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Much of the population (if not the majority) of our modern world are superstitious. Some extremely so. And even in the fairly secularized West most people went to church every Sunday before those trends started to really shift in the 1960s IIRC. Superstition, occultism, and other belief in...

I've seen it argued that Martin's world is intrinsically amoral and nihilistic. That the only thing that matters is power and for the most part perverse sex. I'm not in that camp, but the lack of superstition, as well prevailing and strongly held religious belief that feels genuine seems a bit...

If Walder Frey was more of a risk taker before the Red Wedding I think it would feel a bit more comfortably plausible. I'm probably forgetting something but I don't think anyone considered the Lannister grasp on the Iron Throne stable at that point. Walder delivers up an the last major force...

Likeable and especially naive characters snuff it in Martin's world. Sansa will likely be utterly transformed into a hardened political player if she is to survive but thus far the only thing keeping her alive has been the fact she's too valuable a prize to kill since she's is apparantly the...

I'm still a bit split on Frey's decision here on whether it hangs logically with what the character would realistically do (even after all these years since reading the Red Wedding). GRR Martin is well aware of the 'guest right' importance throughout much of human history (the salt bond ritual...

Oh I wouldn't say it's Elan growning ... he was already like this (his realization that the real world doesn't work that way). Except in his real world things follow a certain pattern ... he's the PC that does the heroically appropriate thing at the right dramatic moment because it makes a...

Ah...I don't think so. 886, 881, 880 all had extra panels. The dream montage as well as the 'Girard is a powerful illusionist' pretty solidly foreshadowed something like this was going to happen in the plot and not rushed. The moment the strip cut to the wedding it seemed pretty likely Elan...

Not that it wasn't obvious but called it.;-)

Not sure this is a part of Elan's wish fullfillment fan-fic reality since it seems to conflict with the main component of his character. Of all the characters (besides Tarquin), Elan is the most aware of "The Narrative". His reality is the narrative and he expects\helps it along as a matter of...

I think it's interesting that the trap creates an illusion of an ideal results for the Order. Belkar ends up dead (and is clearly affected by the trap in the last panel). I don't think their illusionary reality is consensus either... the Belkar's graveside panel- Elan and Haley are grieving...

Pulling this sort of thing (alot) is a bit of a sucky move. If the wizard or whatnot used a summon to throw off pursuit and get away that is one thing (and I'd gauge the encounter on an ad hoc basis....was it a threat, did it expend resources, are they closer to their goals, did they learn...

<looks it up> Heh.... by RAW no. Page 37 DMG, "Do not award XP for creatures that enemies summon or otherwise add to their forces with magic powers." Planar binding is pretty clearly an otherwise 'magic powers' by RAW. On a DM side of the screen, like everything else in the game it can be a...

Heh...the zombie plague of the walking dead is not a virus or any other sort of biological infection, super engineered or otherwise. It's magic. Well magic, miracle, or some alien nanotech in the Clarkian realm of sufficiently advanced technology. No virus ever has had an infection rate of...

Uh....2.5 million dollar stretch goal. Nobody was banging down his door for an an apology. But if you promise an apology, deliver an apology. Or if 2.5 million isn't enough to deliver any sort of mea culpa at least do some funny act of contrition... The bar wasn't set high.

<Sigh> Yes. Otherwise it's not an apology just a bit of backhanded snark (and not even particularly funny snark). For 2.5 Million they could have mustered at least something entertaining like tying Colin to a tree and pelting him with rotten fruit. Of course Colin forgets a number of DMs...

I think the count is now 35 minis for a $75 pledge plus $15 for US shipping post kickstarter. I'm looking forward to see how big some of these figs are (particularly the Pit Fiend and Balor includied in the 75 dollar pledge) considering one of the prime sculptors, Federico Genovese, posted that...

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how their orcus looks in comparison to wotc's or reaper's offhand. I remember a craptacular lead orcus from years ago but don't recall seeing other versions... odd considering of all the lower plane lords I would bet orcus gets the most use even if it's off...

The sculpts definitely have a old skool art direction to them... the horned devil very reminiscent to the 'paladin in hell' artwork in 1e phb and the ice devil closer to the 1e MM with a leaner abdomen and an old style head option. Hrm, could round out the vampire pledge...not many lower planes...

Twilight 2000 or Dark Conspiracy. GDW's gone but I think you can pick up the pdfs from rpgnow. (Don't recall who licensed Twilight 2013). Call of Cthulhu. Or for more Alien Space Bats and Other Magic there's Torg. A WW2 point of departure based rpg...Reich Star (set in a future where the...

Bruce Cordell - Return to the Tomb of Horrors and Gates of Firestorm Peak are probably my favorite canned adventures of all time. He also gave us the accidental iconic kobold Meepo in the Sunless Citadel. Some of his later stuff is a bit spotty but most provided a solid foundation for a...