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Planet Money, a podcast kind of like This American Life which focuses on financial stories, did a podcast a couple months ago about tithing in the Mormon church that might be of interest. What The IRS Could Learn From Mormons : Planet Money : NPR To summarize, the church leaves it to each...

Came here to say the same thing. The actual colors you choose don't matter if there's no prior association; people will pick them up. For people like me who have a background in WoW, it's really weird seeing Fighter as blue in your example. The WoW colors are: Warrior: Brown Paladin: Pink...

Well, I guess ENWorld just isn't the teeming hive of theoretical arithmeticists that I thought it was.

Absolutely, but I also chose the wrong word in my example... I should have said "non-associative". Woops.

Of course it does! "d" has exactly as much meaning as "+", "-", "*", "/", and "^" (exponentiation). They're all binary operators. In fact, "d", "-" and "^" are particularly comparable, since the order of the operands matter. "d" means "generate a random integer between 1 and the quantity on...

Sadly, everyone's Dear Aunt Sally doesn't have much say as to the order of precedence of the 'd' in dice notation. In the case of addition and subtract, it's obvious... 1d4+3 means (1d4)+3. However, what about 1d4*3? Should that mean (1d4)*3 or 1d(4*3)? Same question for 1d4^3. Is that...

The biggest problem here is that you broke verisimilitude and had the assassin capture them instead of killing them. I think you should try to come up with some explanation for that, e.g. the assassin is working for someone else who offered to pay more for the PCs to be delivered to him alive.

Wow. A world without Magic: the Gathering. That would be such a Utopia! I can see it now. No Magic means Wizards of the Coast never develops beyond a little rinky-dink basement operation. They never buy TSR, who finally end up declaring bankruptcy, and the D&D brand gets purchased for a song by...

In before lock?

Feels a bit forced, but the last panel is... magnificent. :)

Kick him out, talk to him, or ignore it. There's nothing simple about statistics when it comes to determining whether events are fairly random or not. Unless you've meticulously recorded and studied thousands of his rolls, you don't know anything from the "statistics".

I'm of the same opinion now that I was four years ago.

I've recently decided on a new strategy for magic items, what I call the no numbers rule. In a nutshell, magic items can't use numbers. It's a bit more nuanced than that. I could certainly have a sword called the Thousand Fangs, or a bell that summoned nine herons. But I'll never give out a +1...

My favorite part is the very first panel, where Haley's hand is... engaged.

This is fantastic. Totally yoinked.

Adding 3-digit numbers is definitely too much to ask. I've gamed with more than one person who took out their cellphone to add d20 + 1-2 digit modifier. That said, I'm working on my own RPG system where every player is expected to have a calculator (an actual calculator with big rubber buttons...

Don't overthink it. Just teach her to play whatever it is you currently play.

That was freaking epic.

I feel the same way, and then some. I dislike Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and even Dragonlance, because my initial impression of all three of them is that they're just generic swords and sorcery fantasy*. You want to know my favorite settings? Eberron, Planescape, and Spelljammer, in that...

Why are D&D elves so much different from Santa elves? Why do monks in this predominantly euro-centric setting practice asian martial arts instead of walking around all day in brown robes and praying? It's just part of D&D lore. Why is anything the way it is? Just because.