Recent content by WyndWalker02

One of my biggest annoyances is the image running around Facebook right now explaining how "we should flood Facebook with the REAL pledge: one nation UNDER GOD..." Given that the insistence on including a single specific deity wasn't started until the 1950s and our country's been around for a...

I haven't read either and do not ever plan to, but from from a purely principled stand-point, I'd take 50 Shades all day every day. Meyer blatantly tried to make her series of asinine smut the next Harry Potter and people ate that crap up with both hands, despite the books being nothing but...

Primarily it depends on what you're doing with the tokens. Like you said, you play out lots of little human and angel tokens in your one deck that you use for sacrifice/block fodder. In a case like that, placing counters on them may well be pointless. On the other hand, one of my better...

What Notch says doesn't really count under ANY circumstances. If you happen to like Notch, OK, go ahead and listen to him, I choose to, in point of fact, but just because someone gets heard by a lot of people doesn't make what they say important or newsworthy. Compare him to a Kardashian: the...

I guess my biggest issue with this "news" and this thread which it's seemed to have spawned is that people keep remarking that "they don't know why anyone still listens to One-Hit-Wonder-Notch" or "what makes Notch the authority on the gaming industry?". I apologize in advance for the...

While board games had started to die out a decade or so ago, they're making a comeback with a vengeance in recent years, primarily due to the emergence of the so-called "eurogames" like Settlers of Catan (one of my personal favorites) or Carcassonne. My wife and I are avid gamers, both in video...

Except that DnD characters are supposed to be trained warriors, to one extent or another. To justify being allowed the base attack bonus of a barbarian, you can't just be flailing your arms in the manner of a monkey flinging it's feces. That's not trained fighting it's being a four-year-old.

I have yet to see a monkey that's capable of properly wielding a sword or axe. They have thumbs, but no sentient level of intelligence. With the description you've given, your "character" is effectively an overgrown simian dragging a sharp piece of metal around like a caveman's club, just less...

I guess the issue I'd see with this (with experience DMing for 3.0/3.5 since they were first released, so a decade or so) is that I'd have to rule that a character with a 2 intelligence can't even take any feats that would require anything beyond animal instinct to use. Endurance, Weapon...

I hate this concept and the argument that "if you you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to hide." Same thing with those x-ray spec machines in airports that made the news so much cause they were all but letting the TSA people look at you naked, and people argued that if you weren't hiding...

If you're spending all day walking the five minutes from Riverwood to Whiterun, you might have some ADD to look into. OT: I'd agree with the others here saying to pick a story arc and run with it. The main story is fun, and I enjoyed the Companion and Winterhold College arcs as well. If you...

I really like Matt Smith. I enjoyed Tennant a lot, and still hold Eccleston as my favorite of the new doctors (you never forget your first Doctor), but I think Smith is bringing a lot of new feel to the role. His explosive emotions combined with his clownish frivolity make for a really fun...

That's an EXTREMELY dangerous road to tread. I'm sorry, but cops are just as fallible as anyone else and while that's understandable as they're still human beings, just wearing a badge does not give you the right to physically assault someone. As has already been stated, we don't really know the...

I suppose I don't understand how the player's outwitting the DM. Take the example you gave above, for instance. You claimed that if he went off on his own and you got him into an encounter, he'd whine until you let him make a perception roll, then go into stealth mode to avoid any baddies. You...

I've always been rather annoyed by this as well. Perfect example was Michael Jackson. Now, I have no idea how the man actually thought or lived his life, but for the accusations about kiddie problems, he was absolutely demonized and considered a horrible human being. As soon as he died, the...