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Three Wings for the tailgaters under the sky, Seven for the bar-lords in their boozy halls, Nine for morsel men hooked on pie, One for the Sauce Lord behind dark walls In the time of football when the chickens die. One Wing to rule them all, One Wing to boss them, One Wing to bring them all, and...

We had an old Apple laptop for business use that I had eventually loaded with a couple of old FPS games. We junked it at a tech recycling place last summer. …and 2 days later, I realized that I could have wiped the business stuff from the drive and completely repurposed it as a retro gaming...

Funny story: the Marantz belonged to my Dad. He was assembling HIS component stereo system, but balked at the price of the Bose 901s he really wanted. He “made do” with the Marantz for a few years until he finally broke down and bought some 901s, relegating the Marantz to end tables. The 901s...

Well, sorta. AD&D’s MM was first released in 1977, and the PHB in ‘78. So I’m probably misremembering the date, because I had both when we started.

In all probability, the very first game of AD&D in 1977- my gateway to the hobby- was probably run RAW. But I have no way of knowing. Since I started DMing, I’ve probably never run a campaign in any edition that was RAW. Most game systems I’m running for the first time, I probably run RAW or...

Ignoring simple tools? We have a windup chiming wall clock made in Germany in the mid-1970s. My Marantz stereo speakers date from the same time, as does my TEAC microphone.

If I were to create a lifepath system mechanism for use in an RPG, idle probability give most or even every character building option some kind of bonus to selecting subsequent options. IOW, they wouldn’t have a direct effect on combat or skill rolls in and of themselves; they would ONLY have...

Or a normal vampire that becomes a moon when a werewolf comes out. …and he lives in a city with a large LGBTQ* population. * Lycanthrope, Goblin, Banshee, Troll, Quickling

Use that magic item that destroys walls.

I’ve kinda cut my own groove in the Geekiverse. I started collecting comics in the early 70s, and quit in the mid-1990s. I’m starting the process of donating my collection to various charities. The price vs enjoyment equation stopped resulting in positive numbers. I ignore all of Star Wars...

So the first things they’re supposed to do is immediately turn themselves in for learning info above their clearance!

Again, not buying what Ibram X. Kendi is selling. What’s being described is hard coding racism into policies, not defining racism itself. If we treated this sentence more like a math equation, where “racism” is defined as “racial bigotry + a power imbalance” we’d have something like R =...

Absolutely! The “paper bag” test is a real thing.* One of my cousins was dating a great guy: 6’ tall marine, infectious smile, built like a linebacker, great sense of humor. We’ll call him “Bob”…‘cause that was his name. He was also quite dark skinned, whereas that cousin was very light...

You have no way of knowing, but they weren’t. I’d bring up my white- or whomever-hating family members and they’d tell me “that’s bigotry, not racism”, usually citing the lack of a power dynamic. The articles they’d hand me to support their positions were equally clear about the need for a...

“Ask about our specials!”

Yes, but no. 😁 I’m thinking like a sandwich board message.