Recent content by General_Tangent

Back when I started I made a number of errors as a newbie GM. I found myself in an adversarial situation with a couple of the players who seems to enjoy nothing more than trying to derail my games. I did my best to try and keep them entertained but I reached a breaking point and we parted...

ICQ is going to be shut down in June, to be honest I thought it had ceased operating a long time ago https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june

Sad to hear of his passing. I watched Supersize Me and while it was an interesting film for the time the later debunking of it certainly explained a few things that always left me puzzled.

In AD&D I seem to recall that four squirrels could automatically surprise a zero level farmer and strip all his flesh off in a round or two.

And does Javair now get a +4 bonus against you? :-)

My own confession is that I dislike anime or anything by Studio Ghibli.

How do you feel about Pontefract cakes?

I left during the 3.5 period, I tried to run Pathfinder for my group at the time but they weren't interested in it. There was a point when I just wasn't enjoying running it any-more, encounters started to get very similar and the increasing load of the system just had me give up. While I may...

I wondered if something like the old Mongoose Pocket Players Guide would be a better option, then I remembered that it has 400 pages so I guess not.

The holiday special wasn't released on the big screen, it only had one broadcast on the small screen so I'm not voting for it :-)

Jack Pierce designed the makeup for the Universal Studios and it is still under the companies copyright.

You can bet that if Shakespeare was alive today and you showed him everything he'd inspired, I suspect he'd want a cut of the royalties :-)

While researching this project I found this project which I thought I'd posted the link to but I hadn't. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anyminis/the-anymini-an-electronic-miniature-for-tabletop/description

It's nice to see the legacy continue.

If this was me behind the screen, then I'd have the player character be subjected to a Stone To Flesh spell, as this would provide you with a consistent framework. It surprises me that WotC didn't update the creatures with a gaze weapon to reference the spell as you could cut down the extra...