Sandy Petersen 🪔
@SandyofCthulhu
Game Designer, Horror fan, Grandpa. Founded Lovecraftian gaming. CEO of Petersen Games. Also Doom, Age of Empires, etc. Subscribe for game insights & history!
DOWN WITH HOPLITES! PELTASTS FOREVER!
Aesthetically, which of these do you prefer?
How do we tell the difference between a "villain" and a "supervillain"? The Joker, an iconic supervillain, has less powers than the Wicked Witch of the West or Darth Vader, who are not generally considered "super". I think the difference is that supervillains are villains who…
I'm pretty sure the whole "not dating" thing is restricted to women in a few coastal cities - San Francisco, New York, maybe a couple others (Portland). As usual, people in those towns assume that everyone else is Just Like Them. It's the same famous syndrome first registered…
What is with all these articles about men not wanting to date? Leave them alone.
This is the best news I've heard all day.
The legality of flamethrower ownership in the United States
If we didn't have a Department of Education, this would be a terrific argument to install a Department of Education. However, we have had a Department of Education for going on 50 years, and in EVERY ONE of Mr. Lautens' examples, we now know worse/less than before. Therefore,…
No. It violates the 6th. Noahide law, which is incumbant on all men to obey. (Unlike the ten commandments, which are only for those of the Abrahamic faiths.)
Would you ever try this?
This man oozed more charisma, power, and wit than a dozen modern talk-show hosts. Also consider Samual Johnson - portly but ruled society.
Can someone be fat and still have aura ?
I have a new friend! Sparassids are super- unwilling to bite, though I admit they look scary. Also if you DO manage to coax a bite out of one, it’s mild. Let her go after your roaches and mice. If you have spiders that size in your apartment I guarantee you’ve got other vermin.
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Also this is kind of a side take but the slaves weren’t undocumented. Every single one was carefully counted, named, and registered. It was still monstrous evil, of course.
Explain this: Electronic Arts has many in-house training sessions, seminars, and rules preaching the virtue of cooperation across projects. Everyone needs to consider the other projects’ needs. But Electronic Arts is legendary for the world-war scale conflicts, vendettas, and…
Man alive she is HOT. Hubba hubba.
Somehow this gem showed up in the midst of all my glamour girls......do you know who it is?
My understanding, based on not playing since AD&D, is that it’s more complex. There isn’t just armor class & your THAC0. Greyhawk added weapon mods. And there are situational mods. And for all I know mods based on positioning, magic items, spells, and such. I know it’s not that…
The dreaded THAC0: Attack Roll Needed = THAC0 - Target's AC That’s it. Roll a d20 — if your result is equal to or greater than that number, you hit. If that confuses you in the heat of battle: Make a THAC0 strip for your character: AC: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 ... Roll:…
"Iron Man" is one of my very favorite rock songs ever. And I'm a Beatles guy so you can see how potent it was to bring ME onto it.
RIP I shall miss you. I guess you making it even to 76 was pretty amazing, given everything, so I'll be grateful for that.
Real Kaiju essay, on my patreon now. patreon.com/posts/real-kai…
Follow-up to this for folks. Based on the responses, it seems that many folks indeed DID learn something from college about writing. But many others did not. This makes me think that whether or not you learned something depended entirely upon your individual teacher rather than…
My question is for those who’ve been to a university AND published something. Did you learn one single thing in academia that was of the slightest worth in your writing? Because I did not. (Learned plenty in junior high & high school tho).