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I was a kid when I think the D&D/AD&D switch began. I remember a hard cover book with some big Devil guy holding a chick and walking toward some fighter and wizard. There was another book with these two theives stealing some gems that were the eyes of some demon statue. In addtion, there was a monster manual with a unicorn, some half-man/half-horse guy. I love the artwork because they'll have some halfling going up against a giant red dragon...

I almost forgot about him -- Butters is too good and pure to be with the hippies. Good for him...

I always thought rappers busted out the "growing up tuff iin the ghettto" a bit later, to show that even after all the scrilla scratch they are still the same old thug they were while living in the projects...

I'll tell you what, Kotz, whenever I'm in a bookstore I always head over to the "D&D" section, just to check out the artwork in some of those books -- Jesus did they get complicated. A character sheet now would be at least 20 pages long! I came from a time when we would just go "10 goblins just entered the room from the north door -- tell me how you want to kill them." Now you have to do all these hippie pre-battle "checks" and other things that I can't even describe...

Holy crap, that will be great...

I wasn't talking to you, hippie...

He made some remarks about "why aren't there any Jew farmers/Catholic bankers/etc..."

I for one am against clean air and water because it causes my stock portfolio to drop...

It made a point, hippie. It pointed out the hypocrisy of hippie-thought and why they need to be locked in a basement...

Ever been to CE?...

In my day we had these character stat sheets which told you about your character, his equipment, etc. With the outbreak of ADD nowadays, I'd be shocked if anyone still plays the paper and pen version of D&D, considering you need to use your imagination and thought. And say what you will about the game itself, but a lot of the artwork is great...

It wasn't meaningless -- it made fun of hippies (and little Eichmans)...

Good thing Summers didn't say anything about the media and black quarterbacks. And I really can't feel bad for the guy considering he's a hippie as well -- you created the monster, now deal with it...

So now W. will get blamed because he didn't go into Iraq soon enough -- lol...

"Yeah man, we'll have a commune where someone will bake bread for everyone." "You mean a baker?" lol...

Greatest ... South Park ... Ever... Will they succeed in playing Slayer?...

Also, in the Sum of All Fears, was the Soviet Union dissolved or was it still in a "super power" state?...

I was under the impression that the meeting itself was some big brainstorming session where all ideas were fair game. As long as you did offend anybody, of course...

So, in the Hunt for Red October, the U.S. was afraid of a USSR nuclear sub, but yet according to this history, Baltimore was already blown to bits...

OK, I must be thinking about another crappy movie then. Sorry...

Well, the thing is Jack Ryan had a wife and kids in the first three movies, now he's a 20-30 something with no baggage. So is Sum of All Fears a film all by itself with some guy named Jack or what?...

Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, Sum of all Fears -- are they all supposed to be connected? I'm just curious because the first three to go in order, and then there is "Sum." Is that one supposed to be a prequel or something? I have some other questions, but I'll reserve them until I get an answer for this...

Die. Didn't they make a sequel?...

Ha, I remember that game, too. It wasn't exactly the type of game you would want to promote outside of the United States...

I played D&D as a kid, but it usually ended up in disaster. I never read the rules, spent about 20 minutes creating an adventure and we'd spend about 10 minutes actually playing it before going outside to play football or something. The highlight of my D&D career was one time when I was a Dungeon Master and my one friend wanted to go off the map I made for the adventure. I then said a bolt of lightning came out of the sky and killed his character. I then got up went over and punched him. Good times. I always liked elves because they could use weapons and cast spells...