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My hometown, where my parents still live, had winds greater than that a few weeks ago. I was up there for Father's day and they drove me around showing me all the damage. They said it lasted a couple of hours and the weather service measured the sustained winds as 78mph with straight line...

+2 Constitution, +2 Strength, -2 Dexterity

Yeah, Mark Anthony was giving the speech and then Octavius' mother was put up to making a speech. One thing I did notice on my TiVo was that this episode was titled "Pilot/Will" and, when you watched, there was a spot halfway through that was clearly intended to be where the first episode ended...

I've got a player who wants to play a half-giant in an upcoming campaign. We're not using psionics in this game, so he'd like to adjust the race as follows: Change the favored class from 'Psychic Warrior" to "Fighter" Remove the "Stomp" ability. Remove the Bonus Power Points Remove the Fire...

I thought it was pretty good. The fight scenes weren't as good as Gladiator but I wasn't watching it for the fight scenes. The rest seemed just about right as far as pacing goes -- this isn't a slow, plodding epic or one of those shows that tries to cram so much in that everything goes by in a...

Not exactly. I think it's more about the strength of emotion. Living through events can create strong emotions that those who come afterward simply do not feel. I think a lot of people voted for Reagan because they felt strongly that he was the greatest American in a way that had little or...

I think that's the key. I was 10 when he was elected, but I can remember how inspiring he could be. People have to remember that at the time he was elected, Iran was holding Americans hostage and we seemed incapable of doing anything about it. Our rescue mission turned into a disaster. The...

Don't forget the infamous Lakota... The katana is one of those things I have little tolerance for in my games as well. Fortunately, I don't have any katanaphiles in my current gaming group right now. One anachronism that comes to mind from my homebrew is the presence of cajun halflings --...

That's awful! I hope you recover quickly and that your assailants pick on one of those little old men who is really a grand-double-mega-master of kung fu and he twists them all into pretzels. They didn't even take anything? That's good in a way, but it also sounds like the sort of sick...

In Texas: 1. We ride to games on horseback. 2. Games are held around a campfire under the night sky after a long day herding cattle. 3. We snack on tortilla chips and salsa and drink beer or whiskey. 4. If anyone brings salsa from New York City, he is immediately strung up. 5. Dice...

I think urbanization has a lot to do with it. When you live in a rural area, chances are you know the people you bump into and you're going to see them again. When you live in a city, you generally don't know any of the people around you and will probably not ever see them again. I think...

I've only had one real TPK. The party (save one member whose player hadn't made it there that night and who was thus left behind) pretty much got pulverized -- it was pretty ugly. We ended up just deciding that game was done and restarting with new characters in a different part of the world...

Well, I've always thought Texas can be divided into at least two regions, the western part that's more like "Western" states and the eastern part that's more like "Southern" states.

I haven't played EQ2, but if it's like EQ1 (and the above makes me think it's pretty similar though I quit EQ in 2000) then I must disagree. EQ was for powergamers. It rewarded the powergamers who really put their noses to the grindstone and focused on powergaming their way to the top. The...

Do they no longer have WarCon or NovaCon? I think when I was graduating, Nova was being disbanded and they were forming a new "official" TAMU gaming club in its place. Do they run a con seperate from Aggiecon still (as Aggiecon used to be a Cephid Variable thing). As you can probably tell...

I seem to be unusual in that I didn't like Sesame Street when I was a kid. I always thought it was depressing because it was set on some urban street where everything was brick, concrete and steel and the whole thing seemed rather dingy. There was very little green in sight. I never really...

I've got a few different hobbit/halfling cultures in my homebrew. The main group in my Roman-like empire once had a island homeland but they supported an enemy of the Roman-like empire when it was still rising and even won a war against them, but eventually got crushed by the legions for their...

The thing is they need to raise George C. Scott from the dead since Caine was obviously Patton in space. (I wonder: Does that make Adama Eisenhower?)

How about we develop it a bit further to have a <base> tag. That way you have the starting point and all the modifiers both historical and current used to arrive at the final number. Thus: <strength>17 <base value="10" /> <history mod="2" source="race" /> <history mod="1" source="level"...

I call my homebrew's planet "Caenum". How did I come up with that name. I looked "Dirt" up in an English/Latin dictionary and used the coolest sounding word that wasn't going to be recognizable.