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Arcady said: I believe, somewhere in this thread perhaps, that Monte stated that he had written the majority of this book before AEG released Evil. Also, some people (who may or may not know what they're talking about, but I think this makes sense) stated that WotC has a long lead-time...

Hey, Monte! I think you should write a book, and you should call it "The Book of Vile Darkness" After all, you do seem to have given this some thought.. I bet you could springboard off these initial ideas and, using your enormous brain and godlike powers (acquired through years of Yog-Sothery...

Orcus' rulership is mentioned in a few places.. In Return to the Tomb of Horrors, by Bruce Cordell, on page 56, it says that "On the world of Ranais there was a city called Moil. Moil was built on the surface of its world and it daily saw the light of the sun as every normal city did. The...

Humans, Halflings, Gubal-Kune, Mah-Ah, Nel-Xi-Ka-Sin, Kel-Zara, Ssiska

In modern English, it would be pronounced just as you've got it: pan-THEE-on, stress on the second syllable. In ancient Greek (whee, trivia), you'd get pan-THAY-own, again with stress on the second syllable (though I may have the stress wrong on that word, it's been a while. Now, the Parthenon...

EDIT: bleh, double post.

I don't mean to be a doink here.. but my notes indicate that Springlodge and The Granite Beak were part of Heat 6...

I'd like to agree (ooh! a me-too post!) with the people who've found that the majority of Christians don't seem to have any issues with D&D. Now, as a small and perhaps somewhat entertaining story that goes along with this, I offer the following: In oh, 1990 or so, I was confirmed in the Roman...

Greek bullywug war cries? Brekekekex koax koax! That's what the frogs say in Aristophanes' play, The Frogs. Not a war cry, but it'd sound good coming from the bullywugs.

Hey Voadam Voadam, You're probably thinking of Bill Schnoebelen, who writes for Chick Publications. Schnoebey's claimed to have been in just about every secret society and "evil cult" around, heh. He claims that TSR sent representatives to interview himself and his wife so that all the magic...

Regarding the electors: In many states these days (though I don't know the exact number, I do know that this is the case in Vermont), the electors are required by law to cast their vote in accordance with the popular vote in the state. I do not know, however, what happens if an elector chooses...

Sleipnir Sleipner is indeed Odin's horse -- without going into too much detail here, Loki changed himself into a mare in order to distract a certain stallion. So then Loki was pregnant, and the child was Sleipner. Loki's other children, as a minor piece of interesting information are: Sons...

Fenrir? Call the cobbler. I agree that it doesn't seem too hard to stat up various creatures like Fenrir and Jormungandr and the like. Also, I can easily see why they would leave them out -- who's going to use them? If you're using the Norse pantheon, then odds are you're using the whole...

Well, I just got that quote from a Publisher's Weekly editorial review quoted on Amazon.com. Link to Dr. Asimov's biography on Amazon.com: It's Been a Good Life

Vermont, bastion of civilization :D

Omokage, I would point you to a few places: a great LEGO community site: http://www.lugnet.com/ Want specific pieces, including minifigs and accessories? The Lego Group sells bulk pieces, but not specific pieces: i.e., if you want 14 blue cowboy hats.. chances are you're out of luck...

I posted this here rather than email it because I figured that others could benefit as well. Monte Cook has some PrC design thoughts on his website at: http://www.montecook.com/arch_dmonly9.html and http://www.montecook.com/arch_dmonly10.html

The Gargantua suggestion made me think of this: Pantagruon, or something like that, from Pantagruel. Perhaps that's overly silly, I don't know. In addition, I agree with you about the Tarrasque. I think that TSR really screwed up what could have been a much more interesting monster by...

Fun for everyone! Entertain your players: Call them tarrasques.

My PCs beat the roper to death. Sure, it took a while, and some of them were pretty low STR by the time it was dead.. but the roper had a lot of really really bad rolls. I think around half the party was unconscious by the time the 1 str paladin managed to deliver a killing blow (a really...