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Personally, I'm worried about the zombies. We know Azure City is a port of some kind based on the fact that there has been talk about using ships to leave the city. If they're a seaport, Redcloak could just send the zombies to do a "Pirates of the Carribean" style walk along the seafloor to...

Well, this is supposed to be "deaths" and I've given two "near deaths", so I'll close with a death. This one was both "funny" and "spectacular". It was a 2e Forgotten Realms game and the person who played the ranger in one of my earlier stories (we shall call him "Ted") was playing a wild...

A "non-Joe" story. This was a 2e game as well. For some reason, all my stupid player stories seem to be from 2e. There was a relatively new player who we'll call "Fred". Fred was playing a big, hulking fighter. Somewhere along the line, he'd aquired an item called a "Vampiric Ring of...

A third story, also involving "Joe" though he didn't actually die this time. This way yet another campaign (still 2e) and Joe had talked me into letting him play a psionic monk. I don't know how, but he did. Sigh. Anyway, Joe had put together some combination of powers that, when added...

I'm going to add another "Joe" story, though it was actually two deaths. In a different campaign, the player with the staff from my last story, "Joe", was also playing a wizard. He and the party ranger needed to go somewhere pretty quickly for some reason and going by horse would take several...

This happened back in a 2nd edition AD&D game I ran in college. It happened more than 10 years ago, so forgive me if I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. The party was in Cormyr in the Forgotten Realms. They'd gotten pretty powerful and were probably 12th-14th level by this point. They also had...

That's fine if you're the DM. You can't do that if you're the player. I didn't like it as a player because I didn't have any way to customize my PC.

We don't really have enough information about how things work in Azure City to know what Hinjo can legally do. That said, I wonder if he's playing a longer game. 1. He may be prepared to let the nobles leave with their troops because he's worried about them launching a coup or causing some...

Well, to be the voice of dissent, I didn't like it. I've only played it and not used it as a DM, but I didn't like it. As others have said, it lacks customization options and that annoys me.

What do you have against corporals? :D

Hmm, ok. My nephew the gangster. So is that a new base class then? "Gangster" (or "Gangster Wannabe")?

That's evidently what threw me off. My niece was wearing black, had black nail polish and generally looked "goth" and I said something about becoming a goth and she got kinda huffy and informed me she was an "emo". I think he has a skateboard but he's mostly worried about cars with extra bits...

Oh, I don't really. This is a case of the internet being a clumsy means of communications. I'm mostly being lighthearted -- even if I don't know what most of those things in the OP are. Well, the Christmas conversation was in 2005 so that's when I heard of them. Most of the rest of the OP is...

Hey! Parachute pants were popular long before Hammer.

I'm obviously out of the loop. I thought I knew what a 'goth' was, but when my teenage niece showed up for Christmas dressed like a goth, she haughtily informed me she was 'emo'. Evidently being 'emo' involves boys wearing girl's pants because she proceeded to have a long conversation with...

That's odd. There are words and letters there but they're put together in such a way that most of them mean nothing to me. I'm old, aren't I? :(

I started EQ about a month after it launched. It was my first MMORPG. I saw a lot of potential in the idea of the MMORPG and really liked what I saw of EQ at first. The problem was that the design of the game made trying to get anywhere like repeatedly banging your head against a brick wall...

I once saw someone roll a set of stats using 4d6-drop-the-lowest and get nothing above a 9. All stats were in single digits. The player was very distressed but was going to play the character anyway. I let him reroll and insisted he use a different set of d6s. The rerolls were much better...

I did one for an old Forgotten Realms game I ran in college. I'm pretty sure the existance of the paper was actually stated in the game material somewhere, so that's how I justified it. I think I ended up producing about 8 or 10 issues of the "Waterdeep Daily Trumpet". One got handed out per...

A couple of weeks ago, someone referred to my rogue as a "thief" and that led to a discussion of all the things my rogue does NOT do, like steal from the party, steal when we're in town, etc. He's basically a scout and 'commando'. The only time he's actually out and out stolen anything was...