, you used to play the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons. Damon: Yeah. Denton: Which one of you was the axe...

Thanks for the ideas, guys. It will be a couple of weeks before we game again but I'll let you know how it goes.

I think the early decades of telephones is a reasonable comparison with magic in this instance. At first, very few people had a phone and it was concentrated in a few locations. Over time, the phone network was extended with the wealthier members of society and large cities having access to it...

As soon as food is secure and in surplus, it allows people to focus on other things with their 'free' time. Historically, it was improvements in agriculture that freed people to become craftsmen, etc, thus leading to improvements in all areas of life.

Do you know if others at the table are having problems? Or if they feel uncomfortable with the way he acts? Don't leave because you think it unfair on them. It maybe unfair on them that you go and he doesn't. Nor should you stop playing with the others. If you do end up not playing in that...

I DM an older group so we are a little slower than we used to be ;) but one player has diabetes and his eyesight has deteriorated badly. He has had to undergo some laser surgery leaving him with tunnel vision. He can no longer make out maps drawn on a battlemap or which figure is which so I've...

Blacksilver, you do not deserve to be treated poorly by other gamers simply because they find it fun or think its a 'joke'. Remember, you are not alone at the table. I'd suggest explaining to the problem player a couple of times that you feel awful about his style of 'jokes' and ask him to...

Perhaps you can suggest to the players that they multiclass while providing additional healing resources so that a) they aren't stuck healing and b) they can still play that barbarian if they want to. You could also suggest some PrC's that may tempt the players which require a cleric base. As...

Great idea. And I would think any cleric would make it a priority to cure such a disease to stop it spreading. Look at the extra precautions taken by real world doctors with diseases resistant to treatment.

Which is why I prefaced my answer to a DM that it depends on the campaign. Of course, you are right that any class could have these contacts but if the DM wants a cleric to be chosen this is one aspect that can highlighted for the cleric - and then the DM needs to run the world that way