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Post subject: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns  Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:05 pm |
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Small towns * Globetrotting vs. intimate setting
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Lesson Learned * Maps can enhance game details
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:57 am |
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This was a fun episode but you're wrong with such astounding frequency that my pedantic nature almost caused me to stroke. TrapCast: We killed Joe! 
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:00 am |
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No question that we are consistently wrong about all sorts of things
but, what specifically this episode?
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:27 am |
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Just a bunch of little stuff that isn't worth correcting (e.g., distance values for square maps in D&D). I only felt compelled to post because there was a run in the middle where you were all arguing and correcting each other, but everyone was wrong. So it was just overwhelming to me (in a fun and humorous way). 
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:30 am |
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Joe wrote: Just a bunch of little stuff that isn't worth correcting (e.g., distance values for square maps in D&D). I only felt compelled to post because there was a run in the middle where you were all arguing and correcting each other, but everyone was wrong. So it was just overwhelming to me (in a fun and humorous way). We do the same thing off mic... you should (or maybe you shouldn't) hear some of the absolutely ridiculous arguments we've had. There is a township called "Richburo" near where we live. A friend and I got pretty drunk one time and argued for well over an hour as to whether the "mayor of Richboro" had a difficult job or not. We damn near had a fist fight over it. The catch is, there IS NO mayor of Richburo... the position doesn't even exist.
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:53 am |
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Ohh Mayor of Richboro, the complexity of your life is compounded by Descartian Existence problems
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:24 pm |
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we never said we were an accurate show.
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:47 pm |
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Jenn wrote: we never said we were an accurate show. That's actually what I hear most about you guys. "TrapCast, they're just wrong." ...maybe that's in response to George's humor...
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:57 pm |
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Joe wrote: Just a bunch of little stuff that isn't worth correcting But, that's what we do here on the forums. That and we criticize their poll options.
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Post subject: Re: Episode 24: Maps and Small Towns Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:14 pm |
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hah. willH gave me a belly chuckle
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