Recent content by Cadence

This one was characters being introspective (or not) about their mistakes and place in the world. The ones you bring up (where it is direct enough paralleling the authors deeds) feel like they would make it really hard to go through the work again.

That thing where re-experiencing something by an author you now know bad things about makes you wonder about their self awareness and what they think when they see or hear some of their own words now.

With a young, first time DM I would just avoid making it sound like you needed a definitive list of all the ones the DM ever plans on using. I don't think it exists yet, and might put them on the defensive. Maybe "houserules you've thought of so far"?

I wonder how "Do you have a google doc or something with all of your house rules in it? I think that would be cool for everyone to be able to see." would go over.

And I am all over the orange cheeked dinosaurs roaming my living room being happy.

Hearing "Mockumentary" always makes me want to rewatch the theatrically released one "Drop Dead Gorgeous".

Apparently a lot of variants of it... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles#Toponymy (I wonder how common all of them were).

It's interesting sometimes listening to old times radio shows and commercials from the 30s-50s and how some words pronunciations have changed: protein as pro-tee-in and Los Angeles as Los An-guh-lees (hard g) show up that way regularly. One commercial had smooth as smewth.

Picked up a copy of John McAleer's "Killer Conversations" that just came out. It was originally published as the limited edition "Royal Decree" in 1983 and is just over 100 pages, 80 of them being questions and answers with Rex Stout. A sizeable number (although I think well less than half)...

Holy cow, I go off to help at summer camp for a week, and when I get back that thread has rocketed past this one. Trying and failing to resist the urge to go rubber neck...

Nothing to do with your post, except the word. I was just coming here from elsewhere to post something about the staunch desire of many folks to act like there is no nuance on others' side of arguments, but always demanding it on their side. :-/

Holy cow... even Straczynski's Thor comic run was like 17 years ago. I don't remember if I read all of it, but I remember this issue Thor vs. Iron Man .

For a second I was reading the requirement as a book that was non-core, but it is any product that isn't a core book. So, checks out and is a super strong contender!

I am picturing a matrix-esque bookstore where the shelves slide by to what you want - organized the way the user wants, to facilitate both easy finding and browsing.

I have fond memories of the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide and Wilderness Survival Guide - but they came out in a place in my life (and 1e's existence) where they didn't have a chance to get much use in practice. My own copies left my possession decades ago and they aren't ones I've picked up...