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I’ve never been able to draw a bow fully, but that’s more because the only ones I’ve shot with were small & cheap student bows made with some kind of cheap plastic.😂 You might need to find different shirt makers. Custom & semi-custom clothes are much more affordable and available these days...

Betty Harford has died. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/dynasty-star-dead-98-passed-165020577.html

As much as I love that song, I never realized it happened in my lifetime. Also, that recording itself is a bit of a wreck, too.

We’re starting to get some fall weather here in D/FW. Miss Dog is seemingly enjoying the cooldown. So am I. Cooler weather means I can wear my clothes in layers, displaying a bit more fashion & style.

AD&D was undoubtably first by at least a year. 2nd & 3rd happened in rapid succession, and I no longer recall which was next- Traveller or The Fantasy Trip/In the Labyrinth. (My gut suspects Traveller was actually 3rd, though.) When it was released, Champions became my 4th, and was my last...

When I was at a private Catholic school, I was a barrel.🫤 I grew across rather than up: 5’3” and 253lbs at graduation; 17.5” neck. Part of this was due to medical conditions that wouldn’t be diagnosed until I was in my 30s. Besides fat, I also have abnormally heavy bone thickness and related...

Some people violate the Wheaton Rule as easily and regularly as they breathe.

I shop online. A LOT. (More than you’re thinking right now.) I’ve noticed a BUNCH of sites I use that have TURRBLE search engines, and no matter how much you filter your results, you get alarming numbers of extraneous results. Today’s Example: I was searching a particular website for a...

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

MOST folks don’t. Most.

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