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In the US, many of the western railroads probably qualified as mega corps. One of the subsidies they got from the US Govt was alternating square miles of land along the tracks they laid into the western US. Land = money = power. Many of the railroads leased their right of ways to telegraph...

Is there a size reference on these? The way the announcement reads, kind of implies in the 25~30 mm scale range. The blind bag aspect is a negative IMO, but if the price point is low enough, might gamble a couple times trying to get a mimic. No real interest in the other two. Can give the...

The wide variety of product available. A few examples. Miniatures - Most vendors started out as suppliers of minis for Ancients Armies. Early RPG character minis were rare and made of poorly cast lead. Now there are many vendors selling a wide array of minis made from several materials...

Ground up and turned into hamburger. Never really cared for steak. But my taste buds are at least one standard deviation away from normal. If steak is the only choice, then medium well. With lots of steak/BBQ sauce.

I would get really irritated as a player if I had to follow that Bard in the play cycle order. Why should my Thief fail at a pick pocket try with a 19 die roll just because the Bard has a +13 modifier and rolled a nat 20 just before the thief goes? So the Bard gets laid and my Thief gets...

AI slop generated so the next person can use it as input for an AI generated report. Agree on the power point thing. Sat thought way too many meetings with way too many slides. Hated that most of my continuing education college classes ~15 years ago were the prof reading power point slides in...

A few weeks ago the daughter of the daughter of a long time friend started playing with us. Three generations at the same table. And yes, I have a few unpainted minis from about the time I started playing with the friend, before any of his kids were conceived.

One of the AI ads during the Super Bowl was pretty much exactly targeting drudge office work. 'AI can finish out that 1000 row spreadsheet in just a few minutes.' 'AI can build that 100 slide power point.' 'AI can create the emails for the layoff notices(*).' (*)this one wasn't in the ad...

It was for me. Kept most of the RPG stuff but boxes of magazines kept for many years found the recycle bin. Several shelves of non-RPG books got donated to the local Friends of the Library sale. Hundreds of VHS tapes also got culled. Mostly Star Trek stuff. I had binge watched them a few...

For a real life example of a fighting man that had many other skills, consider the Roman Legionnaire. Pretty much defines the basic D&D fighter. Sword, shield, armor, helmet. Kills things. Pillages the result. But when the legion wasn't fighting, it was the empire's engineering corp...

Probably not a good person to respond. I still have my white box D&D and black box Traveller sets. But even if you don't run them, there is a possibility that some talented GM that is financially challenged would be happy to run a group using those or other books. Sometimes as source...

Based on the clarification, still believe it is NOT railroading. Spell slot didn't work as the material component was missing. Chance for investigation into how the fork was stolen? Did any of the players think of trying Dismissal? After all, while on the Feawild, the party ARE extraplanar...

Nothing says you can't do both. A brief 'just the facts' recap and a more verbose story telling. Link to a long abandoned campaign blog from 2007ish : Greyhawk's Cauldron IIRC - 3 folks contributed to that one. Other things like next game time and food plans were handled via a separate...

IMO - Question 1 - No, the party had at least two options - A - help the locals deal with the Winter Court takeover. B - Wish themselves out of there. I suppose there was - C - Join forces with the Winter Court and split the spoils. Just because the first thing the party tried failed isn't...

IMO - session write ups should include The RL date of the game session and the in game start date and end date a brief recap of the session's events notable things lost, destroyed or used up notable things found and who in the party has them. XP, character build points or similar awards...

A bit into senior status. On average, smaller dogs tend to live longer then large ones. Check with the vet on ideal weight. A lot of older dogs are too fat. Nothing wrong with breaking a dog treat into 2 or more pieces and using 1 piece as the treat. Dogs seem less concerned with the size...

Absolutely, D&D borrowed heavily from many sources, including Tolkien. But fair to say that many folk's first contact with elves, dwarves, hobbits/halflings, orc, dragons, many of the deities and monsters were from playing D&D, not the earlier source/inspirational material. Considering that...

Classes - Traveller, by comparison, allowed characters to learn and do about anything. Your initial pick of Service Branch influenced your initial skill set but once you began your Travelling life, any character could learn any skill, if the physical stats were good enough. D&D classes really...

Puppy or adult? If adult, he already has an established pattern for life. Up to you to figure it out and try to modify to fit your home and life style. If puppy, YOU are now mommy and have to teach him how to be a member of the pack. 2nd the idea that at least at first, you, or mom, will...

Depends on the game. Recent Fantasy type RPGs often turn into the discussions about the 5 minute day. Traveller is generally more about how many days have passed as characters track progress on the next skill increase. When jumps take a week, there is a lot of down time for self improvement...