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Well, the potato famine was LONG after the first white settlers in Colonial America. Potatoes were brought to Ireland, not the other way around.

"Ist deine Tochter achtzehn, bitte?" ;) "Du spinnst!" (You're crazy!) "Man kann am Brot allein nicht leben!" (Man can't live on bread alone.) "Ich habe durchgefallen" (Careful with this one, depending on the context it either means I have failed miserably or I have diarrhea) "Im dunkeln ist gut...

The JamiS Buck NPC generator is a great tool, but the feat and skill choices/ranks will probably need to be tweaked according to the particular game/scenario.

A sword is only a tool. It's a hard heart that kills. If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth. You will not kill. You will become dead adventurers. And then you will be in a world of :):):):):). Because adventurers are not allowed to die without...

While I will have my car in both cities, but I will be hoofing it/riding public transportation the entire time...something about exorbant parking fees. The places people have mentioned are all well within a nice walk to and fro, but this leads to my next question....are these places...

Hello fellow gamers... I'm heading up and over the border next month and I was wondering if there were any good gaming stores in Great White North. I've found Le Valet D'Coeur in Montreal, but are there others I'm missing? I'll be staying at the Wyndham in downtown Montreal (Jeanne-Mance St.)...

Not a troll...if you've ever been to backwaters of West Virginia, you'd agree with me. I'm sure nothing could be a bewildering and disturbing as some of the spectacles we witnessed at the West Virginia State Fair last year. Talk about scary...GenCon got nothing on W.V.

A 10-hr car drive is about all I can stand without going completely stir crazy...I'm happy that Indy is only about 9 hours from me. Are there any (un)official websites out there yet with any info besides the Con being in late July and in downtown Indy? Also, has anyone made the trek from DC...

Three words about food (and native Texans will most likely agree with me) SONIC DRIVE-IN By far the best darn fast food on the planet. Other notables would be What-A-Burger (Waterburger for you Texans. ;)) and you West Coasters...there's nothing quite like an In-N-Out Burger.

-Minor rant mode engaged- Having lived in/near both at one point or another in my life, I'd say avoid living in downtown Baltimore. Outside of the gentrified (i.e. pricey) Inner Harbor/Stadium area, it's a bit of cesspool. And this from a person who still loves the Baltimore Orioles and ever...

That was my next question. Would you happen to have a file or spreadsheet with the BP's for your 1920's stuff? I would be most appreciative. :)

How have the two systems meshed together? Cover is the mother of all saving-graces in Spycraft, and I doubt there are many differences between dodging bullets and Cthulhu-spawn death rays. I'm more inclined to start the game off as more of a Spycraft-inspired game than I am with a "so...

I've never been one to pit characters against insurmountable obstacles. There's always at least one alternative that won't get the PC's turned into chop-suey. Granted, that route usually is the expeditious retreat, but the party (or at least some of the party) lives to fight another day. My...

I have a problem with disposable heroes...it's not fun to be one nor is it fun to run a campaign based on that premise. Here's the deal. While I do have a many, many years of GM-ing coupled with a good working knowledge of the d20 system, I'm thinking there's a few finer points to running a...

KYO was a game favorite of our DM. The inn in which nearly every game started featured the item "KYO Pitbeef" on the menu. Without fail, a newby member of the party would choose it. KYO Pitbeef was perhaps the first (and often the last) encounter of the game. You see, the KYO stood for...

These are really morals rather than things said, but they all were directly inspired by events at the Gaming Table. 1- Don't flash money 2- Don't believe or trust the waiters 3- Don't do KYO or Kumatei 4- Look before you drink 5- Look before you sit down 6- Don't hum along with Demons 7-...

I'm not quite sure just how many gamers there are in Calvert County, but I'd venture to say not many. Calvert County is a bit of a boon-dockish area of Maryland...and being a Maryland native, I've never known anyone from there. That's not to say that there probably isn't some local gaming...

Silver Spring is fine...the urban renewal is kicking out the riff-raff. :) As for being a gun-nut, I'd say I'm more like an overall weapons enthusiast. Do I know more than most people should about weapon calibers, probably...but I couldn't tell you how many grains of gunpowder you'd use in a...

Let's go a step further...how detailed is it? I've heard that it has rules for converting any modern firearm into d20 stats. Is this just something for the layperson who doesn't have a grasp on the concept of using different calibered weapons for different purposes? Or would say, a grunt in the...

If you're going for a "Conspiracy Theory" type setting, I'd say Spycraft since the rulebook lets you build the mastermind of the conspiracy. However, if you going for the "Monster of the Week" setting, I'd definitely go with CoC.