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What I meant is Gandalf is fairly enigmatic without outside texts (or appendicies, I suppose), and if you were to try and explain what he is if you didn't have those materials, the only definition you could soundly come up with is "he is".

A lot of the "Mr. Anderson" leaked through in his character, I think. There weren't a lot of elves in the movie, and PJ had to show somehow that elves were losing much confidence in humans. A lot of the characters are vehicles for sentiments/stories that aren't exactly their own, but it's kind...

There's a fairly big emphasis in the books as the last battle at the gates being a "statue of liberty play"/"Quarterback Sneak". It was supposed to focus all of Sauron's attention to give the hobbits the home stretch. Having it happen with the battle of pelleanor fields would ruin the effect...

Simple: Gandalf is a wizard. A good example of a wizard would be Gandalf. I think we're in the same boat with Tom (no text to clearly define what he is), so ultimatly we must apply the same logic. For the sake of the argument, keep in mind that both Tolkien and C.S. Lewis meant their works...

Killer I guess, but only because I'm not a puppy love DM. If the dice say they're dead, they're dead; I don't exactly celebrate on making a kill, though. To me, the game becomes far more exciting when the PCs are up against something that may very well kill them. If they somehow make it out...

If I.C.E. rose from their grave and re-vamped their 2nd edition Rolemaster system, I'd be pretty darn happy.

I agree on teaching him a lesson by simply letting the monk do what he does. It sounds like he'll take getting killed personally, even though he walked right into it. However disabling the Paladin via disarm, grapple, trip, stuns and subdual (stuff that monks excel at BTW) will put him in his...

You know, that's a pretty significant spoiler just thrown out there without warning. Someone blurted that same thing out in front of me right after the book came out, and it made it far less enjoyable.

Um, yeah... How about you read them? I'm in the US, and I imagine it'd be on shelves here if they're in the UK. Looks like my gift certificate to the bookstore will come in very handy.

Animal Friendship would be a very good one to use at some point in the wilderness. Bam, you've got up to a 2 HD ally right off the bat. And if you get that, then I'd take Entangle and Magic Fang (for your furry friend) as prepared spells. You could possibly switch Entangle for Shillegah and...

I got my hands on Tournaments, Fairs & Taverns. I'm definately pulling a lot of those games from there, particularly the tree game, archery match, bear fighitng, and drunken daggers. The problem is their magic games were a little too specific (I have no PCs with shapeshifting magic or...

Here's a quick premise: The party in my campaign is in a very large and very old city, a capital of a somewhat (geographically) small country. Every couple years they host what can only be described as a sort of olympic tournament. It serves several purposes for the nation and city: it...

We had a guy who exaggerated his rolls and damage. He'd say he did X damage, and when asked why he got that when Y was his max possible damage, he couldn't come up with any explaination, and just went quiet. He'd roll his dice while idle too, and looking back we're fairly sure he saved any...

You mean a dreadful film made by talentless hacks, watched and adored by people who wouldn't know a good movie if it sat on their head.

I was also very upset about the trailers for TTT. I've read the books, but for people who haven't it's doing them a disservice. Imagine if "I am your father" got put into trailers for star wars. At the least in 20 years when the trailers are gone, new people to the movie will enjoy the...

Sure it can be done better, it always can, that doesn't mean it isn't good. Also your accusations of it being "cheap" are quite unfounded. In the literal sense, it certainly wasn't cheap, I'm sure both of us will agree. In the metaphorical sense it wasn't either. He rallied the most well...

26 million in one day? Wow. The scary part is this record only has a lifespan of 364 days :)

What makes anyone think the eagles would have done this in the first place? Consider who they work for, and consider how that person is very intent on making sure "higher powers" don't get too directly involved.

PJ has admitted that TTT strays from the book more than the other movies. He's keeping the overall feel of the books very well, you can't stop some of hollywood sneaking in and it's never going to be the exact same as the book. It's not perfect, but I can't think of anyone who would be doing...

That's cool, in my next round I'd like fingolfin to openly challenge Hades and maim him :D