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The ears of dozens of lawyers working for a certain "science-based" cult just perked up. Seriously, those books are gawdawful.

Maybe that's why they had so much playing golf--the magnetism improved their game. Golfers seem to have this superstitious belief that wearing magnetic bracelets help their game.

This movie needed less plot and more action. But as my gaming buddy said as we watched it, "action is expensive". We kept saying "boxed text! Get on with it!". I really think they should have ditched the whole "save the world from evil" business and made a movie like most adventures: A group of...

I got my new sig from that interview...

The bars on the Dharma Industries symbol look like I Ching hexagrams to me. In fact, they are the 8 trigrams used to make up the I Ching hexagrams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

Have you read Kage Baker's The Company series? If not, you should.

Some buddies and I were going to get one of these and put them on a friend's truck when he wasn't looking and see how long it would take before he saw them. We made up all kinds of ways to hint around about it (e.g. You'd have to have HUGE BAWLS to drive that truck!) but we never did it. I like...

Here's the setting for the Three Lakes campaign, which has been going on since just before 3.0 was released. Rip off the creation myth from The Silmarillion, but say that the Creator had many children (what PCs think of as gods). That way, any player can bring in any god from any supplement or...

Cool! A lot of good ones. I think the trip to see the dinosaurs is going to be booked solid. Of course, we have a time machine, so anybody from any time can all just meet up for brontosaurus BBQ before hand. Count me in to see the Doors, I forgot about them. How about: * Witness the...

Jurassic Five Phish G Love and Special Sauce Galactic Bob Dylan Buena Vista Social Club Squirrel Nut Zippers Beastie Boys Johnny Socko

My daughter's middle name is Coraline, named after the girl in the Neil Gaiman book. My wife and I read it when she was pregnant and we liked the name. We were thinking of Aeryn (from Farscape) but we drew the line. Our geekiness goes only so far. You laugh, but one of my...

I probably should have asked, "After you have become wealthy and powerful, where would you go?" It should go without saying that you would be equiped with the best survival gear, a nigh-infinite supply of period currency and extensive research on the destination time/place. Anybody can go back...

...Where would you go? Every once in a while, my wife and I see a documentary about some event and say, "Add that to the Time Machine List." What we mean is, if we had a time machine, we would make up a big list of cool events to go witness. Interestingly enough, many of the things we add to our...

You could give this thing the vorpal weapon quality from D&D. If I did this, I would also make it "inverse-vorpal" -- roll low and the same thing happens to the wielder!

I'd rather spend more time adventuring and less time shopping, so this is what I do as a DM. * Gems, jewelry, art, etc are sold at face value. I think this is RAW. * Magic items and other mundane goods are sold at 50% market price. * Magic items from the DMG can be purchased at market price...

Holy crap! They cowboyed Vaughn!

I've even allowed old, experienced PCs who somehow lost their powers. I do this for NPCs too so that low level PCs can have a legendary foe. For a spellcaster, its very easy to come up with some plot device to explain why they are 1st level, even beyond the obvious mechanical devices (multiple...

I had an idea for this thread but haven't had a chance to stat it up properly. Maybe someone else can run with it. A small section of the base with an important component (like life support, generators, main computer, etc.) has been breached and has no atmosphere. It's also contaminated with...

I'm still Dming a campaign I started back when 3.0 came out. We are working up to a Grand Finale. But I'm getting burned out on the amount of time it takes to prep a game for 14th level characters. I'm looking forward to going back to being a player and only working on one character. Or playing...

I love this thing. The light blue map covers have to be the most distinct thing about old school AD&D. I wasted hours of my youth gazing at those things.