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It was the summer of 1983 or 1984 and I learned by trial and error. I was 12 or 13.

No. I don't watch any of the cartoons so this whole thing seemed rather pointless to me. Of course, I regularly have that problem with JLU because it seems to assume a body of knowledge that I, as someone who isn't a comic fan, do not have. Sometimes I have to get a friend who is to explain...

I'm not going either. I probably wouldn't do it either -- at least not anymore. It's the sort of thing I would have done when I was a teenager.

I remember finding the site in the spring of 2000 looking for information about this new "3e" thing they were doing. I don't post much, but I've been lurking around for a long time -- usually in spurts.

Yeah, I know it's a big thing with the cylons. I'm pretty sure there was some of this from all the religious stuff Elosha was telling Roslin about as well.

I've been thinking about trying a different approach that's sort of a combination of "top down" and "bottom up". I suppose it's sort of a hybrid. The "top down" approach starts at the highest level and then zooms in until you are at the local adventuring area. The "bottom up" approach just...

I have this strange urge to go to GenCon carrying a backpack with a notebook labeled "4e Playtest Notes" peeking out just to see all hijinks that would ensue as people tried to get a peek.

I'm the "other" person. I learned by a combination of being taught and learning. In a nutshell, I had some friends teach me to play "D&D" one day during the summer and that weekend I talked my stepmother into taking me to the mall (some 23 miles away) to get my own D&D books. That night, I...

I agree up to the point where you say he's more dangerous than she is. He just nipped things in the bud before she got a chance to prove she is more dangerous whereas when he endangered the fleet, nobody interfered. I fully believe that if she had been given the chance, she would have put the...

I Agree. That is pretty much all I have to say.

This sort of thing was what helped my father's business when Wal-Mart came to town. They were drastically undercutting us on lawn mowers and the like. For about three years they did a booming business. Then, all their cheap mowers started breaking down and Wal-Mart didn't do repairs. Our...

This sums up my feelings on the matter. I'm very, very skeptical about Roslin's "visions" and I excuse Adama's actions because of the extraordinary nature of the situation. He and the president seemed to be the only ones who recognized the extraordinary gravity of their situation most of the...

There is a difference between drawing on faith to give people comfort and hope and actually having your diety or dieties communicate with you through visions. The former is far more common than the latter. Adama did not claim to be getting email from the gods, so to speak, but Roslin more or...

This being science fiction and considering the "layers within layers" nature of the show thus far, I cannot say I am certain of anything. However, it is far more likely that she is having hallucinations than that she is actually being influenced by some divine agency. Especially so considering...

Sorry for the hijack, but this phrase just gave me the amusing mental image of some guy standing up in front of a gathering of his people and saying "I hereby declare us civilized!"

I do not allow alcohol in my games. I've never had a good experience with alcohol at a game. I had people who drank in my group in college and it invariably turned into something other than a gaming session as people got more and more drunk. The last time I let people drink at a game, someone...

I had a thought earlier today. I'm glad Tigh is in charge. I wouldn't have said that even a week or two ago, but having seen the first couple of episodes, I'm glad. Why? Because Tigh doesn't want to be in charge and is very loyal to Adama. Adama needs to be in charge. He's the only sane...

Yeah, I dug them up the other day because I'm in the middle of a nostalgia attack for my college campaigns. The problem is they're in an ancient word processing format (AmiPro) and I don't have the newspaper font I originally used for them (it looked like primative printing).

I've played it and found that annoying. A further annoyance is that the save points pretty much throw you onto a specific path. I had some wierd experiences where I was taking out a base or something full of enemy troops and halfway through I hit the save point when I fot to the area where...

Forgot one: In a game I am currently playing in, we were examining something magical and all the mages were casting spells and so forth. My knight picked up a stick to poke at it. The DM referred to this as my "Medieval Tricorder" and it has been a running gag in all the games that group...