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I got my copy! The site seemed hammered, which makes me think that this is proving very, very popular!

I've seen the help you've given people on the Cartographer's guild and could not resist backing. Awesome stuff!

If we want silly… Step 1: Determine location of White Dragon's den. Step 2: Conquer the underdark. Step 3: Use slave labor to build giant lava tunnel into White Dragon den.

Weapons Mastery was added in the Master's set. I don't think it was necessarily very commonly used in the day, but I use it when I run games today. It's a nice buff for fighter types to give them something to excel at (anyone can do mastery, but fighters get many more slots) and I like the...

True, they say you need around 10,000 hours of practice on different things to become an expert at something. So, what sorts of things might you practice? (Witness my daring segue.) I do like the idea of phys ed as an elective, since wizards that want to adventure might want that. But of...

Wizard schools exist throughout D&D editions and fiction. There's the Great School of Magic in Glantri, Hogwarts, Redhurst Academy, Path of the Magi and College of Wizardry. There's probably been a wizard school in each setting that has come out. What are some ideas for some courses that might...

The biggest concern I have is already happening. Kickstarter has changed their terms of service so that the project needs to refund backers if the project cannot deliver the rewards. If your kickstarted project includes a reward that is an output of the project (board game, device, etc) then...

Little monsters are fun. Moving around little monsters is fun. Painting little monsters is fun. If you don't agree with that, than you wouldn't understand and that's OK.

So, I DM RCD&D.... Simple combats? I don't bring out the minis. Not worth it. Players meeting a bunch of chumps, we freeform it and things die. Set piece battles get minis, and they often also get terrain. The bads are all painted, the PCs are painted (whether by me, or by the players), and...

Cool... I wonder if I got mine from Paizo, not OBS the first time...

Just grabbed it. MUCH Better scan than they were selling last time.

I use a Mac application called DEVONthink. It allows me to import most document types, including PDF, and indexes them for rapid search. That's a big help for my Dragon Magazine collection, old BECMI D&D PDFs, etc. I can import pages from blogs with a quick bookmarklet. It can split up those...

There are a few things to think about when you pick projectors. Where are you projecting it? Are you projecting it on a wall, or on the table? How do you want to mount it? Are you going to mount it to the ceiling, or use mirrors to bounce things around? Given the size of your room and the...

I knew I was a fake. Oh, well. Time to stop pretending.

I don't think that's geekness. I think that's "similarity to me". Geekness ranges all over the map. I program, have an undying love for Babylon 5, paint minis, think Mentzer D&D is the one true edition, soldered a sidelight into my GBA, and first learned assembler on MC68k. I have very little...

I'm going to have to strip your geek card, unless you find one with a rotary dial. Perhaps retrofitting one of those ancient Bell telephones that are more durable than a tank with a cellular antenna.

Even that is exclusionary because there's no phrase for "fake geek boy". Nobody talks about it. On the other hand there's a fairly consistent experience that geek girls have of people assuming they're only there because of their boyfriend, or (more recently) that they're faking it to be '"cool"...

Perhaps it would make things much simpler if we had a worldwide geek certification organization. Similar to technology and other certifications, there would be a base curriculum that would be tested, and there could be additional concentrations available to certify deeper, more specialized...

This is absolute cheating. Bringing in a bunch of UK geeks with their damn sexy accents to support ANYTHING is a terribly underhanded ruse.

Nope. I agree with the French and legislatively protecting the language from toon, mob, and Gish.