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Wow. We must not go to the same conventions because some degree of character introduction is very common in the convention games I go to - both organized play and with pre-gens.

Well, someone's not long for these boards.

Oh, look. There it is again...

Yeah, if they thought they were trying to be inclusive of women with this cover... well, someone pulled a boner on that decision.

Indeed. But even in those cases, you may notice and recognize some traits that you should be expected to respect. And those traits may be attached to baggage and social issues away from the table. As part of that expectation of courtesy, you may need to watch how you step around those issues and...

So much effing dog-whistling.

I don't recall ever seeing a Dragonbone in use more than once at a convention. It was Gen Con many years ago and the guy who had it didn't seem to have anywhere near as much fun with it as every one else was having with their dice.

Moreover, he was coming right off an emergency case where immediacy and fast reaction was paramount for the survival of the baby and mother and he just found out that the colleague he was supposed to leave the ER to had two seizures that day, possibly provoked by the stress of the job. Hoo boy...

They can’t resist telling on themselves.

I know this isn't strictly related to dice materials, readability, or rolling methods, but... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T PUT YOUR DICE AWAY AT THE END OF YOUR TURN! I had a player who would do that so, at the start of his next turn, he had to fish his dice out of his dice bag again.

One factor to consider that may affect perceptions - Robby has more women physicians under his supervision as senior attending than men. For men, he's got Langdon and Whitaker. For women, he's got Mohan, McKay, Santos, Javadi, King, and, in season one, Collins. As far as generating conflict for...

Fortuitously timely article, given the death of Lou Zocchi. I've switched to using a dice tray (and foldable tower) most of the time when I run D&D - largely because of table space at my friends' house. But when I run at conventions like Gamehole where I'm standing a lot more often (because I'm...

The term that works best for me that covers what the rules do is operationalize. The rules operationalize how the characters interact with the setting - they give us, the players and the game masters, processes and procedures for handling what a player wants to do and how that action is resolved.

Tired. So, so tired of the same old BS.

Allow me to repeat myself (from back in 2024): "YOU feel excluded? How do you think women have felt for much of D&D’s history? At least you had this piece of art speaking to you, INCLUDING you, for FORTY YEARS. And now someone has produced a mini interpreting the character as female. The GALL of...

Word from Jolly Blackburn is that Lou Zocchi, wargamer and dice expert, has passed away.

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...