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Not arguing - just using this a jumping off point. I have not read the module myself but it strikes me that the information given would be relavent which is a big plus in having players pay attention. Similar to someone earlier in the thread I've played the Baulder's Gate and Icewind Dale...

I almost hope he'll never be revealed. Rich has waited too long for the revelation and nothing will live up to the hype and anticipation.

Uphill slightly. They have had great books (Star Wars Saga, MIC, PH2) and they've had some that weren't all that great (Expeditions). There have been more that I have liked than didn't.

I couldn't. Every time (no exaggeration) either my buffers were confused/dominated or they got killed by my confused/dominated tanks before they could get any spells off after the Dispel Magic went off. Every... single... time... (or at least every single time after I started paying...

Is that the sequence with the Drow and all of their [bleep]ing poison attacks? Can I nominate a sequence? Whatever the sequence is in Pools of Darkness with the Drow gets my vote. I can get past any single fight okay, but then the next one comes along and I lose half of my party to...

That would be my current character; Maston Alwas. We started at 1st level a little over 2 1/2 years ago and have gamed mostly weekly. He just hit 26th level.

Because the prefix of "poke-" conveys to me that the user has a juvenile view of whatever is being 'poke'ed; that it is not very well constructed. Since it is juvenile (and thus 'below them') then it is an insult. I will admit, I couldn't have possibly "known" that it was an insult. But if...

Because I honestly feel that whoever coined the term (besides being congratulated on being a good enough word-smith to coin a term that has lasted this long) that if they wanted to highlight posative aspect of the ability they wouldn't have chosen a (as agreed between us at least) cheaply and...

:D Exactly. My responce would be 'what aspect of it that remind you of Pokemon don't you like.'I think i get this from my father who has a degree in psychology but I find it helps a conversation a lot if we can get to what people mean and not just what they say. For me, it isn't so much that...

They've both been fairly well covered up thread but you have asked for my own personal interpretation of the two. (And the gauntlet has been dropped - I can't refuse that). Both terms are simple single use phrases that in-and-fof themselves have no real meaning - and I don't just mean lack of...

Yes, and I do believe that is part of the requirement in having a balanced conversation once the term gets used.

To me there is a world of difference between saying "I hate the Pokemount" and "I hate that the current Paladin's Mount remind me of that kid's show with the little yellow thing that lives in a ball with it's popping in and out of existance all the time." The first strikes me as someone that...

I half agree. I think the reaction (from the person who didn't use the term) is only half of it. If the person who used the term doesn't stop using it (for that discussion) then that denotes (to me) a complete disregard for a balanced coversation and the other persons opinions. One may not...

Agreed. Any of the listed terms might be said/written/included for completely innocent reasons. The user of the term might not even be aware that the other side considers it "bad". Once it is known what either side cosiders to be a loaded/insulting/"bad" term it's up to both sides to try and...

But what's the point of creating DM Plothooks... er... friends and family if your character dies before they have a chance to get used? Because one I have some sembalnce of control over (retreating) and the other I don't (dave or die). I choose to stand up to the heavily armored fighter...

You love Vancian Magic? Then take it... please. Get it away from me. ... And I like pointy hats.

Most (if not all) of my characters have a background, friends and family. I hate it when that all goes away with one die roll (oh, look - I rolled a one on a save-or-die). In a fight I at least feel that it takes two or three die rolls (attack, crit confirm and damage) for the gaming gods to...

(And when I talk about that '1 free pass' I'm not speaking of discussions of the term itself. Heck, I use Pokemount twice in the above post. Discussions of the terms are different - I don't see how you can have a meaningful discussion of the term without using said term. Discussions of buying...

Actually I think that happened right here in this thread for a couple of pages. (Almost) everyone on both sides suddenly went on the defensive and it took well over a page to get back to where we were before the term got used. Insults are strange things. Someone up thread said this portion of...

I guess the question for me is really "what is the point of the campaign?" I mean.. besides getting togather with friends and having fun... Is it to find the MacGuffin? Is it to actually defeat YOAE? Is it to help inocents survive YOAE? If I thought that the point of the campaign was to find...