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Somewhat tangential: a little while ago I saw an online sales page for a wire that would let you hook up (if I recall correctly) your SNES, N64, and GameCube to an HDTV. It looked pretty awesome, but a friend of mine said that while it would probably work, it would screw the aspect ratio all to...

I'd think of a "trivia" ability as being a lot like bardic knowledge, in that it's basically there to have an in-character reason for the GM to be able to give exposition to the players (ideally if and when they ask for it or if they're stuck and need a gentle nudge to get moving again).

Obligatory Penny Arcade take on the issue:

I remember that being a thing about them during the d20 boom's heyday, but I thought it had gotten better since then?

I thought I read back in (the original publication of) Playing at the World that psionics in D&D was also supposed to be a nod to the people who wanted to use magic points instead of Vancian spellcasting...but I'm not completely certain I'm remembering correctly.

Ideas like this remind of an old article in Dragon magazine about the language families in the Forgotten Realms. I can't recall what its title was or what issue it was in, but it was quite a lot of fun.

Didn't some gods die? Or am I thinking of Pathfinder?

It's not quite the same as being inspired by history directly, but I still would like to implement some of the rules restricting magic from certain sourcebooks from AD&D 2E's Historical Reference line. Things like certain spells only working in consecrated areas, for instance, or other spells...

Somewhat tangential; a player in our current campaign (which is PF1) who also runs a 5E game lamented that 5E didn't have a dog/canine PC race. Apparently that idea isn't particularly popular.

Unfortunately, things didn't work out for these two. It turned out she had eyes for someone else.

I'd agree, but at my table they're said to be printed in "eyestrain font."

This is so much catchier than it has any right to be:

That reminds me: make sure your house has a cleanout for its drain line. It's not something you'll need very often, but when you do, you really do.

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Yes, but to be fair I was thinking that before.

I respectfully disagree. While the idea that the cast of Seinfeld are awful people is regularly put forward (including by the show's own finale), it always rung hollow to me. Yes, they're often shallow to the point of conceit, but villains? Kramer was in an AIDS walk. George saw a security...

Make sure to confirm how long the warranty on the roof replacement lasts. I had a leak a few years back, and was relieved to find that the warranty on the roof repair the sellers had done was still in effect (albeit just barely).

Only in that I'd default to a random roll if there was no consensus about what was simplest, rather than letting the PC choose. But otherwise I agree that the Strength increase is the simplest, and that the player shouldn't be treated as being permanently under the effect of a potion from then...

I was going to say almost exactly this.