[Wids]

@Thayan: No no no no no! Uhh...what are you talking about? Wyren just teleported into the ground last week! Portal Stones are working just fine! Really.


@Animayhem: That Hitler Rant parody was actually pretty funny. Have you ever watched The Gamers, by chance? :)


@Belandra Marias: Any time. :D


@WillowWhite: So Milo the Halfling tried on magic items without identifying them first? O_O

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I also like to live dangerously. :P

And I wish that Dragon Magazine was still around. I've bought so many Dragon issues and used them as campaign resources. Among them, I have three or four articles about goofy or offbeat magic items (such as alternate Boots of Spider Climbing which attract spiders and make them climb all over you), which I've used to no end. :)


@DarkRanger: I'm sure you do. :D


@Gatalis: Two questions:
1) Are you anywhere near East Texas?
2) If so, when can I join your gaming group? Because using the Force to choke a Hutt with a carrot sounds pretty wild. :D


I wish that I could remember everything from my tabletop games, but gaming has been a big part of my life, so I'm glad that I still remember plenty of it (even if I now have such faint memories of Zuul the Magic-User and his adventure in the hovering castle over the Pit of Infinity). Some of those moments can't be put into a narrative, but they're fun to remember all the same, like Rod's Barbarian who had a 5 in Intelligence, so every direction was "North" to him...South, East, West-by-Southwest, whatever. "Which way do we go now?" *points in a random direction* "We go North." :D

Or the time when Willard and Dillion broke into a cathedral to rob the "Fat Bishop" (a corrupt bishop whose name I can't even remember now, even though I created the bastard...probably because everyone kept calling him "the Fat Bishop," so the nickname stuck), but they ran into the bishop's treasure's guardians: four homebrewed golems made from shards of stained glass, like that stained glass monster in Young Sherlock Holmes. And the golems started coming upstairs at them, so Dobie got the idea to use Willard's Ring of Telekinesis, pick up the lead golem and drop him down the stairs (and into the other golems) repeatedly, over and over and frickin' over, until the golems were all dead and shattered. I still throw out a stained glass golem now and then, but now I only do it when there's not a single staircase in sight.

And I'm so glad that we have laptops nowadays (and that I have one), because they make the art of supplying background music for tabletop games such a piece of cake! In the 80's and early 90's, I usually went without music because all I had was a cassette recorder, and cassettes are crap when it comes to supplying flawless music on demand. Back in the Air Force and afterwards, I was using my Sega Genesis. When Willard and the gang went through the Elemental Plane of Water, I had my Genesis hooked up to the dayroom's TV (which, happily, no one else was watching because the TV in the First Floor dayroom was bigger and better), so I played this song for trekking around the Water Plane's wilderness, this one for the Palace of Waterfalls and this one for fighting King Myrlyrlancer (or whatever the elder water elemental leader's name was...again, even though I created him, damn if I remember what his name was). And for that Wraith campaign's fight with the three spectres back there, I played this tune. Chakan the Forever Man didn't have a sound test option, alas, so I had to leave the pool table, mute the TV, start the game, walk Chakan into the Plane of Air, leave him there (where nothing could attack him), unmute the TV and return to the pool table. It was kind of a pain.

Anyway, I'd better get ready for work now. But I should be back on tonight, dredging up more fond memories. Stay tuned. :)