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Boy howdy does this thread need a lotta bumpage.

I really liked the Psi-Morlock myself.. but mostly cause I was thinking how you could find some frail-looking guy and send him to the same makeup artist they had and get a decent Elric. In fact, if the psilock there trimmed his nails and ditched the black lips, he'd -be- Elric. If he had a...

Heh! Sounds like you did a better job than we did, the first time I played.. the DM had us roll 20-siders for stats (just reroll 1-2 and 19-20!), and when rolling to hit we rolled three times and took the best number. So Merlin, Gandalf and Hercules (or was it He-Man?) all set off to the Keep...

Yep, that's what I'd do. Let Father Angry over at the local Kelemvite temple know about it. The only issue I could see with doing all that is that it could split the party, if the aasimar refuses to bend on the issue of the whistle.. but really, it's not like the paladin has a whole lot of...

Ohhh. I -was- trying to figure out what the heck sorta campaign had helicopters, fragmentation grenades, and gibbering mouthers all tearing about the place causin' a ruckus. I don't really know anything about Dragonstar other than there's like, dragons, and guns. And space. From the rest of...

Woo! It's 2:30 AM! What better time for a *bump*? I'd think these contest polls should be in that always-at-the-top Announcement position, but maybe you can only have one of those at a time.

Wow, quite a situation. I guess that a lot of that would depend on the attitudes and codes of his religion. 1) He burned his dead pals so they wouldn't get chowed on by uh, stuff. Well, that shows a certain degree (Maybe? depends on what he did while burning) of reverence for the dead...

Helloa, Well, page 230 of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting talks about the moon, known as Selune. It's trailed by the Tears of Selune, which are described as "a number of smaller luminaries". There seems to be a period of 30 days, 10 hours and 30 minutes. Anyhow, the book goes into more...

Good lord. I will say, though, that we shouldn't be too hard on her attorney. It's his ethical responsibility to try and get the most advantageous verdict for his client. I would not, however, want to be her attorney, whoosh. But, further discussion of this could deteriorate into politics...

I'm a big proponent of primary sources, myself. You can learn quite a bit of Norse mythology in the Eddas, either the younger/prose or the elder/poetic. They're pretty easily available: the Elder Edda, which is harder to comprehend, can be found in translations by Patricia Terry or Lee...

When I first played Torment, I had a problem with the game controls -- I had set it to auto-pause after every round of combat (to avoid the repetetive space-bar-tapping I ran into in Baldur's Gate). However, this didn't work so well, and caused a lot of problems running the game. As I recall...

Johnny Winter! bwa ha ha ha ha

I think someone earlier suggested running the contest using the bulletin board Poll function.. of course, one could still cheat, but as I understood it, it would be much harder to do so, due to the hassle of creating multiple accounts in order to be able to vote. Okay, not really -harder-, but...

Heh! But which Snorri? There were so many. I'd assume you meant either Sturluson or maybe even Snorri Godi, though. Heimskringla is great, though strongly historical.. of course, the author had an Agenda (to impress the king of Norway), so ...

Well, if you were to go to, say, Selfoss or, heaven forfend, Hlidarendi, and tell the locals that your favorite "mythological" tale was Njals Saga.. heh, might not be very popular -- they take the saga extremely seriously around there, with most people believing it -verbatim-. All of the...

It's hard, of course, to really pick a favorite, but I would recommend the Enuma Elish, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Elder Edda (especially Voluspa).

That's one thing I noticed -- from reading the entries in this heat and a bunch of the other entries.. a lot of them seem to require use of psionics. Kind of hard to just stick into any old campaign, since psionics isn't a core rules thing. I know I don't use it (yet.. backlog of stuff to read...

I'll agree about elves. Lordy are they annoying.. (Trance? If by "trance" you mean "eight hours of normal sleep", then yeah, whatever you wanna call it.).. but I have a severe dislike, in general, of halflings. To start off, they were way too hobbitty. Tolkein is great and all, but sheesh...

In my current campaign, there's a now-dead sorceress whose name was "Milana Furrybush". As she is dead, that name is no longer inflicted on us, so all we have to deal with is "Johnson", the cleric of Azuth. The halfling wizard's name is "Knutty Leafbottom", and the human paladin's name is...

well, look at that. You're entirely right. It still prevents dwarves from being 1st level thunder twin wizards, but I follow it now. I definitely agree with Gez, though, at least with some feats such as this and the genetic ones like Bloodline of Fire. Anyhow, thanks a lot.