Search results

That's a great idea and I'd love to see it actually implemented. https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/swedens-speed-camera-lottery-hit-a-red-light-years-ago/

That's very kind of you. My oldest friend, a brother of choice, just got a terminal cancer diagnosis. This Spring they were hoping he had another 10 years or so. A week ago unexpected metastasis made them estimate he might only have 10-14 months, and as of Friday they updated that to 10-14...

Nice review! I think my favorite adaptation has to be Jeff Wayne's musical.

100%. Punks do everything they can to avoid toeing the line. Side note, that being part of why Hobie in Across the Spider-Verse is so damn good.

I love a lot of Heinlein, and he had some great and some merely thought-provoking ideas. But he definitely had some unexamined and sometimes very "yikes" personal issues which came out in occasionally ugly and disturbing ways. Farnham's Freehold is a bit of an aberration for its period, with...

I love that book and it was really important to me as an adolescent in particular. (Military brat, it was my first Heinlein- I think I was 10 or 11, same age I first got D&D). In retrospect I see Heinlein palm the ball here a little bit. I think some people have used the expression with the...

No mountain over the weekend. Serious family stuff blocked it. Did get back in on Sunday for two circuits of dumbbell bench, db inclined curls, and db lateral raises, followed by a couple heavy sets of leg press + calf raises. Didn't have the heart or energy to do more, but was glad I made...

I, too, enjoy roleplaying. I'm glad we have that in common. Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough. "I can get impatient with a desire for players to play dumb" primarily when that desire is externally imposed and judged. There is no objective way to know from the outside whether the...

I love Charles Vess so much. (And yes, Le Guin is amazing and I'm so glad her work got the respectful and gorgeous Vess interpretation, and they got to work together before she passed).

“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.” ― Tom Lehrer

No such rules. In 3rd ed Clerics got the Spontaneous Casting rule where they can dump any prepared spell to cast a Cure (for good Clerics) or Inflict (for evil) spell of equal level or lower, though. During 2E my groups starting using a Cure Moderate spell at 2nd level, though in retrospect...

In some of my groups we've made a general practice of more experienced players usually playing older/or more knowledgeable characters, so the greater player knowledge about creatures, or the setting, specifically makes sense. I've played a dwarf cleric who was the gravelly dad voice of the...

One thing which actually helps is that there are only Cure Light at 1st and Cure Serious at 4th in the core rules. So even if you try to make a 1E Cleric a healbot he's forced to take other spells in his 2nd and 3rd level slots, and can get some utility and/or offense (like Hold Person, which...

Last night the benches were again mobbed. Did four sets + drop sets of machine biceps curl, three sets of machine overhead press (with a slight weight and rep increase from last time), and three sets of cable row, trying to keep strict form. Did a bit better on sleep last night and got my...

Glad you were able to loosen it up!

The question is "what is more important to a retroclone". Definitionally, clones make minimal changes. So, 1. If responders are ignoring that and responding to the poll as if the word "retroclone" was a synonym for "OSR game", then it makes sense to answer 2, because the old editions have...

Back in last night, benches were packed. Did four sets of pec machine flies, three of lat pulldowns with a couple of drop sets, and four of machine triceps extensions with drop sets. Slept too little last night after spending too much time arguing online. Both bedded down later than I should...

Didn't get back in until Thursday the 4th, when it was busy but I did straight sets instead of circuits. Got in three sets (plus a few drop sets) of four different exercises- dumbbell bench (which I've recently advanced in weight on a little), dumbbell inclined curls (slight gain in reps)...

I think the implied worldbuilding is roughly: Humans out-reproduce elves, dwarves, and other more long-lived and theoretically more powerful species. And humans out-organize more numerous species like orcs and goblins. In addition to being more ambitious and heroic (capable of advancement to...