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It really doesn't fail though... Check out the wording on threatened squares in the core rule book pg 180 (5th printing pdf): "You threaten all squares into which you can make a melee attack, even when it is not your turn." You don't cease to threaten a square just because you don't have an...

Here is Lord Dunsany's Tale And Here is Ms. St. Clair's Tale Gygax's original description of the Gnolls was that they were a combination of gnome & troll...which would sort of fit the stories of St. Clair and Dunsanay. The hyena heads came later on, but the original gnoles are pretty creepy...

There's also a mention of the eternally warring hordes of gnolls in the afterlife in Book of the Damned 2: Lords of Chaos in the short write-up of Lamashtu contained there-in. The article in "Howl of the Carrion King" mentioned by Set is probably the best example of a "gnoll specific...

33. Teach the peasants how to read. 34. Adopt all the orphans, and then get a banquet table at the nicest inn/club/restaurant in town..."kids, please sit down!" *chaos* 35. Organize the Otyughs in the sewers into a union 36. Use magic to engage in a smear campaign against the pillars of the...

If you create the greatest task resolution system, and most awe inspiring setting content ever, and forget to come up with a half way decent name for the game itself...you might be a fantasy heartbreaker

I think an important distinction for people to keep in mind is artwork versus art. Which I snatched from wikipedia...a source of a source is moderately worthless but hey...I can't be bothered for better at the moment :-) Roleplaying, singing, jamming (either in a band or actually creating...

if you seek to publish house-rules as though it were a new game...you might be a fantasy heartbreaker

With the death of Amory Lorch by super secret ninja blow darts in Episode 6, I wonder whether the Brave Companions will be putting in an appearance. The changes to Jon Snow's storyline seem a bit jarring to me. I am sure there are reasons upon reasons and plot pacing at work here, but I am a...

Very much agreed. It goes a long way toward avoiding single-system and player character burnout. The main thing to keep in mind with revolving games is to give each GM enough time to get through an adventure/scenario/story-chunk so that you aren't spending the first hour or two hours each...

Regarding the Yara Greyjoy angle...I have a feeling Victarion Greyjoy may be chopped from the series and that Yara will assume the amalgamated role of Victarion and Asha. Unfortunate since I thuroughly dig Uncle Vic, but adapting this book series for television will have to begin to diverge in...

If you are looking for some decent material that sits between a plot hook and a full fledged module then you could look for the "Adventure I" and "Adventure II" books that Alderac put out for d20. I believe you can get them in pdf at DriveThru RPG and RPG Now if you can't find a dead tree...

Well they've released umpteen bagillion versions of various antiquated console games on current gen consoles (Sega Genesis repackages, etc). I suppose it makes sense to have a PC version of that marketing strategy to keep old IP's alive on 64-bit operating systems. There's certainly a lot of...

I can recall minute details of conversations and interactions I have with people...as long as those conversations and interactions are ENTIRELY banal and unimportant to the continued function of the universe. As soon as I have to remember something important or a task laid out for me by my...

Finished my first playthrough. Not sure I'll stick with it long enough for a second. If you generally play games once and move on I'd still recommend it. If you like to play games through multiple times and have different experiences or make different meaningful choices...look elsewhere. At...

My son is 2 years old. Quick everyone rush to make judgements on his skin tone, full name, social security number, hair color, favorite toys and vocabulary. Oh don't forget to add in whether or not he will grow up to be an unemployed deadbeat or a general in the armed services...

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I don't mark up books that I feel are collectable or sacrosanct. Obvious candidates are known limited printings, special editions, and other items marketed as "going once." But Super Pony, how can you tell if a regular book is going to be collectible or precious at the outset!? Are you a...

My cousin's excitement rubbed off on me and so I picked it up yesterday. I've only got about 2.5 hours on it but it is really quite fun. The RPG aspect of it is not going to redifine the fantasy rpg genre but I almost like it better because they aren't trying to "wow" me with their insightful...

I totally agree on the ability for people to play any class they want (even duplicates) and having it possible to have a good time with some success. However, a real potential pitfall to games designed that way is that you don't want every class to be able to do everything (healing surges...

Both our labs have had an allergy to the usual dog-food binder/filler (rice, wheat, corn, soy etc). They would get stinky/itchy ears and then dig at them with their paws which would make their paws itch and then they'd chew their paws till they bled. We initially just treated the yeast...