War Nerd is an amoral sicko, not a Bushist
If Bush/Iraq War/Torture supporters are seriously quoting War Nerd to back up their positions, they need to get a clue.
Random harlot generation table in AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide
GenCon Indy approaches, and so I'm not posting much. I hear D&D co-creator Gary Gygax will be at the convention this year. If I run into him, I want him to autograph one of the most ridiculous pieces of gaming weirdness ever to make it into a mainstream AD&D publication. I'm speaking, of course, about the infamous random prostitute generation table in the 1st Edition Dungeon Master's Guide . That book included a random encounter table for cities; "Harlot" is one of the entries. Here is the Harlot entry, reproduced in facsimile for your delectation: Sadly, subsequent editions of the Dungeon Master's Guide lack such useful prompts to the imagination. Dungeon Masters are now forced to improvise descriptions of harlots, should such be encountered by an adventuring party. Unless, of course, the Dungeon Master owns a copy of the 1st Edition DMG or is lucky enough to see this blog post. In the interest of fairness and gender equality, this table should
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I think War Nerd is doing a great service, however, and I'd certainly like to see him in charge of our military policy versus the current crew. The idea that we could have a nice, clean, brief counter-insurgency war just for the hell of it, and it would be a benefit to our country is just so beyond ridiculous. It's like going into a pet store and asking to see the indoor rhinocerous that will best match the decor of your studio apartment. I can't help but think that had someone been thinking of the historical record beforehand, the invasion plan would never have survived cost-benefit analysis. And a lot fewer people would have been cowed into supporting it had the proponents been upfront from the beginning with the reality that we would eventually be resorting to retaliatory civilian massacres just to attempt to hold our ground.
Plus, he used the analogy of the sampan scene, which I've been saying for about 3 years now.