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I think it has more to do with the social dynamics and status switching. In normal friend groups, status changes dynamically over time, usually like a sine wave. Sometimes you are in the spotlight (say, at a celebratory dinner in your honor) and sometimes someone else is (say, at their wedding)...

EGG: "Humans have written all of human history through their actions, so we should model everything on humans and their ordinary human capabilities. They should be the default archetype for all characters." Also EGG: "I'm going to write a new game, that's all about Cyborgs! Everyone will play a...

That's as it should be! It's a game about building a dynasty of knights and dying gloriously so that your descendants can achieve even greater heights of glory. A single wizened plotter living in a cave for decades is not really in line with the gameplay the mechanics are designed to encourage...

See, it was Pendragon 4th edition, which has rules for knights with a mild ability or two! Pictish knight can have a supernatural ability or two, based on their reference for their ancestral spirits. But he wanted to play Merlin, basically. And Merlin is already in the game.

When I started a martial arts campaign with my friends, I decided on a multiversal kumite -- a competition between martial artists drawn from other universes to see who is the absolute "best," who would than face off against a great force of destruction that threatens the multiverse. Of course...

I thought the great thing about lightning-rod threads is they keep the forums... grounded... I'll show myself out.

When my interactions with every single gamer I meet on the Internet have the exact same problem, I have to look at the common denominator in every interaction. The one constant between these wildly different people I'm talking to about wildly different games that these different people and I...

Dude... what have you been eating?

I assure you, when we're having a discussion and I put my fingers in my ears and start screaming, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! NYAH NYAH NYAH!" it's my entirely logical response to your points and in no way constitutes an embarrassment to the species, contrary to the reports in the newspapers.

Does nobody else refer to them as "soft beer"? Just me? What about "tonic"? That's my next go-to if the server doesn't understand what I mean by "soft beer".

I'm sad I couldn't make it this year (my 2-year-old saw to that!) but I intend to bring the family in the near future and I'll raise a glass to Chaosium then! Many of the items in the display can be found in my games collection, albeit in much worse condition as they were heavily used! I second...

I thought it was Sleve McDichael? Or was it Bobson Dugnutt?

For a smaller site, you might try The Piazza. Mostly focused on D&D, less posts than here, and they have a small number of specialty sub-boards that are also lightly trafficked. And there isn't the sort of overall jerkiness you find on some other boards...

I would never insult garbage by comparing it to your favorite playstyle!

When I say that people who prefer to play games I don't like are jerks and losers, that's not my opinion! It's science! It is a fact that's been established by scientific studies! And by scientific studies, I mean I asked everybody at GenCon, "Below is a list of games I don't like. For each...

After all the controversy in Jelle's Marble Races, I think I'm finally done. I'm just sad that one bad apple can cause the effort and sportsmanship of these professional athletes to come to naught. It's very sad!

Not to rain on the parade, but alabaster is also used to describe a kind of pale white hue; a smooth, creamy texture; or a certain kind of grainy texture. In fact, the word may have originated as an Egyptian word used to denote vessels sacred to Bast -- a-labaste.* I mean, I get that moving...

I think its perfectly cromulent to make up words. That's how language evolves. It's why we're not speaking in some barbaric half-French half-Angle tongue, but instead speak proper English! If it's a popular word, others will pick it up; if it's not, it won't. My feelings about the matter can be...

Obama!

"An average of 358 [National Park] deaths a year were reported in this six-year period, or 7 deaths a week."