Recent content by Willie the Duck

Sure, why not? Why, what sword do you normally use to fight dragons in your day-to-day life? Seriously though, a rapier was added so that people could live out their 3 Musketeers/Inigo Montoya/Zorro (maybe Puss in Boots? now also Lara Raith?) fantasies. ... Just like every other fantasy trope...

There are bard classes built for OSRIC and Labyrinth Lord dotting Dragonsfoot. I won't link them because they mostly link to sites whose security I cannot vouch for. By all accounts, they seem to be the same class, just adjusted for the differences Osric and LL have from 1E. As for making it...

I remember that one (note: I haven't seen ToS in since the 80s)! The guy's hand getting crushed in the door and revealing that he's a robot. Reading the wikipedia synopsis, yeah, definitely the polar opposite.

But at the point when 'Thomas' Riker was reconstituted, the Federation considered them both to be William Thomas Riker, and the writers explicitly indicate that the differences in personality are that 'Thomas' is displaying the personality Riker had that many years ago. Later in DS9, he does...

I'm not seeing the difference. At the point of divergence, they were both Riker, not just one or the other we deem to have been 'the real' one.

Star Trek seems to be firmly wedded to the notion that you are your memories, personality, hopes&dreams, etc. and that an exact copy of you that happens to have your memories for all intents and purposes is you. From replacement O'brien to replacement Harry Kim to how transporters work to...

I am reminded of a Knights of the Dinner Table issue where the secondary protagonist group (game shop crew) were running a game and introduced a new character. The player wanted to be 'deeply immersive' and would answer questions about what level he was or similar with 'prey sir, what are these...

Mornard had it right when he said (paraphrasing): 'I don't know what a 'pacing-mechanism' is, and whatever Gary said about luck was post-hoc justification. When we played, hit points measured hit points, and they stood for hit points.' They are a gamist measure used because they are...

But wearing a robe with a cape is perfectly reasonable IRL--Cardinal Richelieu typically depicted doing so: Wearing two suits of armor, otoh -- well, of course layering armor was a real thing, but in D&D terms that's probably all considered a single 'set' of armor.

Both use the notion of swamps as places of death and fetidness. I wonder where that comes from. Swamps (wetlands that support trees) are generally pretty neutral in pH, and full of life. Admittedly, some of it iconically poisonous (and Gary seemed to like Chlorine gas, but not regular poison...

One thing the remember is that this is all predicated on the pre-supposition that NPCs roll for their stats and/or that the character creation method is representative of the overall population demographics. I don't recall that ever being stated and IIRC no few modules seem to absolutely violate...

1. I said I would add it to the stack of things to watch. 2. You cut my quote around the fact that I said, in effect, 'yes, I'm sure it had something to do with it, but... {other more compelling reasons}' Regardless, yes, slings come in with maces and warhammers as weapons that 1) are hampered...

Okay. Good. I will add it to the stack. Glad to see it isn't 'I've practiced Martial Art X for 5 years/heard the word HEMA three times/watched Todd's LindyGladitoria Youtube for the past 6 months and am convinced no other gamer knows this stuff' version 8,675,309. Re: Slings -- Any number of...

At this point in the discussion, I'm not sure even that is a given. :p