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*Snif*. They grow up so fast!

With this thread in mind, I ran my usual game last night, using my laptop to run Herolab (their encounter generator is great, and really streamlines the process of prepping combat). There were several tablets around the table, of all sorts, including iPads and Surface Pros. There was also one...

Monte, I just love that table. I wish I had a space like that at my place.

I use Herolab at the table and I love it, but I will plead guilty to being easily distracted by shiny objects at the table, whether it's a Facebook chat with a friend, an email from my boss, or a blog post. However, in the days before I regularly brought a computer to the table, I don't think I...

I am now planning to include an encounter with a giant roc mage with a elf familiar in my next campaign.

Holy Thread Necromancy Batman! Rise! Rise, oh undead conversation! Rise from the grave to consume our brains once more!

Perhaps you're right. But I'd need to see some actual data on that score before I concede the point. My expectation is that naked breasts and bloodshed in themselves, won't compel anyone to watch. But again, I'm content to leave it there, in the absence of hard data to resolve the dispute.

I didn't realize we were doing a whole anthropology here. I'm just taking about Game of Thrones fans, and what I've garnered from literally hundreds of hours (well, ok, maybe A hundred hours) of reading fan analysis of the episodes, following the media around the show, reading comment threads...

Yes. Yes it does. Or, more precisely, I think they are fans of well-written dramatic series, with complex plots and characters. Additionally I think they enjoy the fantasy setting and all that entails, including dragons and ice-zombies. I also think that watching naked people strut around is...

Clearly I'm coming late to this party, but if you think GoT has a "token plot" stuck between long bouts of sex and violence, you either don't watch the show or haven't been paying attention. Also GoT involves more than the TV series. I hear there's a series of novels that the show is based on.

The digression into chord progressions reminds me of a number of the cases where that's been adjudicated over the last several decades, my favorite of which is the lawsuit over whether George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" is a violation of the Shirelles' "He's So Fine" (If I recall correctly...

And! But! Also! The poisoning was foreshadowed in the 2nd season with the Dragonstone maester's attempted poisoning of Melisandre. We know exactly which poison was used on Joffrey, and have seen before in the series how it functions. That said, it seemed to work more quickly on Joffrey than on...

Double Post. Me No Like New ENWorld Log In!

Ooh, this could be fun. I live in Chicago, and I'm not a LARPer, but I could be convinced to give this a try!

I don't think anyone's mentioned it yet, but I've been thinking recently that I really wish that frock coats would come back into style. Granted, I've been watching a LOT of Doctor Who lately, but I just think that the general look of a frock coat is stylish and elegant. Also, there's...

Is that a real poncho, I mean like a Mexican poncho or is that Sears poncho.

If the master dies *the vampire* becomes free. But what is the Vampire? Is it the original person, but now possessed of an undead thirst for blood? Or some other being? You may very well be right that there is something else in play here, but I can totally buy the thesis that the "dark soul"...

It seems straight forward: Durkon gets vamped, and turns evil. In a way similar to Buffy, his spirit is replaced by that of a demon. So his physical form is that of Durkon, he has access to Durkon's memories, but for all intents and purposes, he is an evil spirit inhabiting the corpse of Durkon...

Following up on GreyLord's point, I think it's probably fruitless to attempt to gain a consensus on what was the Golden Age of D&D. Advocates for the main candidates can make a good case on very different grounds for their own preferred age and edition. But to the point of the original post: I...

Well to be clear, my intention wasn't to criticize anyone's preferred edition, simply to note why I didn't switch over, and to explain why I can see the contrast between the division now and the (perception of) unity in the first few years after 3.0. My philosophy is always "play the game you...