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Good point! Although given geographic variances and millennia-long run of the "Babylonian" pantheon (which are gleaned from thousands of tablets and fragments), the aspects of Inanna/Ishtar and her relationship to the other gods underwent a number of changes. Sometimes she was An's daughter...

I'm glad you're focusing on this side of things! In reading the earlier, "Joan of Arc was 20th level by age 20" postings, I was getting the impression that people thought she was an accomplished fighter. There are no contemporary accounts of her fighting at all, and indeed at her trial she...

Good recommendation - Stephanie Dalley was one of my instructors at University. The other, who sadly died recently and untimely, is the co-author is this equally useful book...

All-too-common - drives the plot, after all! But actually with Kay I am inclined to think his characters are if anything overly, if not improbably, introspective. They often do in fact stop to think about the consequences of their romantic choices, and other things . . . I haven't read all...

In England, at least in the early 90s when I lived there, it's also a disparaging term for a geek or nerd. (Because they favored hooded anoraks at University.)

I enjoyed it despite its flaws. The film is interesting in that it's pure Hollywood in a way, yet targetted as much at a Japanese as an American audience, both by casting the incredibly popular Mr. Cruise and its unique mixture of flattery, appeal to national pride and sentiment. The film...

My wife hosted this festival a couple of years ago when it was held at the Peabody Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts. (An appropriate venue since not only is Salem a somewhat "fishy" and decayed sort of town, but one of Lovecraft's protagonists also actually visits the old Essex Institute...

I hope it was just a great year for you. If you're sad about being older, you have a *lot* of sad years ahead of you! On topic, I think on balance I would do this. Although I have a comfortable life in Boston, I have never entirely lost my taste for adventure. I was pretty unprepossessing at...

Same notion: I gave the PHB to one of my players. I've held on to the MM and DMG though . . .

Nicely put.

Although "hate" might be too strong of a work, I am singularly unimpressed by a few reasonably popular actors. Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Adam Sandler spring to mind. I notice they are all comic actors . . . it is not impossible that my sense of humor is somewhat out of step with the...

I'd be interested to see it quoted in full as well, as I'm pretty sure the wording was a bit stronger than Abraxas's charitable recollection. If not, a lot of film critics were as confused as myself . . . I found quite a few references to the title card and a consensus that it did in fact...

Actually, they did. There was a splash screen at the beginning of the film that said something along the lines of this being the "true" story based on recent archaeological finds. That said, I don't think the scriptwriter believed this: he mentioned in an interview that his script was just an...

Sounds *really* interesting for a short campaign though . . .

As you say, there has been and will continue to be a lot of rebalancing and people intent on having a very efficient build get pretty worked up (at least on the CoH boards). A lot really depends on how you define "gimped". If all it takes is witnessing a few other PCs outdamaging or...

Infinity Server Fading Sun. Level 13 Natural Radiation/Dark Defender Steamjack. Level 4 Technology Invulnerability/Super Strength Tanker

Brine Justice! I saw him actually, but before I read this thread. Sounds like a few of us have characters on Infinity. (I'm still experimenting around with five or six, and a few more ideas to try before I even begin to commit.) If I see Brine Justice or the Weasel around, I'll be sure to...

A wonderful film, I can't dispute that. However, one interesting thing point that's not been made involves the relationship between "Seven Samurai" and "Magnificent Seven". While it's true that the latter film was a reset of the former, in many ways it brought the tale "home" in that Kurosawa...

Most (but not all) of the players in the weekly game I host and DM have a beer or two in the social hour when we first gather; the DM's wife at the weekly game I play in sometimes pours us a shot of Crown Royal before we order dinner. I haven't ever observed any problems with this, and I...

Matthew Stover's Kain (in "Heroes Die") is pretty over-the-top.