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Books; Boat Building for Dummies Building a Radio from Two Coconuts and a Piece of Bamboo for Dummies Sailing Back to Hawaii in a Homemade Boat......for Dummies

They should all get together and have a foursome. You know “play a round”. There’s another one there about strokes, balls and playing in the rough but I couldn’t come up with it.

You forgot the tag line. “This is Les Nesman, four time winner of the Buckeye Newshawk Award reporting.”

“They hit the ground like sacks of wet cement!” That line kills me every time. Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

Hey Rocky! Wanna watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat?

In that vein I’ll include Morgan James. You all must check YouTube for her acoustic version of Queen’s “Who wants to live forever”. The long harp solo at the beginning is worth it.

Minuets

Masses.

The term “Hawaiian joint” has a WHOLE different meaning for me. P.S. If anybody sees my legs, please let me know. They left twenty minutes ago and I can’t go chase them.

Smile.

I’d start by checking out the reference materials for characters. Start with comic book characters like DC comics Tomahawk, then progress to movie stuff like The Patriot and Last of the Mohicans, then TV with a Fess Parker double feature of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. A lot of these are pretty identical on paper so you’ll have to go out of your way to make them more individual with backstory and disads. You might also have some luck with varying the nationalities of the PC’s. An ex-slave from Africa or the Caribbean could give some magical help. (Although it may be culturally insensitive for someone not of that race to play.) Stealing a Slayer from Joss Whedon, or a “Shadow Slayer” as they call ‘em in D20 Urban Arcana could do the same thing.

Finally something I know something about! Start with.... Bill Evans—Sunday at the Village Vanguard Diana Krall—Live in Paris Miles Davis—Kind of Blue or Sketches of Spain Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker—A Night in Tunisia Try anything by any of the Marsalis family A lot of these guys were mix & match in different combos so try a lot of different groups during different eras. Also YouTube has a surprising number of wonderful albums on tap. Give a listen to a bunch of stuff and you’ll find some new favorites to go out and purchase. P.S. HOW DID I FORGET!!! The soundtrack for the Ken Burns series Jazz!! From early Dixieland to Modern Fusion you’ll find a taste of it here.

I’m familiar with the show from the trailer but I haven’t watched it yet. I play chess (badly) against the computer as I think a lot of people do now due to quarantine. We do have a dressy glass chessboard here in the house, but it’s really just a decoration for the dining room table.

Great minds think alike baby! Great minds!

For a name have you considered Castle? It refers to the chess move where two pieces switch places.

You say that your players are “new” is that to this genre, or to pen & paper gaming? They may just be used to playing computer style RPG’s where it’s more common to “tank” damage than to block it. Either way, have them run up against some opponents who use the styles of defense you want to encourage. Let them see how effective it can be. If they have complaints after just remind them of one of Heinlein’s laws “The best defense is not getting hit in the first place.”

Then you’ve got the old reliable “Stately Wayne Manor, Alfred the Butler speaking.” (Done in a bad upper-crust British accent.)

I like it, but then again I’ve been known to answer my phone with “City Morgue, you kill ‘em, we chill ‘em, Digger speaking.”

Too true to be funny.

it looks like something a steampunk cosplayer would carry.

Yeah, but cleaning Cheeto-dust off the hand painted figure you lent the new guy is a time honored tradition. P.S. Along with burying the body of the aforementioned jackass.

Party

I thought Waffle House was where you go to sober up enough to drive home.

I like it, but it’s a little tough to fit into the average conversation.

For you that makes sense and is a reasonable and honorable way of doing things. The difference between us is that you’re still actively playing, while I haven’t picked up dice in more than a decade. For me a new game book is just something to flip through. Pretty pictures and seeing if the source material is any good. So I use as I said the library/bookstore measure. If I’m only going to go through a book for an evening or maybe a few days I don’t feel guilty in not paying hard cash. If it becomes something I want to keep for my permanent collection I’d feel I was doing somebody wrong if I didn’t pay them for their work.