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British late 70's TV adaptations of RD's short stories. From what I remember most stories had a dark twist at the end, some of them almost Urban Legends. James Bond like dancing silloute in the begining titles, quite a few 'big name' british TV stars. Fond memories of the series, two episodes...

The Game Mechanics Modern Players Companion has the alternative wealth options, together with a sidebar from Stan! explaining why, in his view, the existing wealth system works.

I'll add The Highwayman to the list. I had an English teacher when I was eleven that had a list of poems that he believed your should hear and he used to fill spare time in the lesson reading them, Blake, Colleridge, Noyes, De La Mare. I was also doing drama lessons the weekend covering the...

You need to explain that, for better or worse, you are the GM and that at the table your rule is law. They can bring up issues outside of the game, but not at the table. The trick is to be consistant in your rulings. Just out of interest, how did you get hold of my artwork for you avatar? :D

Opps, that is what comes of trying to do three things at once.

And (IIRC) she was not immune to posion!

Wizards has even muddled with that. Unearthed Arcana has a 'bell curve' resolution option which uses 3d6 rather than a d20, so it appears that nothing is sacred :) I had toyed with the idea of a stripped down intro game using the Warrior, Expert and Spellcaster classes, damage save and bell...

Listen to the Led Zep Peel session (it is on the Led Zepplin BBC Sessions album) it features the first ever performance of Stairway to Heaven, before Led Zepplin 4 had been released.

John Peel DJ For music lovers of a certain age. The only DJ that could play Blues, drum & bass, indie, rock, Industrial punk and 1920's jazz all in the same show.

Or non-lethal damage rules. From what I understand it follows the DnD model instead. Also spells do non-lethal damage to caster.

Green Ronin has some previews up http://www.greenronin.com/cgi-bin/product.cgi?prodid=1406#related I have to admit I had never heard of Red Star before and it wasn't even going to be on my purchasing radar, but having seen the previews it might just have to find the cash from somewhere.

Increasing ability scores is covered under Scientific Engineering:More Human Than Human. It requires gene therapy and 10 Fort Saves (DC15) to gain +1 in a score. I think to 1.5 times the cost of an opposite flaw is a good value. The Mutant feat should have a type of [Initial]. Again I think...

Check out Grendelspawn from the d20 Modern Urban Arcana SRD, includes stats for Hunter and Queen. The original name for the critter was Giegerspawn :)

The GM can give a one time bonus if they like (remember a +2 bonus is equiv to doubling spending power). The rule is that it will take a miniumn of 1 hour per purchase DC.

Go to www.sysinternals.com and download process explorer, it can show you the command line that each SVCHOST process started with, which might give you more of an idea. Another couple of useful utilities available are FileMon and RegMon, they show you exactly what files / registry entires are...