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The wife just bought us tickets to see Kevin Bridges in Amsterdam. He's hilarious. I won't post a link because of religious content, but I recommend looking up his bit about Joseph being Jesus's stepdad.

I don't know about the first three, but my answer to number 4 is: "MERP critical hit/miss tables."

Me too. At the time I was studying Beowulf in the original Old English at uni, so that made it extra cool.

My two favourite versions are the Klaeber and Benjamin Bagby. Or at least when I want to be a snob about it. Otherwise I enjoyed The 13th Warrior and the version with Angelina Jolie and Gerard Butler. Can we all agree, though, that the Christopher Lambert version is the worst?

So D&D didn't become demonic until WotC bought it? Also, I'm a bit rusty on my literature, but those works and writers seem to be very poor examples of Good v. Evil in literature. Arthurian romances tend to focus on human v. nature, for example, or human v. an antagonistic but not manifestly...

I've been meaning to get round to it. Like you said, s1 was enjoyable mostly for Empire, but the whole thing was visually amazing, and very well acted.

I read that the other day. And just now when I'm abroad for a month and can't get to my Amazon Prime account!

There was a vast "creepiest gamer" thread on RPGnet (I think) that was both horrifying and impossible to stop reading.

I translated the Iliad from the Greek at school, and the original has a wonderful sound, it's definitely meant for oral recital. But I'll stick with my choice on the other thread: Beowulf. Alliterative poetry showcases the English language at its best, and the story itself is such a romp that...

Epic? Beowulf for me. The best way is to hear it recited by a skilled medieval musician.

How about dwarves that take on properties of metals and minerals? Not element-based, perhaps, just assuming or aspiring to the defining qualities. Gold dwarves, iron dwarves, sapphire dwarves, heliodor dwarves, alexandrite dwarves.

You've got to love Slippery Jim diGriz. I think it's in The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge where he has to get through a series of locked fences. "The lock was so simple I could have picked it with my eyes closed, standing on one leg and with one hand behind my back. In fact, just to prove a...

"Thunder Road", from Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run, has to be up there. More recently, "Tranquilize" (w/Lou Reed) from The Killers' Sawdust album.

I enjoyed Gord the Rogue back in the day. I reread a few of them a few months ago, and while they hadn't held up from a literary perspective, they were still good gaming reading.

I've decided to change my vote to "Hiero's Journey" by Sterling E. Lanier. Psychic priests, telepathic bears and evil cultists. The sequel has catpeople and a giant slug that just wants a friend.

Potter over anything is a huge question mark. From Earthsea to Free Lance to Rivers of London to Artemis Fowl, pretty much everything is better than Potter.

Has anyone ever read Tad Williams's "Otherland" series? I started on it, and never got further than about 100 pages. Everyone who's finished it raves about it, though.

Seems like we posted the same thread at the same time!

This one should make people think a bit more than "fantasy novels" or "sci-fi movies". I used to read a lot of sci-fi back in the 1980s, but I can't seem to remember many that aren't series or novelisations of movies. I enjoyed Jack Vance's "Planet of Adventure" and "Demon Princes", and still...

How is it situated relative to Orcland?