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People can, and do. It's fairly easy. Lets say a DM starts a game at 1st level. In an early session, the PCs come across a trade with goods to sell. The trader is a Goblin/Orc/Drow/Gnoll/Whatever with a child in tow. PCs trade with trader and come away with an early lesson that not all...

So I convinced my group to let me run a Gamma World game for my birthday. "Happy Birthday to me! Happy Birthday to me!" Ahem. I used the recent "based on 4e D&D" edition. I don't know what edition that is. Eighty-three and a half? What I like is the tradition of taking your local and "Gamma...

Well, there's towing. Yabba, dabba, do!

Well, now the page is showing that CM is down for emergency maintenance.

Actually, this is something I really liked. The idea that the bomb would blow simply as a consequence of not being attached to the fusion rector was a good choice. First, had it been a typical hollywood countdown, then instead of a race to get it to the rest of the reactor, it would have been a...

Two things: 1. I think you're making the mistake of equating "Dangerous and Stupid" with "Impossible". It's a common mistake when assuming everyone is sane. 2. I never claimed Dallas played D&D alone. He played with other people. One of the students Dear interviewed said that Dallas had played...

I wish they did have ADD over there. Then maybe they would have learned some coping strategies. Frankly, they're more like the worst Kender players. Someone (or something) over there is constantly distracted by shiny objects. They are constantly eschewing anything that looks like people might...

Well, that's it for the VT I just got this email from WotC: I am very disappointed in them.

I was waiting for someone to confirm or refute that. It sounds like the tunnels are worse than the ones at MSU. They weren't exactly hospitable, but SMU sounds like it was more so.

MSU's Wikipedia page doesn't mention their 8.5 miles steam tunnels at all, even on the page dedicated to describing the physical campus. Somethings, universities would rather you "discover on your own." Once your there, after you've already paid your tuition. ;) The jives with my own antidotal...

So I just got finished reading The Dungeon Master. It's a book about the the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III. For those of you who don't know, Dallas' disappearance made national headlines in 1979, in the early days of D&D's popularity. It was reported that Dallas may have disappeared...

Eh, the thing about any UI is that once you know how to do it, it usually isn't a problem. (Subject to exceptions.) The real problem was finding out how to do it in the first place. You know, now that I think about it, where is the help section for this place?

I disagree, having just gone through the same thing. I'm rather warming up to "obnoxious". But you're probably not OCD about clearing your notifications. It's good software, so there's that. It's not like my beloved FreeBSD is without flaws.

I was also reminded of LUG's template system for their Star Trek games. The front of the book had iconic character templates. Pick one and go. The back of the book had, IIRC, a few templates that were less iconic. I.e., if you really wanted to make an enlisted PC. They also had a full point buy...

Was it eating it's own tail? If so, then it may be an ouroboros (I've also seen it spelled Oroboros or Uroborus, you know how these things are) with a six point star in the middle. It is an old symbol. And like so many old symbols, people are going to ascribe it occult significance. If that...

Yep. Since the '60s, Namor's waffled on the whole good guy thing. He waffled in the '40s too. His feature was after the Human Torch's in the original Marvel Comics title. It's an interesting contrast.

Yes. There are two IMAX formats. One is a large format (i.e., the film is larger than the standard 35mm format) film, the other is not. (Really, it's just a projection system.) Originally, you filmed IMAX films with a special camera that and exhibited on a screen that literally occupies your...

IIRC, Whedon was going to film it in 3d, but dealing with 3d and everything else was too much, so he filmed it 2d with an eye to doing the 3d in post. Coraline's good in 3d. Stop motion animation looks really good in 3d. Of course, I believe Coraline (and Avatar) were filmed in 3d, while...

Hadn't seen that before, I never watched the West Wing. I did see him a few months ago on The New Adventures of Old Christine when my wife was watching reruns in syndication. It was weird hearing his voice saying things that weren't MiB like.

His roll in Thor helped a lot. Competent, but funny, is a good combination. And since he wasn't one of the main characters, he never had any of the flaws writers add to main characters to make him interesting. So we had an unflawed, competent, and funny character. I think that is a big part of...