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Great monster list! Not Inflammable? :) I came up with stats for Nautiloid Berserkers, a Black Pudding, and Brain Flayers for my run of Wavestone Monolith and was thinking of copying those over to this thread, but I presume the full Shadowdark rules probably include stats for the latter two...

Interesting. By "limited to 1st and 2nd level spells" you mean praying for recovery, right? They can still cast higher level spells as normal, they just can't get them back if their deity doesn't live there or in an adjacent plane (Prime Material, an Inner Plane, or a Demi Plane). Of course...

I always read it as an animal companion, and it looked familiar though I couldn't name it immediately. Thanks for placing it as a Loris. :)

I started this a while ago but haven't finished. What I read so far is very cool. :)

Surprise. People who misread someone else's assertion will sometimes continue to misread it even after being corrected, as a way to twist the meaning of what was expressed, cling to being right and win the discussion. Then claim the other people "proved my point" after they moved the goalposts...

It appears that I had my copy show up late yesterday- I just noticed the box on the porch this morning on my way to work and grabbed it, but haven't opened it to verify. Excited to confirm tonight!

Did circuits of dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, and dumbbell behind the head skull crushers on Saturday, followed by three sets of leg press +calf raises. Good session which had me staggering after the leg work, which is always satisfying. Not much DOMS yet, so I'm itching a bit to...

I'm not sure the divide is so clear, for me. I might opine that they're more akin than split. Spelljammer draws a bit on 50s-70s sci-fantasy, but to me it feels like one of the first products which really started to fall into the pattern of kind of fill in the blank design and D&D referencing...

I may have overstated his level of involvement, possibly due to half remembering one of his own (likely exaggerated) claims, but yeah. That's one of Dinehart's prior ventures. He was a salaried employee at Evermore and his LinkedIn lists his position there as "Director of Gaming". For a...

I agree that "fill in the blank spots" design is often lame and thoughtless. And can negatively impact the game even beyond being boring. For example I think it was a contributory factor to why Clerics got famously OP in 3.x, where we saw them suddenly get all sorts of new offensive spells and...

Good breakdown. 100% on all of it. I think it's clear that if Dinehart had better critical reasoning skills and judgement he would never have been involved in the trainwreck of Evermore or been associated with Lanasa and nuTSR in the first place. So it's no surprise for him to be wildly weird...

I wasn't shocked by it, as I had grown up with John Carter not too many years after LotR and Prydain, but absolutely. Wild and great. Oof. Yeah, Dan from Wandering DMs hits on this periodically and I completely agree. The self-referentiality of D&D often sucks, and yeah, I think a degree of...

Well, it could hardly avoid evoking Logan's Run. But I didn't like it nearly as much as Gattaca, by the same director.

Dude, I love you, but maybe switch to decaf? Damn, you are FIGHTY. Truth. I didn't think In Time was very good, but the concept was solid.

PT last night was fine, and I did my exercises this morning, but I had some good soreness and lacked motivation for the gym last night. Probably tomorrow, as I've got therapy after work and then a date.

"N-word" wasn't the name, but that was their fake Star Frontiers.

It's really not, except inasmuch that it's all "playing the game", and we're all on a continuum. Every one of us. Somewhere down at one end of extreme optimization is the guy who wants to play Pun-Pun in an actual game. And somewhere at the extreme opposite end is the guy who for the lulz...

Wut? I'm revising history, Stalin-style, if I suggest that people who think "optimizer" is a pejorative might be doing so due to associations with the "Character Optimization" forum which spawned Pun-Pun? I didn't spend a lot of time in those forums specifically because the average level of...

It may help to note that historically (to my recollection), "munchkin" originated in the early 80s as a pejorative nickname to refer specifically to young players who had no experience in grown-up wargaming/sci-fi/RPG culture and this had not acculturated to its norms and were frequently...