PaulKM wrote:Law is never dull:http://abovethelaw.com/2010/01/seventh- ... -security/Here is the full Seventh Circuit ruling:http://abovethelaw.com/_old/2010/01/26/ ... emisch.pdfFrom Page 3:"This all changed on or about November, when Waupun's long-serving Disruptive Group Coordinator, Captain Bruce Muraski, received an anony- mous letter from an inmate. The letter expressed concern that Singer and three other inmates were forming a D&D gang and were trying to recruit others to join by passing around their D&D publications and touting the "rush" they got from playing the game. Muraski, Waupun's expert on gang activity, decided to heed the letter's advice and "check into this gang before it gets out of hand."Best,Paul
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valdis Zero-thickness walls, heck. That's for pikers. :) I once designed a dungeon that was vaguely spiral and each floor was similar in layout but slightly different in size (think the Guggenheim Museum). The dwarf blew his "detect slope passages" roll, and the poor party was totally convinced that some of the walls were of negative thickness to make their map work. They completed about 4 circuits before they figured out they weren't going in circles and hitting amazingly-fast respawning monsters. :) But the most evil thing I've personally seen done to a party... Party of teen-level characters head into a dungeon, and on the first level they hit swarms of gas spores. Dozens of them. Over and over. Finally, they have disposed of them all, and get down to business... down several levels, where it gets *really* hard. They finally vanquish everything, and they're slogging out of the dungeon. No spells left, no potions left, no scrolls left, everybody is in single-digit hit points. On the good side, the party is moving at "encumbered" speed because the 4 strongest party members are carrying a huge chest full of all sorts of goodies. They round a corner, almost out of the dungeon.. and down at the far end of the corridor they see another gas spore, floating in the dim darkness. Somebody with a bow says "Hah. We missed one" and wings it with an arrow. The DM says "*thunk*". "*thunk*? not *pop*?" "Yes, *thunk*, and it's heading your way now". The party realizes that they are in no shape to tackle a beholder, drop the chest, and run for their lives. Then they make their way back to town. The next day, they're commiserating their loss in the tavern when they overhear a very low-level thief and an illusionist chatting up the barkeep, with far more money than their level would usually imply. "We knew these guys went down into the dungeon, and we was drunk as an alcoholic dwarf and up for a laugh. So Frankie makes up this ball from leather and junk and sticks looks like a gas spore, and I throws my one invisibility spell on Frankie. He picks it up over his head and walks down the hallway at them. The elf shoots the ball, then soils his pants, they drop this chest and run... next thing you know, we're rich."
mbassoc2003 wrote:Prompted by a recently advertised product in our classifieds...Why is it that the standard of new products being offered for sale is dropping so badly?I realise you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but it seems as though authors now seem to think they deserve to be paid purely based on the accomplishment of being able to sit in front of a word processor, and use spell check, and that the old traditional skills of being able to build a team who care about a product, produce well presented work and good quality artwork and mapwork, have all gone out the window.Who buys sh!t like this? And I'm not talking about any one particular product, but about the whole genre of cheap computer generated crap people try to sell.Do they not care what the product looks like so long as the words are in the right order and make for a good adventure?
