Recent content by Dannyalcatraz

I value it as a goal, and have experienced it in play. But I don’t think it’s necessary.

Mod Note: That (plus some other phrases in that post) come across as goading & confrontational. Do better, please.

So for the past decade or so, I’ve done 90%+ of my annual CLE (continuing legal education) courses online. I only attend in person when I can kinda make a vacation out of it, or take Mom shopping. NBI, a CLE provider I like, started offering a deal: $1000 for 1 year’s unlimited access to their...

I’ve done worse myself.🫤 Several years ago, I reported a death in one of these threads. As I did so, I remember thinking that I thought that person had already passed. But, oh well. Shortly after I did so, another ENWorlder pointed out that person had died the previous year…by linking to my...

I’ve seen clips from the movie, but alas, none feature any of the soundtrack.

Le sigh.

I’m having the name of the ***** image hosting site (spelled I.M.G.U.R.) get the censoring asterisks treatment, and it’s preventing me from posting images from there. https://i.*****.com/Ig2YB6D.jpeg...

A new challenger has entered the arena!

I remember an episode of Top Gear where James May (a.k.a. “Captain Slow”) took racing lessons from long-retired professional racer Jackie Stewart. The lessons actually did improve his lap time.

My first RPG was AD&D. In 1977, I’d heard about it for months. Then someone put up a poster at my school- East Middle School (Aurora, CO)- that there was a game starting up in the library. So I joined. It was run by a kid who could have passed for the love child of Bob Ross & a Hobbit. And...

I think you meant “Wham! First thing when I get into the car this morning.”

That’s still not arbitrary on the DM’s side- they’re just saying “don’t use anything from this campaign setting” or “only use stuff from X,Y & Z”. I wouldn’t expect for a given DM to know and thus distinguish between things in every setting that’s generic vs hyper specific. Hell- I’m somewhat...