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Our comic/gaming store just took us all to the movies. :D :D :D (David's ghost)

Your roman d20 doesn't seem to have underlines or dots or whatever- how do you tell the difference between a IX and an XI? :-)

Check out athas.org. Not done by wizards, but on the other hand, completely free. Much more comprehensive, and closer to the orginal than the Paizo version. (Though I may be biased, I'm a subeditor for the project.) Oh, and I'll put a vote for Al-Quadim 3.5. Maztica, too. Not a fan of the FR...

I admit a weakness for Magic novels and anthologies. Yes, its the geek equivalent of a dime-store romance, but I like to think of it as 'mental sorbet'. I read all these deep, dark books, its nice to have a quick, shallow read once in a while. My favorite 'licenced' writer is definitely Jeff...

It's not just a brain in the belly of a iron golem - it's also a pirate! I can't help picturing a brain with an eyepatch. :lol: Piracy is just a sideline - he's really looking for the white whale that ate the rest of his body...

IIRC, SKR did an article explaining why an iron golem must be hollow based on the description in the MM.

7 or so levels of psion specializing in telekenisis or telepathy.

The last Dark Sun campaign I ran, the PCs faced an undead defiler. The doorway to his lab had an unusual beaded curtain. They walked through his spellbook several times and never noticed.

Read Dianetics! Wait, did I say 'read'? I meant 'write'.

It's all in how you sell it... When I ran Planescape many years ago, I had a player who played a 'dwarf' fighter/psion who had a psionic accident that gave him stone-like flesh; I let him forego the magical item I was giving each character in exchange for natural armor. Part of the flavor was...

It's not Arabic (althoguh I've heard it from several sources), it's French from the Latin 'palatine', an adjective meaning 'of the palace', that is answering directly to the monarch.

Kobold comes from the word 'cobalt', which, as I understand it, is German for copper. I'm not sure how English speakers came to use it as the name for another element, or what Germans call that element. Anyway, German miners would dig up what they thought was copper ore, but when it was smelted...

So, that would be drah-gay then? ;)

It's the Latin spelling of the Greek 'daimon', both pronounced die-mon. 'Demon' is a corrupt version of it (corrupt in the etymological sense ;) ). It's a synonym of the Latin 'genius' which is similar to the Arabic 'djinni' which is why we have the word 'genie'. And although we don't use the...

Dragonnnnn. Like 'dragon', but instead of a schwa in the second syllable, an 'o' as in 'on' and about five 'n's. 'Ixitxachitl' is Nahuatl (Aztec). So: ee-sheet-shah-kee-tluh. Although the 'proper' pronounciation of 'sahuagin' is roughly 'say who again?' ever since I ran my last Maztica game...

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

When was the last time this happened to your familiar: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/4651863.stm

Some of the old (I mean like 15 years ago) Final Fantasy games had ducks in stormtrooper hats armed with shortswords. That's why I voted for ducks. If you can work Moogle into your game, that'd be cool too!

Yeah, in my game that turned what should have been an easy encounter into a rout. Rather than knock out most of the guards in one swoop, the psion merely alerted every single one of them that a low-hp character was trying to break in. Personally, I found it too much work for too little gain. Go...

From a recent game: "So you're the party leader when there are naked women, but when there's a guy shooting laser deathray eye-beams, suddenly I'm the leader!?"