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  1. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D 5E (2014) Don't Throw 5e Away Because of Hasbro

    s/a jerk move/utterly beyond the pale/
  2. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D 5E (2014) Don't Throw 5e Away Because of Hasbro

    "Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy?" "We use vi, son. They use emacs." Make the obvious substitutions, and that's me.
  3. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D 5E (2014) Don't Throw 5e Away Because of Hasbro

    Like Oscar Wilde said, the only thing worse than being pirated is not being pirated.
  4. Cordwainer Fish

    Mainstream News Discovers D&D's Species Terminology Change

    I understand that that's where the wheels came off, but she lost me with the previous book, set in Albuquerque and feeling absolutely nothing like the real ABQ.
  5. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General Your Character Died! Who's Fault Was It?

    Touching it you might get away with. Reading aloud from it, you're bleeped. If it's in Latin, the entire party's bleeped.
  6. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General Not the Wicked Witch: Revisiting the Legacy of Lorraine Williams

    Somehow I failed to remember that. In my defense, there's so much bat guano crazy stuff in TSR's history...
  7. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General Not the Wicked Witch: Revisiting the Legacy of Lorraine Williams

    Where do I hear more about this? (Expecting an answer in the form of "that book you bought the other year but still haven't read, Fish.".)
  8. Cordwainer Fish

    Mainstream News Discovers D&D's Species Terminology Change

    Not exactly selling me on the word.
  9. Cordwainer Fish

    What's your VTT of choice?

    FG is what I'm familiar with, it supports Traveller, and it doesn't demand I use a web browser I won't use. Its devs don't seem to care about Apple Silicon, though, which may mean my RPGing days will come to an end the day I upgrade my desktop.
  10. Cordwainer Fish

    What are your go-to dice?

    For determining how much falling damage Hans Gruber takes?
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  12. Cordwainer Fish

    What are your go-to dice?

    High end backgammon dice. Like casino dice, they are balanced to near aerospace precision, but they have rounded corners and edges so they roll well and you don't have to bounce them off a vertical to be reliably random. And they have pips instead of digits, the way God intended.
  13. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General When We Were Wizards: Review of the Completed Podcast!

    "If I'm not smart, then how come I'm rich?"
  14. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General Drow as in Cow or Drow as in Snow: Where did the Dark Elves Come From?

    Ask me to choose between having Gygax' goodwill and being punched in the face, and I will take off my glasses before I answer.
  15. Cordwainer Fish

    D&D General Just sweeping dirty dishes under the rug: D&D, Sexism, and the '70s

    "I'm being silenced because of my opinions!" "That's awful! Which opinions?" "Oh, you know."
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