Seriously. I want the ability to kick followers whose politics I don't like.

Here is the first of what I hope to be a continuing examination of rules concepts aside from those given in a game we're all familiar with: Dungeons and Dragons. This is a huge subject and as these columns continue I may wander quite far what I originally imagined here at that the start. But I hope after some dust…

So TSR/WotC/Hasbro's D&D is pretty much the IBM or Ford Motors of tabletop role-playing games.

Behold:

Whenever I make an error—and yes, I have made many—the OCD set of the Gawker commentariat loves to dogpile me. The most irritating are the ones that tell me to read the article when they themselves haven't read the comment thread where I admit that I should have read the article.

Let's consider the reality of that for moment, shall we?

So this is the start of what might be a series of questions about the future of human society—not human technology, not directly anyway. These are not prompted by anything in the news or some article I might have read.

And no, it isn't about robots!

I'm sure a few you have seen these but I cite them here for posterity.

So nearly everyone loves Shaw's no nonsense, cut to the chase delivery, usually at gunpoint, on Person of Interest. She's fun, no doubt! But I'm speaking here as a person who only started following the series in the third season, a few episodes before the Machine Gang took down HR, and I'm wondering if she's really a…

Because I'm really sick and tired of replying to and debunking random Gawkers on this year old thread.