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I learned this particular lesson circa 1990. I was making a good hot batch of Chili and had been hand crushing dried peppers into the mix before the call of nature. Yaowza! That's some fine pain there, Lou! Not an experience I'd recommend. Much worse than a few years later when I learned...

Pretty much exactly what I had come into the thread to post. This is the first time I've even looked at ENWorld in probably more than a week, and the first post to the general forum in several months. I used to look at the board several times a day, even if I didn't post very much. I like 3e...

I used to work late at night at a Kmart Distribution Center. I would MOST DEFINITELY recommend something like that. Kmart, Target, Walmart. DISTRIBUTION CENTER. Not in a generally public area, so less initial zombies. Fewer windows, fence around the place. Aisles and Aisles of bottled...

I had the same initial thought on watching the show, but I have two answers to this; 1> Dr. Who is a "family" show. Killing a little girl, even if she is evil, isn't going to fly. Only constructs get shot by the good guys. Only the bad guys kill real people, including aliens. 2> You have...

I wholeheartedly agree. Congrats Mark and Melody. After Stan did not eliminate anyone for the final, I was really hoping that at the finale, he would do the same thing and declare all three to be joint winners, even as I knew that they were only going to go with one. But as the show...

Once more to the well! Geez, this guy is turning into a Corey! (Feldman/Haim reference) He's got nothing else going on, so he's fixated on his one past success. Next on The Two Coreys... The Coreys talk to Adrian Paul about doing a Highlander / Lost Boys crossover!

I'm usually very direct and straight forward and very much against passive aggressive behaviors. But there is nothing to be gained through confrontation. Just take it that you learned a valuable lesson about those 54 no-shows and your relationships with them. They aren't good enough people...

Been all over the board with this one. On my own end, I tend to be very quiet and reserved for the first three sessions in a new group. In that time I'm trying to learn the group dynamics and how they play the game. I don't want to step on toes or come off as a jerk. So I have no problems...

I had a really good friend like this too. Gamed with him and his wife, best of friends, called me "family". But slowly over the years, especially as they had children, they became smug, self-satisfied (expletives) who knew everything they ever needed to know about everything and assumed the...

I have removed myself from quite a few groups over the years for all manner of reasons. > Quit DMing two groups because of combatative and downright stupid players. > Walked out of a group because I'd introduced a new player who was a very good friend of my soon-to-be ex-wife and he started...

Another vote for Honesty. Tell the player up front that they're no longer invited to the game. Honesty doesn't mean, however, that you need to spell out every detail of a long list of faults or problems and allow the other person to respond to demand another chance. You simply tell them that...

lol. No need to do that, Mr. Master! Let him refuse to work! After 3 days, it's considered "Job Abandonment" and then you don't have to pay unemployment!

I don't think it's just a Gamer thing. About a month ago (or maybe a couple of weeks ago?) in the entertainment section of our local paper, there was an article on a woman who basically spends her entire life complaining to various companies in order to get free stuff. And about how she's...

*Bows to bento's parenting wisdom.*

Now now, I thought I dispelled that one last session. I DO NOT have the highest damage total, unless you're crediting me for the additional damage that people are doing because of my kewl boosts. However, I do think that I still have the highest number of individual "kills". With a Bard using...

This thread is fascinating. My 3rd level Bard has had only one chance to fascinate someone so far. The Wizard mind control guy in TWotBS campaign, if anyone knows that one. I rolled a 3 and failed miserably. I described it after the fact as: "I hold up a small object and say "Oh look...

Yup, have to second SteelDraco's comment about the writers being gamers. Love that show. It's got Giant Spiders, Dragons, Cthulhu, Giant Monster Battles, Evil Organizations, the whole shebang. Mandy wants you to watch. Mandy always gets what she wants.

Hmm... pretty good advancement of the (Suicidal) Kobold Ninjas I used in my last campaign. They'd leap from trees and high places to attack, fairly often resulting in their own deaths. Look, it's raining Kobolds!

I had one of my players in my last campaign argue the same thing. "Make everything big and roomy so that it's easier and more fun". Only problem was that I had made it clear up front that I was trying to make it HARDER so that they had to think and act more intelligently. The two times they...

Not far off the mark. It's been a few years, but I seem to remember a couple of songs in the books.