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Hal, what you're describing about Spider-Man is the classic Marvel formula for superheroes, most specifically for their mutant characters. A good 90% of the dialogue in one of Marvel's multitude of mutant magazines (I like alliteration) goes something like this: "My life sucks. I have all...

Hopefully a quick question: I'm working on a d20 product and I'm pulling some information from a variety of other publishers' d20 products: I've included a few feats from Product A, so I update the Section 15 of my product to include the Section 15 from Product A. I've also used a few feats...

Eatenmyeyes, that's a great site. I was just about to post that same link when I saw your post. The rest of the bit on the Superfriends cartoon is hilarious, too. As far as bad campaigns... I can't recall any specific examples. When I was younger, we played horribly but at the time I...

You should also check out this site which gives explanations for many of the phrases that all of you are looking for (such as Brass Monkey and Drawmack's grins and faces). Can't find one yet for Shot Glass although what I did find so far suggests that the word "shot" was in use in Europe in...

Origin of Tapas I always thought the origin of Spanish tapas was interesting. The word comes from the verb tapar ("to cover"). Bartenders/inn-keepers used to place a piece of bread or cured ham on top of a glass of wine or sherry to keep road-dust and other things out of the glass. And...

That's most likely because Badaxe and Chronicles have paid for more impressions. So, their particular ads are getting served up far more often than some of the other advertisers. I see Badaxe's all the time on here, but for awhile it seems like all I saw were Bastion Press' "Oathbound"...

Dynasties & Demagogues in Pasadena, CA 1. Yes, I saw two copies at Game Zone in Pasadena, CA. I actually went there specifically to look for it since I'd read all the pre-press stuff about it. 2. They had the two copies on their "new items" shelf display. As you walk into the store, the...

I used to access it by typing enworld.cyberstreet.com/news. It looks now like it's changed back to www.enworld.org like it used to be? Just checking - I have it bookmarked as the former...

Off the top of my head... AEG's "Mercenaries" is Green. I'm not really sure that the color of the cover affects sales as much as the topic, publisher, and artwork. Edit: Missed that Liber Bestarius was already mentioned

Update Your Section 15 Cool idea - I'm working on a very similar concept for my own homebrew and have been reading all of the sorcerer threads here in the House Rules forums (including Seasong's). BTW, you need to update your Section 15 of the OGL. I'm one of the types who always looks at...

FYI, I can tell you that the same ad agency does not handle both Hasbro and GE. Hasbro is handled by Grey Worldwide in New York (which is the company that I work for, although I'm in the L.A. office). We do not have the GE account. Years ago, NBC (which is owned by GE) was at an agency called...

Your personality type is ISTP. Introverted (I) 79% Extraverted (E) 21% Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50% Thinking (T) 70% Feeling (F) 30% Perceiving (P) 59% Judging (J) 41% I swear I took this about two years ago at work and I was more 50/50 as far as Thinking/Feeling and my Perception vs...

Park La Brea? Not sure yet if I'll be going - getting a free weekend during holiday time is really tough with visiting out-of-town relatives and so forth. BTW, you live in "Park La Brea"?! Small world - I think I can probably see your apartment from my office window. I'm in the tall...

OGC and AEG To further muddy the waters, this is part of AEG's Rokugan Section 15 (I don't have the book with me at work but this is the gist of it) regarding what is OGC from that book: "Anything derived from Oriental Adventures that is already OGC" So, I take out my Oriental Adventures book...

Southeast Asia If you do a Southeast Asia theme, just go to Wizards of the Coast's website and fine the web enhancement for Oriental Adventurers. It's a short 9-page PDF setting with different countires/cultures for a Southeast Asian-themed setting. Green Ronin is also coming out with a...

This topic came up a few months ago specifically regarding different human cultures and how they could be differentiated, and I pointed out that it should be done more in the manner that you're describing versus just ability bonuses and penalties. I really like your format. Well done.

PDFs I'm curious why some people aren't listing PDFs that they have in their collection? Is it because you have too many and don't want to write them down? Or is it because you think of them differently? Personally, I don't really make much of a distinction - material for my game is...

My List o' Stuff Wizards of the Coast: Players Handbook, Dungeon Masters Guide, Monster Manual, Deities & Demigods, Manual of the Planes, Epic Level Handbook, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Oriental Adventures, Book of Vile Darkness, D&D Adventure Game, Wheel of Time RPG, Hero Builder's...

Reflex Save While Paralyzed? What about a reflex save vs. spells while paralyzed? This came up in our session yesterday. The DM ruled it as "no" (because it requires a "physical action"). That made sense to me.

I also have really enjoyed BOTR and am using it as a "template" to flesh out the religions IMC. As far as other GR stuff, I have the Shaman's, Witch's, and Assassin's Handbooks. I really enjoyed the first two quite a bit. The Assassin one was okay, but for some reason didn't really "do it"...