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First, let me say that your work is quite good for the time you've been painting, but there's always another step that you can take. From the pictures you posted, I'd recommend that your next steps should be: Thin you paints a bit more (and perhaps use an extender). The chalky appearance of...

One point on brush size: IMO, the drier the air, the larger the brush you should use. Larger brushes hold more paint, so they dry slower than smaller brushes. If your relative humidity is low, very small brushes can dry out in the distance between picking up paint and trying to put it on the...

Nope. That would be Knowledge (Local). And Redcloak ain't from around here. (Of course, the whole Knowledge (Local) definition seems like it might be fertile ground for comedy in itself, but I don't recall Rich ever mining that vein.)

For plastic minis I use 1000-card collectible-card boxes. One of my FLGSs carries a box that holds 15 of these card boxes. I've noted the general contents of each card box on one end and use two of the big boxes for the collection. For metal minis, I attach magnets to the bases and carry them...

The gold standard used to be the Winsor & Newton Series 7 or Series 7 Miniature Kolinsky sable round. I've been told that W&N no longer has the same brush makers and their quality has dropped. I use (and am quite happy with) the Da Vinci Maestro Kolinsky Sable Round Series 10. (The link is...

If his stat isn't high enough, the rogue/warlock will need to emulate a higher ability score with a second UMD check. It's not clear to me which ability score needs to be high enough for the rogue (RAW); I've allowed the rogue/warlock to choose the casting ability of any caster who could...

When interpreting terms in rules, you begin by looking for a definition of the term proximal to its use. Failing that (as here) you look for a definition in a glossary; there is none for "running water". Absent both of those, you can look for guidance elsewhere in the full rules set; nobody...

I understand from my wife (who's running the art show) that he'll be at Denvention 3 (WorldCon) this year.

1) Buy good brushes and learn how to take care of them. A good brush runs about $8-12 at Dick Blick, so it's only about the price of a single miniature more than a barely adequate brush. If you spend money on nothing else, get a decent brush. And a good brush (not too small; I use a #2 for...

Try a search on 1" lucite rod. It will pull up many sources for clear rod of any desired length. (I don't know any of the suppliers, so I'll not suggest a source.)

First, you probably need to define what you want a bit better. Pulp includes fantasy (Conan was originally published in pulp), horror (Cthulhu), noir and detective (they overlap, but they're not synonymous), romance, adventure, SF, .... If what you want is tone, though, I'll mention...

Presumably, "the first twelve indivisible" means the first twelve prime numbers. FWIW, you might want to be prepared for a discussion of whether "1" is a prime number. It's not considered one in modern mathematics, but it has been in the past, which might be an issue, depending on the putative...

There's more than those. See, for example, "Fan the Flames" (Desert Wind Strike, 3rd level). Ranged touch attack for 6d6 fire damage. As I read that, it would do 12d6 on a confirmed natural 20.

Just a note to say that as I read this, damage from a strike that replaces the regular weapon damage is not (arguably may not be) "extra damage" for the purpose of this rule.

Were one of my players to ask for such a weapon, I'd stat something like a woodsplitting maul. Two-handed, use the damage base of either a warhammer or a battleaxe (user's choice each round). Of course that reply would fit better in a different forum, I suppose, since it's a house rule. I...

While I'd not thought of it before, this is similar to cis-trans isomerism problems in organic chemistry, but with roads, cities, and meadows instead of OH, CH3, and NH2 radicals. 8-) This doesn't especially help to answer the OPs question, but I found it interesting, nonetheless.

Here's the full text from the Hypertext d20 SRD: (Emphasis added.) The bonuses are from the same source, are not dodge or circumstance bonuses, and don't explicitly say that they stack. As I read the rules, that means they don't stack.

The harm is de minimis, so probably not. Your version of the character is clearly derived from the copyrighted original, though. Now, perhaps your use was a fair one: It was non-commercial, and it had no negative effect on the use of the original. OTOH, you were (presumably) using the entire...

Absent an explicit license, a character is the intellectual property of its creator. Use of that character in contravention of the wishes of its creator is a violation of copyright law*. It's also pretty slimy. * No, I don't think a lawsuit is appropriate. As I'm not a lawyer, I'm the wrong...

Jim Reeves's The Blizzard is about as sad as they come. And I don't think there's anything in it (other than the names, perhaps) that's anachronistic*. * Assuming that "anachronistic" can be stretched to fit.