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Keep in mind here I was referring to the 2nd edition of Legend of the Five Rings and not AD&D. While I played some 1st edition AD&D, 2nd edition was the one I bought my own books for and played the most. If I had a preoccupation with realism I would complain about dragons, magic, and that...

I was astonished to read in the 2024 PHB or DMG the authors suggesting we should just start campaigns at level three, completely bypassing levels 1 and 2. I can only conclude that levels 1 and 2 are so boring even WotC thinks they should be skipped. I guess they lock things away at level 3 to...

I think 2nd edition was the first time I'd ever been disappointed in a new edition of a game I had previously enjoyed. I cannot remember exactly what it was about 2nd edition I didn't like because it's been so long. The last time I ran a campaign it was for 4th edition, which had some...

I wish I still had this. As I recall, it came with some pretty cool handouts the Keeper could fill out for props. Like dental and autopsy records.

Which edition of L5R do you refer? One of the things that impressed me about the 1st edition of the game was how well suited the rules were to the setting.

I don't know about the lore, but I do think the mechanics of a game need to support the tone and genre the game is going for. If I'm running a swashbuckling Three Musketeers style campaign and the rules make it extremely difficult to swing from a chandelier, jump off your speeding horse onto...

I'm pretty sure one of those is a Sir Mix-a-Lot reference.

I'm kind of with you there. While I have a generally low opinion of Wizkids miniatures as a whole, they do have some monstrous miniatures such as dragons, beholders (obviously), their flail snail, and a few others that look pretty good and come in at a good price. But a significant portion of...

I read all sorts of fantasy growing up, but I didn't read Lord of the Rings until shorty before the movies were released. I didn't care for them but I've got to acknowledge this is because so many of the tropes he developed made their way into other works which I had read. It's like twelve...

I typically cut the pegs off and glue the mini to the base. I hate the clear bases though, and end up painting them as well and using basing material.

I was a bit surprised I didn't hear Fortunate Son at the beginning...but the trailer didn't disappoint. I'm reminded of a movie called My Science Project where they shoot a t-rex in the belly with a grenade launcher.

I walk a minimum of 2.6 miles daily going at a speed of just over 3 miles per hours. Sometimes I walk 5 miles maintaining the same speed. The original story had the walkers maintaining a pace of 4 miles per hours which I think is untenable for most people. If my life were on the line, I could...

At least here in the United States, this is where things get a bit complicated. If I'm a retailer, I have a right not to carry anything I don't want to carry. If I own a game store, I could refuse to carry Thirsty Sword Lesbians because I don't think it's a good game, I don't believe it's...

At least here in the United States, the right to freely associate with whom you wish is enshrined in the very first Amendment of our Bill of Rights. When it comes to commerce, a business can't refuse to serve a customer on the basis of membership in a protected class such as race, skin color...

I'm in agreement here. There are a lot of different ways to play, and so long as everyone is having a good time, I'm hard pressed to think someone is a bad player. I've known players who play essentially the same character in every campaign, and they're still fun to play with. I had one...

I have strong opinions on d20 Call of Cthulhu as well. It was a surprisingly good adaptation of CoC to the d20 system and a fantastic introduction to Cthulhu for a lot of people who otherwise might never had given the game a chance. And I'm someone who largely looks back at the d20 era as...

I would agree, which is why I would never argue attributes alone should determine personality. I was asking if people incorporate their character's attributes into their personalities, and if so, how? Bingo. This is what I was curious about. And of course there's no single right answer. You...

And from what I can remember from when I was in school, there was plenty of explicit material of a heterosexual bent as well. Naughty words too, but not a whole lot of people bring any of those up. Sorry, but I do not believe a significant portion of my fellow citizens complaining about gay...

As heard in my D&D session last week: "What'cha gonna do, when Heironiamania runs wild all over you?" There were about three years of my life as a youth where I was really, really into pro-wrestling, and like many others, Hulk Hogan was my favorite. He always seemed older to me than he...

In the early 90s, there was a little magazine published for Cyberpunk 2020 called Interface. It was a quarterly magazine that introduced new cyberware, weapons, drugs, NPCs, organizations, etc., etc. to use in your Cyberpunk game. In 1991, Peter Christian wrote an article for Interface called...