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Love me some Gate Pass Gazette, Steampunkette!

Wait a minute ... is that a bookmark hanging out the end of the tome - or a MIMIC'S TONGUE?!?

Gnomes are just about my favorite heritage/species. In fact, the name I use here on EN World, "Redthistle", is part of the name of a gnome PC I played in a Pathfinder campaign years ago. I played it straight. Quok Redthistle was a rogue / sorcerer with emphasis on the rogue, but a strong sense...

I stand corrected. However, I cannot object to fun pyrotechnics!

Some years ago I read an article about a study that had interviewed people in a crowd that had been filmed in what observers felt was certainly an example of panicking. What the researchers found, however, was that every individual they interviewed had rational, even pragmatic, reasons for their...

4e: The online tools for creating NPCs and scenarios. I miss the simplicity and convenience. From 2e, The Hero Builders Guide, which I still use not just for more recent editions of D&D, but for other RPGs as well.

The photo-shopped image that led off this thread is good humor, and captures the content quite well.

"Soda pop", as I understand it, derived from the chemical reaction of sodium to enable the effervescence of the beverage. Technically, that makes it the most specifically accurate of all the names we have, but when have we humans ever been satisfied with leaving things alone? Well, at least...

When I was growing up in Minnesota, "soda pop" was a fairly common term, but it got shortened to "pop" by the time I was 20-30 years old. What I still am bemused by is the tendency among some Wisconsin residents to refer to drinking fountains as "bubblers".

This is an adaptation that I am looking forward to. The Paksenarrion series did a better job of following the development of anyone into a paladin than I've encountered anywhere. I don't generally care for paladins (they always make me feel like a rogue by comparison - lol), so these books...

The movie was "Son of Lassie", filmed in 1944, a sequel to the original "Lassie" movie. Had to Google this to find it. Didn't realize there was a "Lassie" movie I hadn't seen. In the original movie, Elsa Lanchester played Timmy's mother - now, I'm trying to imagine a mash-up between Lassie and...

Not to mention that the Nyr Dyv is quite recognizable as Lake Superior.

I really enjoyed Dante describing the newly re-assigned layers of hell.

Yes, I can definitely see them with a lot of individuality. That may be because of the way that Pathfinder 1e viewed gnomes, which gave a lot more latitude to their character development.

In point of fact, "Redthistle" was the family name of a gnome I played in a Pathfinder campaign, one of my favorite PCs in 4 decades of role playing. Quokgol Redthistle was a multi-class rogue/sorcerer. He was a serious individual, not a jokester. So, yeah, maybe even a thief.