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He means "quality fur tunnel." Duh.

In a scene like this where everybody, women, men, children, demi-humans can all vote, I would imagine the big thing in the election will be mobilization. The election is going to be defined by the groups that can turn out voters and control how they vote. If the farmers are tenant farmers the...

By whom is he elected? Everybody in the region? Local notables? The wealthy? A special list of electors? People holding hereditary titles to land or other stuff? Guilds? Family heads? Men? Women? Children? Non-humans? Without knowing who can vote, it's really hard for me to develop a picture of...

How fortunate we are playing a game and not writing a novel then!

I find that the easiest way to avoid such problems is to make sure that the rules and setting are a good, tightly-coupled fit. It's a lot easier to turn down a character concept because of its incompatibility with the setting than because of its incompatibility with the rules.

This is a point I made above. The first thing Don needs to do is figure out who is entitled to participate in the vote. Once we know that, then we can begin to guess at the issues at hand.

There is an excellent book called The King's Two Bodies or something very much like that tracks the development of ideas of kingship in the Middle Ages. I'm going to offer some historical answers because my current game is an historical game. Of course, as with anything, there is no monolithic...

You're right... I should have thought that through. This is right up there with me writing to a member of my gaming group's work e-mail to ask him for a hash connection last week.

Drop by the ENnies booth when Xath is staffing it. I think the videogame conventions would be hard-pressed to do better.

Well, if this is a medieval setting, I'm assuming he's running for something like Pope, Duke of Novgorod, Doje of Venice or Holy Roman Emperor. I can't think of any other elected offices in the medieval period in the sense of there being formal elections in which votes were numerically counted...

D&D is like an ancestral lineage. What matters is similarity between one edition and the next. Similarity across all editions is not important. As long as 4E has a lot of 3E elements in it, it will be D&D, even if it has vitually no 1E elements in it.

I think it's a mistake to judge what happens at Gen Con from what ENWorlders like to do there. I'm more interested in my friends who travel thousands of miles to be there. If I'm going to spend time with someone who puts himself out to attend the convention, I'll choose my long-distance friends...

Since when were the Caucasians not Indo-European? And since when were the Cimmerians from Caucasia? The Cimmerians lived, according to Roman and Greek geographies, either (a) north of Scythia or (b) where present-day London is. I think the way to go here is to figure out what accents the...

To go and hang out and drink with people I only get to see once a year. If I can fit in some gaming, that's cool.

One could just as easily get rid of the cleric and give easy, powerful healing magic to the other casters and make undead turning a feat chain. One could abolish the fighter and take everyone else's BAB and feat gain rate up a notch. One could make rage into a feat chain and nix the barbarian...

Do you think we're lying? You should show up for my gaming group. How many other RPGs have you learned? Because this is sure at variance with my experience.

I can't do justice to the Nova Scotia trailer park scene. The trailer park in which this game is set is a slightly fictionalized version of an actual (now gentrified and defunct) trailer park in British Columbia called Big Woody. Let me be clear: this game only crosses the line into LARP insofar...

The traps part of the D&D genre is my least favourite too. But, to follow Doug's very strong points, D&D is its own genre. And traps are part of it. Certainly, I can see the rogue being a lot more peripheral in games where there are no traps. I run games with few to no traps and, as a result...

When I was 12, I wrote a 90-page Dr. Who RPG. The day I finished it, FASA released its game. I was scarred for life. The reason I mention the thing I wrote when I was 12 was, horrendously bad as my game was, it was not actually worse than the commerical product. I have no idea about Dr. Who...

Alright. This will be the third time I am posting the identical paragraph: Anyway, Edena, I'm retiring from this thread now. I'm glad you are still finding it useful and rewarding but, sadly, I don't think that there is anything more that I can personally contribute. We have twice persuaded you...