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nope. I've been in plenty of fights, but I always saw them coming, and it was always 1 on 1. i've never been "jumped." by a group of guys. Of course I have lived most of my life in the country too. Nashville is the biggest city I've ever seen, and I've lived on the outskirts of it for a...

Absolutely. I'd rather have the government mucking it up than the way things are now.... and I hate big government. Dysfunctional families are the number one cause of our social problems.

Man, I live in the US and that's never happened to me. That's why you shoot back.

I draw the main land masses by hand. I use pregenerated city and town maps, though sometimes i draw my own towns as well. I've got a fat folder of maps that I've photocopied from old modules and gaming books that I use for most cities and large towns.

The last time I checked, the poverty line in America was an average of about $19,000 a year. Over the past few years I've been well above that line a few times, and well below it a few times. I can tell you that that makes all the difference. The difference between making $20,000/year and...

Sometimes. When we take the Leadership feat, we usually ditch the followers or leave them behind to watch the horses or hold down the fort. We keep the cohorts around though.

Depends. On a bad day, I work about 9 hours of a 12 hour shift (75%). On a good day, its more like 3 hours out of a 12 hour shift (about 25%). The last time I was at work, I spent most of the day reading and napping and planning games.

Yeah. I was there just yesterday and noticed that it appears to be dead in the water. There seems to be a trend towards increasing popularity of EN World which is causing a decrease in popularity of other DnD sites. I can remember a few years ago when mortality and the WotC boards were both...

In which country do you live?

Hey, the Germans are really funny! :D In Tennessee we play with some of the rules already mentioned from Alabama and Georgia and Kentucky. In addition to those, we also use these house rules and guidelines: 1. Everyone gets a +2 bonus to Diplomacy (thanks to that Southern Hospitality) 2...

all the ones on the poll except Orc. Plus the following: Lich Death Knight Vampire Saureal (Sp??) Half-grey dwarf Half-drow half-dragon Winged elf Aquatic elf And a menagerie of home brew creatures.

Several years ago I worked at a lab that was eventually closed down. The last 3 moths we were there, it was a lot of sitting around with nothing to do. So a few other gamers and I would go down to the conference room and game for the whole shift. We had a big table, nice chairs, a breakroom...

I think he's getting at the fact that Batman doesn't have any super powers. Therefore he's not really a "super" hero. I couldn't decide between the original Superman or the Original Spiderman. In the end I voted for Superman, because it does such a good job and has held up well over the...

I've been re-reading some old horror stories while I await my next shipment of books from Amazon. I've also been reading some Bradbury short stories.

Not knowing when to quite, or just not wanting to quite. I used to use some house rules that made combat more grim and gritty so they would stop and rest more, but it was mostly futile on my part.

Nope. I’m about 2 posts from getting this discussion back on track. So you’re calling me a geek? By your own admission, most people reading this thread are geeks, so I’m not sure that’s really a bad thing. Furthermore, the behaviors you describe (the tendency towards memorizing the minutiae...

one other thing, Here: you seem to be saying that objective research showing gamers to be fairly normal is flawed because the sample is skewed to favor white college males. But previously you said, based on your own personal anecdotal evidence, that most gamers were less than normal. So...

that's cool. I've heard of some of his work and I've seen "Designer X" somewhere before. Didn't recognize his name though. It's interesting that Seems he's a step ahead of the rest of us.

There is almost 300,000,000 people in America. How many of them play football? Um... nothing... did I say that Star Wars wasn't pop culture? (of course I don't play star wars RPGs either... though I'd like to) See. More dumbing down. Then they wonder why our kids can't spell. Didn't you...

Thanks for that. I was about to ask you that very question. I think its crucial for us to understand where this line is in the minds of many of the people who play PnP games. Well, don't forget that there isn't as many young people playing PnP games as there used to be. A lot of the reason...