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The beholder dice are quite appealing to me, depending on price.

My 12 yo son absolutely loves these type of books. (As I was at his age,…) He skews older academically, but he shows no desire to put away childish things. Yet. 🤞

I like that knight’s dragon banner

It’s a shame Gale Force 9 isn’t printing official D&D maps any more. I’ve loved the ones I got from them, but the Beadle stuff contains a lot of useless (to me) junk that drives the price well beyond my level of interest.

Well, look at that. The title “Geek Confessional Thread” was off putting enough* that I never looked to see what lay beyond it. *: IMO.

The Minnesotan town of New Prague… rhymes with “vague.”

Nope. No idea at all. Fake mythology. Unrelated: I’m usually terribly put off by Celtic mythology at the very get-go by the names, like Crom-Cruache, Carnun, or Cu Cuthulain (not a correct recollection of that recently-mentioned hero’s name) because I find it extremely difficult to distinguish...

In the course of my work, I have looked up lead levels in milk. (It’s usually negligible, but varies with parental exposure.)

Have they really said that for all of Ncuti’s eventual tenure? That would be pretty bold. And welcome.

Great observations, humble minion. I came into D&D in 1981, but I largely agree with your perspectives on both the Gygax and the Williams eras. For me, both eras have one thing in common: Each was a glorious mess. Each produced both wonderful visionary works, and also a flood of lousy...

Or “Leomund’s Secure Shelter”

In the late 80’s in Wisconsin, the first/primary brand of ATM’s was “Tyme”. Their machines bore the slogan “Tyme is Money” So everyone in Wisconsin called ATM’s “Time Machines.” Which resulted in verry strange looks from non-locals whenever someone casually said anything like: “I need to...

Tito’s job was DM’ing the Adventures of Drunky Two-Shoes, yes?

Tito's now working for the office that oversees elections for the State of Washington. The 'focus of ire' he'll face there will be greater. 😢

Good for Tito! Congrats!

Forgotten Realms seems pretty likely:

I was sure there would be plenty of accompanying explanatory text, given what was (and was not) in that table. I'm simply astounded that such a detailed sub-system was ever created and published. One criticism I considered upon seeing the first table image was that the system had failed to...

That table is amazing. First: it defines ”Fuel” as being measured in units of “person turns.” Then it doesn’t provide any units at all for things called Start, Wind Res., Cap., Vis., or “Warmth Provided at Given Dis.”!

I feel seen. I loved that kind of resourceful problem solving in dungeon crawling campaigns as a young adult in the 1980’s to early 90’s. Probably still would. But most people I have played with since have preferred a lot more fluid storytelling and heroic campaigns, so I’ve adjusted to play...

That moment was beautiful. My son is an almost-teen gymnast (recreational) who has been admiring Simone’s impossible feats since before he could pronounce her name. Such a wonderful display of good sportsmanship (sic) from galaxy-class athletes.