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I commented to my dad about the price of a book I recently picked up, to which he replied jokingly "Don't you wish you had a less expensive hobby?". I paused and thought about it for a second. Realized that gaming is still one of the cheaper hobbies to have, despite the increase in the book...

Never mentioned anything about life/evolution being guided. Just that it's not random (at least, not completely random). I wasn't clear, though, as to what exactly I meant by that. Just meant that the underlying cause behind all of the mutations which occur happen for very discreet and...

Evolution isn't random, but neither is it predictable. Which basically means all bets are off when it comes to talking about it.

Fastidious post-civilization planetary clean-up ala SimEarth? ... What? It could happen!

Life dissipates energy. You need to give it some kind of incentive in order to get it to develop into highly complex forms (or even mildly complex forms). Otherwise, it just kinda settles down into a comfortable routine and won't move out of it's parent's basement. Having your house fall down...

Make it diceless...:] :D

Non-creepy looking clowns are alright. I don't get them, but...eh, whatever. Creepy clowns are the spawn of Satan! I still can't watch that one scene in Poltergeist...

With those kinds of power gaps to fill, look at which of the remaining Gods might have their eye on the now vacant portfolios. They're bound to start making motions to snatch up as much power as they could (assuming that your Gods behave like that). That means that there's a lot of potential...

When I'm back in class this fall, I'll definatly see if I can get the campus library to look into this program. This is just...neat!

Y'know, this thread just begs the question (and probably deserves another thread): When you do buy an RPG book, what exactly do you look for in it? Ideas? New classes, spells, etc.? Setting information? When I'm running a game, I typically use about 20-30% of the resources I have available...

Decide on the method by which characters move between the different planes and stay consistant (unless inconsistancy is what you're aiming for). My current game is kind of a Planar Superheros setting, and I've structured things on a Beyond Countless Doors arrangement, wherein each of the...

In this order: Combat taking too long and taking forever to decide on a course of action. Many has been the time that I've been caught up in the throes of combat for far longer than it should've lasted, and I've heard many stories about a single combat in the whole gamut of systems lasting for...

Bring about the true creepiness! I want to not be able to sleep tonight by noon tomorrow! Wait...that didn't make any sense, did it? ... Bugger... Anywho, while I don't have anything creepy, per se, I do have something that borders on the strange. Every great once in a while, just before I...

I think this is the thread you're looking for. Went through it a few days back. *Great* stuff in there!

I started young (read ~8 or 9) and not with D&D. I wanted to capture the fantasy that I got out of reading game books (Lone Wolf, amongst others) for others. So I started narrating interactive stuff to my friends (no dice either). Didn't know what the hell I was doing back then, as I really...

In a Vamp LARP I was playing in, I came up with a character who had been brainwashed into thinking he was living in the Star Wars universe (I actually came up with a pretty good backstory for why this happened). The character considered himself to be Luke Skywalker. Upon his arrival to the city...

<-- voted mostly RP with some combat Doing my part to ensure that we have a *proper* gaussian curve here.

First game I ever really *ran* (outside of when I was much younger and had my friends roll up some characters then futzing around for a few hours while nothing was accomplished), lasted for a year and a half. Everybody enjoyed it. There's something satisfying in watching everything all come...

I'm by and large indifferent to elves or any of the other typical fantasy races. To me though, I honestly don't see enough of a difference between humans and how elves, dwarves or any number of ther other typical fantasy races are portrayed to warrent the need for them, other than just out of...

I'm doing up my own garden this year and I'm having a blast.