If no one hears from me again, tell my wife I love her...

[The Larch]

The concept of alignment is bollocks, anyway. And if you're going to have it, all non-intelligent creatures shouldn't have one, or if they HAVE to have one, it should be True Neutral always.

Aren't all non-intelligent creatures true neutral?  Even skeletons and zombies; which are animated by evil energy, are true neutral.

Now that you mention it, you may be right. I don't have a monsters compendium at hand, though.

[Razgovory]

How does a gelatinous cube drop loot when killed? WHY ARE THERE NO PRIZES IN MY JELLO?

Gelatinous cubes drop some of the most dangerous loot in the game, at least in AD&D 2nd edition, the +5 ICBM.  There is a percentile roll to see if the weapon detonates and then how long it takes to go to detonate.  This led to a typical crisis in the game known amongst AD&D fans as the "Cube and Missile Crisis".

[Malthus]

How does a gelatinous cube drop loot when killed? WHY ARE THERE NO PRIZES IN MY JELLO?

Gelatinous cubes drop some of the most dangerous loot in the game, at least in AD&D 2nd edition, the +5 ICBM.  There is a percentile roll to see if the weapon detonates and then how long it takes to go to detonate.  This led to a typical crisis in the game known amongst AD&D fans as the "Cube and Missile Crisis".

[Savonarola]

How does a gelatinous cube drop loot when killed? WHY ARE THERE NO PRIZES IN MY JELLO?

Gelatinous cubes drop some of the most dangerous loot in the game, at least in AD&D 2nd edition, the +5 ICBM.  There is a percentile roll to see if the weapon detonates and then how long it takes to go to detonate.  This led to a typical crisis in the game known amongst AD&D fans as the "Cube and Missile Crisis".

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[Razgovory]

The concept of alignment is bollocks, anyway.

Yeah, but it became so integral to the game it was hard to remove.  The 18 outer planes all had an alignment.

[Neil]

How is it that certain monsters have an "Always Such-Such" alignment.  Do they lack free will and have predestined actions which correspond to a certain alignment; or is it biological and they have special neutral-evil glands that produce hormones that reward altruistically evil behavior?

The concept of alignment is bollocks, anyway. And if you're going to have it, all non-intelligent creatures shouldn't have one, or if they HAVE to have one, it should be True Neutral always.

There's nothing wrong with the concept of alignment.

[Ed Anger]

How does a gelatinous cube drop loot when killed? WHY ARE THERE NO PRIZES IN MY JELLO?

Gelatinous cubes drop some of the most dangerous loot in the game, at least in AD&D 2nd edition, the +5 ICBM.  There is a percentile roll to see if the weapon detonates and then how long it takes to go to detonate.  This led to a typical crisis in the game known amongst AD&D fans as the "Cube and Missile Crisis".

[Ideologue]

How is it that certain monsters have an "Always Such-Such" alignment.  Do they lack free will and have predestined actions which correspond to a certain alignment; or is it biological and they have special neutral-evil glands that produce hormones that reward altruistically evil behavior?

The concept of alignment is bollocks, anyway. And if you're going to have it, all non-intelligent creatures shouldn't have one, or if they HAVE to have one, it should be True Neutral always.

There's nothing wrong with the concept of alignment.

And it bears in real life.  For example, Muslims are always chaotic evil.

[Ideologue]

I assume Paul is in the slammer.

He went missing for several months, only to come back and say he had been extremely ill. Things were looking up, but given his susequent disapperance I fear the worst.

See, this is what I mean.  And for all we know, Hamilcar's dead too.  I guess I could check to see if he's published anything lately.

Edit: yeah, Hamilcar's just fine.

[Korea]

I love Dragons.  But I've never heard of these dragons before.

You should have played more Dungeons and Dragons then.

I always wanted to play but it seems like it would be really hard to get into  now.

[Malthus]

I always wanted to play but it seems like it would be really hard to get into  now.

The difficulty is finding a group of friends who all simultaneously happen to have the hours of free time necessary to play it.

[Neil]

I love Dragons.  But I've never heard of these dragons before.

You should have played more Dungeons and Dragons then.

I always wanted to play but it seems like it would be really hard to get into  now.

Depends on what sort of people your friends are.

[Neil]

And it bears in real life.  For example, Muslims are always chaotic evil.

Actually, it varies by group, but they follow a neutral evil god.

[Korea]

I always wanted to play but it seems like it would be really hard to get into  now.

The difficulty is finding a group of friends who all simultaneously happen to have the hours of free time necessary to play it.

But there are so many rules and backstories.

[Neil]

But there are so many rules and backstories.

The rules are really rather simple, especially since you don't need to follow them all.  Same with backstories.   What you need is somebody to run the game who is good at telling stories.