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Some time ago I read a fantasy novel which tied the four artifacts of Celt myths (Dagda's Cauldron, Lug's Spear, Fal's Stone and Nuada's Sword of Light) to humans, elves, dwarves and goblins (in no particular order 'cause I don't remember exactly). Each race had its own artifact and gained a...

Now I'm lazy. I don't write an introduction scene out of the characters' backgrounds, I write an introduction scene and let the players create their characters accordingly afterwards. Example: "You're in the Army. You recently engaged in the Brelish Army and have been incorporated in the...

False. There are three genders in English. Masculine gender: he, his, him. Feminine gender: she, her, her. Neutral gender: it, its, it. If English had no grammatical genders, there would be only one of them. Maybe he, maybe she, maybe it, it doesn't matter, as long as everybody and everything...

Ah, but gender and sex are not the same thing! Gender is a grammatical notion. Sex is a biological one. A little German girl (Mädchen) is of the female sex but of the neutral gender. An English ship is totally asexual (it's not even biological) but is of the feminine gender anyway. Her gender...

Yeah. It seems all large predators have evolved to have self-repairing throats/gizzards/stomaches. That rule is there just so that everyone swallowed whole must cut its own way out, but it's quite dumb. So you're saying badwrongfun is badwrongfun? :p That, to me, is the quintessential D&Dism...

As much as I loathe the tinker gnome archetype, I have to point out that Japaneses are of small stature and completely obsessed by building robots and various strange, useless gizmos. :p

But do you have the required flingable codpiece?

Transplancker.

No stairway to heaven...

Yes. Have you noticed that people still play D&D? Calling it childish had absolutely no effect. But people still play D&D, and nothing seems to stop them! Do you realize that people still play D&D? They buy the sourcebooks, they don't care what the fee is. When you see them rolling stats, put...

So there's only three lines per page in this book? :p I'm not sure it's a reference, I just think both took inspiration from the same root.

"We do things by the book here. And it just so happens the book is 100 feet tall and alight with holy fire."

Yeah, the Huns and the Mongols seem more appropriate than the Romans. Attila and Gengis Khan left a greater mark of brutality and ruthless conquest than any Roman emperor. Yeah, they were more tolerant of anti-conformist lifestyle choices than many. :p

Vance is old and nearing death now, so I sure hope Sep is in better shape! But Vance had a massive novel which featured evil wankmen, as that's a level of awesome that is hard to beat. :p

Did you know that "jolie" is French for "pretty"? (More precisely, the feminine form of the adjective; the masculine form being "joli" without the 'e'.) The idea that there would be a final one is ludicrous. We have names for numbers greater than the amount of quarks in the whole universe. I...

"Evil (measured in kilonazis)" Best thing I've read in a while. :p

I'm learning more about Nifft's campaign than I would ever want to. :eek: :p I'm okay with them all because none of the players in my group is a furry adept. So it's all cool. It's not so much the fantasy race as the people behind it...

I have a player who has a tendency, whenever he uses action points, to get a result below 5 on his d20... He's usually better off not using them. :D I guess his d20 is jealous and doesn't like it when he rolls another die at the same time. Maybe the die is turned off by group rolls. Or maybe...

Well, all of the wizards of HP would be sorcerers, since magic there is a question of will more than knowledge (and Charisma in D&D represents your capacity to exerce your will outwardly).

While the modern definition of robots is different, I'd like to point out that the original robots were kinda like warforged... The play begins in a factory that makes 'artificial people' - they are called Robots, but are closer to the modern idea of androids or even clones, creatures who can...