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This is exactly right, which is why it ultimately doesn't matter if the riddles and clues aren't fair or are misleading, since they are all designed to torment anyone foolish enough to enter the tomb. If it seems arbitrary and capricious, well, that's exactly what you'd expect and evil mad...

Maybe, but here's the video, in case anyone's forgotten: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: Teaser - YouTube I have to admit, I'd forgotten how annoying and condescending that video was till I just looked it up. It was the first warning sign for me that I was not going to be switching editions.

I find this interesting. I haven't played the game, and avoid edition wars stuff if I can, but I clearly remember that this isn't how the game was sold. Remember the "The Game Remains" promotional video, about how complex 3rd ed was and how fast moving 4th ed would be? I'm surprised to hear now...

I read this last summer. Great book, lots of fun for those of us who grew up in the 1980s.

I second, third, and fourth this. I've thoroughly enjoyed this thread!

Just as long as he decides to put his attention into this instead of giving us MORE sub-par "Wild Cards" material, I'll be happy.

I've clearly been living in a different version of America than you for the last decade.

Oh, come now! You can't possibly believe your own rhetoric at this point. The yellowcake pretext for war was rooted specifically in the claim that he was trying to obtain new yellowcake from Niger. That was the specific claim that Powell made in his UN speech. As for your other claims, it's...

It is striking that almost everything Samurai lists as a justification for war has long been shown to be untrue, and to have been known to be so at the time.

By the way, I'm in agreement with you on this point, if not much in terms of the background politics.

Yes, that should be "China". I'm still getting used to my iPad' s virtual keyboard.

You are of course welcome to disagree, but polls around the world support the contention that there is a deep suspicion of the US and it's motives around the world. You can argue that those suspicions are misplaced, and they may be, but that doesn't change the perception. And the Iraq war, the...

Yes, I think this is very likely true, but that simply seems to me to be a redescription of the basic problem, which is the breakdown of solidarity and commitment in companies between workers, managers, and owners. It was always a problematic set of arrangements, but was actually pretty...

The point of the game is to create a fight scenario between the US and someone else, with catastrophic global stakes. The narrative simply exists to set up that scenario. In a post-soviet world the US vs communists wouldn't be as compelling, though I think one with Hina as a major antagonist...

Well, based on your description of college professors, you've certainly got a handle on What qualifies as "ridiculously far-fetched." But to object to the game on the basis of the idea that it is definitionally impossible for the US to go so far wrong is to a) miss the point of the game and b)...

Well, at least you didn't resort to hyperbole and caricature to make your point.

Yeah, let's just leave it there. I think you're reading too much into the rhetoric in the first case, and misreading what's being proposed in the second, but it's a conversation for another forum, I'm sure.

Well I just went back and re-read it. I stand by my original statement that there is nothing anti-capitalist in it per se, unless you insist that any criticism of the tendency within modern business to reduce everything to the bottom line and quarterly earnings statements is necessarily...

I never got the impression that that was largely over the war though.

I think you're seeing something that isn't there. It's not necessarily anti-capitalist to critique a business for not taking the needs of its workers into account. There can be be legitimate differences about how to do that or what it entails, but nothing in what was said amounted even remotely...