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I can't believe this has gotten so little coverage: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Coker I know it's a wikipedia link, but it should have been news. Read some of the sources. !!! My hero. Holy crap she needs to ride the PBP. Or RAAM. She'd rip everyone there a new one. Thank you for sharing.

I occasionally poke at the assumed economics of D&D, and it's weird. For the price of a single +2 longsword, I could hire, outfit, and feed about three score level 1 mercenaries for an entire season. It's realizations like that which make me think of some nobleman finding a dead adventuring par...

...You can just give a bunch of emails to DTRPG and they'll tell you whether these people have an account on the site or not? It's not any different than calling an address only to find it doesn't connect, for one reason or another. No. No. No. The email I gave to you is for you to contact me, it's...

Meikle641 wrote:I'll be sending followup emails to those that didn't have a DTRPG account attached to the supplied address.

...You can just give a bunch of emails to DTRPG and they'll tell you whether these people have an account on the site or not?

Shrapnel wrote:Man, I wish I had that kind of talent...

It's shopped.
(Which isn't to say the person who made it isn't talented, it's to say if you have an awesome idea, following up on it and achieving an impressive result might be easier than it looks.)

and of course, sort of highlights the tendency in D&D to load up on magic items which are often quite scarce in fantasy. Gimli makes it through all of The Lord of the Rings without any magical weapons, for example. Gimli makes it through The Lord of the Rings without artifact weapons. In the D&...

D'ye not know what it is to be an obsessed fan, to have your balls well and truly held by the tufts of your pubes by another? We will go to and fund these things not because they're good , but because they are part of a franchise we really like, regardless of logic or common sense. I wish I did. So...

If Strat can start a new one, why can't they just take over the old one? I believe there's an issue with it allowing him access to the BG's personal info if he just takes over. Like people's emails and whatnot? Hash emails, delete everything else, and let people restore access to their accounts by ...

Stubbazubba wrote:Did you miss the announcement?

They have fucking Drizzt in the header. Wotc is hopeless.

So Paizo gave up on chasing the pink / black dollar? Ha, now I don't have to feel bad about wishing for them to crash and burn.

People in my club swear by nimesulide.

Also, whatever you do, don't drink hard liquor or it'll fuck you up (even if you don't plan on riding the next morning). Some beer is okay if you're sick of sports drinks / soda.

Also (this is why I'm surprised Prak likes the show / book), Gaiman flat out lies about history and chickened the fuck out of an accurate portrayal. The #1 supernatural entity worshiped in the US, and the #1 enemy of the old gods (whether American-born or not), is Jesus fucking Christ. It's confirm...

This conflates belief as in supernatural belief / worship and belief as in awareness of observable reality. When you're encouraged to root against observable reality and for bullshit fantasy that did not make people's lives better, there's no way to make that shit smell like roses. Darwinism isn't a...

The book is a thinkpiece about millennials run through a lens flare filter and mashed together with an anti-modern, pro-measles vagina egg screed. Ew.

Koumei wrote:Sunshine Satan might be the best name ever, and someone needs to just make that their actual legal name.

Not quite but close enough: The actual legal name of the owner of T-Shirt Hell is Sunshine Megatron.

^ What is this? Looks pretty. (I hope it's not anything's dick.)

This is the best one

PC: A spider laid eggs inside my body and I need to get them out before they hatch
DM: You'll need the spider's permission first

So that's whom we should blame for the mutant chicken.

Prak wrote:In the Box Office phase, the hope was that "If everyone is tied (ie, just voting on their own movie) then there's minimal reward" would dissuade that play

Just ban voting on their own movie.

I blame Numenera. The setting is a literal dumpster fire. Personal anecdote: I'd backed the game for $500 when the kickstarter went live because I'd confused it with Ptolus, then noped the fuck out after realizing what it actually was and they posted their stupid update on the tides. Some time befor...

Ancient History wrote:Boris (Elena's ballet coach/boyfriend/cultist), who is stealing mad stacks of cash (75,000 rubles) - dude, you're about to summon Ithaqua into the world. What the fuck do you need the money for?

This is awesome characterization.

It's a fair point that real Russia was more-awful than any of Lovecraft's stories It still is. Starving people steal food, get sentenced to slavery. Guy writes to regional rep (like you'd write to a congressperson), gets locked up in a madhouse. Teenage US citizen gets sent to Siberia by her US rel...

Why do advice column authors and correspondents invent stupid names for the correspondents? How did it start?

No redness or swelling. Bending to the right (so, compressing the problem area) hurts so much I can't even, bending to the left is painless enough that I can do stretching exercises and try to touch the floor. Forward and backward are moderately unpleasant. I used some pepper cream ; it served as a ...