Hey, I disagree with being absent for the giant meeting. While I absolutely want Conna to run it, I also want the larger population to know two things: First, we are ok with giants being part of the ecology as long as they play nice and stay put. I don't want to imply that they need to stay on some ...

I hate to be that guy, but is it possible to move the thing to Wed the 28? Likely driving at game time the next night

Saying something to a woman in line at Walmart is absolutely a public act. The shame deserves a boomerang in that case. Escalation is beside the point.

Same rules of engagement as other combat, otherwise it's just cowardice. The opponent must be in the fight on purpose. A public figure who chose the spotlight is absolutely fair game. One who didn't choose, but enjoys its benefits also counts. The opponent must be armed or otherwise prepared. This d...

Vernon is still an asshole. Evolution is costly. Ya, very few of the kids I know could grow up to haul blocks of ice to the top floors of tenements. Thank goodness they don't have to. Will they be ready to get in front of what comes next? Enough of them, I suspect. And the oldsters and Luddites who ...

Her line of specs was steeped in irony. Clark Kent, Diana Prince, Dorothy Parker, all hotties 'hiding' behind glasses and their secret/not secret message of intellect over appearance.

Only attractive people can get away with this. It's shameless peacocking.

The one picture isn't the problem, like the one guy who takes a memento from the volcano. It's not the first time you say "You don't want to be fat do you?" It's the accretion of many images, let's agree 'most,' that begins to establish a linkage between the image and the message, between ...

This, of course, begs the question about whether we are living on an already terraformed planet, waiting for/working toward....who knows what. A favorite thought exercise is exemplified by the second edition Twilight Zone "A Small Talent for War." In a nutshell, the boss came back, and dec...

The same thing happened to the Dems that happened to the unions. They became more about their own self preservation than about people. While they used to just e scattered and bipolar, now they are just as fatassed and corporate as the Reps. If they would kick out the smarmy bureaucratic microbes tha...

What would it take to get in on this, and when would I have to commit?

One added step: After the steel wool, or drill buffer or whatever you do to expose the metal and remove most of the oxidation (like infection in a wound, the bandage won't fix it and it'll continue to rot, and the car doesn't have an immune system). You'll likely miss some around the edges. At the c...

So sorry I missed, I thought we moved to the 8th. While our experience with the sihedron has been negative, am I incorrect in recalling that there were balanced runelords? Next time we go to the library, someone please remind me to ask whether they had special martial knowledge as well as special ma...

What these people think isn't news. The 24hr cycle has turned infotainment into basically porn niches, where people can go to watch whatever gets them off. They either get their jollies from watching people with superficial knowledge and tons of minutes to fill make asses of themselves, or from psyc...

So perhaps instead of worrying about raw ac, which dex helps. Focus on robes etc that give resistance or other protections. There's a physical upper limit where ac goes up way slower than the ability of the bad guys (or us) to hit. So we're looking for energy resist, or DR or anti magic or spellward...

Puerile selfishness. Totally understand imprinting post modern ethics on industrial revolution society. Not buying it. Europe was over it by then; the supposedly cultured (read admiring pseudo European fashion) south took no hints. Two states held basically tied referenda to do away with it, but whe...

I just reread Grant's memoir, where he catalogues the march to secession. Hes very insightful and pretty balanced as most of this happened when he was between gigs and living as a civilian. He observed very similar opinion profiles to today's. Lincoln received no votes, zero, in a number of states. ...

We really have to do something about the no armor thing Revisions? -----elemental earth belt----- Should I take a level in monk? Did you know there's apparently a ------sihedron ring---- we should keep our eyes open Ring 2: *Protection +1 -----star ring----- Shield: * +2 small steel shield {Winged S...

I don't have a spreadsheet for Hal. I did have some scrawly notes on various versions. I had headed in the direction of more buffs vs higher buffs. So +2 str and +2 dex rather than +4 of either, because I read it as less expensive. Please correct me if that's a misapprehension. Given Hal's class, et...

Is that shopping a thing? I suppose it might be cool to envision what Hal's rig could/should be when we meet the nearly all powerful karzoug. I had always been a 'pick it up and make do' person myself (You can't imagine the mental gymnastics I put myself through, when I saw we were releasing a +3 sp...

Sending entirely useful, let's do it. Initially it just gave me the impression of breaking up via text. I had shivers.