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I'm gonna run back to the first page and stand with Teflon Billy. I was a player in "Curse of the Azure Bonds", and it was unfun; and as many have pointed out in arguements about the "right" or "wrong" way to play, it comes down to the fun. CotAB was not fun, and it wasn't my fault or the DM's...

Attacks of opportunity ate my homework.

I'm unfamiliar with several of those mentioned so far. I've heard some comment that the rules in Green Ronin's "Psychic's Handbook" should've been the mechanic for D&D magic from Day One, and I think I'd have enjoyed that over the Vancian system. For those unfamiliar, it's based on the...

Ah, yes. Mangog the Mighty, I named that first level fighter with a Strength of 15 ... that's +0 to hit, +0 damage in 1e. But I called him "the Mighty" anyway. The entrance to the dungeon was a shaft in the ground that we had to lower someone down into with a rope. A secret door in the side...

I too have a Green Lantern shirt, and it gets favorable comments ... more often than I ever expected. Didn't think that many people would even recognize the symbol. And my by-now-in-to-poor-of-shape-to-wear-in-public souvenir shirt from Gen Con did get a "cool shirt" comment and a "what do...

Haven't played it yet, but just reading the rules of Mutants & Masterminds is a thrill for me. I have played the old Mayfair DC Heroes game, and it's fun unless you're the GM and your eyes start to bleed from reading the charts you have to consult and applying the column shifts. (And I was...

I drink some. Not much, usually with a meal, and seldom to past the point of a buzz -- which doesn't take long, I'm a lightweight. In the beer family, I like stouts (Guinness!) and porters (Black Butte!). Pilsners are a sick joke. I detest them, and IPAs as well. Wines are good, reds and...

He was a great guy to game with in general. He DMed the first "had a great time RPing, never rolled a die" session I was ever a part of. Unfortunately, when the succubus came to take him to Tualitin, we didn't know to play her song backwards.

We used to have a player who would read a magazine or "The DaVinci Code" when it wasn't actively her turn. As such, we would then have to point out which figures were enemies and which ones weren't, redescribe all the actions taken since her last action, at which point she would ask us what she...

I'm going to make with a tie between mushrooms and garlic. Those of you who said pepperoni ... that doesn't count. Without pepperoni, it's not really pizza in the first place.

I dislike the term "mana" just because I don't like the sound of it. Not euphoneous to me. Naming points after a person ... well, then, shouldn't the person be from the history of the campaign world? "Merlins" make no sense in The Forgotten Realms, nor do "Ningaubles" in Greyhawk ... wait...

Ahnk-Morpork Guard, that wasn't a halfling ranger carrying around a lead sheet, was it? Mine's not so much a dice-rolling story. My college group has a guy who, when dissapointed by a bad roll at an important moment, had a way of flinging said dice about the room while swearing at them. Yeah...

It is very true, there are multiple versions of Superman and the way he got his job at the Planet; if you go totally original, he seems to have worked first at a paper called "The Daily Star", since the oldest comics have him working there instead of the Planet, as well as having a different...

Put me down as another 80 per cent-er. Also another one brought down by fiacre and mulct. Also have the thing in common with Sniffles of reading the dictionary and encyclopedia as a kid ... but, as established on another thread, I skipped the "minaret" entry.

The group I DM is a bunch of crazy people who, for tactics have 1) hit it hard with something sharp and 2) blow it up with evocation spells. Okay, I'm exagerating. But not by much. Today's game had a classic, though. A few levels back, they had four in the party, fought a roper and almost...

That guy kinda reminds me of my old character, Gram the Vengeful. 10th level when last seen, he's a chaotic good 6'4" fighter whose main moment of glory was when he was trying to climb up a shaft to find a way out of the caves he and his party had been trapped in. With no armor and no...

The original "Top Secret" game has some great ideas, but some really odd mechanics. There's a Cyberpunk-genre game, possibly titled "Cyberpunk" that I played once ... I knowat least part of the reason that session didn't work was GMing related, so I won't completely slam the rule system. But...

Nope, he means "reify". And, um, we kinda do it too ... some of our pop culture Old West "heroes" were pretty much scum in real life. Throw in some romanticized gangsters from the 20's, and look at who's popular in the current media, and clearly America likes it's crooks, too. I don't...

I read in the newspaper that they're in process of adding pop-up ads to Tivo. Kind of defeats the purpose, from what I'd have thought. Reveal, you've never seen B5???? In Valen's name!

Proclamation: Shilsen knows what he's talking about.