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Part of the charm of gaming is drinking beer, telling ribald stories, farting, and other equally wholesome diversions. As mature as that adolescent may be, it's going to change how comfortable I feel about doing those things; I want my gaming environment to be the kind I don't feel embarrassed...

If you're going to do away with fluff, which Samnell quite rightly objects to thusly: (Awesome.) Then have it be the opposite of crunch; like, "Mush". It could work: Is this book full of crunch? No, indeed not: it is rather mushy. This way we could rate all books on a "How Long Have The Grape...

But you left out the Robot Chicken episodes?

Hey, as long as you know you're letting the molesters free. Have fun having kids. As an aside, you make an interesting choice comparing Bismarck to Pol Pot. Quality, that is.

Red ink and child molestation aren't close enough to even be considered apples and oranges.

... Vader? Paladine is Darth Vader?

Don't be so surprised. It's called Alpha error and Beta error. I won't insult your intelligence by explaining it to you, but the choice is between falsely accusing adults and not prosecuting potential sex offenders. Children aren't innocent? Put aside your fright for a moment and make the...

Have kids. See how you feel about mollycoddling them, because there are a whole lot of worse things that you could be shedding tears for.

Why is it that a 30 year old teacher would not want to game with a 14 year old girl? To protect himself. What is it that the teacher needs to protect himself from? From accusations of misconduct regarding a minor. Why are accusations of misconduct so fearful? Because this culture believes that...

That would be the underlying assumption; at least, using fire makes you effective and widens your options. The PCs would be faced with a choice between an effective government that will occasionally misfire against its own citizens and a government of Good that, according to our assumption...

Tyrannical Good isn't. When the line is crossed into tyranny, the alignment has shifted along the Good-Evil axis. What seems reasonable to me is that the institutions established by the Good folks who defeated Evil have been infiltrated and compromised. The laws established by Good have been...

I want my Gnome Wizard to be a reknown gemcutter. I want my Dwarf Cleric to be a master Architect. I want my Necromancer to be able to perform autopsys and document the results in his sketchbook. I want my game to provide mechanics so that the character's ability to do any of those things is...

Teachers who wrongly get brought up on child abuse charges rarely know in advance who the slanderer will be. This does happen. And to some degree it makes sense: the necessity is to protect the child, in the pursuit of which doubt is more quickly cast upon the adult. Go hang out in a teachers'...

The potential upside of this arrangement with 30-year olds gaming with a 14 year old girl is a good time had by all, and someone who may game through highschool and beyond. The potential downside of this arrangement is someone with an axe to grind accusing this teacher of inappropriate conduct...

Sweet! Thanks folks. Now I just need to index them.

Thanks! One other thing: could they be somewhat catalogued? Necromantic stuff with the same; all the cosmology stuff together. I am unfamiliar with TableSmith and would like to know more.

Ok folks, I'm running my group through a Wizard's study and recently I've been highlighting the importance of mundane books on arcane topics. What I'd like is a whole heck of a lot of suggestions for names of books that would be in this library. To start the ball rolling: By the Right...

Which was my meaning. That's why it's in the metagaming portion of my post. And when Technik4 and the DM created a character whose goals directly conflicted with the party, you have exactly what is not players working together. See the problem?

Players eating food has absolutely no effect on in-character motivation. In-game is in-game, regardless of how immersive it is. And in-game, it was the same act. That's the problem: you shouldn't have to convert allies: they're called allies for a reason. And the goblin, for all his faults...

If the mainland is goblinoids, I'd make the "Japanese" something else entirely. You can keep a strong flavor of Japan being the land of the Dragon if you populate it with Lizardfolk and kobolds. There's a natural hierarchy twixt the two, with the kobolds as the lizardfolk's slaves/serfs. As...