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Back in last night, benches were packed. Did four sets of pec machine flies, three of lat pulldowns with a couple of drop sets, and four of machine triceps extensions with drop sets. Slept too little last night after spending too much time arguing online. Both bedded down later than I should...

Didn't get back in until Thursday the 4th, when it was busy but I did straight sets instead of circuits. Got in three sets (plus a few drop sets) of four different exercises- dumbbell bench (which I've recently advanced in weight on a little), dumbbell inclined curls (slight gain in reps)...

I think the implied worldbuilding is roughly: Humans out-reproduce elves, dwarves, and other more long-lived and theoretically more powerful species. And humans out-organize more numerous species like orcs and goblins. In addition to being more ambitious and heroic (capable of advancement to...

Good reminder! That was an excellent thread, which already covered a ton of this ground in terms of what elements can be traced to what books.

Three other DMG methods, which I think is part of why others got overlooked, since they didn't put any method in the PH! :LOL: Method V I feel more sympathy for nowadays, given how powerful demi-humans are, especially the new ones in UA. I've ranted repeatedly about basically everything you...

I would say pretty much the same order. Three Hearts & Three Lions and Vance are way up there, LotR and Leiber's F & GM stories are right there with them. For Leiber (like I always say with Moorcock) always go with the earliest-published stories first. The Jewels in the Forest (1939) is...

In 1E? So Spider Climb off the Defensive roll, Read Magic automatically... what were his Offensive and Misc spells? Not that it's impossible to have four low-utility spells. Could have gotten Push for offense and Erase for Misc, say, but 1E tends to mitigate against this better than if you...

I don't remember it getting discussed as much as WSF, but I put that caveat in there for a reason. :LOL:

Adding to the chorus on how dependent illusionists are both on DM goodwill and reasonable adjudication and on player creativity. If you've got both they can be excellent (though vulnerable to stuff like undead). If either element is missing you probably suck. There was a very good article in...

Unearthed Arcana was, perhaps oddly, the first AD&D book I got. Having acquired Mentzer Basic and Cook/Marsh Expert in 1985, UA was the new hotness on the shelves when I went looking for more. The additional complications and stats in the book confused and intrigued me. As a wee munchkin and...

There are other fruits which sometimes digest invasive insects, ja? Like pineapples.

My favorite seasonal read might be Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. It's divided into one chapter for each day of October, and I know some folks online who make it an annual shared read. Sometimes folks will post a video reading a given chapter aloud. I've read it aloud to...

Nice. All the fairy stuff in the Lyonesse books heavily informs how I see and run Fairie in games. The one long campaign I ran of 5E was split half and half (via portal travel) between the Feywild and an enormous, decadent city populated by also-Vancian miscreants and aristocrats. When the PCs...

I didn't really play there, though I made a point to stop in and shop when I was in the area. Cool small world connection, though. :)

I was searching back through the thread for references to Foundation and spotted this, which I must have overlooked before. How did you like it, and did you read the other two? I love the series unreservedly. Up there with LotR for my favorite fantasies. Just finished F&E, which shares most...

Maybe Your Move Games, in Davis Square? That place was a mecca for card gaming, and the hub for Boston area competitive MtG players back in the day.

IME dragons were more a mid to high level opponent. At low levels you'd usually be running/evading if you saw evidence of one in a dungeon or got unlucky on a wilderness random encounter and had them turn up. Too high a chance of a TPK. So at the levels where you're taking on dragons the...

Battletech I've played again fairly recently. One of my closest gaming buddies bought into the most recent release, and we've tried both it and Alpha Strike out, so I expect it'll see the table again before too long. Same with Blood Bowl. Still an excellent game. I bought deep into Car Wars...

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