Recent content by Dioltach

Thanks for the replies, people! I'm glad to see that there isn't a clear answer - makes me feel better about the hour I wasted yesterday pondering the question.

It's been a few decades since I saw the movie, but this morning I was listening to Queen's "Who Wants To Live Forever?" and a thought struck me. These immortals spend hundreds or thousands of years fighting each other until only one remains. That one last immortal is given a gift: mortality...

This whole discussion is pointless, because the character - male or female - isn't a warrior. As anyone who's ever played BECMI should know, they're a fighter.

I'm surprised no-one brought it up before now. Like you say, the outrage.

Sounds like a great idea! "Random event: a party of dwarves shows up unannounced." "Goal: prepare an eleventy-first birthday party."

No, the Scouring of the Shire is about having to clean the pans after you've burned the food.

The companies that make machine translation software have been saying the same thing for two decades. They keep throwing money into their marketing, and people who aren't translators believe them. I predict the same thing for AI. (Although the publicity about some of the worst AI blunders seems...

I like the idea of brokers. A more or less shady NPC with all the right connections, who can locate a particular magic item for a fee, and broker a deal between the owner and the PCs.

I've run an all-drow evil campaign. It was fun for a few sessions, but you can imagine the problems. Whenever we take a break from our long-term campaign, we revert to our halfling adventures. Barbarian, two fighters, a ranger, a rogue and a bard. All 1st level, but with various boosts and a...

There's a furniture maker and a floor layer somewhere having a heart attack too.

Show a little respect.* Her name was Aleena. * By which I mean respect for the millions of teenage boys who mourned her death.

Looks great! But who calls their baby daughter "Furiosa"?

I read an old Dan Dare comic where they team up with a Navy captain in a submarine, and DD says something along the lines of, "Your problem is trying to keep the pressure out, we have to keep the pressure in."