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Well you're at least learning the lesson of Deck of Many Things as well as a twofer. I'd always warn any DM that has never seen the Deck in use to Never EVER put one in their game except under the following conditions A) A final reward in the campaign's main BBEG's hoard (post climax) or B) You...

Style These are all great rooms and well decorated gaming dens. But I’d sacrifice (medieval) style for comfort and convenience for a room I was going to use to entertain my friends for about four hours. The chairs in this one would be fine for a dining situation but are probably a bit too...

In the fortified frontier town of Trunau in the southern end of Belkzen.

I'm a subscriber but I'm not especially excited about this one. They already had a primary giant antagonist AP called Rise of the Runelords...I don't think the plot will be especially strong enough for me to pull it off the shelf and convince my players to slog through another Giant murder-fest...

Key word- Legally. No matter how many rights and privileges a slave is granted they legally do not own their own body no matter how well they are treated or what privileges and traditions their owners, state, or extra-legal religious institutions grant them in any de facto historical case of...

20th level wizards have concerns other than the betterment of their fellow man (or demi-human, humanoid, thing). A few hundred wizards does not a economy of scale make. Lots of things go into an industrial revolution and a technological base replicable by tiny handful of the population (who...

Seems to be a bit of cart before the horse thinking here... I'm assuming this is a world building thought exercise. Slavery exists(ed) for economic reasons, not as a moral test or some sort of cultural need as a social measuring stick. Other posters have covered why the economics of magic...

This one is a thorny topic to approach but I think the core of it is how slavery actually functions in a society. While there were some notable difference in the institution of slavery between the African slave trade (and pre-antebellum U.S.A.) and the ancient world I think there are a number...

Further investigation will reveal more about their nature:

I was going to mention that a company called White Wolf used to put out a couple of games using the Storyteller system (now published by Onyx Path Publishing?). Lots of dice in that one for some reason:). There might be a feat in 3.5 that allows you to staple through someone (buried somewhere...

Rich. He's reasonably consistent with it and it's part of the strip's charm not to mention 'teh funnie'.

Pretty sure Redcloak knew he was shooting Roy before he cast disintegrate given his not-quite-Seinfeld-esque "Newman" moment. Game mechanics are part of Rich's satire however so it's possible he snapped off a shot without really considering a good tactics or it's part of the joke that there is...

Pretty sure it's disintegrate.... the green ray is part of the classic description of it (and the see through skin to skeleton the visual shorthand). I was thinking the same thing...at first blush why would a uber level sorceror lead off with a Fort based save on a higher end level fighter...

Except for Theon's in which dying (quickly) is the 'good' ending.

I thought the plan was Bantam was going to use his start as a the basis for a "Choose your Own Adventure" series?

Yup Tywin and probably Littlefinger I'd grant feel natural in their secular outlook and devil take the hindmost attitude. That the attitude feels a bit prevalent in the nobility a quasi-medieval society where magic, ancestral curses, miracles, etc have a factual truth in the not too distant...

If survival was what mattered, the Freys (and Bolton) could have just pledged their banners to Lannister and closed down the Twins to the North. Tywin brought the Tyrells back under Joffery with a marriage alliance (and no penalty that I remember) and in regard to the Dornishmen the Martells...

Yeah...a North overrun with ironborn, raided winter foodstocks and a sacked Winterfell not to mention even though the Stark bannermen get wiped at the Red Wedding if Roose manages to put the Greyjoys down he's stuck with a bunch of holds that will forever brand his family as traitors (granted...

Heh...I sortof viewed Riverrun area in a similiar situation to the reformation era German Palatinate... once prosperous lands devastated by war that will take generations to recover. And the Palatinate peasants didn't have to worry about a swiftly approaching winter that would last years with...

<Must resist temptation to scavenge through books> I don't remember that part but it sounds right. And it feels a bit more realistically plausible for the setting than the lords somehow knowing that if they break the most inviolate sacred oath they don't risk extreme supernatural punishment...