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Spot on (at least in my experience). When I read threads like this I am always very thankful that the group I play in, and the group I DM are such great folks! I can't imagine proscribing the consumption of alcohol, or being particularly comfortable in a group that had such a proscription...

Just another dissent here. Not only is New York City not "in New England proper", but I think a good case could be made that NYC residents, almost regardless of socio-economic class, have *less* in common with their counterparts in Boston than they do with even with those of more distant cities...

I'll second this one. It was a happy day for me when this finally became available on DVD. Nice soundtrack and action, but what I really enjoy most is the dialogue, which makes sense as it was adapted from a very popular play, "The Lovers". The film was a pet project for Heston, who loved the...

CarlZog - Forgot to ever get back to this thread. I watched the film and just wanted to thank you. A first-rate swashbuckler, and now among my favorites! Charles

Wodehouse used "The Mottled Oyster" in a few places, I think.

I had a long, fun run at higher education: AB, Anthropology (UC Berkeley) MPhil, Cuneiform Studies (Oxford) JD at Yale Fortunately, through scholarships and government aid (VEAP), the only loan I acquired was at law school, and it's paid off now. My wife's doing an MFA at USC right now -...

My thought as well. Since the SRD also defines "cold iron" as a special type of iron, I don't see its existence as more puzzling (or worthy of complicated explanation) than that of mithral or adamantine. Interesting discussion though. The folklore angle is the one I've always played up . ...

EQ2. I had reservations, having played the old EQ years ago, but it's really very fun.

Sort of . . . Although Tolkien was in fact an Oxford graduate and don.

On reflection, my candidates may not meet the test of "superheroism" . . .

Vampirella . . . (or was she an alien of some sort?), Lady Death and, of course, Dracula, all had or have comics.

Thanks, I should get it in a few days!

Did a quick search for the title on Netflix and nothing came up. It sounds interesting - does it have an alternative title?

Lived in: USA UK Japan Visited: South Korea Canada Mexico Israel Palestine Grenada France Italy Vatican City I seem to be missing some entire continents! I don't see any great changes in the list in the near term as my wife hates to fly and we haven't really been out of the US in years...

Yes, it was a good one. I think I'll pop that into my netflix queue.

Is this the one titled in the US as "The Ghost and the Darkness"? With Michael Douglas?

I'm going to be taking this approach in my game. An article I read recently (a d20 conversion of Dying Earth rules by Eberron's Keith Baker in issue 6 of "Excellent Prismatic Spray") sort of opened my mind to the possibility. I've always been of the old school "PCs don't have to be influenced...

Not much of a twist, I'm afraid. From the dramatis personae, I would guess we're talking about the Templars, who are largely known in popular culture through Sir Walter Scott's various Templar villains, most especially in Ivanhoe, which has been done as a miniseries and movie many times. Evil...

Nice! I'll go with Jack Vance's Cugel the Clever, who to me is the archetype of this -- the gap between Cugel's self-image and any external evidence of his cleverness being perhaps a bit greater than in your examples. :) For SF, I'll stick with the "picaresque" theme and go (moving into...

Dunsany's "gnoles" long predate Andersons . . . I've been meaning to read Three Hearts and Three Lions for years. Is it really the source for gnolls? I would have guessed, Dunsany as well . . .