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Moved on to His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. Its a fun read. Patrick O'Brien crossed with Anne McCaffrey. Dragons with like a dozen guys with muskets and bombs on their backs! Sweet! Also reading Savage Worlds and Deadlands: Reloaded. I'm loving SW.

Oh Holy sweet crap on a stick! That would be so cool. I'm all for them bringing back The Master. They've done daleks and cybermen already. Time to bring back the best-named villain in all of Sci Fi. I really hoped they were doing that with the actor who played Giles on Buffy. He would have been...

I ran a weekly campaign using OpenRPG for a couple of months. I had moved to California and my game group was back in Indianapolis. It was great to log the chat and refer back to it later. That made DMing a little easier. I definitely noticed players being more in character than at the table...

Homebrewed beer! I even use malt extract from Coopers there in Australia.

*as I follow you around the game store* This one time. I, uh, like had this one Assassin guy. He was, like, 15th level and I TOTALLY played him all the way from 1st level too. So my Assassin, yeah, he had like puh-sigh-onics and could totally like crush your mind and make your molecules vibrate...

My suggestion is not for all groups, but this is what I did in a similar situation when my campaign got high level. You might suggest it to your DM. Hand-wave summoned creatures in "side battles". Treat them and their foes as the minions they are. Quickly estimate average damage for both sides...

This is indeed a good piece of equipment. All my players get these for their characters. Are they unbalanced? I don't think so. The belts lead to the practice of the PCs spending most of their gold on potions. This left them light in other areas, so it all worked out. It probably also speeds up...

I'm not sure I can help with the philosophical part: our games tend to be pretty light. But when I want the players to get into character and really hash something out, I usually corner one of the players out of game and recruit him to get things started. You can tell the player some things his...

Temple of Thorglaak The temple is hidden by a section of collapsed corridor. It will take 125 man hours to clear a path large enough for a human to crawl through. Diggers have a 1 in 6 chance to fall victim to a rock slide or collapse. Victims should save versus Breath Weapons or take 2d4-1...

I'm sitting in my office about four blocks south of downtown Indy watching it pour rain and listening to the booming thunder. I was going to walk up town to see if I could get in some hobbit/jedi/vampire sightings over lunch--but not in this mess. Maybe all this rain will keep the gamer-funk...

We've started to use internet acronyms to keep the swearing down now that we have kids. So you'll hear a lot of WTF, HFS, CF, and such. Pixie Stick CLW wands. Named after that candy you get in plastic straws. BK Broiler When a druid casts entangle, then flame strike. Named after a player whose...

We've done this for the last two years running. We will be the loud obnoxious guys in the back room. The Rules are fun, easy and go good with beer. No need to sign up, just show up Friday night sometime after 5pm at The Ram.

I can only go on Saturday and have to leave at 6pm. Damn! I'd love to play with you guys. For the last two Gencons, I ran a holdem tourney where each player brought 50 dice. The top three positions won all the dice. Last year we had two tables of 10 players each! Alas, this year I have a 4...

Any ENWorld pickup games for Saturday? I can only go one day this year: we have a 4 week old and my wife's birthday is Sunday. I'd love to meet and game with some Enworld folks. Edit: That reminds me. Anyone with nothing better to do Friday night should swing by the Ram and join our 3rd Annual...

"Any last words before I spark it?"

It's obvious this guy had a preconception and just picked some folks to fit it. That doesn't sound like good journalism to me. I've been a about 5-6 Gencons and last year I was amazed at how many non-gamer stereotype folks were there that year. Lots of families. I think that the con has been in...

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch This is a fun fantasy book. Makes me want to run a thieves' guild campaign!

I drive 25 miles one-way on interstate highways to work and I see this kind of thing all the time. It really gets to me. Especially since the technology is already there to help us do the right thing. You know, culture does not move as fast as technology. We are still coming to terms with...

They should bring back Jelly Babies.

Dirrach's Discussion of Domination Ucarsh's Manual of Mental Mastery In my campaign, both of these books were required reading for a ritual to dominate several doppleganger assassins.