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QFT.

Yeah, it's more challenging in recent years. Around here supply has kept up with my (reduced) demand, at least since I'm not making as many cocktails recently.

Naked and Famous has been one of my favorites the last few years. I'm near the end of my bottle of Maraschino;I should refresh and try out the Division Bell. :)

Finally finished Bowling Alone, and had our second book club meeting on it yesterday. Overall it's very good, though the original final chapter of proposed agenda items and suggestions for a renewal of social capital and civic participation "by 2010 let us" now evokes a mix of laughter and...

It it from a Cugel story, or elsewhere?

That last bit reads like Vance, and I am here for it.

Note that we (and Jon) didn't find out about how much and how directly Chainmail borrowed from an amateur Middle Earth wargame until four years after Playing at the World was released. Gary's story was that he borrowed from Tolkien due to popular appeal, but that hasn't entirely been supported...

To my recollection the regular-sized (not special large ones) Heroclix bases are about an inch and a half across, which means the figures for what would be medium-sized creatures are not suited for use with the usual 5' = 1" gridded map. They just won't fit, unless you re-base. For larger...

Got in for a moderate upper body session last night. Benches were all busy so I did machine work. Four sets of overhead press, four of bicep curls with drop sets, and four of tricep extensions with drop sets. Thought about adding a pulling exercise or two but I got a late start. Hopefully...

I've run this one three times. Once converted to 5E in an ongoing campaign, twice in B/X with some house rules, one of those a convention game. Lots of fun.

In my experience the early levels of old school games mostly require cautious play, but you can pick your spots to be a little more aggressive. And once you have a 2-3 levels under your belt you're usually not in danger of being dropped by a single round of hits by most opponents, so you can...

Just a note- The comment you're replying to there wasn't directed to you. It was replying to someone else.

On reflection, I had a couple of good butt-kickers in online OD&D and B/X campaigns during the pandemic. An OD&D Fighter and an OSE Advanced Half Elf. It DID help that they had good ability scores, especially high Strength. And I had to modify my play style and be a bit less aggressive with...

Karl Marx tends to randomly set my brain onto this song.

I don't think it's impossible, though. One of my players in my three year campaign, who played the main fighter, is rather like this (though he gets into some intensive RP as well). He definitely got a bit frustrated and complained at times in particularly difficult encounters and/or when the...

That makes sense. In my last campaign, a B/X & 5 Torches Deep mashup, the highest level characters only made it to 8th or 9th over three years, but advancement slowed down a lot after 4th or 5th level. And in the last year or so our schedule got more sporadic, where before it had been pretty...

I loved mine with those little yellow pellets. Damn. Haven't thought about that in years; maybe decades!

How so? I can see how, put next to AD&D xp requirements, WotC editions' comparatively lower ones look designed for shorter games. Generally with the recommended encounters you can run from 1st to max (20th in 3.x or 5E, 30th in 4E) in a year or two of weekly play. But of course in any edition...

We had a similar homebrew item for a dagger throwing Rogue in one of our last high level 3.5E games. Yup. Especially after the annoyance of having to retrieve them in 3rd, or make an expensive custom magic item like that rogue did, when 4E came out and just said all magical thrown weapons...