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I've been cooking since I was a kid. It is a superbly useful skill. If you like real world adventure of a milder type than Vadding you might take up Geocaching. It's fun and sometimes even challenging, depending on your target. You can learn a lot of useful skills doing it too, if you don't...

This thread in particular: http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/313880-we-dont-slaughter.html had in it some rather interesting side-discussions. Such as discussion and debates on alignment, behavior of animals, monsters, and other creatures, and whether they should even have...

Interesting thread. As for me I have a simple rule about killing anything or anyone under any circumstance, real or imagined. If a creature, or a being, like a person, has demonstrated that they are a lethal hazard to others, and that they enjoy killing or harm, or that they...

Some good suggestions so far. I'd just add - if you're looking to learn something interesting (mentally) then go to free lectures. Most colleges offer free lectures given at night or in the evening. Don't know how many free and fascinating lectures I attended as a kid, and still do if I...

My first introduction to what might today be called fantasy was The White Stag, which I read in the 3rd grade, and next year the Saga of Siegfried and the Song of Roland. All my earliest "fantasy influences and sources" were mythological, not modern fantasy. I have copies of all 3 books...

I don't like the way they drew Jordan. He looks more like a football player than a Test Pilot. Test Pilots aren't built that way for obvious reasons. However I did really like the fact that they are out on the Frontier, I like the fact that they are up against the Red Lanterns, and I like...

I recorded and watched two episodes of Once Upon a Time. Once Upon a Time seems more like Lost, or like it is trying to be Lost-like. Grimm seems to me a sort of cross between Millennium and Brimstone. To me Once Upon a Time is more of a show geared towards women, and Grimm more towards men...

I read a great deal. Both for pleasure, and professionally. And for study and just because many things interest me. I guess I could create a list of thousands of favorite books. But below are books I have read that have had the greatest influence on me, that I have enjoyed the most...

Personally I would in no way want to be on the side of magic when it's magic versus modern technology. Nor would I in any way want to be on the side of magic when it's groups of creatures led by individuals trained in magic versus groups of people trained in technological systems, advanced...

All this talk of new TV shows made me sort of nostalgic. I don't and never really have watched a lot of TV. Even as a kid. Most of my buddies and my two brothers even had TVs in their bedroom. I never have and never will. But that didn't mean I didn't have favorite shows over my lifetime...

After hearing about the show I recorded and watched two episodes of Grimm this weekend. I like the show, but to me it feels far less like the X-Files than it does Millennium, which I liked a lot. I haven't seen Once Upon a Time yet, but, I'm recording that too. To watch later.

I don't think I'm gonna have much time to read in November. But this is what I'm gonna attempt. Books on CD: Havoc's Sword - nearly as good as Patrick O'Brian's works Children's Books: The Widow's Broom - excellent How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You Comics/Graphic...

I always thought that was a good mechanic in AD&D, but I always played it differently as a DM, because of my setting. Neither a god nor a demon ever showed up just by name-calling alone. And I never did it by die-roll. Neither ever came unless they wanted to, meaning it was a plot matter...

I hadn't heard of either one. Then again, aside from the news, I only watch TV on the weekends. Thanks for mentioning them. That's what I like about this place. I'll record them and see if either is any good.

Sorry about the delay in replying haakon1. I got called away on assignment. I agree with everything you said and if I stated things in a way as to be misunderstood then I apologize. It's a sort of parallel subject I know, but in my opinion gaming is generally good for you and can have many...

If at all possible I'd attack him from behind. If possible I always attack from behind. There's no such thing as a man who can see in all directions, especially when busy assualting others, and there's no such thing as the man who cannot be killed. I've actually seen attacks where one guy...

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Although I was playing some wargames that were moving closer and closer to being precursors of RPGs, I think the first I really played was Chainmail.

I'm probably gonna tick off some people by saying what I'm gonna say. Maybe some won't even understand what I'm saying. To me though both gaming and gamers can be very, very odd. And totally unrelated to my experiences in real life. But not because of anything to do with venue. I'll explain...

It is interesting to me BG. I always like stories like that. I've got a buddy in military INTEL who, when he retires, wants us to start a Security firm together, aimed mostly at corporate and financial security and corporate counter-espionage. (I've worked a couple of cases involving...