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When I ran a Saturday game, I'd cook for the whole group. Usually some big one-pot meal like bolognese or Beef bourguignon. Now that the game is on Friday nights, we usually coordinate a delivery order through our local bike delivery service (which can choose between pizza, chinese, lebanese...

I've always figured this kind of stuff out and set the ground rules when the campaign starts. In some campaigns, hey the rule book is open, take whatever mechanics you want. In other campaigns, base classes are wide open but PrCs need you to actually meet an organization. In that kind of...

Hmm... Did you play Oblivion? The challenge with their leveling system was that EVERYTHING leveled with you. You didn't just see bigger monsters. Those bandits at the bridge threatening you with rusty iron swords in level one? They're still threatening you, but now they have glass swords...

That skeleton was classic. We did have a pretty decent load-out against demons by then. I'd figured out how to make my specialist abjurer effective against magic resistance and the rest of the team went to town. It was pretty wild keeping track of everything.

Well, if you're talking about Keep on the Shadowfell, the reason is that it's a bad adventure which had bad pacing. It was the first 4e adventure WOTC released, and it had lots of problems. Based on my experience, you either should not be playing it, or the DM needs to do some fairly...

I suppose a key item might be "How fast can you breed a million rust monsters to drop on the tanks." Another possibility is the RCD&D 3rd level magic spell Protection from Normal Missiles. If it was ruled that it works against bullets, things get a lot more interesting. In general, I think...

I haven't played in RPGA, but I don't agree that the only joy in RPGs is defeating death. One of the most memorable games I've ever played is Portal on the Amiga. There was no way to die. There was no way to lose. There was no CHALLENGE at all. In fact, the "game" was nothing more than...

Rather than just complaining, which books would you have put in there? I'd love to have some things to add to my reading list.

Great point and it reminded me of something else. There are a few people out there using Powerpoint for mapping as well! The more recent versions, especially, are not half bad, and everything is an object so you can keep moving it around. AeroDM's Mapping in Powerpoint A Town Map in...

I'm not writing one because I prefer to use Illustrator. Inkscape is another option and folks have done some great maps with it, but symbols and graphic styles make Illustrator faster for me. It's got a learning curve and isn't cheap, but it starts making sense after you spend some time...

I'm not sure I see a need for Adobe Reader... I don't know if it offers much more that the other readers don't offer. The natural thoughts would be support for PDF Portfolios and Javascript (action script) within PDFs, but I don't know if those are supported. But just to be fair, Adobe has a...

Ron Gilbert did when he stole the ambiance for Monkey Island 2!

I have 802.11n because I want fast transmission of stuff within my network, not because I want faster internet. That's the same reason I hardwired my Xbox and PS3... So they can stream video from my other computers without slowing down anything else. Though I ship big files around, the biggest...

The hype leading up to an Apple announcement has always caused a letdown and their stock dips. (Unfortunately it didn't dip enough for me to buy in.) The rumors were even bigger this year because they posited that Apple was going to release not one, but TWO phones! I was thinking about getting...

I understand the position. I think there's a difference between "something I don't think I'll like" and "something I've tried, and I know I don't like." With the former, I'll give it a shot. But if I've been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, and been thoroughly unhappy, I'm not going to...

You're the common element in all these interactions. It's certainly possible that you are the cause or a contributing factor. Is it possible that the way you deliver the "we have incompatible play styles" is confrontational or blaming? As an extreme reaction, "I think we're looking for two...

What would be the largest RPG by weight?

If they ask when the next flight is coming, you lay Cang the Implacable on the table. It is well-known that any mini that the DM has painted has one extra hit die per day the DM spent painting the mini. So Cang has....

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Microsoft is rather anxious to get more apps on the platform. It might be worth talking to your company's local Microsoft rep to see if they'll get you a free account. Our rep was inclined to pay a third party to write an app for us if we'd promote it, but we didn't want to take on maintenance...