Recent content by dukethepcdr

I don't understand the edition wars. We live in a day and age when information about all current and previous editions of D&D are just a mouse click away. If you want to play "original" D&D, there are websites where you can get maps, scenarios and rules for free or in some cases, low cost. There...

Pathfinder has different worlds, characters and rules from D&D and is developed by a different team of people catering to a different audience of players. Playing a couple sessions of Pathfinder and Pathfinder Society and trying to make comments about the D&D roleplaying game is like trying out...

As a gardener and conservation ecologist myself I know that Darwinian evolution is bunk. However there is adaptation within species to make groups more able to survive in different environments. The analogy in this article is more in tune with this idea than with the faulty theory of evolution...

I work at a family owned video game store (yeah Game Stop and the big box department stores haven't gotten rid of us all yet) where we buy, sell, trade and repair classic games and systems. Our claim to fame in our town is that we are the only place where you can get everything from your Pong...

How about a weapon that when it strikes a living creature, all the connections between its brain and its muscles are reversed. That way, when the brain tells a muscle to contract, for example, it expands instead. The effect would be fairly quick but would take over the body gradually starting...

I've noticed this in a lot of games. In so many games, the first level or two is fairly easy (especially the tutorial levels which are almost impossible to lose in many games), then the difficulty ramps up very quickly. It's hard to list all the games that do this since so many of them do...

I named mine Skezix

If you love your ex, why did you divorce her? Divorce never solves anything. It only makes your life worse. I know a lot of divorced people and none of them are any happier nor any better off now that they are divorced than when they were married. Get back together with your "ex"!

My guess would be to study physics, art, chemsitry, film etc. Also I'd suggest going on Mythbuster's web site and bugging the heck out of them until they give you a job as a mythtern. All those interns you see doing stuff with them had to be found somehow. You might as well be one if you don't...

I like accents in general. I find it really interesting that people talk in so many different ways.

I would send a huge asteroid hurtling toward their planet. I'd nudge it out of it's orbit by putting jets on it that ignited in the right angles and at the right times to put it on a path towards where their planet would be when my asteroid got there. I'd pick such a hugh asteroid that they'd...

Amen my friend! That's what I always say whenever someone starts griping about the newbies in a game we are playing or that join a discussion group. I ask them if they remember back when they were the new guy. Every member deserves to be welcomed and treated as a friend. Nobody enjoys being...

Of course it's a good thing! I am a member of many forums and web sites. Some are vibrant and active with lots of new people joining them, some are stagnant and even dying with mostly the same 100 or less people posting and some are in between. My favorite ones are the ones that are growing...

I'm glad they finally made a separate category for making fun of religion, attacking peoples' ideals, complaining about politics etc. Now, maybe we can talk about fun non-game topics in "Off-Topic Discussion" and leave the circular arguments that turn into name calling and insults to another...

I'd travel the world, fight for causes I believed in, meet interesting people, amass a huge fortune, collect cool artifacts....I'd be pretty much like the Highlander I suppose. I love that movie!