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TSR tried out several different methods for solo adventures. BSOLO Ghost of Lion Castle, XSOLO Lathan's Gold, and XS2 Thunderdelve Mountain used the Choose Your Own Adventure-style system of having paragraphs of content shuffled out of order through the module, so you couldn't read them...

Conan certainly does wear armor when he can, in the original Howard stories, but he is stronger than almost any man/can wrestle gorillas and the like (not beat them, but survive a grapple long enough to win with a knife or something). Not superhuman, and I don't know if Howard would have...

Totes. Do!

That bit sounds very authentic to the stories. :)

I remember Courtney Love making a speech in the early days of internet music sharing about how artists were going to have to functionally work for tips/live on ticket sales. That record sales were not going to sustain them anymore. And that seems to have turned out true. Concur. There are...

Friday night went to the gym rather than responding to an email from my ex. Lat pulldowns (narrow grip) 105x16, 120x16, 120x14 +2, 120x15 +105x4. Advanced by a rep or two on almost all sets. Machine overhead press 45x16, 60x12, 60x11 +30x3. Advanced in reps all sets compared to last time. One...

Tolkien's writing desk is like a modern-day relic. My hands would be shaking if I touched it. Wow. I'll never get anything like that, though last year I DID get in on a limited run of (a hundred or so) signed and numbered posters of John Blanche's cover art for the British version of the 1977...

And sometimes it's not either, but the context of your prior relationship with the listener, including what's been said before.

Mine finally showed up last week, a big gorgeous box of goodies. But I'm prepping to move, so I'm keeping it all in the box for now.

Reminds me a little of the GLOG for which each class has only 4 templates (A-D), and you can either add a template in an existing class or one in a new class when you level up. Though GLOG caps you at only 4 total templates. Level advancement goes to 10, but the power curve flattens out a lot...

Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way that you say it.

That's what Pendragon explicitly advises players to do. Speaking of another game I'm playing now.

When the rules are fiddly and detailed it's easy to make a mistake. When character generation is quick & simple it's easy to make a new character and jump right back in the action when one is killed or disabled. One of the great things about running the simpler versions of D&D is that you...

Thursday night hit my core three upper body exercises again plus a little. Again trying to progress by a rep or two everywhere I can. I'm a touch sick with some kind of respiratory crud this week, so I know that's sapping energy. Smith inclined barbell bench 70x20 (accidentally set the incline...

That's part of why my preference is still for the original gridded UDT, rather than the later zoned UDT. If I were to use zoned UDT, I think I'd want to divide the mid-zone into four quadrants, to facilitate multiple "centers" like you're talking about.

My usual approaches in the last few years have been fog of war on roll20, or, in-person drawing it out for the players on a Chessex megamat to save time. Sometimes I'll have a premade poster map, or use a 1" gridded presentation pad from Staples and draw out a map in advance if I expect a site...

Yup. I employed that one again yesterday. For a while on the DakkaDakka forums we had a trend going in rules debates where we'd go ahead and break out our premises and conclusions explicitly.

Reminds me of those "Earth is a deathworld" memes talking about how corrosive O2 and H2O are.

Reminding me of the [species] paragon classes in the 3.5 Unearthed Arcana. I remember taking levels in the Elf one with one of my characters.