Recent content by prabe

I like my pic better. (Yes, it's really my pic.)

Here it's just my wife and me, any recipe development we do is more a process of evolution than what you're describing. Or if we're setting out to try different ways to do a thing, we do them one at a time. Circumstance and all-a-that. (Usually we find a recipe that mostly suits us and evolve...

Well, at least St. Patrick's Day would have given you more time to work out a recipe than, er, today; and that's a holiday I can associate with corned beef.

Right! You needed to make the dish for a party connected to the start of Lent or something?

Not this site: Yeah, on the one hand I'm really glad you found a group of players to GM for that are going to be more compatible for/with you; but on the other hand the way you talk about your old group doesn't make you look any better than them.

I have to imagine not having time-pressure will make developing your own recipe a more pleasant thing. I'm wondering if there's some holiday or other seasonal aspect to the timing of the out-of-stock/restocked thing. (If there is and you mentioned it, it's fallen out of my head.)

Absolutely. Honestly, I don't ask for a lot in the way of physical descriptions of PCs, people can have their own ideas and images. The only time there's been any friction has been toward the ends of campaigns, when I've made Hero Forge minis of people's characters, as mementos. (One of those...

I figure if someone wants to play a dwarven woman, it's their choice whether she has a beard or not. Mostly I don't think of them that way, but I don't impose that on anyone else.

Part of your problem might be that you don't know the difference between a protractor and a compass. Just saying.

I haven't read The Southern Book Club's Guide to Vampires, but based on the other Hendrix I've read, the difference might be that Hendrix often seems to be laughing at his characters, mocking them; King almost never does this, especially his mains. (I'll admit I have gotten tired of Grady...

The only thing I can see--and I don't know enough about kotos to know if this is the case--is if, as you say, the strings are stored on long spools or something and cut to usable length as needed. I do not know the extent to which they are different diameters the way guitar strings are. The fact...

The most traditional koto strings are silk, but otherwise not wildly different. I could see "koto string" and "a koto string" being different things that got just-missed in translation. (Or in reading comprehension, which I think is a possibility @jian mentioned, I'm not intending to slag on...