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Re: column: Nerder 42
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2006, 02:36:18 AM »
How do we stop the power creep?

And no, there's no punctuation missing from that sentence.
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2006, 11:14:14 AM »
Write your own system and take every opportunity you have to bash D&D.
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« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2006, 08:12:21 PM »
I'll get my pencil and my hammer.
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« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2006, 09:04:21 AM »
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.

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« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2006, 11:29:28 AM »
If I were a carpenter, I'd hammer on my piglet.
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Re: column: Nerder 42
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2006, 11:36:23 AM »
oh, you just want a big prosthetic forehead to wear on your real head.

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« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2006, 12:13:19 PM »
I forgot the point that I was making.
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« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2006, 08:27:16 PM »
That's alright, Gemmdo. I often have trouble keeping a... Piza's here!
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Re: column: Nerder 42
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2006, 09:02:13 AM »
total failure, bud.

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« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2006, 07:41:40 PM »
Aw, isn't that cute? The n00b brings back a month-and-a-half-old thread, completely misses the point, and misspells "pizza."
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« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2006, 07:42:53 PM »
It was a TMBG reference. Then entire way. You damn near killed it.
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