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    Ross Maker

    Obviously it's the guy who made Ross, the...really old spellcasting system?
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    [Rant] Is Grim n Gritty anything more than prejuidice?

    I've been trying to pin down the locus of your disagreement with GnG, but haven't had much luck. The above seems like an important statement though: are you asking whether GnG 'actually' exists in the way that high fantasy 'actually' exists? In other words, are you saying that a prejudice and a...
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    Weird things about you

    Cool, me too, probably a little louder than I can shout but hey I'm soft-spoken. Never met anybody else who could do it.
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    D&D Online

    This is what bothered me about WoW. With the Frozen Throne expansion for War3, Blizzard's World Editor became at least semi-useful, so I started modding and ended up with the most popular map on Battle.net for the first 6 months of FT. There were and are still too many limitations in War3...
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    [Rant] Is Grim n Gritty anything more than prejuidice?

    If what you're saying here is that, for example, the Realms could be played grim 'n gritty, I completely agree. Grim 'n gritty doesn't necessarily have to exclude high magic, flying castles, dragons or anything of that sort at all (mine just happens to)--what it does have to do is make it all...
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    D&D Online

    Final. Fanasty.
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    [Rant] Is Grim n Gritty anything more than prejuidice?

    Well, what in your view legitimates a critical perspective? I don't think there's any objective criticism to be leveraged one way or the other, but that doesn't mean my own preferences aren't legitimate. I can tell you why I don't like or play D&D, but I can't tell you why you shouldn't like or...
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    Gencon Couples, Help me!

    The hillarity factor of this thread broke the needle on my hillarity-detecting machine. I hope it's archived.
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    Idea for Wizards Star Wars starship mini

    I'd check it out, and I haven't bought anything even remotely gaming related since 1998.
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    Forgotten Realms Novels...which ones are good?

    A lot of words you wouldn't think twice about have similarly specific origins. They don't come from nowhere, so it's just a question of which etymologies you know and which you don't. Look at the word poison itself: does it bug you when a non-liquid poison is used, or a poison that isn't drunk...
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    Lucas convinced Ep III will tank?

    And you really showed me here since sarcasm, as everybody knows, is far superior to logic when it comes to arguing on the internet (irony too!). To reiterate: I have yet to see a "woe is me, my new movie won't make any money" quote from Lucas. The closest thing, in the interview that sparked...
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    Lucas convinced Ep III will tank?

    Well, I think the ratings system is a joke for the most part anyway. I know a lot of people are perfectly willing to raise their kids based on these sorts of approved gradations (on plenty of levels beyond movies as well), but they don't work for me. So if you're not being rhetorical, and really...
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    Lucas convinced Ep III will tank?

    Well, two things. First, I'm serious when I ask if there is some interview out there where Lucas genuinely comes off as an asshat. There isn't one linked in your original post, and the one you linked later in the thread really doesn't seem like a big deal to me. It's a pretty rational...
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    Lucas convinced Ep III will tank?

    That's not what I see when I look at these interviews. CBS' interview from a little over a month ago, for example: In context, the self-deprecating statements don't really fit with the original assessment of this thread. Maybe there is a specific example where these sorts of comments are given...
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    Lucas convinced Ep III will tank?

    So it's boneheaded for Lucas to make what, let's face it, was in all likelihood an offhand remark, not any kind of serious pronouncement, to a journalist who will then go home and invent the story of him "admitting that he is currently convinced that the film won't make any money?" Well yes, I...
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    What does d&d do to people, really?

    I'd have to disagree with that one pretty strongly. D&D vastly oversimplifies every form of mythology it comes into contact with. I prefer English literature translated from Greek by way of Latin into a contemporary approximation of Anglo-Saxon :) . Do you read Greek shilsen? I know there are...
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    Lucas convinced Ep III will tank?

    I figure there's no way he's simply indifferent toward his fanbase, though ideally that's what I'd prefer, personally: I wouldn't be interested in watching the movies if they were made the way I would make them--I want to see his vision. But there's also the possibility that you and I aren't...
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    Save/Promote the Hobby!? Use ENWorld

    When I was still in this range a couple years ago, I a) wasn't interested in generic gaming, by which I mean playing outside my group of friends or hanging out at an FLCS, and b) wouldn't pay FLCS prices for books anyway, so I had no reason to go there in the first place. I bet that's pretty...
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    Temporal railroading.

    You know, I had the same thought, although to be fair I certainly wouldn't want to play in this game either. Mostly because whoever invented Illithids and Drow should be shot, but that whole railroading thing is a little sketchy too.
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    Star Wars and its faithful

    Like I said before, textual criticism is a standard form of criticism, not only with older, classical texts, but with recent stuff. It always will be. Variant readings are common: they were common with, say, the materials Tolkien worked with, and now they are common with Star Wars (and the LotR...
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