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When I started gaming which was several years before you were born, there were many more young gamers. Nowadays, at cons, stores and clubs near me and at least one store nearer to you (and others I've been to worldwide), I see many more people in their 30s and 40s than in their teens and 20s...

Thanks ;) I didn't design it myself. Happy holidays!

There's the very real possibility that D&D is moribund. It's not obvious because it's happening very slowly but it is happening. The average age of gamers is increasing and we're not going to live forever. If we don't find new players, the game will eventually fade. Negative publicity such as...

Apparently, D&D is a "shameful" game played by "comically awful... obsessives". At a time when the hobby needs new blood, having disparaging descriptions of gamers in the media, whether they're true or not, doesn't help to keep the game alive.

I read this entry over at amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elfish-Gene-Dungeons-Dragons-Growing/dp/1405091266 Doesn't look flattering. A entire book dedicated to making fun of D&D gamers. :\

The only known fossil of a two-headed reptile has been found in China. The species is thought to have normally had one head. This seems to be a mutant that died young, maybe before birth. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6195345.stm

Yeah, I hate it when I get threatened by one of my books. :\ Seriously though, both the DSG and the WSG are worthwhile. They were disparaged at the time they were published for being full of fluff with little crunch but I always thought of them as valuable additions, especially the DSG's...

I vote for G 1-2-3 with Ravenloft a close second. Ravenloft module factoid: There's nowhere in the module, i.e. in Castle Ravenloft, that corresponds to the depiction in the cover art. :heh:

If they don't play nice, send a registered letter to their director of customer service. Tell them that you plan on buying a share in their company and that you'll be asking the chairman and other board members about their poor levels of service at the next Annual General Meeting, i.e. in front...

My condolences. :(

Seriously, I believe that the names of the major DC and Marvel superheroes are pronounced in Russian pretty much as they are in English. So "I'm Batman" would be transliterated in Russian as "Ja Batman".

If you're American, you can sue him. And his elves. And his reindeers, especially that red-nosed one. Hell, while you're at it, go for punitives! The judge might not think you're very nice though which is self-defeating. But it's worth a try. PS. Don't forget to sue Mrs Claus too even though...

LOL :D Have a great Christmas, José. ;)

"I'm Batmanski."

I saw the movie today not having read the book. I'm in complete agreement. Eragon, the protagonist, is supposed to go on this Campbellian journey of development from boyhood hunter-farmer to adulthood warrior-hero. To make this journey plausible, the film would have had to have been longer with...

I didn't say that. That's factually wrong: you don't get bonus points (or penalties for that matter) on IQ tests for your ethnicity, class or sex. That's why ascribing intelligence solely on the basis of someone's categorisation in those sociological variables is racist, elitist or sexist...

All the orcs and dragons are dead. Adventurers are looking for new sources of XP. They're going to kill the cows and take their milk.

Most IQ tests don't have a maximum. Doesn't sound like a widely used test. Sometimes IQ tests include general knowledge but your answers to these questions do not contribute to your score. They're included as a proxy for education or simply to see if there's a relationship. If general knowledge...

It's been a long time since I formally studied intelligence testing but back then the research suggested that IQ was not, in fact, heavily dependent on education. Longitudinal and twin studies showed that within any given advanced industrialised society such as the US or UK, high IQ tends to...

LOL! :lol: