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Whenever somebody pulls the "That's not how bulette would be pronounced in French!" crap with me, I alway respond "It's not French, it's Suloise." 99% of them have no idea what I'm talking about. Damn kids. "Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd" by Frank Mentzer, Dragon #93 (and probably the source of...

It looks like there's still a Thursday slot available. If so, I want in!

OK, I thought about it. Let's try this: There's got to be a Lovecraftian Bad Guy(s) (LBG) responsible -- maybe some single otherworldly thing, or maybe an otherworldly race. Doesn't matter. What matters is tha the LBG brain is so alien that its thoughts "leak out" and corrupt the minds of...

Norse mythology.

Escalate the threat. Don't take away voice, take away language. They try to speak -- no sound. They try to write -- useless squiggles. They try to read -- the letters jump around the page. It's more Twilight Zone than Buffy, but it'll force them to think of a new way to communicate. Maybe...

You know how d10s and up always have a line or dot underneath the 6 and 9 so players don't read the numbers incorrectly? I have a d20 that has dots under the 16 and 19. I've always wondered "What kind of moron thinks he's rolled a 91 on a d20?" Maybe your player isn't cheating -- maybe he's...

They'd revoke my D&D gamer's license if they knew... I've never owned a dice bag. Seriously. I leave them in the game box. I shove them in my pocket. I throw them into a backpack. I store them in an old peanut butter jar. But buying a special bag for them? It just never seemed worthwhile.

Actually, I think "game master" came about because TSR trademarked "Dungeon Master" and "DM".

You're remembering the "From the Sorceror's Scroll" column in Dragon issue 75. The article's text is virtually identical to the MMII "Devils" section, but one paragraph (the one explaining who's a pit fiend and who's female) appears to have been dropped when it was put into MMII. Dragon 75...