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My doctor told me to avoid fudge. Something about my last blood test showing up as gravy. Holy cow, there's a game I haven't heard about in a while. #2 is the one I go by because it's the only criteria I can reasonably know for sure. Oh, wow. People who play dead games are actually...

I'll be honest with you, I always looked at TSR as a publicly traded company under Williams' leadership but you and others have since reminded me that it wasn't. As such, I can't even question whether it was ethical for her to try to produce a Buck Rogers game. She owned TSR as was well within...

I was under the impression TSR wasn't particularly adept at understanding what the market was for anything they were selling.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

I'm thinking they might be one of the niche tools that are great for some specific tasks. I've never tried them though.

So on to something miniatures related. On occasion, I do like to purchase miniatures for the express purpose of painting them and giving to a friend. Each year, I give all my players a painted miniature. The crab man I recently painted was purchased for a player of mine who every so often...

I got this Reaper Bones crab man for a $1 at a miniatures swap meet hosted by my FLGS. It was the first thing I painted when I got back home.

Yeah. In the Ultimate Marvel universe they might have updated it to him being a veteran of the 1st Gulf War and in other iterations he's a veteran of some fictional war also in a jungle. In Garth Ennis' twelve run Punish series in 2000, Frank was still a Vietnam veteran which would have put...

I always wondered why they were running around with a Belgian made FN-P90 submachine gun. Marvel comics has a similar problem with many characters tied to real world wars or events. Magneto is a Holocaust survivor making him a minimum of 85, Punisher is a Vietnam veteran and has got to be in...

In 1999, only about 32% of the US population had a cell phone. I'm general a late adopter when it comes to new technologies, so I didn't get a cell phone until 2005, Nokia Razor, and I didn't get a smart phone until 2013. But in 1999, when I was in my early twenties, nobody in my peer group...

The Breakfast Club came out in 1985, so there isn't a single grunge song on the soundtrack.

Or complaints about Star Trek being "woke." It's like, "Bub, in 1967 the had an episode with the foremost expert on computers in all of Starfleet and he was a Black dude named Richard Daystrom. In an era where computers were associated with NASA, the military, and complicated businesses, where...

Let's face it, it wasn't that long ago an anti-Semitic statement from the owner of just about any business would have been unthinkable. Not because such sentiments didn't exist, but because just about any business owner would understand what such a statement publicly made might mean to their...

He was probably a lot of fun if you were just gaming. I have some gaming buddies like that. One of them talked to me about running a game store together, but I knew we'd start butting heads over stupid stuff like grooming and how to dress when you're working retail.

Have you seen some of the discussions here and on other forums about something as innocuous as preferred game play styles? Those discussions can be really, really heated. I'm with you though. I never really had a glowing admiration about Gygax because I knew nothing about him other than he...

I'm a simple man. I just want 1-2 books, preferably one I can hand to players, an adventure, and some maps. While I'm open to having other items, I don't want any dice. I can understand dice being included in a starter set though.

During the ambush, someone said to Gary something along the lines of, "We hope you will continue with TSR in a creative capacity." Did they mean it? Maybe? After all, the company was selling a lot of books with Gary's name on it. And given that Gary had been there from the beginning, they...

I would be curious to learn if Williams took the issue to TSR's board of directors. It did occur to me that Gygax himself had a major conflict of interest with his royalty payments. It was in his best interest to focus on D&D to the exclusion of other projects because he would personally...