I think it partakes of WotC (and previously, TSR's) periodic obsession with attracting younger gamers. Maybe this makes some sort of business-model sense to them (i.e. I'm fully aware that tweens and teens pretty much keep WotC financial alive through the crack-dealing that is Magic: TG; DnD is probably a cost center…

Sort of apropo of this: I was home in Buffalo over the holidays and visited the basilica there:

Nah, they talked about this in Dragon 372. Here's the discussion:

Oh and I assume we've all seen this?

I'll vaguely consider 5E if they have half-orcs. Half-orcs have to be there or no dice (pun heartily intended). I was *extremely* pissed that WotC tried to scrub half-orcs in favor of whatever the hell dragonborn are and extremely *happy* that they reversed themselves for PHB2.

I as well.

Hi. I really like 4th edition. I mean, there are some dud supplements (PHB2: Sorcerer, Barbarian, and Also Some Other Stuff, PHB3: Crazy-Powerful Monk and Also Some Other Stuff, Essentials: If You Liked Playing High-Level You'll LOVE Playing Low-Level Forever! Also Please Re-Buy All Rulebooks Again).

We know that they're accessible to a common thumb drive and/or old-fashioned laptop theft here in our own day and age . . .

What about "Sneakers"? I really liked Sneakers. Mostly because it was a film about hackers that did NOT try to convince me that a guy sitting at a computer typing was somehow an Exciting Action Scene. Perhaps because Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier and several other people who knew what they were doing were involved,…

Yes, except that personally I don't really value photorealistic games. Heck, I almost feel like I prefer UNrealistic images. Given a choice between candy-colored DragonQuest CCCMDVXIQ5million and downer-browner Dragon Age, I'm going to go with the Enixians.

Starflight II was one of the greatest games. I've been trying to find a robustly-functioning method of running it on a modern computer, to no avail.

*What is the counterpoint to overly sexualized women in games? Can you honestly think of one?*

*Now don't get me wrong here: I'm not saying that there can be no disagreement on the subject or that by arguing with me at all you're conceding the fight or automatically making my point for me.*

Firearm *ownership* is simplicity itself in NYC. I lived on East 69th for a couple of years with a Mossberg 12 under my bed.

Damn: I was trying to attach a picture of Mad Max but it didn't work.

I doubt she has this man on her conscience. Blowing away a stalker as you stand alone between him and your infant son seems like the sort of thing that *doesn't* keep you awake at night afterward.

Mmm, I've heard it's rough there.

*There she put a bottle in her son's mouth, found her two guns, and called 911.*

"God wants us to die naturally, of old age, after years of pain and decreased mobility."