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I use shelves made to display shot glasses. I only have two now, and use them to show off my best painted miniatures. Granted, you can't get your large mini's or mini's with wings set in them, but they display 90% of the mini's I own in them very well.

I'm in!

Murder City- Green Day White Feather- Wolfmother

I used the Bridge of Kazad-dum scene once, before the Fellowship of the Ring came out. None of my players had ever read Tolkien before. A few years later, when the movie came out, one player made the comment "It's like there was someone there right in the room with us and made it into this...

Very nice. Has inspired me to do the very same when my campaign ends.

I did really like those Greyhawk novels with the Justicar and his hellhound pelt that skinnydwarf mentioned. I also liked the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks. The main character is an assassin, which you could take some elements from for a thieves guild.

It's the term used to describe a group of crows. Plus, I thought it sounded cool.

Thats right- all NPCs should be soulless, useless peasants. Name them all Bob, except the females; name them Sue. This will drive home the fact that the NPCs are all unimportant, and that the characters are who really matter.

Really does sound good.

Garret Jax- warrior Allanon- druid Gotrek the TrollSlayer- warrior Nightfall- rogue/assassin

Excellent article, two thumbs up!

I remember watching that series, thought it was great. The movies that get me in the mood for gaming are: 13th Warrior, LoTR, Legend (with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry), 300, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Kingdom of Heaven, and Excalibur, to name a few.

Charles De Lint is one of my favorites... Honestly started my whole leap into fantasy novels with Weis and Hickman and Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue series...

Well over the 25 age limit, but everyone else is doing so, so I'll reply as well. Fritz Leiber J.R.R. Tolkien Terry Brooks J.K. Rowlings David Eddings George R.R. Martin Sean Russell Glen Cook Charles De Lint (while contemporary fantasy, has some great elements in his stories you can easily...

Half-orc is my first guess, my second would be Gnome.