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As a fellow WoWer, I'm also tempted to run a campaign there at some point. One of its biggest strengths is that is can handle a political campaign (inter or intra-faction politics) just as easily as it can do a big dumb WAHOOOOOO sort of thing (Goblins. Enough said).

My issue with FOAD is that the songs just weren't really that interesting. And the short turnaround between the two has me a bit worried too. Overwrites? Or cast-offs?

So far this year: Alestorm: Captain Morgan's Revenge Fun with a capital B. Catchy power-metal tunes about swashing buckles, getting drunk, curses, alcohol, treasure, wenches, cannons, wenches and alcohol. Worth getting just for the title track and Wenches and Mead Opeth - Watershed Wow...

The Chaos Gods in the GW setting are more the inhuman, destructive incarnations of forces taken to their ultimate endpoint. Their entire purpose is to tear apart creation and return it to a state of primordial flux. There are theoretically infinite Chaos gods, ruled over by the four greater...

I echo Fallen Seraph on how kickin' the Diablo Angels are in style. With Diablo III being about the full-blown Apocalypse, hopefully we'll get to see more of them. My only concern is that they've mentioned Five character classes, and from the preview, the Witch Doctor seems to have killed my...

Ah, so killing the EVIL monsters and taking their stuff. Gotcha. Does roleplay need rules? How does a system encourage roleplaying in terms of character interaction? Creating rules for it, more often than not, just leads back to the hideous argument about rules DISCOURAGING roleplaying...

Now you're just being obnoxious with this reductionism; you know exactly what I meant. So I ask you, was first edition a Roleplaying game? What about 2nd or any of its countless permutations. 3rd edition? Why or why not? What I see are some well designed encounters, with a series of events...

ISWYDT...[/rollseyes] This is always a line of argument that I fail to see any meaning in. Last time I checked, even the supposedly deep and story based WW games can be played as high-action "rargh, kill" type urban dungeon bashes with MP5s and trenchcoats standing in for magic swords and...

I don't know if you're doing the whole RPish thing at all, but seriously, the sooner you get a mage to gate you to Shattrath and set your Hearthstones there, the better. Having easy access to all four capitals from one location is just too damn useful, especially with the otherwise awful...

Here's a couple of potential picks from an Irish metal band that I've come to absolutely love known as Primordial. The second one in particular makes me think of an ancient druid who's declared war on civilisation. They're kind of long so I've /sblocked them. The Golden Spiral, from The...

Well, you lost me there, but I kept reading anyway. If you're gonna praise Erol Otus but slag off talents like William O'Connor and Wayne Reynolds... Funny, I thought that was the GM's job, since 100 GMs are going to have 100 different ideas about what to do with a monster. In a setting...

Chthonic are a Taiwanese band who have done some stuff in their native tongue and its actually pretty good. Its extraordinarily sad and bleak stuff. Otherwise though, the Germanic and Slavic languages go perfectly with metal, the harsh guttural and throaty sounds that are so common in those...

I'll echo the recommendation for Adventure!, especially the original edition of it.

I'll focus on Instrumentals "Munashiki Nagare" from End of Evangelion OST Any of the instrumentals from Eyes Wide Shut (spectacularly discordant and unnerving) "The Elder God Shrine", "Contemplations of the Endless Abyss" and "Summon the Sick Winds of Pestilence" from Karl Sanders' Saurian...

Well in between blaming the C'Tan for EVERYTHING short of Kennedy's assassination, the Necron Codex hints very strongly that the 'Nids were the nightmarish last-ditch weapon the Old Ones turned loose against the Necrontyr. As is the one that they immediately regretted because they realised that...

On the first point, its been done by a lot of bands (notably Emperor), but mostly in Black Metal. Unsuprising given BM's focus on mood and atmosphere. Combining classical structure and influences with DM could be tricky, but that's no reason not to try. When its done well, the results are...

OK, just listened to Rise Ov Thor and Splayed Before a False God. And yeah, the recording quality is pure junk, but I somewhat expected that. The Good: 1. Your Vox. Very sharp, especially for such poor sound quality. Some coaching on breathing techniques and warmups and you could be...

No arguments here on that count really. A normal bug invasion has the YAGD* factor that Call of Cthulhu and WH40K inherently possess, turned up to 11. Going by the fluff, short of an utter miracle (like large-scale Eldar intervention, or something similarly major), a Tyranid invasion means you...

Wipeout: Any of them, because they are awesome racing games. Patapon: Patapatapatapon! Rhythm games are fun, but this thing is legalised crack. Just wish you could pause it though. God of War: I know its on your list, but I'll be damned if it isn't so AWESOME that it deserves to be mentioned...

As a huge fan of all things 'Nid, I've gotta point out a few things here: 1. Purestrain Tyranids will not use humanoid slaves. Bugs eat anything that isn't bug, pure and simple, including 'Stearler Hybrids. And after subjugating a planet, the fleet goes and eats all its non-synaptic creatures...