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Uller & Maldur's comments put me in mind of an excellent recent book about children and violent media, Gerard Jones' Killing Monsters. based on his own work with kids, he argues that even the most violent or shocking media -- first-person shooters, Eminem, etc -- can be very useful in giving...

this is my story, pathetic but true, or, "those are some expensive coloring books, son" so, a bookish and somewhat introverted grade schooler falls in love with 1e D&D. let's call him Rackabello. sadly, he doesn't have anyone his own age to game with. he plays with his dad every now and...

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but without AC who can say whether the fighter hits anything? and without DC will we ever know whether the rogue survives that poisoned arrow?;) actually, Josh, i'm right there with you as far as heavy metal gaming goes. it just has too many non-game connotations for me.

was it the Visitor's Bureau or GenCon's organizers who decided to move the convention? i watched a news story at the time of last year's GenCon that suggested one of the reasons for the move was a relative lack of hotel rooms in Milwaukee. folks were renting rooms in the UWis-Milwaukee dorms...

for general ambiance i recommend Dead Can Dance Vas, a voice and percussion duo with medieval and middle eastern influences Fairport Convention, Liege and Lief, a British folk rock classic Finnish folk group Gjallarhorn i also love using music to that evokes what the characters themselves...

my first encounter with D & D seems the perfect topic for my first post to these forums....it would have been in the late 70s / early 80s, in second or third grade and i don't think i had any sense of the game's reputation for good or ill. i think it was during the height of D & D's early...