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  1. Dannyalcatraz

    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    Most countries that use common law don’t have significant laws that old that are actually still valid. And with modern research tools, it’s pretty easy to find it when when which laws were voided, overturned, revised, etc.
  2. Dannyalcatraz

    Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers

    I’d use a skill system. Each environmental threat prompts rolls against relevant skills. Only critical failures/successes would automatically result in fatalities or no consequences (or even boons)- every other result gives bonuses or negative modifiers as things play out. If everyone is...
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    Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers

    Things can go badly- VERY badly- anywhere in the wilderness. Ask the guy who had to cut his own arm off after he got trapped by a falling rock, people who dissolved in hot springs, people who were in or entered depressions that filled with certain invisible gasses, the dude in Nutty Putty cave...
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Quentin Wilson has died. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/top-gear-host-dies-68-170448772.html
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    Funko Pop! in Trouble

    My personal break with M:tG was about redefining the ways cards or even mechanics worked. If they hadn’t mucked around with how the game played, I’d probably still be buying all of the mainstream releases. The only releases I saw that I wouldn’t even consider buying were the ones that seemed...
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    Funko Pop! in Trouble

    This is absolutely true. I sometimes refer to myself as a meta-collector: in a very real sense, I collect collections. Some I’m VERY serious about, others are casual. (Never caught the bug for Funko Pop, Beanie Babies, and the like.) When I went looking for books about evaluating the...
  7. Dannyalcatraz

    Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers

    I can think of: Finding treasure Finding mundane or arcane resources Finding new lands to settle/leading settlers to same Finding new trade routes Hunting rare or exotic critters Scouting for the military
  8. Dannyalcatraz

    Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers

    I was thinking along these lines. My (partial) solution was to use a RPG with mechanically simpler PC design. For example, if I wanted to run this kind of campaign in a traditional fantasy realm, I’d probably default to using The Fantasy Trip/In the Labyrinth, with players controlling 3-5 PCs...
  9. Dannyalcatraz

    Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

    I just had a vision of elves brawling over some BS. It was glorious!
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    Burger me!

    I met a deacon in a class who brought his melted cheese dip to the semester-end potluck. I know he used velveeta as one of the cheeses, as well as some kind of beer and some ground beef. Not only did we kill the pot, when everyone was helping with the cleanup, we were all just scraping the...
  11. Dannyalcatraz

    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    MOST folks don’t. Most.
  12. Dannyalcatraz

    Burger me!

    We rarely used Velveeta on burgers. It was more often an ingredient in casseroles, grilled cheese sandwiches, and such.
  13. Dannyalcatraz

    What's Your Bucket List Campaign to Play?

    The 2 campaigns I did the most work on that have never even been CLOSE to being run are a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting for 3.5Ed and one based on M:tG using HERO as the mechanical underpinnings.
  14. Dannyalcatraz

    What Non-D&D Would You Use For A Dungeon Focused Campaign

    D&D-style? The Fantasy Trip for something simple, beer & pretzel style or HERO for the Full Monty. Sci-Fant? Shadowrun or Star Wars D20. Sci-fi? Traveller or Prime Directive.
  15. Dannyalcatraz

    Burger me!

    In August, WC announced it’s opening its firstTexas location sometime next year. Not far from me, but not close, either.
  16. Dannyalcatraz

    Burger me!

    I haven’t seen a White Castle in person in 30+ years.🙁
  17. Dannyalcatraz

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    For several years, there was a chiropractor a few miles from my home that had window signage claiming to treat all kinds of things, including infectious diseases and cancer.🫤 OTOH, for 20+ years, we used a vet who was also a main lecturer at a local chiropractic school. He didn’t use...
  18. Dannyalcatraz

    Burger me!

    I’m with you on all of that except burritos.🤷🏾‍♂️ There used to be a sandwich chain called The Hip Pocket which used pitas as their only bread. They used large, thick ones, sliced in half with the contents stuffed in the pocket. A generous amount of shredded iceberg and some sliced tomatoes...
  19. Dannyalcatraz

    Happy Haggert Hurried Hungry Hitch Hiking Hired Henchmen Hivers.... apply within

    I understand the sentiment, but don’t belittle your own burdens.
  20. Dannyalcatraz

    Burger me!

    Hmmmm… BurgerTech? MunchWarrior? Star Meat Battles? G.E.V. (Ground Effect Vealcle)?
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