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Er, you realize that Abraham Van Helsing was from the novel Dracula, right? Bram Stoker? Father of All Vampires (unless you're playing White Wolf, in which case it's Caine)? :p Ahem. I submit an alternative thought experiment. Consider the same situation, but instead of having a ghost as the...

Alas, no HPB in my area. Closest thing we have is the Friends of the Library bookstore. No huge buys like the entire CoC line, but once in a while some nifty RPG bitz show up. I grabbed (off the top of my head) a 1st edition Traveller book, a 1e Monstrous Manual, and a Monstrous Compendium...

Yay! Thanks, guys!

Met awesome people (you guys, RPG.net, Paranoia-live, a little known 2e board called Grey's Castle), got introduced to cool fantasy (without gaming, I would probably never have read Moorcock or Leiber), and given me loads of fun. Also, it conveniently removed the gobs of dollars that would...

Critillik. Dunno why.

Hmm. I would personally like to see boxed sets, because of the little goodies that it's possible to throw into a boxed set which add flavor to the module/setting. Though if WotC is going through rough times obviously that might not be costefficient. I miss the boxed sets though. Ahem. I'll...

The Black Company by Green Ronin. New free-form-ish magic system, and a really awesome method of streamlining mass combat. Simple, easy to follow, allows PCs to influence mass combats without making them overpowered...it blew my mind and I don't even play 3.5e. :)

Bargle the Infamous? I remember reading about him in my Karamiekos campaign setting. He was portrayed as a comical figure, though. Sort of a buffoon-mage. I gather this shouldn't be the case?

I learned by imitation. I was in elementary school (sometime around '95 or '96), and I had just joined up with a D&D game being played on the bus back from school*. After that, I poked around and found one guy running AD&D (a fifth-grader version, mind you) and one guy running TOON. I watched...

I just bought a bunch of used minis (both metal and plastic) for $3 (yay good deal!). But the previous owners had decided to paint directly onto the metal, without priming first. (They also did a lousy paintjob. :( ) Can I spray a black primer coat on and just paint on top of that? Or should I...

No worries. Just remember, Religious People Game Too. :)

It can well be. Anyone familiar with the Black Company novels? The mercenary company the books center around, the Black Company, is generations old. It's forgotten much of its past, because the Annals detailing where it came from ("We're the Black Company, last of the Free Companies of Khatovar...

I'm still holding out for my very own personalized "Muslim Who Plays D&D, Listens to Heavy Metal, and Believes In Evolution" pamphlet. I'm hoping he'll be gracious enough to sign it for me. :p

Kill him dead. But I'm usually running 2e, so it's much simpler to make a new character. And to speed things up, I'd probably assign him some freebie equipment and an arbitrary number of gold pieces to start off.

Funny, I thought it was about a gun-happy player who wanted to use submachine guns....

I will second both Paranoia and Risus. And Toon.

I cry foul on this test. LN Gnome Wizard? OUTRAGEOUS. Other tests have clearly shown me to be a CG Elven Bard. :)

In defense of S&P, I would point out that in my understanding of the rules, you're not allowed to take abilities listed from other classes. For example, the fighter class has the option to spend points on weapon specialization, move silently (but worse than a thief), getting followers, and...

Depends. Consider that a paladin is... No. Wait. Can of worms. Let me rephrase. Consider that a paladin can be considered to be something of a roving judge. If, in his considered opinion*, the orc is guilty of a capital crime, then it's well within the paladin's rights to exercise the option...

If I'm working on only one, maybe ~45 minutes. I usually fiddle with five or six at a time, though, painting one bit, then another on a different figure...