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Well, planar binding and planar ally do have casting times of 10 minutes, which seems right. Gate... well, still seems an untidy. Thanks all for uncloggin' my noggin.

I was avoiding the gate solution, that seems too untidy. Planar ally seems a bit safer, planar binding a bit more risky, looking at the SRD.

Poifect. Thanks!

So I want to include scary evil demon-summoning bad guys in a future Grim Tales game. The problem is that using the Grim Tales magic system and just giving them Summon Monster spells from the SRD will result in bad guys who are not so much like the demon-summoning guys who would trouble Conan...

Really? You think that "the fireball sets fire to combustibles and damages objects in the area. It can melt metals with low melting points, such as lead, gold, copper, silver, and bronze," can be interpreted as the spell doing damage to inanimate objects? And think, we're not even talking about...

C'mon, the worst remake ever was Barb Wire! Especially since it was a very thinly disguised theft of the plot from Casablanca. No, I'm not joking. It was so terrible that I thought it might be entertaining. I was wrong. Like the star's physique, it was just frightfully unnatural.

Byrons_Ghost said just about everything I would have, and academic advising is what I do for a living!

I wouldn't say that problems with WoW are universal. For instance, I just don't have any problems running WoW on my crusty eMac with less than 1 gig memory and the bare minimum specs to run WoW. I only run into lag problems on visits to IronForge or when there is a lot of PvP going on. Dowloads...

I haven't used the 12" PB, but I do use the 12" iBook. I don't have a problem with the size of the screen, though I wish the quality of the display were better, and I find the portability has made me happy I didn't get the 14". I often walk as far as a half mile with my laptop in my shoulder...

Dwight? The self-admitted murderer avoiding the cops with plastic surgery? The guy who was hunting a group of thugs with the intent of killing them before the women of Old Town got to them first? That's the good guy choosing to work with the sexier of two groups of bad guys? The only glimmers of...

Saw it last night. Think it was a painstakingly faithful adaptation of Miller's work and, as such, had many of the same strengths and weaknesses. The whole thing is very stylized, not only visually, but on every level. It isn't noir, but a stylized exaggeration of noir and tough-guy pulp...

But assassins do kill people in the real world before their bodyguards can react and shoot their targets in vulnerable places. Granted guns aren't knives, but assassins can and do bypass guards and kill people before guards can respond. Guards who were looking for a killer. It has even happened...

Well, I can give you the advice of someone recently divorced.... :uhoh: Communicate honestly. Especially about the stuff that is hard to communicate honestly about. Remember to maintain your separate lives. Don't expect her to be your only source of happiness and fulfillment, you will both...

Blackmoor goes back to the beginning of D&D. Blackmoor was the name of one of the pamphlets that expanded the original boxed set, and Blackmoor was incorporated into the WoG and the Known World/Mystara, but it began as Dave's campaign world. At one point, it was published by Judges' Guild as...

Hmm. Except that TSR began embracing story-based gaming with the Dragonlance modules. In 1984. Which predates VtM by 7 years. Plus modules like Ravenloft. The story-based gaming by TSR was clearly more closely-tied to cross-promotion with their book-publishing division. Bad marketing, not...

Nonsense. Games like Empire of the Petal Throne and Runequest were trying to change that nature of RPGs as early as the mid-to-late 1970s. D&D and its imitators were like that, but the fringe of the hobby was exploring other facets of Role-playing games since early on. This is nonsensicle...

I think the issue is that crunch sells. Why? Because most buyers can use crunch. Crunch fits into most kinds of campaigns. Story materials, however, do not mix as well. Official story advances (per AD&D 2E, White Wolf' World or Darkness, etc.) reads really well, but doesn't port well to...

Sounds like Jack-o-Bears from Runequest. Which were, strangely enough, very dangerous bad guys.

I had a cat who had multiple seizure-like incidents, and it was darned near impossible for the vet to diagnose after the seizure ended (in my case, it turned out the incidents weren't seizures but odd cardiopulmonary incidents mimicking seizures, and that took a long time to uncover). A visit to...

I gotcha. I had the advantage of a long time away from D&D playing a passle o' other RPGs, so I didn't feel an attachment to or recent familiarity with the old rules. It was more like walking away from a distant relationship with a friend who I had lost contact with than abandoning an old love...