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I hate to upset anyone, but I have long felt the NHL should never have allowed teams in cities that never get snow.

In all fairness to your husband, why on earth did they use the word level to describe both the power of a characters and the power of a spell (and the depth of a dungeon) ? Especially when those concepts don't correspond.

About two years ago I convinced my wife to play a couple of sessions, with just her and a friend of mine playing (I, of course, DMed). She seemed to like it fine, but the subject just disappeared for awhile after that. Then last year I mentioned to her that I was short players for a new game I...

The name I use on most message boards just did not seem appropriate (its a very vague sci-fi refrence) and I was not comfortable going back to the name I used to use when I frequented other D&D message boards (there were a few persons who didn't like me on said boards, and I didn't want to...

Now that we've had a chance to look at the teams, but before anyone is eliminated.

Tonights's game of Canada vs. Russia will likely be the best round robin game in the N.A. pool. It certainly will determine who finishes first in that pool.

I decided against including the Stanley Cup because it is basically a North American Tournament (even if players from other countries do play for the teams). It would only to be fair to include Stanley if I knew the names of equivilent tournaments in Europe; but I do not.

Of course there are many other good tournaments, but which of these is your favorite?

The 1974 Summit series (which included WHA, but not NHL players) was won handlely by the USSR four game to one (with three games tied). In 1975/6 serveral USSR team played a short series against vairous NHL teams. Scores: Sun. Dec. 28/75 Central Army 7 at Rangers 3 Mon. Dec. 29/75 Soviet...

In the early 70s Canada was getting a wee bit upset with a 20 year drought in Olympic Gold Medals (in hockey). We felt that the rules at the Olympics were allowing the USSR to send their best players(aka the red army team), while we were not (Olympics were amateur only at that time). So to...

I think the biggest thing we're seeing is that D&D is yesterday's news - the general public doesn't care anymore. In the 80s D&D got an enourmous amount of hype from the media, even if there wasn't a huge base of players. Mainstream bookstores and hobby stores started carrying D&D because they...

There will be no Ep. 7-9. GL in one interview in the early 80s mentioned the possibility he could tack three more movies on the end. Since then in hundreds of of other interviews he has denied that he intends to or ever intended to make it a nine movie series. Expect SW fandom to begin a march...

Yeah but that come with a whole different set of headaches . . . Damn you Ricky Ray! (and Warren Moon, and Doug Flutie and . . .)

Six little words for that. No Wayne Gretzky in shoot out.

My group is doing this right now, and I think I am seeing the seeds of its downfall already. (after just three weeks!)

I would say the same thing about DMs who fudge (aka cheat), but I know I'm in the minority.

Although it seems like an interesting way to deal with this "problem", my group has never fallen victim to the "golf bag syndrome". I don't think anyone in the group has more than three weapons (a melee, a missile and a backup)

My best campaigns have all had lengthy ramp ups. I think asking players what they want is the best way to make everyone happy. However, if its not done in an organized manner you can end up with just what you said - a very bland game.

It might seem odd to have regrets for a game that's only 2 weeks old, but I have a few. 1. I would have spent more time going over the background of the world with the players. (and espcially with my co-DM, who seems oblivious to the world he is helping run) 2. I would have made a campaign...