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In the mid-90s, Siembieda wrote a letter to White Wolf Magazine (or InPhobia, I don't remember which side of the name change this happened) complaining about the lack of coverage of his products. WW duly found a Palladium fan, who wrote an article of some sort, which they then published...

The wikipedia article on thatching claims that thatch is applied in 2' thick bundles. (Other sources I've seen make this plausible to me, btw.) Two feet of wheat straw is not the sort of thing you'll easily cut through or fall through, and thatched roofs often have multiple layers of thatch...

No version of Buck Rogers made money for TSR. Buck Rogers products were, however, a fine way to transfer money from the corporation directly to the pockets of the licensors of the Buck Rogers franchise. One of the beneficiaries of this largess was Lorraine Williams, the head of TSR, and one of...

So, let me add another perspective about animals: First, I'm ambivalent about spikes on dire animals. If I'm running a prehistoric flavored area, I don't want them. If I'm just running them as the local apex predator in a dangerous world, I rather like them. Second, I use animals all the...

1" hexes are not ideal, but they're pretty standard. If you want your product to work with the stuff people already have (Hint: I think that would be a good idea. 8-), you'll want to use a 1" hex.

Presumably that would be the William H Stoddard that now does GURPS Fantasy. Paying attention to numbers is probably more appreciated in a GURPS writer than in a D&D writer (averaging across all editions, anyway). Geez. Everybody knows it rhymes with "bow". Let's see: Rewriting the disk...

Note for those not familiar with paper industry weights: The weight noted (basis weight) refers to a ream (bundle of 500 sheets) of the standard size. This standard size depends on what type of paper you are talking about. The result is that 20# bond is not the same weight as 20# offset or...

There's also the fact that the shorter steppe bow put less energy into accelerating the arms of the bow and more into accelerating the arrow than a longbow (which is a rather inefficient design). As you note, it's a complex problem. I wasn't trying to explain all the details, but rather to...

First, some basic physics: Energy in a closed system is conserved. The energy from the release plus the energy from falling from the release point to the final point (usually insignificant) equals the energy dissipated in air friction plus the energy transferred to the target plus the energy...

Lorraine Dille Williams was head of TSR at the time. That would be the Dille estate that received royalties from Buck Rogers licenses. At a GAMA trade show (I think it was the last show in Las Vegas at the Tropicana), I heard Jim Ward say about the third edition of the Buck Rogers RPG, "We'll...

Warlock isn't particularly front-loaded, so dipping Warlock doesn't help much. Even-splitting with any other class I can think of (including Scout, Ranger, Rogue, Fighter, and probably Bard) doesn't synergize well. And Warlock with a dip in some other class doesn't add enough flexibility or...

Might work, though I could never come up with a class that I would synergize well with Warlock. The better Warlock powers really don't come up right away, so you'd need something front-loaded to dip into. And most dip classes don't work well with the Warlock. I suppose you could multi-class...

I played a warlock throughout Red Hand of Doom. While the character was almost never useless in combat, he was also almost never the star. He could be counted on for a fairly consistent damage output, but never really competed with the barbarian or the wizard. He always had a few really nice...

While the concept of "Mary Sue" characters was first formalized in the fanfic community, Mary Sues need not appear in fanfic -- and can be protagonists as well. For a fuller description, see this old post at Making Light. For reference, the post was written by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, a senior...

First, for priming, do not use spray paint. Use spray primer. They are not the same, and spray paint makes a really poor primer, because it doesn't bond to the underlying miniature anywhere close to as well as real primer. (Note that what GW currently calls primer is actually paint.) Krylon...

Rather than including something as narrow as "Aggression", I'd consider something more like "National Traits". This would include things like Expansionist (Republican Rome or Louis XIV France), Isolationist (Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate), Insular (USA prior to the ACW), Chauvinist...

While the dialects might be a bit more homogeni(z/s)ed these days, there are quite a few more than just those differences. If you're actually interested in the issue, you might want to take a look at separated by a common language. (I find the linguistics pretty interesting, myself.)

I have Heroes for Wargames; it does have something of a problem with being neither fish nor fowl. It's about half advertisement for GW and about half miniatures-painting tutorial. The former is a bit tedious and the latter is a bit dated now. (At the time, it wasn't a bad tutorial.)

The costing below assumes use by a character who can cast the spell normally. If you prefer, you could use another pricing model, but this seems the most obvious to me. I think the best reading is that the spells would be cast at their base levels (casting level being covered under, "Treat...

Muphry's Law*, of course, makes that a low-probability event. * stet: See, for example, Muphry's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia