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I wonder if Dave Arneson will be featured,or even mentioned.

For reasons not quite clear,August 25th is a day of celebration in this neck of the woods

Ignoring your straw man fallacy,the resolution of said proposed tension between efficient market economy and social benefits-full package, whatever,is called government. Whether an efficient market economy free of any government intervention-can you say monopoly/monopsony ?- is really desirable is n...

So the only source of fruitful speculation then is if
Ahmed actually does the leg-breaking himself or if he
allows underlings the privilege therof.One has to agree
that Operation Annie Wilkes is an interesting approach
to border security-and certainly cheaper than virtual
fences.

[br] If I remember correctly,the fencebuilder graduated last[br]May with a teaching degree of sorts.Public school around[br]here starts today,so presuming he got a teaching[br]position and is not pumping gas somewhere and school starts the same day at the fbmf locale,he should be launching his teach...

ditching greyhawk but retaining the right to namedrop
from it,and back to forgotten realms-sounds
suspiciously like 4e may be a return to living city
in RPGA IMO not necessarily a bad thing,but almost
all of the people who made LC work so well are long
gone. we shall see.

[br] I see no problem with employing pregen characters [br]to help teach the game and show the needed range of[br]various values,then in the next session(if desired)[br]let the players create their own.That's how I got people[br]to play Chivalry and Sorcery first edition,which also[br]featured mathe...

I also disliked the epilogue.I would have preferred
them all to be standing on a terrace,quietly talking,
with an east wind blowing..........

[br][br] I hope all was hailed and well met.I find it interesting[br]that Ramza looks so young,or is it fbmf looks so[br]mature/old?Of course looks are often deceiving;my son goes to high school with 15-years olds that easily [br]look 27.I can see it already,though.In thirty years[br]fbmf-wearing an...

Happy traveling.Come back to the Den safe,sound,and highly opinionated.

Very nice.I am not a huge Don McLean fan,but Vincent
is always well received.

Captain Bleach is hereby renamed Captain Obvious

[br] my mostly irrelevant two cents:[br][br] Economic communism is a very pretty theory based on[br] a flawed premise,the labor theory of value.Once that[br] theory is set aside,the whole thing falls like a house of cards. [br][br] Pure capitalism is based on human and economic self-interest.Well,pe...

IMO it is a matter of semantics.Write the story
and pass it around for comments as suggested.If
the consensus it is very/too TT-ish,remove the word story
and insert the word pastiche.

So who's going to be the first fool...uh...volunteer to try for a seat on the advisory board? I wonder if this will be the access point for whatever digital equivalents of Dungeon and Dragon magazines?

ah,the joys,the unfailing logic of anecdotal evidence
and hasty generalization..........

There is a (delayed once) Warhammer 40k RPG coming
out,uh,eventually.Details can be found at the black industries website.I played 40k third edition for a while,
then moved on.What's different in fourth edition?

I heard through the grapevine that the fence-builder got his diploma yesterday.Congratulations, and may it lead to bigger and better gaming sessions ,er,uh, things.

[br] I agree with the fencebuilder.Another interesting[br]speculation will be if 3.5 goes out with a bang,a really huge[br]high-quality-no laughing,now-release thatWOTC can[br]doulble their money on by rereleasing it a year later[br]4th edition compatible,or will it dribble to a typical[br]ignoble e...

[br]This has got to be the stupidest D&D-related fiasco since Scott Magner fired Troy Daniels,which with cert conversion started the downward spiral that ultimately killed Living City. Incredibly bad information mangement, bad damage control, bad spin, bad everything. PR heads should not only ro...