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It's the lawmaker's equivalent of jumping jacks: it keeps them in shape :). Besides, that way if Al Capone ever delivers pizza, they can nab him for not paying taxes on his tips. Daniel

I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that the number of folks in the US who have gone to jail for not reporting their tips is vanishingly small. Daniel

That's how a chaotic good commander would handle things, definitely. Chaotic Evil means never having to not be snarky. And I also took the last few panels as a sign that Redcloak plans to betray Xykon in the upcoming battle. Should be interesting! Daniel

:) Indeed. If I'm gonna scold folks for not following etiquette regarding tipping, I can hardly encourage folks to help the tippees violate the law regarding taxing. Those who order food should tip appropriate according to the social expectation, or should tell their servers/deliverers IN...

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They definitely have a place here: we only enforce the line between House Rules and Rules when a thread is completely in the wrong category. Rich's rules are published rules for playing D&D and are fine to have here. And they're the set of rules we use in our campaign. Their downside is that...

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No worries. I worked through college as a writing tutor, and when the going was slow, I read grammar books to pass the time. At least some of it stuck! :) In any case, I do think that attempts to freeze language in its current state (or, rather, in its state fifty or a hundred years ago) are...

My wife is an historian, and she reluctantly picked up the book when her mom brought it over and raved about it. My wife went from, "This is poorly written but kind of fun" to "this is really silly but fun to laugh at" to "Oh no, oh no, he didn't just claim that The Little Mermaid contains a...

Not really; I try not to worry about ideas like "proper English." Daniel

As I said before, keep in mind that not all places work the same. Where I briefly worked, I earned a flat $4+tips, and I had to pay for all car expenses out of that. If folks didn't tip, I would have been losing money every night. It's a sucky situation for all concerned, and it'd be nice if...

Ah. One more reason to hate the grapple rules: they are, IMO, among the least intuitive sections of the rules (in addition to being a magic-bullet-style approach to combat for large creatures). Daniel

Could the octopus choose to attack with a light weapon vs. the critter it's currently grappling, getting the rest of its attacks thereby? Daniel

Consider that after the first successful grapple check, even by the most generous interpretation of the rules, she's got two choices: 1) Take a -20 to all successive grapple checks; or 2) No longer threaten the spaces around her, and therefore be unable to attack anyone besides her first...

I read Top Ten, a bound comic collection by Alan Moore, and Revenge, a novel by Stephen Fry, this weekend. The former was tremendous fun: much less dark than the other stuff by Moore that I've read (albeit still pretty freakin' dark), and the artist was obviously having a grand old time...

Oh, of course not. But there's crap, and then there's cardboard with ketchup. Some nasty fast food is appealing in its own nasty way. Other nasty fast food makes you sorry that you're alive. Daniel

Homemade pizza is doubtless the best. Doing it right is a pain in the butt, but it's so freakin' good; I do it about once a year. Daniel

Dramatically, it was the only ending that made sense. Historically, Franco was part of a political phenomenon whose other major players were Hitler and Mussolini, and Franco was the only one whose rule survived. As I said earlier, the victory of the fascists in Spain was the result of some...

Well, a hippo's butt accomplishes more than a single honeybee, too, but sometimes quantity is less important than quality :). Daniel