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Rifts: An experienced GM attempted to teach twelve of us at once. Our fight against a single vampire lasted over an hour and a half. (Actually, it took longer, but I left because I got bored.) I do remember rolling a handful of d6's to determine the damage from my plasma rifle. I never got...

I was pre-registering a student, whose middle initials were LE. I thought to myself, "Does the college really want to admit a Lawful Evil student?" My co-workers wanted to know why I was both crying and laughing.

I loved the original; one of my favourite comedies and my favourite Mel Brooks movie. My mother saw the Broadway production of The Producers and loved it. I'd be interested in seeing its latest incarnation.

Darn.

Thanksgiving!? Wasn't that last month. Oh, right, American Thanksgiving. Well, while you're stuffing your faces, I'll be at work :( Any chance on my becoming an honourary American for a day? I'll even refrain from saying 'eh' and watch American football.

Ditto.

Agreed. Any group with which I've ever played - either as a player or DM - sets aside funds for item creation. The assumption has always been that, since these items benefit the entire party, even if only one PC actually receives the tangible (read mechanical) benefits, no additional payments...

There was an interesting article in Skeptic Magazin (Charioteer of the Gods: H.P. Lovecraft and the Invention of Ancient Astronauts, Jason Colavito, vol. 10 no. 4, 2004) in which Colavito posits that Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods was strongly influenced by Lovecraft and the Cthulhu...

I believe the rhetorical device you're thinking of, actually a logical fallacy, is the false dichotomy fallacy. Essentially, Hancock posits two possible solutions to a problem when, in fact, there are more than two possible solutions. Then, by discrediting one solution, he forces the reader to...

I wrote my MA thesis on Elizabethan common law and church law, Parliament and the Church (of England). I would post my bibliography but, well, much of what is there is inappropriate in light what you require (ie, too specific). As for general histories of the period, anything by G.R. Elton...

There is an Arkham Sanitorium and the Larkin Institute, at least according to Chaosium's Arkham sourcebook. As for the green-haired lunatic, well, I've don't recall reading of one. Likely he's a GM-approved NPC designed to hasten the investigators' descent into madness ;)

The Evil Dead trilogy was inspired - or, at least, influenced - by Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. Many horror movies owe something to Lovecraft. FYI, Lovecraft himself never intended to write a coherent Mythos; he wrote individual stories, some of which possessed common references (Cthulhu...

As a DM, my necromancer NPCs forgo the schools of evocation and enchantment. I love to mix necromancy with illusions ("Oh, look at those poor, lame urchins lurching towards us, hands out-stretched. What the-- they're eating my arm!")

A vote for Freeport. PLus Ravenloft, even though it wasn't on your list ;)

Contructs. Especially golems. I didn't realise that multiple selections were possible, otherwise I would have included humanoids and outsiders. I would include undead, but I love them so (though, really, they deserve to be included).

Although I generally let the dice fall where they may, I occasionally fudge the dice to keep a character alive. I'd rather the players develp their characters than constantly create new one's (with which they may have no attachment and thus not develop). That being said, BBEGs and foolishness...

Thanks for the notice. I'll be sad to see the product line end.

What programme do you have in mind? I went to U Waterloo for my BA (medieval studies) and Wilfrid Laurier - which is literally right down the street - for my MA. Waterloo is highly respected for its math, computer science and engieneering programmes, and its coop programme. Laurier is big on...

Agreed. I'll let the show rise or fall on its own merits and not its association with a certain and much loathed exec producer. As for the other comments, sci-fi science and technology don't bother me so long as internal consistency is maintained. Shows like (some) Star Trek and Babylon 5...

What have I started! :lol: