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This is the 413th stupidest statement ever uttered by a human being. Please, Lord, spare me more marketing-speak from movie producers.

I'll challenge the "lack of material" criticism, though. Like I said, converting existing d20 creatures is a total breeze. It's no harder than, say, hand copying the statblock from the MM into your adventure text. Seriously, it takes a few minutes, that's all. At least for the four or five...

Indeed, I would say it's an important question, a question that is at the heart of anyone's attitude towards the world, themselves and their society. How you answer that question says volumes about who you are.

So at last weekend's Con-Fu convention here in Vancouver I ran the inaugural playtest session of DINO-PIRATES OF NINJA ISLAND, using Green Ronin's True20 system. Thought I'd share some observations on building and running True20 adventures. First off, building adventures is orders of magnitude...

I think that's EXACTLY the effect the author is hoping they have. It's a good thing if art sometimes makes us uncomfortable. I guess what I mean is that it's fine to not like it, but I don't think it means the book is poorly written. It's just not your thing, is all.

Better than Ultraviolet with Milla Jovovich. Worse than Resident Evil 2 with Milla Jovovich. Points for Michelle Rodriguez, big goofy gore, and Kritianna Loken's breasts. Penalties for, uh, everything else.

Could you expand on that? Is it that you don't think the depictions of women are realistic, that their characters are poorly portrayed, or is it just that you don't like the way they get treated? Because I found it isn't much outside how women have been (and continue to be) treated in our...

When I become an adult, I'll be sure to respond.

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A captain is meant to keep a journal, I suppose. So here goes. Captain Rupert Black of the good ship Defiance, holding a privateering commission from His Majesty the King, rounding the north of Saint-Dominique on our way to Cap-Haitien, where we hope to find Zipakna. Zipakna. A woman, or...

In recent years -- 3 flight attendants, one geography teacher, one novelist, a publisher, one aerobics instructor, two web designers and a chemist. In a tree.

Not particularly, no. The Non-men are something like elves, it seems -- immortal (or very long-lived) and at one time very cultured. Overtaken by the No-God, it would appear. This trilogy is NOT a complete story -- it ends with plenty of stuff unresolved and there will obviously be more books...

And one very excited barsoomcore.

I conducted <a href="http://barsoomcore.blogspot.com/2006/04/ultimate-coolness.html">some analysis on S&S cinema in my blog</a>. And came to the inescapable conclusion that 1982 is a high-water mark for North American culture. Should even half the listed productions get theatrical release (been...

*likes to allow Nightfall the illusion of power... *

The desperate panting of the horses; the shattering clatter of the wagon wheels on the loose shale of the roadway; Black's voice calling out to the team, urging them on; these sounds filled Dras' ears as she watched two simultaneous perils: the stomach-churning drop-off to their left, and the...

Oh, and none of them dance a samba. Gong Li does. Have I mentioned that?

See Phone Booth. Proof that A: Farrell really can act, and B: Lost Boys wasn't entirely a fluke for Joel Schumacher. It's a great little film. Julie Andrews would be less like Don Johnson than Vin Diesel. Otherwise, yeah, it's kind of tough. Paul Walker looks right, for sure, but the boy just...

The original started you at 3rd level but was largely D&Dish in underlying structure -- Str, Dex etc, but instead of bonuses for high stats you got progressively larger die types -- so that when you attempted a "stunt", you used the die type according to the ability the stunt was most dependent...

Oh, and that bit where Six Thousand Men threw Quinn out of the chapel? That was the first run of Skull & Bones' excellent "Roll the Bones" mechanic. When your hit points drop to zero, you roll 2d6. If you roll high, you don't lose a life, you just fall unconscious. If you roll low, you lose a...