@UnderstandMouseMagic , I'm very sympathetic to your argument in this post. I wonder how many people know their history of Christianity and the Bible enough to know that the "canonization" … (View Post)

My first D&D character was a mage dualed to cleric named Barnabas, who was named after the vampire main character from "Dark Shadows". It wasn't so much the vampire thing that caught my… (View Post)

@sarevok57 , "That half-orc guy in blacklake district" was exactly who I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. I very recently had my character killed by a crit from him, and that's when… (View Post)

@sarevok57 , I usually prefer the simpler BG rules over the NWN rules, for the reasons you just outlined. The NWN version is unnecessarily complicated, and it still reduces, as you said, to "Rol… (View Post)

The "pride" comes as a counter to being told you should be ashamed or that you are "less than" for being some of those things. The message is that "I'm proud to be who and wh… (View Post)