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Hello, We're helping out some friends who are working on a roleplaying game and using Kickstarter to get it rolling. Please look at this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1299187159/sixcess-core-rulebook If you are interested, then please give them a pledge--you can give as little as $1...

We still get quite a few emails generated from this thread and we answer every one. It may look like the thread has gone fallow, but the discussions continue vibrantly. :) Send us an email or a PM if you are interested.

Let's see.... She's "Bexy" and he's "Ben". Simple as that. :) (Oddly enough, we've met a bunch of others with those names since we picked it... Who'da thunk that there were that many Bexy's and Ben's in the world?)

Sounds like breakfast to us! :)

Interestingly, "qedeshah" appears only 5 times in the Old Testament. It is translated as "harlot" 4 times and "whore" once. Usually the word used is "zanah" which appears more than 93 times. The literal translation of "qedeshah" is "temple harlot". The priestesses that were paid a...

Ben speaking here: I have been told by several women that I "make love like a woman." The first time I heard this, I thought I was being mocked. She had to explain it as a compliment. As a man, I have greater need for the emotional component than the sexual. I just ended a year-and-a-half...

We may have different answers, but we've faced these questions before: In our case, stability, security, a ready-made family. We offer a lot of love, immediately. The downside is that it can be overwhelming--especially to someone who has never been part of a family. Emotionally, married men...

Nyx, Personally, I don't tolerate lies of any kind--and lies of omission are more insidious than overt falsehood. You can do much better with little effort. Ben (and Bex)

We have been working on several games (Ben and his compatriots--Bex is the editor, our kids and friends are playtesting) for a few years. The mechanic is basically complete and now it's a matter of attaching all the various gameworld points. However, life has intervened in the lives of all the...

I (Ben) had the opportunity to meet Steve Jackson at a trade show. :) It was one of the highlights of my game-writing career. :) Yes, I'll admit, I gushed a little. ;)

I (Ben) would advise paying close attention to that "catty spitefulness". My beautiful bride has often been sensitive to situations to which I was obliviously blind and what I defined as "catty spitefulness" turned out to be "wise intuition". I just wish I'd listened to her two months ago....

We live in the state of misery ("Missouri") and there's a town not far away called "despair" ("Des Peres"). :) We just had another long talk about the our situation and both agreed that this was the best thing that could've happened for us, even if it is painful right now. Time will heal...

Violet, Our first "failure" was in 2002. We stopped looking for nearly 5 years, it was so bad. Then we started looking again, and found someone in July of 2008. We went through an on-again/off-again period through the end of the year, then she had some family/crazy issues and we backed off...

The game is "Promised Sands" and we still have about 1500 of them in the garage...

Kari, Our hearts go out to you. Thank you for sharing your experiences, even though they've been traumatic. If you need to talk, feel free to contact us. Ben and Bex

HMA / Violet, We feel your pain. Our own breakup was about 3 weeks ago, before we started visiting here regularly. Let us know if you wanna talk. Ben and Bex

Ummm.... Should we mention that Ben helped write one?

"She's Got the Look" by Roxette is "our song". Every time I hear it, I remember the first road trip my wife and I took--before she was my wife. :)

Heinlein was my favorite author growing up. I've read nearly everything he's written. He had very divergent and different viewpoints on family life in general.

Tangent: Mother Theresa stated that she did what she did not because she wanted to or loved the people, but because she saw it as her "ticket" to eternal life. A friend of mine actually found the quote for me once. Totally changed my mindset on what she was all about.