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The new airline security procedures are both paranoid and a poor investment in terms of increased safety. They were created in a hurry to provide the appearance of action on the part of our elected officials. A telling aspect is how the hiring of the security screeners was fouled up by...

While D&D generally supports a variety of play styles, it is at its heart group-oriented. In this day and age, people who don't work and play well with others have the option of CRPGs, and those who only want "crush, kill, destroy" have any number of options like D&D miniatures, HeroClix, etc...

I sent in a low-level side quest that went as follows: The PCs are distracted by an oddly behaving creature jumping into a wagon to hide. Assuming they investigate, they will have a hard time coaxing the animal (I have forgotten what type it was) out. While they are doing that, a 1st-level...

Given that there is a perception problem about RPGs, how do you explain to non-gamers what it is you do? I've described it recently to somebody as a mixture of interactive storytelling and wargaming. A group gets together. One runs the game, while the others create characters to interact in...

I find it funny how gamers talk about their hobby sometime as if it were a disease. Our SOs tolerate our participation, or potential SOs run screaming in the other direction. There is even some irony in the idea that openly gay individuals might be in the closet about their gaming, LOL. It IS...

There was a GURPS supplement, and it is very good, but good luck finding it without paying a premium -- although even with premium, it isn't worse than some of the 400+ page hardcovers they put out nowadays.

I've never been good at "dating," in the traditional sense. For me, it was always easier to develop a mutual liking before moving on to a relationship. My current fiancee used to work with me (sort of), and our first "date" was kind of a quasi-work related lunch where I asked her out on a real...

So the target for the book would be primarily storytellers and actors? If that is the case, then I would suggest explaining things like: - When rules matter, and when they don't. - Sharing the spotlight. - Mentoring other players to see the advantages of following a plot. - How to help if the...

Well, if you're OK posting it, then I guess you could put where you'll be once the divorce is final? (Hopefully not married already, unless you're a bigamist.)

The idea is intriguing. However, I wonder if the skills needed to be a good player are as specialized as those needed to be a good DM? Playing is generally easier. Looking to the creepy player thread on RPG.net, it seems like a lot of bad players are bad because of socialization problems or...

Just an FYI to those who voted...I have ordered the player and world guides for Iron Kingdoms from DoOrDice.com. Those IK fans won the day. I also bought the Freeport 3-pack from Green Ronin, so Freeport fans need not feel slighted. :)

OK, so the stereotype of the gamer is the desperate, socially awkward type drooling over booth babes at conventions. Of course, the gamers I know aren't actually like that, and neither am I. So let's see what the browsers on ENWorld are like. BTW, I'm engaged to a very tolerant non-gamer woman.

Whoops, I did mean Lucifer's Hammer. Footfall (which is the proper title, not Hammerfall) isn't a bad novel for inspiration either, however. That is more of an alien invasion model of destruction, however, like War of the Worlds or, shudder, Battlefield Earth. Having aliens around typically...

Nuclear war generally isn't a great "realistic" apocalyptic setting. The radiation really does wipe out most of the ecosystem. You have a similar problem with comet strikes and such. Anything bad enough to bring down modern civilization completely is likely to toss the planet into a massive...

Honestly, it sounds like this woman replaced one addiction with another. I had an uncle who used to alternate periods of being a fervant Southern Baptist with bouts of alcoholism. Religion can be addictive, just like gaming, drugs, sex, gambling, television, or anything else that draws our...

Honestly, Star Frontiers didn't have the support from TSR that Traveller got from GDW, SJG, and now Far Future Enterprises. You've got classic Traveller from GDW, and reprints from FFE. You have T20. You have GURPS Traveller from Steve Jackson Games. You had 2300 AD. You had MegaTraveller...

Thinking about it more, the apocalypse genre typically breaks down into a few distinct categories: Waiting for the End: Think On the Beach, Z for Zachariah, The Day After, etc. The world is destroyed, and people are coping with being among the few who survive for at time. Making a Moral...

I'm betting some hapless bookstore clerk is going to get complaints about why they have "hardcore S&M books" out where children can see it. :)

The Game stretched credulity, but it was skillful in that it kept me wondering what was REALLY going on until the very end. That made it well worth the time. I assume you're referring to the 1984 David Lynch effort when you say Dune? To me, that was a perfect example of a universe that was...

Website on end-of-the-world scenarios: http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm Site list is nicely divided into space, earth, science, and religion. Destroy the moon, cause mass insanity, create a nanotech disaster, or bring on the apocalypse. Website on popular fiction related to the end of...