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A friend had recommended Fire in the East by Harry Sidebottom. Since my friend is studying Roman history for his MA in that time period, I found a used copy on Amazon for cheap, and settled into it, pretty much sight unseen. It's set in the 200s AD. The main character is the son of an Angle...

He'd do better if he could use a Scent check and it was a horde of ninja sushi chefs. "Hmm. I detect wasabi and a hint of yellowfin." *Blind attack! Critical hit!*

So now we wait to see if this will have any call-backs to: "Wait! I think I just failed a Spot check!" or if Belkar will be permitted some competence now that he's actively playing. . . .

I always thought that Krull was the first D&D movie, but apparently that's been debunked. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Proof that even with a large number of Royal Shakespeare company members and a very young Liam Neeson in the cast, you can have a film that...

When this one was linked to me a few weeks back, my husband sat looking over my shoulder, and there may have been chortles of glee coming from his direction. He rates Army of Darkness as his favorite film. (I don't ask why. Some things I was not meant to know.) I'll admit to chuckling loudly...

And it only took some fifteen years to create an explanation for what happened right up until you wake up in Irenicus' dungeon! I found a lot of the inventory changes made to the basic principles of the old BG-era games in Pillars of Eternity to work out pretty well (still a lot of clutter and...

It's been nice to see Roy developing, if not suspicions of Durkula, then at least taking the whole situation with more of a grain of salt than he seemed to be at first. The conversation with Varsuvius helped show that, but now? He's seems even to be taking some of Belkar's comments to heart...

Oh, I see. That would be more like taking the narrative of the original adventure and cleaning it up for other people to read. Since the bulk of my work was done in my own homebrew universe, which at least one of the players is still telling me I need to work into novel form. I did spend a few...

Does that mean "stories of how my players used to help me torment them and how hard I had to work to keep them alive while they swore I was the most evil DM to walk the planet?" If so, I . . . may have a few. >.>

We could push this metaphor further by noting that there are certainly culinary cliches; how many places currently have molten chocolate cakes on the dessert menus? (Of course, some of that could derive from the tendency to outsource the dessert menus to maximize the profit margins these days...

Someone's got to interpret those recipes. And there's probably some joke somewhere about deconstructionism vs. molecular cooking. ;) Precisely. He got curated, by someone who had a patron, and who had diligence and the right platform. Curation is pretty much the service that reviewers and...

I've actually been driven out of reading quite a lot of modern fiction by this, I have to be honest. I've become a consumer of non-fiction, and a writer of fiction (off-hours, of course. My day job is as a technical writer, and I've taught college composition at two schools, too..). I've...

It's a fairly common joke between my husband and myself that I have a 3 Dex. And that we're really hoping our son inherits his father's Dex score, and not mine. Also, that when I rolled my character sheet, the DM obviously had me roll 3d6, whereas his DM just as obviously was of the 4d6, throw...

Hi, all! I asked Morrus directly if I could post here, and he recommended this sub-forum. I used to post a wee bit over on Circvs Maximvs when a friend invited me there in, oh, '06, '07 or so? (You're unlikely to remember me if you were there then. I was quiet.) At any rate, last year I got...