The Gaming Den

Time for a shameless plug: my gaming blog [br][br]I realize that among gamers, especially D&D players, the term "race" is accepted as a neutral term, generally referring to background character templates based on heredity. Usually I'm able to see it the same way, but it still makes me ...

Has anyone here seen much of either Bleach or Samurai Champloo ? Because of a falling out with some anime-fan friends I've barely had any interest in anime of the last year and a half. However, during that time I've been just as active on the internet as ever, and I've seen enough for me to start de...

Seems most people who post here have some sort of enduring beef with the offical WotC boards and possibly WotC in general. One particular instance made me give up completely on WotC as an official source of rules, and I was curious if anyone else had a similar story.[br][br]For me, it was sneaky bar...

1184100935[/unixtime]]...Why does Giant have his own boards? First guess: To accomodate fans of his comic strip, all of whom are bound to have a number of things in common (fans of D&D, fans of online comics, not to mention all the scifi/fantasy trappings that go along with those two groups).[b...

1184100669[/unixtime]]So there has been several points in history that there have been cave men who were next to other cave men they couldn't breed with; but no points with apes and cave men. You're absolutely right, I was just using RC's phrasing of the question to answer as directly as possible:s...

1184022668[/unixtime]]Reading the original post again, i notice that we're not really answering the question. First RC, let's deal with your questions on speciation:[br][br]RC said:[br]"So as apes evolve into men, was there a point where a caveman could mate with a female ape? If not, how was ...

Here's one theory, courtesy of PBS.org: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/sex/advantage/index.html[br][br]To summarize, species that reproduce sexuality are less likely to pass on diseases or specific vulnerabilties do diseases, and they preserve a wider variety of genetic potential by passing on mo...

1183996289[/unixtime]]Additionally, the band Hard 'n Phirm (not porn, I swear) produced a really good album with Horses and Grasses . I remember hearing them sing American Dinosaur on a radio show. It's this subversive, satirical patriotic ballad about dinosaurs being unsung heroes of American prid...

I never got to see this in the theatre, but I did have the pleasure of seeing it on cable years before anybody would've expected Disney's themepark-movie trend.[br][br]The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was by no means a carbon copy, but if any movie could be cited as the most obvious inspirat...

Nice:biggrin:

1183158117[/unixtime]]Anyway, I really like the material since the flavour is internally consistant and allows for the sort of very immersive believable world that I'd like to play in or run, but I'm not sure if SAME can be used to play this or if I should try and use BESM as the mechanics for char...

Just to add some more chum to the mix...[br][br]I've recently been a little overwhelmed by the idea of transhumanism in Mutants & Masterminds . Obviously superheroes are supposed to be larger than life, but I've always hated the idea that the average superhero, regardless of thier powers, can bl...

1151773167[/unixtime]]Hey, where's the thread where you guys talk about what each of your is known for? Usually the only thing people remember me for is [br] this .[br][br]Edit: I also used to be a big advocate on the WotC boards for homebrew settings (not to be confused with homebrew rules). Even ...

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We're all familiar with the kind of bizarre arguments that can appear on WotC: circular logic, hothouse conclusions, (insert series here) purists, 3v!1 r0**or5, roleplaying vs rollplaying, OD&D was better, real roleplayers don't care about "balance", etcetera, etcetera.[br][br]But it's...

1182222793[/unixtime]]I wonder if this will be the access point for whatever digital equivalents of Dungeon and Dragon magazines? [br]I have a bad feeling Gleemax itself is supposed to become the digital equivalent of Dragon & Dungeon .[br][br] 1182288300[/unixtime]]I thought Guildcafe was MYSP...

Hi all. A few of you may know me already. quite a few might not. Until I can figure out something worth posting, I just wanted to let everybody know I'm lurking around:uptosomething: