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I once had a toilet in my house that plugged up randomly. It didn't matter how much or how little went down it, about 10% of the time you used it, it would plug up and require extensive plunging. I graduated on to using chemicals to clear the blockage to one of those metal snakes, and I still...

It's one of the most social activities out there. Think about it. You basically sit around a table having a conversation with other people for hours on end, so even the "antisocial" learn to be social to some extent. Along the way you meet new people, learn new things about others, learn to...

Thank you for helping me to realize there's another thing in the world that I loathe with the burning hatred of a thousand angry suns. :) I never thought about it until now but yet I've known this hatred all my life. Have a nice day!

It was, I thought, a very clunky way to allow Qui Gon to know with certainty, and to spell it out plainly to the audience, that Anakin was a special kid. A Force detector, of course! That'll make it clear! It's telling instead of showing - bad practice for writers.

Friday night in Super Ultra Mega Huge Screen 3D. Hope the weather holds out so I can make it to the theater!

I'm 180 degrees different. As a player, if I feel like I have no input into the story of the game - that there's only one person whose story matters and it's not me, I'm usually not long for that group. I find nothing more boring than playing out someone else's novel that they've written in...

That's why when I improv a session, it's wrong to say that I improvise alone. I have a group of several other people helping me, and I rely heavily on their contributions. But yeah, one-man improv that results in something really amazing is a talent few people actually possess and I'm sure...

I like boxed text. Whether I use it or not is another matter. I just like to have the option in case I haven't had time to prep much or I'm just feeling lazy or not particularly creative or evocative that day. Thinking back, I seldom read the boxed text exactly as it's presented anyway.

The biggest things I can remember off the top of my head are how much the Vrusk and like the Thranx are similar (and if I remember correctly, Humans and Vrusk met first before other races in SF which would make it a lot like the Humanx Commonwealth in the books, but don't quote me on that). The...

No. Don't sully my fond memories of the 80s anymore that we already have. ;) On a related note, anyone ever notice how much Star Frontiers lifted from the Pip and Flinx books by Alan Dean Foster?

This is a very good point. I saw this problem for some players especially in 4e which had so many explicit combat options that people infamously became fixated on thinking that using a power of some kind was the only way to go. Power cards made it worse for some of my players - they got...

I'm a big fan of rules cheat sheets, myself, especially when you're new to the system. I always try to make or find rules cheat sheets to hand out whenever starting a new game.

D&D is one of the only games I can think of where many people consider it normal and often desirable for some of the players to not know all the rules. I can't wrap my head around that, sorry. On the other hand, D&D has a lot of rules, and it's not reasonable to expect that every player know...

Even now after this deal is over, NWN Diamond is only $3.99. Yeah, NWN2 was an update, but you could never beat NWN1 for the modability versatility, even if the original campaign was lackluster (Hordes of the Underdark was somewhat better). NWN1 also had (still has) a HUGE mod community base...

4e brought me back to D&D after years of falling away due to the things I disliked about 3.5. 13th Age energized and inspired me just at the right time as I was beginning to turn off to 4e because of the things I disliked in that edition. If you keep looking at all the new games out there and...

I'm showing my wife, an elementary school teacher, this post. Then I'm going to ask her why she exhibits all these problems at our game table. JK. She's awesome.

Another thing that irks me is when players take an excessive amount of time to decide what to do on their turn BECAUSE they're afraid of doing the wrong thing. There is no such thing as "doing it wrong" in my games. No matter what you do, even if it results in failure, it will (eventually)...

When players try to argue with me pre-emtively or trick me (as the DM) into letting them do something instead of just asking, or better yet, just telling me what they want to do. If they listened to what I told them many times while we play, it's never necessary to play these sort of word games...

For a good explanation of HIDDEN (as opposed to merely invisible), see this article saved from the old 4e forums: Rules of Hidden Club http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?447238-The-Rules-of-Hidden-Club-I-Think-I-Failed-A-Spot-Check Though, as AbdulAlhazred said, what is your...