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Tee Ess Arrrr -o-con. Come dressed like a pirate, in recognition of what was done with the logo and to the reputation of the old field-pioneering company.

It would be a good idea if GenCon had put in the 'goody bag' (along with the map, all the ads, a list of food &c) a use-at-home Coronavirus Exposure Kit with instructions "Take this test when you get home. Do what you need to (medicine, doctor, isolate at home, and so on) if you did catch...

A dunk tank with the TSR staff taking turns inside might be appropriate.

The orc camp occasionally sends some raw materials as trade goods - maple syrup, sturdy oak lumber, pelts / furs, kindling by the cartload, herbs for Medicine Kits - to the town for exchange of manufactured / imported goods. The half-orc leads negotiations because he is bilingual. Eventually...

+1 for "Racial spells do not require material components". You and yours evolved (or were mutated?) to be able to cast magic just this particular way. Or you learned it at school with everybody else and carrying around that no-cost material component is just as natural to your character as...

The Integral Trees, referenced above, and the sequel novel The Smoke Ring have ideas and descriptions you will find helpful. Also the novel 2010 (sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey) pokes around just a little bit with the 'life floating in Jupiter's atmosphere ' idea.

That's not helpful or an accurate description of the situation. Courts have to work with people who are fully truthful and tell what they saw / did / felt accurately; people who are lying all the way; people who are mostly honest but want to diminish their role in an event in some way; people...

+1 for the Slaver series. Set this in a desert-y environment and get a Dark Sun prototype. P.S. The obstacle is not the edgelords mentioned above. Look up the 'Dark Sun in 5e?' threads and read the negative reactions therein. That is the controversy WotC wants to avoid.

If they are proposing an alternative course of action to attain a desirable goal - such as "no patient exposed to COVID while in hospital" - then giving them an either-or choice which excludes their suggested option is still being dumb. The medical staff is trained professionals with experience...

Are you sure the problem is "the staffers don't care"? Somebody interviewed the staff to find out what the problem is and got that answer? Or is this - yet again - applying a hasty generalization to other people without bothering to acquire knowledge?

If you fire big chunks of your medical staff in the middle of a pandemic, the idiot is not the staff.

For a 4e Dark Sun game, my Druid had taken a power that was supposed to make an enemy attack his allies. I realized that casting it on an ally and sending him amidst hostile minions would have a grenade-like effect. Plus, this kind of stunt is a very DS thing to do (looking out for Number One...

Humor (I hope): Somebody brought a pet hedgehog / porcupine / skunk, which was jostled against somebody else in a confined space and ... Peasant 1's cow ate the straw that was supposed to become Peasant 2's bedding Your animal ate (or befouled) my dinner ! Flock of geese is wandering across the...

I would prefer "regional primaries" (such as Super Tuesday) over the current schedule. Indiana (votes in May) rarely has competitive primaries, due to previous candidate attrition. 2016 was an exception; I was tempted to visit all four major candidates' rallies near me, buy a trinket-souvenir...

You might be better off in the long run: Pfizer and Moderna degrade over time - hence the need for booster shots. But I haven't yet heard anything about J&J also needing boosters.

4e Basket of Everlasting Provisions keyed to the infant will give you clean water, mothers milk, Gerber-style baby food(s), zwieback crackers, apple juice, &c as appropriate to the child's age. Install this in the cargo space underneath the child. When the child has an upset tummy it makes...

The Basic D&D rules had giant ants, bees / wasps, and a few other insects. IRL the Carboniferous Period (giant dragonflies and coal forests) can inspire other ideas. And the ultimate pseudo-insect monstrosity: Rust Monsters!

I've seen churches and schools used as polling places. In both cases, one end of the building was used for voters (gym at school or cafeteria at church). A closed doorway or a long empty hallway marked "Please Do Not Enter" were between the guests and the normal occupants. Tuesday is not the...

UV light kills viruses, at least the airline commercial showing how they clean the seats between flights thinks so. Any bar / tavern / restaurant that wants to rig UV lights on the ceiling and run the test (explaining what they are up to and asking for volunteers from the public) could offer...

Me, playing in Murder at Balders Gate: I've got an idea, based in FR lore, how to kill the god of murder dead for keeps. How come, in the last 100 years, the 15th-level clerics of Lathander and/or Ilmater - who normally go out fighting great evils and doing good deeds - haven't taken care of...