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Have you read any of his short stories? Several of them are collected in Engraved on the Eye (including a prequel novella to Throne of the Crescent Moon). Very imaginative, very different.

Tales from the Floating Vagabond listed a weapon called "Nuclear Hand Grenade". I doubt it was very popular. Some years ago I ran a campaign that started in the Old West, but then shifted away to more traditional D&D. Once the adventure left the Old West, and they couldn't replace their...

"Target Practice".

Hehe. I love how laconic Xykon is about it all.

The last dinosaur I remember using was THAC0. Actually, more recently my group Summoned a T-Rex to swallow an evil artifact, then released it back to its home plane. Later they learned that this had caused a festering Evil to take root in what had once been an idyllic Garden of Eden.

Have you ever read Harry Harrison's short story "The Repairman"? It might give some flavour for the practical issues involved in maintaining interstellar travel.

Having a huge, traumatising war in the recent past (like in Firefly, or to steal from fantasy, Eberron) opens up a lot of possibilities without forcing you into a dominant theme. You can have pockets of ongoing hostilities, rogue warlords, planetary devastation, abandoned battleships...

Anyway, back to the original topic... CHA 3: Arnold J. Rimmer CHA 18: Ace Rimmer (What a guy!)

One thing I've always meant to do with a wizard's tower: spells cast by the tower's master are automatically metamagicked. Or at least within specific zones (think magic circles around the lab or main hall).

It moves around. Maybe if you're lucky it will come to visit you!

Sounds like something from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

You could try it the other way round: a letter from the mook or lieutenant to the BBEG, all stamped and addressed and waiting to be sent.

And now the crab has a level of Fighter or Monk and it's coming back for revenge!

I've never actually played it, but it was quite amusing to read. (If I remember correctly, size categories for guns were Gun, Big Gun, Incredibly Big Gun, Oh My God That's A Big Gun and Don't Point That Thing At My Planet. That kind of thing. I was in my early 20s at the time, and thought it was...

I have Jakandor, and one that I've never known anyone else to have: Tales from the Floating Vagabond. But I can't be bothered to take a picture. So I'll have to paint a word picture. Four 80cm shelves, plus some spilling over, 1E, 2E and 3.X, BECMI, a couple of of the large 2E Monstrous...