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Yeah, you seem like the sort to wear clothes that are more imaginary than real. :LOL:

Yet it happens all the time.

Yeah, the fact you were writing them yourself seems likely to have been the most important thing about them, and rhyme and meter have their upsides. And I agree with you about the difference you're pointing at; I've been known to state strongly that song lyrics have different enough goals from...

Yeah, rhyme isn't inherently bad, it's just not inherently good, either; it's a technique, and it's optional. Well, deciding to rhyme should probably happen pretty early in the composition process, anyway, and maybe you should have a reason other than you think poems must rhyme (which is...

Not this thread, not even this site: You can always tell the non-poets, because they think rhyming is clever.

In the movie The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, said brother refers at least once to his brother "Sheer Luck Holmes." Something something great minds.

Fair enough. At the grocery stores I go to, they're in 1.5-pound bags, bigger potatoes are in 3- or 5- pound bags. Or you can purchase them loose, though not usually the really small ones.

That at least seems plausible. I'm willing to bet you'll find small red potatoes in 1.5-pound packages, though. :LOL:

Oh, I'll admit to my pedantry, I was just putting it here rather than in the thread. There are times it's useful to know the differences between words, but one shouldn't let that knowledge get in the way of communication.

Also unrelated to anything in this thread (I think): That phrase you carefully chose, I do not like what it means.

Not connected to the above: I understand what you said, but I wish you had used the right word.

I'm going to be curious what you think about Dark Matter. I read another book by Crouch (Upgrade) and came away kinda underwhelmed, but I'd be willing to give him another chance.

Absolutely. I figure in some instances those are pitched by GMs to their tables, in some instances they are asked for by the players. I also figure that there are GMs writing their own adventures in similar veins, which might make them killer GMs, I guess depending on other aspects of their...

I've never played with a killer GM, but I think different people will have different ideas of just how anomalous killer GMs are, and how many PCs a given GM needs to have die in their game before that GM qualifies.

I guess in some cases what kills a PC might be the player's decision to sit at that table, with that GM.

I definitely blame Who. It's all his fault. Naturally.

Yeah, tables will be different. I was able to look at past campaigns I've run past 120 sessions and look where the were after Session 56, and that's been pretty consistent. I think there's a big difference between how quickly the rules progress PC RAW and how quickly tables want PCs to progress...

Of course, the corollary is also true. If you don't care (much) about what's in the default lore in the core game, you're probably equally unbothered by addition and subtraction thereto. (And you probably tend to find all those kinds of arguments uninteresting.)

Cahokia Jazz is the first, and so far only, book of Spufford's I've read (I saw a little preview thing about it not long after my wife and I spent much of our anniversary trip looking at places like Hopewell and Effigy Mounds, and I kinda felt the thunk as it hit me, I was clearly targeted) but...

There are some others where our tastes differ (though my experiences are not from last year, for whatever that's worth) but this was one of my favorites of the books I read last year. Just a beautiful novel, which I did not read in February. :LOL: (As it turns out, I read it in April.)