Recent content by Xanarch

It's only natural you'd miss her. What you're feeling is normal, and it's an unfortunately painful proof that you're capable of forming emotional attachments to another human being. It's pure biochemistry, and going cold turkey on a person is no less difficult than quitting any other drug. Your...

Two words: House Rules. For example, in AD&D 2nd ed (dating myself here) I, as DM, instigated the following rule for wizards - you can memorize a "generic spell slot" for any of the spell slots you have, to be used for casting a spell directly from your spellbook. This will take one round per...

Just to throw my deerstalker into the ring, I think it's possible the underlying issue is that "nice guys" buy into the farcical notion of "the one" rather than recognising it's more like the one in twenty. Go on dates. Lots of dates. Date people you're not particularly interested in, date...

Nice!! That would have been the proudest moment of mine too. I (literally) bumped into Colm Meaney as he was coming out of a shop in a rush. I said "Sorry chief" and he quirked a smile, said "My fault" and off he went. I've also had the pleasure of chatting at length with the current Irish...

Tuatha de Danann, straight up - incredibly long lived, alternate realm to visit, as comfortable under the sea as above it and a bathtub full of magic.

What's manly, what's feminine? Depends on the decade and who you're asking. The only thing that really matters is the definition of the person asking the question, and the answer they come up with only really matters to that selfsame person. Bit of a tautology, perhaps. ?If someone isn't what...

Having flipped back and forth between school in Europe and the US, I bake in grams and weigh myself in pounds, measure distance in miles and do carpentry in centimeters, drink pints of beer and take cough syrup in millilitres (and don't get me started on US vs British spellings), wear a sweater...

I put chocolate ice-cream in my coffee, turn my office stationary into little art sculptures (odd in legal circles) and am friends with all my ex-girlfriends.