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Hmm again. "In our own, silent, language, we are the [complex waving of tentacles]. The mind flayers call us brainspikers. To the beholders, we are eye-gougers..." (Those who insist on a punchline can add "...and what we call the human who came up with the word 'flumph' would literally burn...

I think the real reason flumphs attract jokes is that -- like a lot of other creatures in the original Fiend Folio -- they were introduced with a silly name and no backstory. If you take them seriously and give them a reason to exist, you can do interesting things with them. Gez has already...

Believe it or not, TSR patented that design of d4 (for Dragon Dice, mostly), so Crystal Caste can't use it without licensing it from Hasbro. The patent A bit of the story (scroll down to message #8)

eytmological tangent "Sere" is a real word -- it means "dried up" (probably related to "to sear", but closer in meaning to "seared" than "searing", FWIW).

The one near the bottom of this page?

The setting is an alternate-history 248 AD in which the Roman Empire is doing very well indeed, thanks to the invention of gunpowder in 96 AD and Marcus Aurelius choosing a more than capable successor. There's also a magic system inspired by actual ancient magical writings. The whole thing is...

I know you asked for 3.5, but FWIW, there's a 3.0 version in the Psionics Handbook web enhancement.

Besides Church Latin, we have information about how the language was pronounced from the ways Greek authors transliterated Roman names and Latin words (and vice versa), and -- better yet -- from misspellings. A number of personal letters and bits of graffiti have survived in which people spell...

How about replicas of sheep knucklebones, which were widely used as dice in the ancient world? I got a set via advancinghordes.com and have an ambition to play FVLMINATA with them.

A lot of the material components for 1e spells are rather jokey -- e.g., a "small legume seed" for Gust of Wind, a set of brass knuckles (described rather obliquely) for Bigby's Clenched Fist.

I've ordered from them, and have only good things to say about the experience.

It probably would. There are also a couple of things about DungeonWorks Classic (and thus probably WorldWorks' other stuff, but DWC is all I've bought) that are better for dioramas than for play -- the detail is mostly wasted when you're looking at it from across the table, and if I were...

I've been using Dungeonworks Classic for several sessions now. I thought briefly about setting up entire dungeons at once or as the PC's moved through them, but found it more practical to only break out the scenery for combat. There's a pause as I set up the area and fumble around for the...

I hadn't even thought about ESD's as a factor -- I'd just figured that the dot-com boom and bust had caused a temporary spike in eBay prices for gaming stuff, as lots of geek-types saw their income rise and then fall precipitously. Regardless of how it got that way, eBay is definitely a buyer's...

A few years ago, I got some friends together with the promise of a one-shot nostalgic dungeon crawl and sprang S3 on them. ;) There were five or six players, I think. I had them use pre-gen characters from the back of the module; there was a lot of speculation as to how the pre-gens could...

Oh, wow -- I completely missed that! And the PC's in my 1e campaign just cleaned out a kobold lair last session, too. I'll have to tell them to reimagine some things. :D

Then there was the thoul -- a combination of ghoul, hobgoblin, and troll, created by a wizard so powerful that a mere typographical error on his part spawned them. ;)

FWIW, in the 1e MM, "The hide of kobolds runs from very dark rusty brown to a rusty black. They have no hair. Their eyes are reddish and their small horns are tan to white. They favor red or orange garb. Kobolds live for up to 135 years." The kobolds in the illustrations have scales and...