Recent content by ShadowStar42

Honestly owning a house is not all that expensive when it comes down to it, but it does take quite a bit of planning. The first thing you want to do is get a credit report, you can get them free once a year from each of the major services, if you have any credit problems make it a priority to...

If every choice you made for your character was a feat, skill or piece of gear, I can't say you are much of a role player.

You see and I find it to be exactly the opposite. The more niggling little details you have to choose for your character the more it just becomes a pile of numbers, this has always been my issue with Pathfinder/3.5. Making characters in those systems takes so much combing through books and...

While I agree that there is a big difference between ignorance and racism, you're example here is really flawed. People don't say "I'm not racist but..." because they're ignorant, they say it because they know they're about to say something that may be taken as racist. That's the opposite of...

As this is pretty close to how I live right now, yeah I could be just a house husband. I have a job, only part time and my wife makes several times what I do. Since I have much more free time I do all the cooking, probably 90% of the housework and do most of the general life stuff that happens...

No, as the GM/DM you don't just have to deal with it, as the GM you can always say no. It's a tricky situation though, some players may drop your game if they feel that any restrictions are being placed on their actions. Those players often aren't worth fighting for IMO but if they're friends...

A lot of advice here already but I'll throw in a couple of straightforward things that I have found useful. 1.) Never call for a die roll when failure isn't interesting. When character's don't find the clue, or get over the fence, or locate the secret door the game slams to a halt and you...

Most people here seem to be responding to the perceived morality of porn itself, but I want to address the points you made directly. I work at UPS, it is a no-education required job that is often a last resort for people who take it, myself included. I don't know anyone who is proud to work...

Pointing out your false assumption that a superhero wearing something will somehow make it more common wear in normal society. There is literally no part of the a popular super hero's costume that is in any way popular clothing.

Well, 1) Burka are only a problem when people don't want to wear them, if she makes Burka popular it's not for us to say they shouldn't be worn. and 2) Where do you bring your spandex and cape to get them cleaned, I tried a regular dry cleaner and the whole outfit faded and shrank. Do you...

You are an artist, but if you art isn't seen an appreciated by other, if it never influences other artists, then I'm sorry but I have to deliver a hard truth. You're art doesn't matter. We remember Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Frank Capra because their art in a very real way changed the...

It is true that being an artist doesn't require compensation, but being a professional artist does. Most of histories most memorable artists, and arguably it's greatest artists, have always been professional and have created their works for compensation. Shakespeare, Monet, Pollack and the...

Guns still work. We don't see any of the main characters with guns because the militia has probably confiscated most of them, and in 15 years it's unlikely that a small community would still have a stockpile of ammo.

I'm skipping your whole first bit because in almost all Sci-Fi there is some element of Magical Technology. If you can't accept unexplainable tech then I recommend looking into other genre of fiction. That's a good point, because as we know from history until the invention of the revolver...

Ooh, another good one, that would be more like what your familiar with while giving you a taste of more free form RPGs is Alternity's Gamma World. It's out of print but you may still be able to find it, and it's not designed to run nearly as silly as the new WotC edition.