Gawain

That is some Order of the Stick level situation there...
*Chuckles*
 

The bulk of the Jolrhos Field Guide consists of ways to help GMs and players interact with the rest of the world easier and more engagingly like the down time between adventures, what you do while camping, how to repair your armor; stuff to do that isn't just questing, killing monsters, looting, etc.   Its an attempt to fill in the world with more things to do and interact with besides straight adventure stuff like fighting and traps etc.  Foods, odd animals, ores you can dig up, plants that are useful, etc.  In the process this gives the GM more treasures to give away than the usual list, and it gives players more things to look for and do if they choose to.  Yeah, that basilisk had some coins and jewelry that past victims left behind, but you can skin the thing for its scaly hide, and take the eyeballs back to an alchemist -- or use them yourself.
 
When this is done I hope to present a unique but familiar world to players and GMs both, a book that players will find useful as well as game masters, and something different than any other game supplement made.
 
I just wish I could work longer and write faster.

Smoke grenades, darkness field, et. al. may be *your* best friend; but if the rest of your team doesn't have your Enhanced Senses, throwing too many around may not make you *their* best friend.

Hey there, long time no see. I can say there is a great deal of consensus that police training isn't all that great and that there are many instances when police choose to escalate when it is not demonstrably needed. There seems to be a divide with how to "feel" about this and how to view the nature of the average police officer's "soul". On the subject of the Greater St. Louis Area, I had read a long article about a fairly unique problem in the area. Evidently, Missouri law is fast and loose about the incorporation of municipalities. Over the decades, tiny little municipalities have been created as another option to "white flight". These little municipalities can't support themselves so they have moved to predatory policing a la the speed trap town - only it's a bunch of them right by each other - a recipe for disaster.
 
As far as the Grand Jury in Ferguson. I am convinced the Prosecutor only called a Grand Jury for political reasons. He had the discretion to not prosecute without one but chose to call a Grand Jury to be more transparent. I'm going to throw something out there that some won't like. I am happy he let the Grand Jury hear so much of the evidence. I have never liked the notion that "A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich." I've always felt the Grand Jury system was rigged too much against the defendant.

I can't tell who the bigger ass is here, the cop or the Young Turks moron.