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I just think they're mostly uninspired and uninteresting, if not downright annoying. "Jolly" is not a very compelling emotion for a song, IMO, and the religious ones aren't really for me. Most are just not good songs, and get played because they're part of the whole X-mas marketing racket...

I love George Michael. Just not this song. But I kinda hate conventional Christmas songs in general.

I’m pretty safe. I keep a large Xmas playlist for my class and that song is not on it. I don’t listen to the radio and I avoid shopping malls. The bars and restaurants I frequent wouldn’t play it. So unless it comes up on a YouTube video, I’m going to avoid it for another year. It’s also less...

I too have had that happen. The whole fun of an attack when the party is unprepared is that they have to come up with ways to compensate.

Nothing. Zero assigned reading. I describe the setting in session zero and answer any questions they have during character creation. The world unfolds as they play through it.

What's the quality on those Under Dusk miniatures? I bought a set of Wildspire miniatures because they were cheap and...you get what you pay for. If you're only interested in tokens for tabletop use, then they're probably good enough, but don't buy them for a serious miniatures afficionado...

The steamer trunk is just one interpretation. It's not in the rules or anything.

My last home game had the party first hunting a couple vampires, which took them through the backstreets, the sewers, and then finally to a fancy hotel. Our brand new player, first ever game, made a bard, almost died, was alive at one hit point and then polymorphed herself into a giant ape and...

So, I'm not quite sure what you are getting at here. I'm trying not to interpret it negatively, but it doesn't read as super inclusive. I run a pretty PG game, both at school (obviously) but more or less at home, as well (just the way our tastes run - occasionally there's a bit of sauciness...

I would be cautious about eradicating entire species (families of species, actually) that have been around far longer than humans and are integral to many ecosystems. Besides, only three of the hundreds of species of mosquitos are a problem for humans. Wouldn't it make sense to focus on...

I. Freaking. HATE. That. Song. I would have to murder the downstairs neighbour, were I in your situation. No other option. At Thanksgiving I like to think about the things I have to be thankful for. I'm adding "not having gnarlygninja's downstairs neighbour" to my list.

Because it's apropos as a deconstruction of Dracula tropes and also super entertaining:

You are not summarizing most Dracula movies very well. Typically, they are not primarily set in Transylvania. London is the most used setting, but Demeter (I just watched it; it's not very good) is set almost entirely onboard the ship. And plenty are set in...well, pretty much any location you...

I hope you didn't take my comment as minimizing the cultural distinctions - that was not my intent. If so, I apologize. I'm from BC but I lived in Ontario (Kingston) for a few years and didn't notice much difference between how Thanksgiving was observed there as here.

I think they meant the Anglophone part of Quebec. There are still some distinct cultural differences between the primarily French-speaking majority and the primarily English speaking minority in that province. It's a whole thing that has significantly shaped Canadian history and politics since...

Keep an eye out for young Will Byers - the actor is the child of one of my closest work buddies (and an occasionaly D&Der).

I did have one player who was consistently a pain in the butt with character ideas that went WAY outside the campaign. Like for one he wanted his character to be someone from our world who was constantly hopping between planes of existence, Quantum Leap style, and had temporarily wound up in the...