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Raising my hand as an American mutt with a double handful of different Asian heritages. Oriental is an outdated word, with a lot of stereotype baggage, that came into use as a means describing a place and a people exotically. It is generally considered acceptable to be used as a descriptor of...

If we're counting minis or Magic cards as an entire purchase, those have got to be the dominant factors, right? Single item? Probably a box set or collectors board game in the 200+ dollar range. Single project, but not a product? Probably everything I've purchased so far for the as of yet...

For me to invest anything in a game's factions, I need to have a chart showing alliances, coalitions, and motivations. I need a road map more than I need a 10 page history lesson.

Running a game? We had a time travel AD&D game split simultaneously between 3 tables and 5 DMs, and probably had 8-12 people at a table at a time? I ran a Paranoia game in high school that probably had 15 people in it, but most of them weren't playing, they were just quietly biding their time...

I'm in love with Torchbearer at the moment. Out of the box it supports a lower magic world than most modern versions of D&D but it's definitely less of a combat head scratcher. Every complex problem is answered with a narrative driven kind of rock/paper/scissors card game that covers...

Don't worry! Not much has changed!

It doesn't translate directly, but in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, information about the location of the buried treasure is split between three people. All three people know that the money is hidden in a grave. The first person knows what cemetery the grave can be found in, the second knows...

Torchbearer refers to it as a character's "stock." It's been a really long time since I looked at any of the books, but Palladium and Rifts at least used to refer to it as your RCC or Racial Character Class.

Trophy or Torchbearer spring to mind first. Maybe Dread or 12 Candles if you're not looking for it to be a campaign.

I like that BadEye ended up explaining that the 50% donations were only till they covered their costs, and then all additional profits were being donated.

Scifi and Modern Transportation, Communication, and Information Technologies as Magic Time Machine Transporter Combo together for the Tardis Tricorder / Smart Phone Horseless Carriage Satellite Imagery Weather Forecast

(no life lessons should be learned from Big Bang Theory)

No idea what the exact number is, but 100-500 is a safe bet. I've been playing RPGs for 40 years, and though I don't think I've ever "collected" dice per se, I've definitely acquired a lot of them. I don't buy them frequently, but I'm not at all opposed to buying a special set for a specific...

Currently four (if we're lucky). Fifteen years ago? Six hours. In college: six to twelve. High school two to six?

This just reminded me of Lifeline, an older phone RPG where the story and interface is just sending text messages, in real time, back and forth to an astronaut stranded on the moon.

Don't forget the Phantom Bomber, the Congelier House, or the Shadyside Ninja.

Pittsburgh represent!

I've been running a Torchbearer hexcrawl game built off of a bastardization of Sumerian mythology.

Fantasy Grounds allows you to resize cards, doesn't it? I ran a 4E game partially online ages ago, and the cards I designed for the online player had the pertinent information written on the top part of the card at an easily readable size, but then absolutely everything else they could possibly...