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Kleenex is now a generic name for any sort of "facial tissue". For people who aren't familiar with D&D, the statement, "I play D&D." means that that person gets together with other people, rolls dice, and pretends to be an elf or whatever. Among people who are familiar with RPGs and whatever, "I...

Make your own. My game started out in an area known as Five Point. It's five villages set up like a pentagram. Due to the ridiculously high magic of the area, it takes 8 hours to get to any of them. They each have roads leading to the two next to them, plus one to a fountain in the very middle...

That mantra needs a song to go with it. And it can't be The Final Countdown. Other than semantics, I have yet to see what makes certain editions D&D and certain other editions not D&D.

I think I figured out what Justanobody is saying. Only the very first edition of D&D is D&D. Everything afterwards is a pale mockery of the first. Also, since they tended to add more to the title, they're not D&D. The problem with this is that it is pure semantics. When most people talk about...

That's such an awesome connection. You win the internets. We shall send you gifts through the tubes. NPCs do whatever I want them to. If they're enemies, I might actually stat them up like PCs. If they're "good guys", they do whatever I decide.

This is what I posted in the other thread before realizing that you had forked. Lizard, I usually read your posts as rather critical of 4th edition. I haven't seen them in a while, though. I hope that your post was not in jest. Because it's exactly how I look at it all. When I DM, that's the...

Lizard, I usually read your posts as rather critical of 4th edition. I haven't seen them in a while, though. I hope that your post was not in jest. Because it's exactly how I look at it all. When I DM, that's the sort of stuff that I do. There's a Swordmage power that roots a guy in place...

While I agree with you, I can guarantee that someone is going to come on and say that the only thing that you care about is the powers, and 4th edition has killed all of the roleplaying, and those stats are too good for a D&D character, and you have an obvious anime character. And they'll be...

Highlander 2 was a horrible Highlander movie, but it was still a Highlander movie. If I remember correctly, they said that it doesn't take place in the same reality as the others. Then again, none of the Highlander movies, let alone the TV shows, take place in the same reality. Similar, but not...

I just picked up the Draconomicon. I think that I'll use a Gray Dragon or two against my players in the near future. They have a few artifacts that the bad guys want. I think that I'll have the Gray(s) attack and try to get them. If not that, there was a point a while back where they walked in...

If 4th edition isn't D&D, then there's no way in hell that AD&D is D&D. Isn't that the edition that had Spelljammer? There's no way that alien hippopeople or giant space hamsters is D&D. Except that it is. And they do. I have yet to truly read about what makes 4th edition not D&D. I've seen a...

I actually had the discussion in class with my students. "Why is a marker called a marker?" "Well, enough people agreed that that was what it should be called. If I started calling it a kerfluffle, and you started responding to, and even using the word kerfluffle, then it would be a kerfluffle...

Justanobody, I realize that you're just trying to bait me. And while you might be a master at that, I shall step back and not let it get me. :) This thread was so light-hearted and accurate in the beginning.

Apparently, D&D only existed in a brief flash back in the early 70s when a couple of guys started playing a strange game. NOTHING after that point is D&D. AD&D? Not D&D. Why not? I have no idea, but I'll assume that it was because it had differences from that initial game. 3rd edition? Nope. Why...

The Rod of Reaving (or is it Corruption) goes well with a Dark Pact Warlock. He has the possibility to kill a lot of minions at once. Is that much of a problem? Not really. Not something that I'm worried about.

Tell them to stop. Oh, wait. Woops. If that doesn't work, don't play with them. They aren't gaming friends. I have friends that I game with. I have friends that I generally hang out with. I have friends that I drink with. There have been a few times where people have crossed from one category...

When it comes to Uwe Boll: He's a terrible filmmaker. His movies suck. But he does make movies. What JackSmithIV was saying was it's perfectly fine to criticize the products made for D&D. That's what the designers' jobs are. But it's ridiculous to say that they aren't making something that's...

It's one of those hypothetical situations that shouldn't happen. The game is full of hypotheticals. Sure, you can have a dragon just hover and be annoying. But isn't that against the point of the dragon? Isn't it meant to blast from a distance, then fly down and scare the hell out of mere...

It's also worth mentioning that the "Rogue" could always be a Ranger. Hunter's Quarry instead of Sneak Attack, but they're fundamentally similar. If he only fights with two weapons and isn't interested in the other Rogue features, including Charisma based powers, then Ranger might be right for...

Shenanigans. The books say numerous times that you can flavor things any way that you wish. Most things in the books really are just mechanics. Sure, they give you a default flavor and a default setting, but you don't need to use those. How does Phantom Chasm make sense at all? Why wouldn't most...