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As stress and nervous tension are now serious problems in all parts of the galaxy, it will now be revealed that all of the GA will in fact survive this encounter with only a bruised upper arm and that the only fatalities will be a bowl of petunias and a very surprised sperm whale. However in an...

Another flaw with the FB is that they are all offense and no defense. At high levels, it's very, very easy to suck up so much damage that when the FB comes out of the frenzy, he's at minus a couple hundred HP... At least that was my experience when I ran an 18th lv one shot. The only thing that...

In Shilsen's campaign, he's essentially tossed the XP rules out the window. What it basically comes down to is we level when he feels like it (or dealing with it). This however causes some complications for burning XP for spells. Since if we applied it strictly, it would essentially mean that my...

While the first couple of books in the Anita Blake series are excellent and I can definitely recommend them, the series does start sliding into bad porn territory with some of the later books. Just an FYI. They are the closest thing I can think of as well. Her success has spawned a legion of...

Depending on your time frame, I have seen repeated sales of the B5 Season Boxed sets for $20 a pop. Since money is a concern I'd wait for one of those sales. They might not be until the Thanksgiving-Christmas time frame though.

This is going to be a good week! Another update from Sep! Hmm. Tigers are among you. Rakshasa reference perhaps?

For those interested the current version of Eadric is up in the Rogues Gallery thread here. http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=5652&goto=newpost

My suspicion is that DiCaprio is a fan of the material (his production company is backing the production) and that they are going to try to make a decent adaptation. I don't see why they would bother doing a two movie version of it, if they weren't going to try and stick close to the original...

I've seen all of those movies, plus a number of other Japanese and Korean SF films. Of the three you mention, only the Host had even vaguely impressive special effects and that only had a remarkably well animated CGI creature. But even that wasn't anything groundbreaking. There's nothing...

Three quarter's BAB shouldn't be crippling his combat ability. More likely he doesn't have enough high stats to make the character effective. Monks with their multiple stat dependencies, generally need a couple high stats to be as effective as other classes with a single high stat. So I'd look...

Akira is not a great example for this argument. One of it's defining characteristics was it's live action like attention to detail and "realisim" in depicting things. The main reason why a lot of stuff has been animated in the past, is that they tended to tell stories where the SFX either didn't...

Well it's actually going to be New Manhattan or something like that, since the original city is of course going to have been destroyed in the incident that started WWIII. The only "tokyo" building in the original story was the olympic stadium and there's no shortage of similar buildings in the...

Paramount, the last studio hold out, has now stated they will be releasing movies on Blu-Ray. http://www.news.com/All-Hollywood-studios-now-back-Blu-ray/2100-1026_3-6231443.html?tag=nefd.top

I hope you got something extra with that. Otherwise it wasn't a deal and you simply paid list price for the 40 gig. If you got the Spiderman trillogy on Blu-Ray, that was also just a standard package priced at $400.

Apparently Katsuhiro Otomo (creator of the manga and director of the anime movie) is attached to the production as an executive producer. Which is a good sign and they are apparently doing it as two movies. So they should have room to fit in more of the story from the manga. On the other hand...

There's a difference between changing minor plot elements, secondary characters or sequencing which is what you seem to talking about and stuff like tacking on happy ending to stories which had downer endings originally which is what I was responding to. In LotR, I didn't mind them substituting...

Oh that's no mystery. It's called putting your stamp on things, pandering to perceived public preferences and/or justifying your involvement in a project.

The Cyst's DR was actually Byeshk and Lawful. My confusion stemmed from the fact that Shil told us after the fact that the creature the Cyst was based on had DR Silver and Lawful. Gareth was just doing enough damage on a hit to blow through the DR and still inflict significant damage.

This is rather like arguing that maximize with Bulls Strength makes your Str 18+4 (since 3d6 for the strength is a random roll). Also if your argument was supported by the rules, there would be almost no reason to use Greater Dispel magic (lv 6) vs maximized Dispel Magic (also lv 6). Since the...

It was designed to use Gurps as the RPG system for the game, however there was some sort of dispute between the game makers and Steve Jackson games and the game people created SPECIAL which was largely just GURPS with the serial numbers filed off.