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Harpies. They were illustrated in my old blue box rules with big, bare breasts. That makes quite an impact on an 8 year old who hasn't seen nudes before.

remember that episode of Scooby Doo where the teens solved a mystery that a group of adults couldn't figure out, and it was just a guy in a rubber mask? does anyone remember that episode of Friends where they sat around in the coffee shop and talked about how they couldn't find a good...

my first D&D group we had clerics choose a patron deity, but it didn't effect gameplay in any way. We had clerics to various Greek/Roman gods and some American Indian spirits, but all used the same spell lists and other rules. Not until 2E and it's speciality priests, specifically a Forgotten...

woah. My son is a Nathan Adam too. I didn't know about Captain Atom though.

Guilty as charged. After naming our first child a solid 'Nathan,' I got artsy with the second and named her Mikela. I felt quite clever at the time, but we quickly got tired of birthday cards and letters spelled McKayla, Michaela, Makayla and a dozen other spellings. The name was inspired by...

Schools here were closed for 3 days this week because of the 'huge storm' that hit the Seattle area. My kids just went back today after being out since Tuesday. The 'huge storm' was about 4 inches of snow. Yup, 4 inches, 3 days. Bizarre.

only ever come up against one in 2nd edition, and afterwards we renamed it to 'ream-your-azz.' nasty things.

I voted Faerun just for the sheer number of races - there's a ton of stuff in there. I voted for Destiny because it has the half-ogre in it. Yeah, that's it. I bought the whole book for one half page entry. That's when I realized I may have a problem with supplement addiction.

thanks. I think my plan is to do some swapping out of known spells as I get higher level spells that are more useful: replace spider climb when I can get fly, for example. Likewise with the rays, I may swap out the known ones as I level up. Aside from the rays, what other spells can I use to...

I'm planning a gnome rogue/sorc (building towards arcane trickster) in an upcoming campaign, and wanted to see if there's anything I'm not thinking about or have overlooked. Pretty much any WotC books allowed. Basic concept is to use magic to enhance roguish abilities and utilize ray spells to...

+1 for d6 Star Wars - the gateway drug for introducing people to RPG's. I was a big fan of Dark Conspiracy - and wish it had caught on, for the setting if nothing else. The rules were basically Twilight 2000 with some Psionic and future tech thrown in. My all time favorite character creation...

An updated Castle Amber would be fantastic - the original was really a mini campaign arc and would do well with a 100+ page count to flesh it out. Hand wave away everything in the 2e sequel though - horrible. Tomb of Horrors has been released as a web download, and it's pretty good. I tried...

"Take 20 Search of the floorboards" - what your PC is doing when he's gone unconscious.

1. Captain Jack Sparrow 2. Gandalf 3. Odysseus 4. Han Solo

some of these matchups are hard, and a few I'm not familiar with either. here's my picks anyway.