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:-) I'm jonesing to listen to it myself now, but I'm at work (shhhhh). I'm surprised no one has listed any ELO or Allen Parsons Project, once you get past the somewhat dated aspects of the music, the imagery is very evocative of fantasy gaming.

Another good use is if you are is prone to switching weapons in combat (an archer, for instance)

My apologies if it's been mentioned, but I've always wanted to come up with an adventure based on this: "The Black Queen chants the funeral march As the choir softly sings To summon back the Fire Witch To the court of the Crimson King" from 'In the court of the Crimson King' by King Crimson...

My opinion of the Hexblade has always been that it's 5-10 level prestige class strung out into a 20 level core class...it just seems too focused to be a core class. I'd be interested to hear from those who've played them as well.

I just got the gift set at lunch. The Minas Tirith model is nice, very detailed. It opens up to reveal a small, round dish. They call it a "keepsake compartment" I guess for ticket stubs and what-not. Still, very nice.

My point, regardless of incorrect terminology, stands. You are looking at someone else's interpretation of Tolkein's work and criticizing it because it doesn't highlight what you see there. There is no evidence, beyond the fact that Tolkein was Catholic, that Eru and the Judeo-Christian idea...

More accurately and to the point, doesn't it show that Jackson doesn't understand your interpretation of the story of LotR? Tolkien himself said he abhorred analogy, and preferred that each reader of the story decide what it meant for them.

I had to patiently explain to my wife that this was not a gift, this was a household necessity, and as such, it would be bought as soon as it was available...

Might I suggest a slight change in point of view? Every scene in the movie is a 'Jackson scene'. Scenes in the movie that you liked may translate what was on the page, but it's filtered through the mind of the director, just as the scenes in the book are filtered through your mind when you...

A ninja... with a motorcycle... on a submarine.

I work the help desk for a company that produces both software and hardware for manipulating video... I had one guy ask me if the alignment of the stars (yes, the ones in the sky) was important to the operation of his hardware. As I was reading off a new serial number to another customer, I...

My current character wears bronze breastplate, greaves and gauntlets, a bronze mask and a large cobalt blue cloak. There’s a link to a pic a friend did for me over in the “What does your character look like” thread.

Agronicus Thex (Ftr 2, Clr 6, Pious Templar 3) Looks like this: http://www.deviantart.com/view/12184858/

My group has tried to rotate DMs in the past, but no one else is really interested in doing it, so it always falls to me anyway. To get my playing fix, I joined another group. Long ago, another DM (who isn't with the group anymore) and I did jointly create and run a homebrew area of Greyhawk...

Since SR seems to be a factor in this discussion, I'll chime in with an observation of mine. It appears to me that along with lowering the impact that DR has on the game, WotC lowered (is lowering) the impact of SR as well. It's possible that what we are seeing here is not a breakdown in spell...

As a side note, the WotC art gallery for Complete Warrior... http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ag/20031205a ...labels the Hexblade picture as a Warlock, so you are apparently not alone in your thinking that they're similar. At one time, they may have been the same class...

Alhoon :]

As I indicated in my initial post, we do have combat without minis on occasion (usually for short, simple skirmishes), and that does seem to encourage more in-character combat decisions. ...But my point here is that I like minis combat, I think it's a lot of fun; not to mention that there are...

Excellent points, sw. Some of your suggestions I do as a matter of course, when I can. Others certainly bare thinking on. While I enjoy the tactical logic that aspects of the 3.X combat system promote, it does make it tempting to render descriptions down into dry game terms - thereby losing a...

I suppose I wasn't clear enough... In a purely role-play situation, the players think about what they should do and say from the point of view of their character. This often means doing things that are not necessarily the 'best' option available, but what fits their personality and the moment...