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I would slightly modify the aforegoing to note that such pleasantries as "the loyal opposition" and "the honorable member" are signifiers intended to formally encode good faith norms, though in practice they can be used sarcastically or become empty phrases, so I'd caution the reader that a...

Makes sense. The existing OSE SRD treasure generator online has a Basic/Expert/Advanced toggle for the treasure tables so you can choose which group of tables to roll on. That's how I read it too. I extend that rule to Dwarves, Elves, and Halflings in my B/X house rules. Though I also let...

For a sec I thought bartender, but they normally use electronic touch screen point of sale devices too, like with McD's. I think you'd most likely need to find some low-tech labor job at a small business with a luddite owner. There are some bars and restaurants and cleaning, maintenance, or...

Good list! Although Alien was '79.

Not crediting it for the invention of race-as-class?? These are from 4E. 4E Backgrounds weren't didn't exactly give feats, but a wide variety of benefits, some of which were equivalent to feats.

Got in Tuesday night again and did the same three upper body exercises as Sunday. Trying to be consistent and buckle down on progress - baseline of go to failure or a slight increase in reps or weight for each exercise where possible. If I can't increase I'll try to hit the last mark. I'm eating...

For the record, Dwarves and Hobbits in the original 1974 rules are races, and that is a separate concept from class, but the only class open to them was Fighting-Man (AKA Fighter). Only the 1974 rules for the Elf are unwieldy/unclear in OD&D, as they were required to be both Fighter and...

Got in Monday night again; hit different muscle groups. Trying to stick to a consistent suite of exercises and put in the effort for a little progressive overload, focusing on adding reps now, where I can. Lat pulldowns (narrow grip) 4 sets with drop set on the last one. Increased the base...

Wat. There was a substantial faction of 1E players who didn't bother transitioning to 2E, some of whom complained about the removal of demons and assassins and apparent kowtowing of TSR to what Jim Ward called the "Angry Mothers from Heck", but there was much less rancor than the edition wars of...

(I'm thinking GURPS) Got a bunch of bonus points from Disadvantages like his addictions, code of honor, and the revolutionary activities in his past which could have gotten him hanged. ;) Certainly not all 18s if we're thinking D&D. Not much Strength, Constitution middling, Wisdom very doubtful...

Yes, the cringe is real. Either thinking about young people we've known, or ourselves as clueless youngsters. I appreciate that by the end of the movie Tom's actually tried out Jane Austen and found he likes her. I was just thinking about how formal and kind of unnatural the dialogue in the...

It's a game attempt. Jack Aubrey's brilliance at sea but hapless incompetence on land/in business and politics is certainly fun fodder for novels. I'm not sure such a person is adequately or accurately modeled by a low Int score, but I do think there's something to the notion that a person...

Rackham made some amazing miniatures. I bought out and resold a bunch of Confrontation models when a local gaming shop went out of business one time.

Always nice to see a Whit Stillman movie reference in the wild. :) This movie is so fun. Very dry. Such a time capsule of NY prep schoolers in the 80s, but more generally of smart kids who had no idea how ignorant they actually were, despite reading a lot. Which is part of the time capsule...

Feel better soon!

Good stuff. So you still get Classic, but you also get all the Advanced options in the same two books - Players' and Referees' tomes. All the Advanced stuff is just indicated as such.

Rested Friday and Saturday, got in for a pretty solid session on Sunday. Smith machines were all occupied but I was not deterred from my intent to stick to the Smith inclined bar bench- I just hit a different exercise first. Machine biceps curls 4 sets with drop sets on the last (picked up a...

The entropy of typos comes for us all...

Thank you! Yeah, IME/IMO there's a big middle zone for most people. I do derive some satisfaction from my job and I know it's healthy for my mood, even though there are things I'd rather be doing at any given moment. If I could choose any job I wanted, it would probably still be one that...

Yeah, a lot of great stuff there. Although I wish they'd draw the line at 1 HD for fighter sweep as in OD&D, rather than less than 1 like AD&D, which is less useful and less heroic.