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We can't completely ditch it... We've got DSL for our internet, and so still need the phone line. Local + long distance + internet only costs us about $60/mo. And getting rid of just the long distance only saves us about $6/mo. We'll probably keep it as is for now.

Conversely: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

So, my wife is the main driving force behind this... she works at a retail outlet (one of those big warehouse stores), where it is customary (for reasons of speed and efficiency) for the employees to communicate with each other via text messaging. She's the only one working there without a...

...but have never owned a cell phone, and so have no experience with them. I could use some advice on which carriers were worth looking at. Ideally, we're looking for a family plan for me, my wife and two junior high school kids. Reliability and affordability are our two major factors. The...

"Unobtanium", which, in all honesty, works just as well for the original problem... Remember that you're playing science FICTION just as much as you are playing SCIENCE fiction. I presume your setting has force field generators at least used for defense against stray meteorites and the...

That's because magic weapons ignore DR from beer cans.

I was thinking of making a suit of O-yoroi or Do-maru from cans of Sapporo or Kirin.

Your best credit, I think, is "fecal effects wrangler" for Dogma.

YouTube - ‪Red Fang - "Prehistoric Dog" Relapse Records‬‏

The funny thing is, the names were all, letter-for-letter, blatantly stolen from Norse mythology... From the Poetic Edda: 9. Then sought the gods | their assembly-seats, The holy ones, | and council held, To find who should raise | the race of dwarfs Out of Brimir's blood | and the legs of...

Probably using something similar to this... Don't miss the other pages.

I love the basic idea of the Delve format (putting all the information for a single encounter in one spot to minimize page-flipping in the midst of action), but hated the implementation (putting all the encounters together in a separate section apart from the rest of the adventure).

Sure, I am too. As my father used to say... "When life gives you lemons, shut up and eat your goddamn lemons." (Of course, if we all -- gamers and game designers together -- collectively applied that strategy, we wouldn't have to deal with so much updating and errata, would we? :p ) I'm not...

Now, my intent was never to solicit solutions. We've already got a handle on possibilities, but... That may be so, and I've admitted as much upthread, but for my group we're seeing it often enough and its collectively bugging us enough that it's become something that we need to deal with one...

But that's the problem right there... With the current system of automatic updates to the online tools, the groups don't get to decide whether or not they will incorporate it mid-game. It happens automatically, with no option to stick with the status quo. Seemingly, the only other option to...

But game rules should not be unexpected. They should not be surprises***. There are so many variables and uncertainties that the players already have to deal with in the plot of any given adventure. They should be able to rely on how the rules work. Otherwise, how can you possibly expect them...

Then don't... and you want to call players power-gamers, then just come out and do it. They all are to one degree or another, and I won't deny it. For that matter, I mildly encourage it. After all , they are playing characters that are supposed to be profession adventurers and heroes. They...

It's not just character powers (though those are the most obvious, and the most quickly noticed). Sometimes it's rules or other bits that, like you said, we might never have run across except for a specific scenario that induced us to look up the rules and find contradictions between the...

What about just treating each version as a separate power? So, for example, you have "Come And Get It", but then you also have "Come And Get It v5/11" or something. Then, just as you can sort and select rules by which source they come from, allow for sorting and selecting of rules by which...

This is another part of the problem... Powers and feats and equipment on the character sheet get updated to reflect these sorts of rules changes. The books on my shelf that we use as a reference during the game don't, however. And very few of the players in my group are fanatical enough about...