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"I've sent boys younger than you to the gas chamber. I didn't want to do it; I felt I... owed it to them." Someone chooses to go out an airlock without benefit of vacc suit, you owe it to them to ask what's a good time to get together with you to make their new character.

That clearance level does not exist, Citizen. Who disclosed its existence to you?

Outside a bag of holding, a scroll of teleportation is an adventurer's best friend. Inside a bag of holding it's too dark to read.

Judge must have read lots of David Eddings.

I'll just leave this here:

Shades of the gubernatorial candidate in William S. Burroughs' "When Did I Stop Wanting to be President": "Anything I do for you, I'll depreciate".

For anyone scratching their heads: Caltech's mascot is a beaver (nature's engineer).

Should have added a mirror with lines of a white powdery substance on it.

"I regret that I have but one asterisk for my... uh, I'll try that again." - Nathan Hale

Okay, don't back it then.

Uh, because revising and refreshing historical modules long gone ghost is a Thing They Do but they don't want to put a penny into the hands of a frickin' Nazi? Seems obvious to me.

Like it or not, Gygax wasn't Daniel Shipstone and proto-RPGs had been around long before him or Arneson. There's a sheaf of universes where some literary type put together Glass Town and Little Wars...

Leslie Fish.

Sometimes the suits don't catch what's there for them to catch, which is how we got the Popsicle Twins. Uh, maybe don't look that up on a work computer.

Oh no, we're assassinating someone else. (I mean, the head of another faction practically gave us a How To Off That Guy kit, I feel it would be rude not to.)

Convinced everyone to try assassination.

GURPS Traveller: Nobles has huge swaths without any game mechanics, and lots of the other GT books have chunks of mechanicless text on life and operations in Charted Space (which might not yet have been called that at the time).

Could be a lot worse. A lot of my repertoire was written by my genre's equivalent of H. P. Lovecraft.