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All my sympathies to you and to his family... "Here was a man, take him all in all, we shall not see his like again..."

I think I have a dull spoon around here somewhere...

Some children scare me... And some parents scare me even more... Since they seem to have no theory of personal property/ propriety, may I suggest that you start by doing a bit of renovation? You could probably get a door & lock for your sanctum at Home Depot or some such... (if you could find...

And every year there's war over control of the Pittsburgh area-- the looser gets stuck with it :lol: Actually, they have their own Kingdom now-- the current King is my old college roommate, and his Queen's a sweetie... and could probably take your Ftr 2 out of 3 times ;)

Hey all, Sorry if there was a thread about this earlier... Dungeon has been including all sorts of 'easter eggs' in their adventures lately, and though most of them are familiar I'm having trouble dredging some of the references up from the fleshy tablets of my mind... so, can anyone help...

And I was all set to explain "shunning" as practiced by social groups in preindustrial communities as a form of punishment...

Works for me...

I voted "1 to 3 hours a week"... I also voted "other", since at this point, owing to the amount of grad school reading/ writing/ TA stuff I've got going on, one to three hours a week is a pleasant dream... :\

Saga? Hey, it worked for all those Norsemen...

That fine example of Reagan-Era Hollywood, and the comedy stylings of Rodney Dangerfield, Back to School... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090685/

"Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war" Always did like that line...

What did you think of the moon cake? The general consensus among the students in my discussion groups was "Meh..." I thought it tasted a bit "doughy", as if the cookies didn't get baked through all the way. YMMV, though-- I guess it falls under the category of "Acquired taste." Like that...

Sounds a little like "X-Crawl"... Of course, the first thing that popped into my head was "Steve Irwin: Dragon Hunter" Followed by "Preternatural Animal Cops" And a televangelist preaching against the "Pro-Unlife" lobby... And "People for the Ethical Treatment of Mythological Animals"...

Very nice-- with your permission, that's now my desktop background... BTW, this just passed full moon marked the Chinese "Moon Festival", which is a harvest festival/ day of remembrance holiday. People feel nostalgic for departed friends, eat "moon cakes" (sort of a Chinese version of...

We encounter this phenomenon every day, and not just in the game. How many people do you meet each day that define themselves by their job? And not just in the quick answer to the question 'what do you do' sense, either? I do think that, what with the "PrC of the month" or "cool variant for...

As if "Hello Kitty" wasn't frightening enough...

Shhh... Shhhh! QUIET! With cat-like tread, Upon our prey we steal, In slience dread, Our cautious way we feel, No sound at all, We never speak a word, A fly's footfall would be disctinctly heard! Come, friends, who plough the sea! Truce to navigation, take another station! Let's vary...

In Sid Meier's Pirates, I like the rapier for close combat, and the chainshot for ship-to-ship... In Stronghold, I like a group of archers (and a little bit of time to let them clear the battlements)... though flinging the cow with the trebuchet is tons 'o fun... In Age of Sail, I like a full...

Here's a couple of oddballs for you all to consider: PsiWorld from FGU: I never actually got a chance to play this one, but it's a percentile-based system. I was especially intrigued by the mechanic for "learning by doing" where you got a chance to increase your skills relative to the number of...

Last time I went sailing, I had reason to lean over the rail at least once every fifteen minutes... Of course, such a person is also suffering either from the sickened condition, and takes a -2 penalty on all spot checks, or from the nauseated condition, and can't do much but move to and from...