Recent content by Willie the Duck

They checked in at the turn of the century, but all they reported was that they never backed down (which doesn't really answer the question).

Assuming you are a anthropomorphic hero in 1980s NYC calling from a payphone, this is typically SDC (Short Duration Calls). However, if your hero has one of those giant brick cell phones of the era (automatic for human sidekick characters with the 'yuppie' quality), then it would be MDC (Mobile...

Plot device and bludgeoning weapon.

See, English majors needing to pay the bills. It fits. If you want to play Mage: the Ascension, just say so. You don't need to sell me on the idea.

It's Friday, I was being cheeky (see next comment about the Young Turks reference). I'm definitely old enough* to remember pre-internet house-hunting and the write-ups they included (although, to be fair, there's still a Homes section in the newspaper and much of their articles still resemble...

Is that the one with the real estate novelist? I never could figure out what that career entailed. Did he make up stories about various properties? Not sure of that business model. Strange, if they have a daughter, you'd think they would be familiar with the process.

It depends on if Rick Springfield is talking about a when he was actually growing up (say 1962-70), or speaking to the teenagers who were buying his records in 1981. Either way, Jessie's girl is presumably childless in 1981*. Stacy is a teenager in 2003. I think it works better than she be...

I've effectively done that. Bands just completely don't come up somehow, and then don't come up in my mind. For some indeterminant time between 5-6 years ago and 6 months ago when I realized it, the band Heart effectively disappeared for me. Had discussions about 'bands of the 70s that saw...

For me, I have no reason to need a new version of Traveller (especially one that exists to catch a certain market, rather than fix a perceived problem with the existing game), but have no reason to have a problem with it existing. How good it ends up being is going to depend entirely on the...

Good topic. Certainly helps answer questions we (my gaming inner circle) always asked in our youth like why 'shortswords' existed, why every one-handed sword didn't have a hand-and-a-half-length handle, and why every sword didn't have knuckle bows/basket hilts once they became available, and so...

Too political, huh?

Thank you for this explanation. To help explain to you some of the pushback you are receiving, I'll state that you've stumbled into a pattern not dissimilar from a type of low-key troll personality that pops up on online communities with regular frequency. ^^^ See this guy? Without getting into...

I'm not particularly worried. I think this will be... fine. I had T20 back when D&D 3e came out and it was... fine. I suspect the will end up being the same -- the worst I could say is that they certainly didn't need to exist except that some groups wanted to keep playing with a...