Recent content by Richards

I've also had chocolate-covered frozen bananas - delicious! They come on a stick, like a Popsicle. Johnathan

Depends on how you define particularly old. I'm 62; this probably happened back when I was around 50 or so. Johnathan

I was helping a friend (actually, it was my water aerobics instructor) move out of her apartment and into the house several blocks away she'd just bought with her husband. I helped load everything into a U-Haul, drove over to the house, and helped unload it - and apparently sweated away a good...

Ditto. I knew the tarrasque was from French folklore, but I couldn't name the book. Johnathan

I once worked with a guy who was taking $200 worth of vitamins a month - he'd been talked into it by a GNC nutritionist. He said he felt pretty much the same taking all those vitamins, except they made "his balls kind of hurt." I told him I could save him a lot of money by kicking him in the...

But don't forget the Inverse Ninja Law: the threat level of a ninja is inversely proportional to their number. A single ninja is an unstoppable elite, while an army of them is cannon fodder. Spidey should easily wipe the floor with these guys. Johnathan

In coming up with an NPC healer for the party in a previous campaign, I took the fact that that particular game world was going to have a sporadically-opening planar gate to Gamma World to make a literal "healbot" - and thus was born MARCI ("Medical Android - Red Cross International"), a...

I'm holding out hope we'll see Anguirus in this one. Johnathan

In tonight's "Middle of Elsewhere" campaign session, the PCs: Traveled through Muspelheim for four days, arriving at the ruins of the Cerulean Spire, the location where the fire giants handed off the kidnapped elf seer they were sent to rescue to the drow Fought a half-red dragon human among...

Invisibility sphere bypasses final encounter. Johnathan

I'm reading something a bit odd for me: an office romance comedy novel called Inter-Office Male. Not something I'd normally be drawn to, but I found the fact it was written by an author named John Richards to be completely irresistible, if only because I'm pretty sure I didn't black out in 2002...

Or "Everything You Know is Wrong" by "Weird" Al Yankovic. Johnathan

Might be worth an experiment or two, though. For science. Johnathan

In today's "Down to Erthe" game session, the PCs: Were sent to take out everyone working in two side-by-side businesses, a pawn shop and a bar, which were fronts for a rival guild of rogues and assassins; the PCs' Guildmaster had just survived an assassination attempt by this rival guild and he...

Took down entire assassins guild. Johnathan