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  1. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D 5E (2014) Dungeoncraft Interview with Mike Mearls

    Any highlights? I don't watch videos.
  2. Cordwainer Fish

    What VTT(s) do you most dislike and why? (Defenders welcome to defend)

    Roll20 is a complete non-starter for me, because it refuses to support Safari and I refuse to install any other web browser. If I had time to kill I might see what I could make in CLOG.
  3. Cordwainer Fish

    How many were abused due to their love of D&D, RPGs, and related items when they were young?

    Of course not! Tomatoes are a New World plant, just like potatoes and tobacc ... uh, forget I said anything.
  4. Cordwainer Fish

    How many were abused due to their love of D&D, RPGs, and related items when they were young?

    Outlier here. I grew up in the hometown of a televangelist many of you have probably heard of, as well as a rather progressive Unitarian congregation most of you probably haven't; my mother was, for most of our tenure there, aligned with the latter. And my grandparents could only have been...
  5. Cordwainer Fish

    Bright moons

    If you want to get really really technical, they're gravitational waves; gravity waves are something different and much more mundane (waves on water are gravity waves).
  6. Cordwainer Fish

    Bright moons

    Incandescent, Greg Egan.
  7. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

    They are not making diddly. They are at best acquiring.
  8. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

    I refer you to Laplace's reply to Napoleon. (Yes, he probably never said it. But he should have.)
  9. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General Drow & Orcs Removed from the Monster Manual

    It's not a matrix if it doesn't represent a linear function from one vector space to another.
  10. Cordwainer Fish

    Marc Miller's copy of Traveller, original in shrink, sold for $5500

    And how many deaths there were during character generation.
  11. Cordwainer Fish

    Theater of the Mind and VTTs: Oh Brave New World...

    And there's shades of gray. Tell me the bad guy is ten meters away, cool. Tell me bad guy A is ten feet away and has cover, bad guy B is twelve meters away in a different direction and said a bad word after his last shot like maybe his weapon jammed, etc. and I'm going to want a map.
  12. Cordwainer Fish

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    We are at war with (edition). We have always been at war with (edition).
  13. Cordwainer Fish

    WotC Mike Mearls: "D&D Is Uncool Again"

    There are hams who will go to their graves mad that you can now get a license - even an Amateur Extra - without knowing one dit of Morse Code.
  14. Cordwainer Fish

    What's your VTT of choice?

    Am grognard, know that.
  15. Cordwainer Fish

    What's your VTT of choice?

    I suspect the term 'radio' is going to go the way of 'parasite' - kids today don't know it means 'guy who never throws dinner parties, but he's a good conversationalist so you invite him to yours'.
  16. Cordwainer Fish

    WotC 5E Designer Mike Mearls Talks About The OGL Crisis

    And it was written in Esperanto.
  17. Cordwainer Fish

    WotC 5E Designer Mike Mearls Talks About The OGL Crisis

    They were going to tell you you were being laid off.
  18. Cordwainer Fish

    Effects of tariffs on game sales (e.g. US/Canada shipments) (No Politics!)

    I'm not clicking on a link. Summary in a sentence or it's just noise to me.
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