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Well my feeling on this would be (and I'm saying this in a desire to show where I'm coming from) is that what you're saying is a bit like someone saying, "I'm celebate*... except when I have sex, which I did twice last week." i.e. A vegetarian is someone who thinks it's wrong to eat meat and so...

Well in the interests of fairness and honesty, I do have to say that while I still don't in any way condone what your friend and his mates did, if it was true that she wore leather shoes and belts then she was, in my opinion, a spectacular hypocrite. Well clearly that's not the case, so I...

Just to clarify things: vegans attempt to avoid the use of animal products as far as possible. As a rough summary, this means: no meat, fish, eggs, milk, leather, wool or silk. If someone avoids eating animal products, presumably for some perceived health-reasons, but happily wears leather and...

Well given that all I've done is pointed out that a) this was supposed to be a thread for vegetarians and vegans, and b) tricking people who follow certain ethcical beliefs into eating food that contravenes those ethical beliefs is a spectacularly :):):):):):) thing to do, I didn't think I'd...

Again, is this not a blatent thread-jack?

So it's your opinion that it's okay to trample over someone's moral beliefs if you think they're a "self-rightous blatch" who is "probably" doing it for shallow reasons? Nice. Remind me not to ever share lunch with you.

Well I have to confess that I'm a bit curious as to why a thread which was supposedly for vegans or vegetarians "out themselves" is instead full of non-vegans and non-vegetarians. I mean, if someone did a thread which asked if there were any Christians on here (i.e. purely as a social...

The way I tend to describe my veganism is that whilst it isn't a relgion, it occuplies the same place within my being that a relgion would otherwise occupy. And whilst I can't really compare the way I feel about it to the way a reglious person might feel about their relgion, I think I can safely...

I'm a vegan. This is the kind of thread that makes a chap feel quite lonely. :( Just out of curiousity: if the anecdote had been about some of your friends tricking a Jew into eating pork or a Hindu into eating beef, would you still have put a winking smiley at the end?

Well there's a review here: http://www.gamewyrd.com/review/109

Mongoose did an Encyclopedia Arcane: Chronomancy, which introduced Chronomancy as a school of magic with various prestige classes. I liked it a lot, but I understand it was quite different from the D&D 2E chronomancy.

Yeah, basically a shire is a type of county (i.e. all shires are counties, but not all counties are shires). So as mhacdebhandia says, you wouldn't have "xxxshire on xxx". And in terms of what english counties are, they are mostly like US counties, but I believe a bit bigger (we think of them...

It's like I said: there's a kind of cultural shared rules, and so this rule seems wrong to everyone.

You'll have to tell us how it went. I've never managed to play that rule, because when I try to explain it to people they just won't have it. :)

I can't believe that. I've never met anyone who actually plays Monopoly as it's written in the rules. Because no-one ever reads the rules: instead they play a set of "cultural rules" that are handed down as a kind of oral tradition. In particular the rules (as I recall) say that if you land on...

There is of course a whole other side to that argument, but if I were to explain it I would be several feet across the line marked "political" and in danger of upsetting Eric's grandma. Suffice to say, I'm reasonably happy with the different choices that my people and my country have made. :)

Well around ten years ago, I had a job that was around 30 miles away (most of it on the freeway). My take home pay (after tax) was around £800 a month (then around $1200) and my petrol (gas) bill for my car was around £80 (then around $120) a month. So that was pretty much 10%. It's a lot, lot...

Sometimes. But I've also had some spectacularly good games at cons. I think it just depends.

Cool! Should be there myself (got my flight's booked, just got to book the guesthouse).

Yeah, that was my problem with RPGNet. I found that when people said I should be set on fire or killed* on account of my ethical beliefs (I'm a vegan) it tended to make me not want to talk to them again, ever. :) * And yes, I did try reporting the post via the "Report this post" button, but...