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    Have you been disillusioned by the Forgotten Realms?

    Have I been disillusioned by the Forgotten Realms? Yes, and I don't even play in it.
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    Help needed from British members

    But why 'hash?' Why not 'huckleberry,' or 'bogswallow?'
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    D&D Throughout History

    Other than wanting to place an anti-slavery clause in it (and was rejected outright), yes, you're right, he had 'nothing' to do with it.
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    Booting players - What are your nightmare stories?

    What is it about this hobby that attracts such people with alarming frequency?
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    Booting players - What are your nightmare stories?

    the list gets ever longer I have booted several people from my games over the years: one for being the typical know-it-all prick that derides any opinion different from his own; one for scaring the bejesus out of my players with overbearing physical body-language; one for showing up only 10% of...
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    The Agony of No-shows

    First no-show without a phone call gets a warning/strong suggestion to call if player can't make it. Second one results in player being thrown out of the game.
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    Cheating and D&D

    I've got a group of old-schooler types that generally stay out of trouble, but there is the uber-powergamer that can't seem to be tamed. I look on his builds, no matter how ingeniously justified, as broken to the core. And they are. Within the context of our game I consider this cheating, and...
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    For DMs: Ticked off players and funky d20's

    We have a guy whose d20 is impossible to read, even from a close distance as the numbers are lost in a swirly pattern that covers the die. He peers at it up close and then tells us what it says. :\ He too never rolls low when it matters the most, and our DM is more than annoyed by this. If I...
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    Dragon 334, Malhavoc's Surprise = Ptolus

    If Monte is willing to sink a year of his life into this one (and I assume it will be 3.5), could we not take from that the notion that 4e is farther away than some of the doomsayers have suggested?
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    Why I refuse to support my FLGS

    I'm new to the boards but I wanted to comment on this thread since it looked particularly inviting; here's hoping that I don't get flamed to high heaven. I'm something of an old-school gamer, you might say, but I've never known a business that wasn't capable of passing on some kind of discount...
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