Recent content by Wolfram stout

I have recently come around to this as well. For me it was watching sportsball games. In American football the QB knows where every defence guy is yet can get blindsided. There is even special protections for both QBs and receivers cause a hit coming in at the slightly wrong angle can be...

For years (and I mean over a decade) I thought there was an insanely popular thread on a homebrew Coraline RPG. I finally opened it to see what the fuss was about and realized it was Coreline a sci-fi game.

Yep. for myself I have wondered how a party would handle the most house in hommlet or get the weapons from plume with minimal combat.

I thought it was a weird yet possibly cool start to a new play by post game. Morris could be a computer running constant simulations and spitting out the percentages. Umbran would be the crack black ops guy running the missions. And Danny A is the retired gamer in hiding who knows more than is safe.

The forsaken. Villains with different agendas was not common, made them more interesting.

So I'm not the only one that gets stressed reading for pleasure? These multi 700 page books have about made me quit reading fiction for pleasure. But then I circle back to sci-fi and fantasy of the 60s-80s and feel better. I am currently reading The Postman by Brian (inspired by the post...

Some people (GRR Martin) should know that the professor was writing mythology not historical fiction and as such tax tables in the Fourth Age are not really called for.

While I haven't confronted anyone over the point, I'm pretty sure a lot of people totally misunderstand "Not all who wander are lost".

Yep my grandad did that and used buttermilk. Absolutely horrid. But it was a great for him.

This. The word gravy just makes it sound quaint.

My mom made a chocolate gravy that we would put over biscuits. Man, only on special occasions, but it rocked.

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So I don't disagree with using setting logic/versimilitiude at all. But the player should have the main hand in their character backstory. See my warlock is not making an opened pack such as give me power and I will obey you. It's I beat a devil in a fiddle contest and won a thread of its...

Whenever I DM a warlock I absolutely have that conversation up front, and I don't intend to ever give ultimatums from the patron anyway. For D&D I tend to have convs with all players because of character creation has enough parts that I don't know what is important to which player. For example I...