Recent content by ichabod

I don't get the fascination with metal dice. I mean, I have several, but I much prefer my grapefruit sized d20 made out of foam. You can chuck it at players who make really bad puns (and not get arrested).

I went to the book store recently and asked for a book on dinosaurs. The guy at the counter asked, "A book for a child or a book for an adult?" I said "A book for an adult wanting to be a child," and left with a really cool dinosaur book.

I can't join you on this one, Snarf. You see, the Panthers knocked the New York Rangers out of the running. And if the New York Rangers had won the Stanley Cup, my niece (who works for the Rangers) would have a chance of being in the parade. But alas, that is not to be. So I will have to root...

I would take 5E, and I would be sad. I would be sad because while 5E is what I like right now, I know my tastes have changed over the years. So I know they will change in the future, and some day I will not enjoy playing 5E.

You need a much bigger scale. I have 3,045 dice. True, many of those are board game dice, but the vast majority are RPG dice.

My sister is up from Florida, so we went out for a family dinner tonight. I told them I got a free 3-month subscription to Disney+ for buying a bunch of Coke. She thought I meant cocaine (I meant soda), and was dumbfounded that dealers were using such deals to entice buyers.

I had meant tools to stand in the place of weapons, for determining how much success was achieved. If you move them to affecting the chance of success, you need something else to determine how much success. However, I'm thinking magic tools would be like magic weapons, giving a bonus to both...

Should they? I get your point that the success points are not scaling like weapon damage, but I don't see that sort of scaling elsewhere in the skill system. Level 20 PCs aren't many times faster at picking locks or doing research, for example. They are just better at picking better locks and...

This is a plus (+) thread. This is about how well my homebrew idea for skill clocks works for downtime, and perhaps other applications. If you don’t think downtime should be done with dice rolls, that is a discussion that should be had in another thread. That’s not what this thread is for. I...

Yes, but in the "I didn't comment" thread, pineapple on pizza was being used as a code for things the moderators didn't want us to talk about. And the fact that the code wasn't used very well and there was too much understanding made the mods feel the old thread wasn't helping people get along...

So, what? Now there were aliens in ancient Rome? I don't understand this series anymore.

I would have spent way too much money on skulls.

I have a real sword: I got it when my mom cleaned out her house. It was my dad's, and he got it from a childhood neighbor and thought it was a Civil War sword. I researched it and it might have been a Civil War sword, but I would have to go to the Library of Congress to confirm it.

I saw it when it was in the theaters. One of my old friends is a huge fan of old monster movies and got me to go. It felt like a odd direction to take a giant monster movie, but they did a really good job of it. I also liked the criticism of Imperial Japan's conduct of the war.