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Had one of my PCs become a vampire in some fashion, I would probably not penalize them for a lack of bloodsucking. My game was very much by-the-book, and as I said the vampire writeup does not specify the need. For those of you who are about to counter with "But the PC races don't specify the...

IIRC, the RAW don't specify the need to drink blood. Sure, vampires CAN do it to do Con drain, and it's certainly part of the common conception of the bloodsucker, but there are no mechanical detriments for not doing so.

Heh, I've thrown out a few stinkers in my games. :) The biggest one (IMO) sprouted from my dislike of the removal of the threat of permanant death. In 1&2E, you needed to make a system shock check each time you were resurrected, with failure indicating that you had died forever. I was...

No. Which is why I always thought it to be a wee bit simplistic for inclusion in any puzzle-game.

Good point. I usually see the problem with a clause saying something to the effect of the truth-telling guardian guards the heaven door and the lying guardian the hell door. I guess I assumed it was there for this one. Yay me. :) Perhaps that's a local permutation.

Yeah, that "Truth guardian/lying guardian" thing does show up a lot. I note that people tend to answer the question in a manner similar to the solution presented by Firelance. That always seemed a bit strange to me, as the question posed to the guardians/gods/what-have-you is not grounded in...

Yeah, I've tried that tack. He likes playing the Big Damn Hero, and being a lifestealing creature of darkness seems in his mind to exclude that. Also, such a concept would tend to run afoul of the other characters, who would probably be designed more around the socio-political aspects of the...

I've not been able to absorb it all yet, but I like what I have seen. Especially the way that Celerity is not the must-have world-beater it was in previous editions. It's strange to see character creation without freebie points. Unfortunately, one of the players in my group is vehemenantely...

I gave it a 3. If you had come to me before I saw this movie and said that it was possible to make an unenjoyable film involving aliens and predators fighting it out, I would have thought you crazy.

Well, the FAQ on MGM's Stargate SG-1 site answers that question nicely. It's nice that they come out and say "Yeah, this is a kludge to facilitate our stories."

IIRC, we don't learn why the other house prefects were chosen for their positions. I suspect it's because Malfoy appears to enjoy some sort of preexisting leadership position in the house (or just has a gang of sycophants) which would cause the other Slytherins to pay greater heed to him...

I ended up using the S&S summoning rules when calling forth a hopping puppeteer to shore up a city wall this weekend. I've not had enough time to fully digest the contents of that section, but the fact that I can apply a particular Limit template to a creature and thereby define its purpose and...

I'd go with a 25% chance of being human, 25% half elf, 25% half ogre, 25% stillborn/miscarried elf-ogre thing, 'cause elf and ogre DNA just don't splice. I don't feel like drawing the box on the screen, you can all see it in your heads.

Well, if your Greece is more Spartan than most, you could go with Lacedaemon (la KEY da mon, AFAIK), its people being the Lacedaemonioi. It's one of the older names for Sparta.

I found it to be enjoyable, but was a little disappointed with what was cut. While I understand the rationale of "Pick one theme/plot and stick with it", I was really looking forward to seeing and . I was also surprised that (shrug)

Well, the strange alien Nazi at the end may simply have been a vampire. :) He was very reminiscent of the Master from Buffy. I hope they don't take the "Germany was influenced by malevolent aliens/time travellers/time travelling aliens" route. Still, the show did end in a manner different...

Well, this may or may not be true. On the one hand, Illyria was telling Wesley about being able to be with Fred while she was lying to him, but on the other it has been previously pointed out on this board that the only people who asserted that Fred's soul was "consumed in the fires of...

I plan on picking up Martin's A Storm of Swords this weekend.

Ask, and ye shall recieve! I'm just glad I was able to hunt down my CDs; apparently I had removed the game at some point for a reason beyond my understanding. Anyway, here are the quotes:

I don't remember the exact text, so maybe I'll fire up BG2 when I'm at home today to get the details, but in one of the shops in BG2 there are a pair of stained glass windows in the back. One depicts Hank, the other Bobby and perhaps Uni. If you mouse over them, you can get a description of...