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Ah. :o It makes sense, since he's currently doing his doctoral studies in Sweden. Maybe the RPG put him onto it. I have no experience with European languages at all, besides a year of Latin for help on the American SATs, and English. Perhaps it did. I'm currently not anywhere near the...

In Japan, it's a translation and demand issue. The way translations, as far as I know, are done here is to break the book up into chunks and a different person translates each one. They are then squished back together. It gets books done quickly (especially the huge ones, like Harry Potter)...

I spent Easter with my academic advisor for my studies in Japan. In addition to being a very classy lady, her grown son is interested in roleplaying games. This is fairly rare, since kids are encouraged to specialize in one thing and devote all their attention to it, usually toward clubs or...

Teleportation. Even if you say not in the real world, teleportation. Yes, I know that's not a school. Conjuration then. It means I could go home every so often and not have to pay for a transPacific airplane ticket. And it's much faster. Plus, Unseen Servant to clean, and there's always...

I don't have much on the way of mechanics, since other people have answered that. Ive found that unless the group of people already knows each other, the sense of comraderie is somewhat lacking. While you also have the time to think things through, you lose a lot of the funny one liners that I...

So... Pirates and Ninjas? :D I think a friend told me they were natural enemies, or something. Wonder if that reference is intentional. Or if I'm just imagining whatever reference I'm referring to. um. :heh: I remember it being amusing, though.

I suppose it would depend on what you wanted to get into. My mother went into telecom, and as long as she got her work done, she could take off all the time she needed. This was good, since she was helping my Girl Scout Troop and she liked to take trips to places, especially war memorials...

You could try an anagrammer, but I'm betting that the website for the program has an algorithm that you paste the challenge into and it spits the response back out (after you pay, of course). Could be a string of numbers. Could be anything.

In my homebrew, there are two destinations for souls, the Underworld, and being absorbed into the main deity of evil. The Underworld is very Greek flavored, but is mostly like a town or city where best friends always live next to each other, and whoever you want to talk to is right around the...

Famicom Minis Old news for most of you, but if you have a Gameboy Advance or better, and a friend in Japan (or access to an import service), they've released Famicom Minis here. I don't know all the games, but they have Zelda no Densetsu 1 (Legend of Zelda), Super Mario Brothers, PacMan...

Note that I am not in the military and never plan to enter. However, I am a navy brat, and one of my friends were accepted to the Naval Academy, and I heard plenty from him. That said, good for you for wanting to do this! My friend Tony who got a scholarship there ended up dropping out after...

I'm not sure about the cool factor, but in my game in the major city of an immortal race cursed to ever bear mortal children, there is a plaza with temples to the gods, all glittering and shiny and enormous, and just generally impressive. Off to one side is an unfinished temple, just as large...

I have one player who has a thing for drow with wings. "Chaotic neutral" (read: fishmalk) drow who plays the really nasty tricks on party members, but can't take it when they play tricks back, or just get fed up with it and fireball her. If I get her away from the drow with wings, she's my best...

Military Base Floor plan? I've been through a few Navy base admin areas, and my general impression has been... everything is tight. The stairways between levels are built so thin that two fit people can go past each other only by placing their backs to the wall and edging down. The stairs...

<Unnamed as yet> Humans, as the first favored children of the gods, have just been abandoned for the sin of dying. Of those that remain immortal--the Heroes--some wish to regain the attention and favor of the gods, some wish to nurture their mortal descendents, and some wish merely not to have...

We're just addicted, is all. :D

Spice Towns

No problem. I just get the feeling that the new book will sell out before I get back to the states (long before then, as a matter of fact), and I really don't want to miss it. Guess I'll just have to wait a few weeks to preorder. Thanks!

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Wouldn't happen to have a deal for buying both the book and the PDF, would you? Even if I bought the book I wouldn't be able to look at it until August... Do you take preorders?