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As it happens, I'm a Winnipeger and interested in running a Basic Fantasy game, in fact I've been prepping one for some time. However, I don't know when this would happen as I feel like I barely have time to do justice to the games I already run, even with both currently on an every-other-week...

No. In order to be lies, they would have to be intentional, or at the very least blatantly negligent. But in order to be falsehoods, all they have to be is false.

I would assume he means building a character starting from essentially a blank piece of paper (i.e. out of the clear blue sky), without the guidance random elements and/or well-defined classes or templates can provide. However, this is just an educated guess and I too would appreciate some...

Doing some Appendix N reading - currently I'm in the middle of both Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock and The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany. This, after several years of reading very little fiction, unless you count economics blogs.

I haven't been able to access it for a few days either.

A game that started under house-ruled-beyond-recognition 2E and ended under 3.5 (note - I do NOT recommend changing systems in mid-campaign like that, and wouldn't do it again) reached about level 16.

The duration alone needn't be a problem, if you've got a game that can stay engaging through it. Talisman doesn't stay engaging. Heck, it often doesn't even start engaging. I've played it six or seven times because it was what the other people around me happened to be playing, and can honestly...

I believe we have the thread winner.

The hardest thing to get right is pacing. I'm still only okay at it, I think.

How is the bite and the comment about "children" not a dead giveaway (if you'll forgive the pun)? Vampire. I'm not even putting it in spoilery form because it seems to me this strip is supposed to make it obvious.

Ha! Not perfect, but much better. I don't know about baking, but a lot of the time one *is* better off with home cooking than restaurant cooking. Of course, one gets tired of doing that *every day*. I don't know anyone who buys a computer every day!

Very bad analogy. It does not take anywhere near the time or skill to put a computer together versus a house or car.

-shrug- Whether it's D&D rules or computers, I'm such an inveterate tinkerer that by the time I got an out-of-the-box Dell or HP machine set up the way I wanted it - if that turned out to be possible in the first place - I wouldn't have saved any time. Probably not money either - at this point...

I don't understand why anyone would buy a big-name computer when it's cheaper and almost as easy to buy the parts and build it yourself, or if you're too scared to do that, let someone like Newegg do it for you. You get exactly the components you want and you aren't paying a premium for a name.

Adventure 8 is O, Wintry Song of Agony. Tears of the Burning Sky is adventure 6.

Vortberd was a brain fart on my part. Laurabec and Tiljan I recognized the names of (as I've said, Tiljan was actually a PC in my group for a while). However, there's no Lyre of Building that I recall in the 3E version, much less an entire subplot around it, and I have no idea what the Aquilla...

... I hardly recognize any of the events or NPC names you just mentioned, and my group has since finished the third adventure. Is that all stuff from the 4E version?

I get the following every time I open the news page: "Your submission could not be processed because the token has expired.<br /> <br /> Please reload the window." (Including the broken tags.)

Appears to be fixed :-).

On the Legacy view, some of the stories on the front page are showing up dark-grey-on-black instead of white-on-black, and are therefore all but unreadable without highlighting them. The affected stories are those from today under the headings Roleplaying Games News, Community News and Other...