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A similar situation was the Battle of Midway. Japan had more ships, better ships, better planes, experienced pilots, torpedoes that worked, and cooperative weather. The US had better intelligence and had managed to save the Yorktown at the Coral Sea and get her hastily repaired for...

True. But there are plenty of studies linking lead poisoning to depression and irritability that the link seems fairly solid as at least a partial reason for the decline in violent crime paralleling the decline in lead exposure.

One harsh reality in the US is not everyone has broadband Internet and a high data cap. If something becomes available on-line only, a percent of folks just won't be able to access that something. Other folks with Internet may not want to spend a portion of a limited data quota to access an...

I did a double take as well but had enough in the cart that I still saved a fair amount. The box was rather heavy so given modern shipping rates, probably on par with normal. I did mention that I bought too many..... 13 + the initiative tracker.

Don't see that as all previous generations also got the full dose of lead in fuel and paint. The so called Millennials are where lead is pretty much starting to vanish. Backed up by the fairly steady decline in US violent crime rates that are a close match the decline of lead. Leaded gas...

Bought my PHB and MM a bit earlier. MSRP was $9.95 and was listed in the back of the books. DMG listed as a future release. By the time the DMG came out, no more MSRP list in the back of the books. Inflation then was a LOT worse in the US then it is now. For most things RPG and even gaming...

Took advantage of Paizo's Spring Cleaning sale and bought several(too many) flip mats + a Starfinder Initiative magnetic tracker. This included a couple of Starfinder ship maps which should work fine for Traveller. They arrived yesterday.

Remembered a couple more 70's movies. Omega Man and Soylent Green.

I remember watching all at some point except Quintet and The Man Who Fell to Earth. Some during the original theater run. Some on local TV channels(non network). Others at Scifi/Fantasy/Gaming conventions in the film room. Silent Running was definitely a product of many of the...

Another vision aspect to watch for is color blindness. Most of my working career in IT involved having at least one person in my office with some aspect of color blindness. One person was pretty much mono-chromatic. One supervisor was red/green. Another was green/yellow. He could not tell...

Not the only one. But so far, this seems very optional. If you don't want to participate, plenty of non blind box dice available. But if someone can afford $25 to spend on a 'take a chance' box, go for it. Gambling on the lottery often results is just a worthless bit of paper. At least...

GM's call of course. But just because it is long established canon, doesn't mean the Characters know about it. IMO, this falls into the same area of Players knowing every detail in the MM and supplements about critter X when there is little way the characters would have any info about the...

Older Grognard posting response. When I started my gaming path, there was the white box set(D&D), the black box set(Traveller) and the 5x7 ziplock set(Star Fleet Battles). There were a few other things but as a poor starving college student, funds were limited and choices had to be made...

Not sure that Identify will cover every possible abnormal use of a magic item. Bag of Holding(BoH) and Portable Hole(PH) are designed as stuff holding devices. I would expect that Identify will return normal information like how much crap it will hold, any size/weight limitations on said crap...

Plane shift gets the Lich to the starting plane. Exact location probably doesn't matter. Followed by Teleport to get the Lich to the very well known destination of its throne room that just a few moments ago was violated by a ceiling walking monk. And it is now a fully activated and rather...