Search results

It's also the kind of play you might see in an environment where dice are relatively scarce - like early days of the hobby.

It's true that lead has been in gasoline (and paint) a long time, but one reason GenX is so heavily affected is because of trends in use. The growth of car culture after the war led to steep increases in the use of leaded gas that persisted all the way until the US started to phase out leaded...

And that ban isn't even absolute. It's just for regular public use. Racetracks, for example, still often use leaded gasoline with measurable effects on child development in neighborhoods near those facilities. NASCAR, to their credit, transitioned off leaded gas starting in 2007.

It's a thing. The political zeitgeist around people contributes a lot to their socialization into political orientation. And the 1980s, when a lot of GenXers were first becoming aware of politics were the Reagan/Thatcher years - and that has had a lasting impact like generational cohort support...

If you don't want an answer, don't ask the question.

I'm going to suggest an alternate view based on games I've encountered. There was a guy who ran some pick-up tables at Gen Con WAY back in the early 1980s (at UW-Parkside and early years at Mecca in Milwaukee) who had the players roll for their sexual orientation in a similar way. 10% chance of...

Did you move an image in Word then print? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/26BDVgIXkTo

Glass houses and all that. Since getting the material on DDB does add value for some people (such as sharing, integration into a character builder, etc), it's also trivially proven false that "it's just a format change." It may offer options YOU aren't interested in, but that doesn't make it...

It's not too far off from lending a book, but that book only ever has one copy of itself since it's a physical object. Share a PDF and it replicates itself, so you have to be more trusting that people aren't going to share it forward. For most purposes, that's a minor concern, though, but not a...

Yeah, that struck me as weird as well. Maybe it's an Innsmouth patriarch like one of the Obed Marsh or something. Otherwise, they'll kind of have to redefine what a Domain of Dread can be a little bit.

Should be a default that everyone can sit at any table (literally and metaphorically) and be treated with respect - but the reality too often is it's not the default and people, using the weight of governments they control, are pushing back against making it the default every day. You just have...

Sometimes I get the impression a poster or two really isn't playing with a full deck of normal playing cards. And it also seems other people will go out of their way to be asshats to them.

The AI/LLMs tag seems to work for me. I screen it out in my preferences and the few threads that have it disappear. Screening out a whole subforum is, I think, a somewhat different beast. Maybe DM the OP and ask him to add the tag?

I just finished Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions. Its influence on elements of early D&D is pretty clear.

There are some absolutely brilliant ones that Picasso did (yes, THAT Picasso) that were part of a spread in Life Magazine.

Well, maybe the solution is to do something considerably more radical to get the experience you want (and hope your players want - so maybe ask them). And that is ignore the hit points of damage being done in favor of something else until that "something else" is satisfied and THEN go with the...

Well, "Back to the Dungeon" was a marketing tag line that had to signify something. But I don't think it was a reaction against 2e, per se, as much as refocusing the vibe back on dungeon adventuring rather than the proliferation of setting-based materials that were a bit of a glut in the 2e era...

Mm hm, yeah, sure. NOT optimistic about that statement.