Effigy_Power

Guess I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue and listen to podcasts.

This sucks more than many things. I imagine, the person he was, he wouldn't want a bunch of sappy stuff, but mourning a comedian is one of the more emotionally complicated things I can imagine. This sucks. Goodbye, Foam Corner. May your bubbles never pop.

I say potato, you say perennial nightshade tuber. I don't think we'll ever find a name for our food cart.

I don't want to say Harry Potter is based on my life, but my house elf is urging me to pursue legal action.

It's Chinatown, Jake... I really don't think you are going to find a good Sopaipilla Cheesecake anywhere closeby.

If Broadcasters broadcast and Podcasters podcast, why can't I stop thinking about my parents divorcing?

Damn, that gets funnier the more often I read it.

Love the format idea of having rotating hosts, and not just because the chairs spin. Big thumbs up. Maybe Windemere Hankin, Mayor of Television. And that's a big maybe.

Now that's just good wizardry.

See? Now you're making sense. On the other hand it would preserve those books for eternity and might leave them as the only literary remains of humankind, thus achieving the opposite of what you wanted. Tricky stuff.

If there's one thing you don't do with books it's burning them. You're a bad wizard!

Ouch and bravo.

That's certainly a big sort of weird issue in roleplaying, but alleviating that has always been up to DMs. I've had people play good Gnolls and Orcs and Kobolds and I think there's nothing in the rules that says they can't be good. For all the emo, Drizzt is a pretty good example of the fact that characters can overcome an inborn or societal drive towards an evil alignment through their actions. Sure, some beings are doomed to follow their alignment, either because they are basically creatures of evil, like demons, or because they are just thralls to evil powers. But in general it's more of a wash, I think. PS: I am pretty sure I scanned my racist uncle for evil mentally once and he actually flinched. So the houserule seems to work. PSS: Also, Brian's choice is amazing. I can't wait for the interaction between Damian and Sir Richard. I just hope Karen Kilgariff doesn't jump out of a window for him.

That's what I thought too. Maybe it would be a good idea for Earwolf to put up a little wall somewhere with the names of people sponsoring the shows (if they want to be named). That way people feel appreciated even for small donations, since the hosts couldn't possibly read out all of them.

A lot of people seem to have houseruled this with some limitations for exactly that reason. Since the spell instantly shows you the true self of someone it sort of defeats a lot of possible plots. One way is to make the spell very obvious, with glowing runes or something, to the person being scanned. Meeting someone and instantly searching for evil in their souls seems like a pretty big social faux-pas, so maybe that limits how readily you use it at least in a social encounter. Or you make it work like a submarine sonar, where you can detect evil passively when it is aimed at you or aware of you, but if you want to hone in on something or someone, they are made aware of your presence as well. Personally I feel like that's the best way to do it. It creates a tradeoff between being sure of an evil presence and the element of surprise.

Mysterious evil presence? Old Necromancer or Brian's new character...? Who can know these things...

Footie Pajamas for adults. When you want to obscure your partner's sexual characteristics because you are sick of physical intimacy, why not order a pair of matching unisex footie pajamas? Nothing telegraphs to the world that you have ceased to be a sexual being.

Stiff, stiff competition.

E-Cigarettes. When your Fedora and unicycle don't quite cover it yet.

It's worth it just to hear Anrold say "clone" over and over as if his mouth is full of chewing tobacco.

I know, no watery crown, huge oversight. But I tried a few and they looked like Sir Richard had just won the Miss Teen USA contest, which is funny all in its ow right, but sort of didn't fit the picture. Ashes upon my head.

You're my hero, Gerry. That deserves some fan art.

I'll call your fast food and raise you a peanut butter sandwich and the rest from the coffee maker.

Augh, no shipping to Canada. Gerry, you make an expatriate girl cry. Freaky also, I just last week sold some 2nd Edition books on eBay...