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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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The homelessness stat I think has a lot to do with homeless children having somewhat better access to services (and thus their caretaker parent with them), and with homeless women having more of an option to (depressingly) trade companionship for shelter. :/ But yeah, lots of challenges with...

At least it's an option. You don't have to do it. If you choose to follow that path you spend something like 1-4 months meditating in nature, during which time a 25th+ level Druid finds you, tests you and trains you, and then you pick up the new abilities and restrictions.

To clarify a little, I was just referencing specifically what 1E says about Alchemists making potions (which is just assisting with it). They're also mentioned as selling various spell components, and defined on page 29 as handling "the compounding of magical substances". Their fee structure...

Got in Friday after work for two circuits of dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, and dumbbell lateral raises. Then did three sets of machine overhead press. I was going to use a machine for tricep extensions (for some reason I wasn't feeling my dumbbell behind the head skull crushers) but...

The big chart was also a pain to read and use. But there's some cool stuff in there.

Yep, you did have to get it back to town (not use it up on the adventure) to get XP for it, but note that 1E gave XP two different ways for magic items: 1) If an item was sold immediately for cash instead of being kept, it awarded XP at the cash value. 2) If an item was kept by a PC who could...

In the DMG it's more a matter of implication. All the discussion of rarity and how difficult it is to make them. The charts do tell you how much you can sell magic items for "on the open market", but don't seem to mention magic shops. Even the rules for alchemists make them only of use helping...

Weight stable but I've been pretty much off exercise all week. Have had conflicting commitments shortly after work, low energy and seem to need more sleep in the mornings. But I made myself get in bed earlier last night and was able to do my morning exercises today. Going to try to motivate...

Yeah, I had a subscription for a while and used to re-read regularly as a teen and in college. The occasional joke article was fine, but the overall volume of them definitely made me feel like those April issues were less useful and entertaining.

de Lint is always great, though I didn't get into him until later. The Bishop's Heir I really loved as a kid (found the ending extremely affecting), and thought held up fine on later reads. It and its follow-up The King's Justice seemed to me to refine and mature Kurtz' writing from the first...

Recovery is definitely accelerated from OD&D. In keeping with how healing accelerated across the editions. I do often point out how AD&D characters have more base HP and access to more healing spells at low level than OD&D and B/X characters. The simple "you don't die until -10" house rule so...

I think they MOSTLY kept to running their own dungeons/areas. So each only had a limited territory in the game world they had to be responsible for and keep track of. What other kinds of coordination are you thinking?

If it's any consolation, JMal didn't use that word in the first article of his I found on the topic. I don't know if he used it elsewhere. I could imagine him using it, though I imagine it'd be at least a bit ironic. He has tended to take a very nostalgic, and sometimes elegiac, tone.