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No argument whatsoever as to Mayhem being hard to get into. I'm not really that enamoured of most of the Maniac era stuff, but DMDS and OAC are fantastic. OAC in particular is almost impentrable, its so murky, bleak and dark. But then again, I also love Sunn 0))), so the drone influence that...

Blessed is the Black Nycarius, how could you post Black Metal acts and not include the two of the true legends of the form, Emperor or Mayhem? Mayhem are pretty much the godfathers of the infamous Norwegian wave of BM, their Deathcrush demo is an icon of so called "tr00" or "kvlt" BM. They've...

Danish? DANISH?! DANISH!? I hereby revoke your metal licence. Mayhem and their ilk were part of the vast wave of Norwegian Black Metal that was run pretty much from Helvete, the music store owned by the late Euronymous (Mayhem's original guitarist and still the object of an insane cult of...

Dear god I hope not. Old-style Darkness, especially when ranged, was a right royal pain in the lower back to run as a GM, and even worse as a player. It also made Devils absolute (pardon the pun) hell on wheels to fight. It was basically a 1st level Improved Invisibility field, and way out of...

I'm sorry, but go to www.wowwiki.com and look up (lessee) C'Thun, The Four Horsemen, Vaelestrasz the Corrupt, Nefarian, The Twin Emperors and sod it, I'll throw in Lady Vashj and the Reliquary of Souls for good measure. If I or any GM I've ever met was to try and run an encounter in D&D as...

As Firelance said, making their Spheres (to use the old term) function in a similar fashion to the Ardent would work nicely alongside a generic Cleric list. Of course, this assumes that the 4E cleric resembles the old cleric in any way.

To quote myself the first time I led an Onyxia raid: "She's a freaking DRAGON! What do you think you're in for? Lots of sharp pointy appendages, flying and fire. Lots and lots and lots of fire." Even the circumstance of Onyxia are pure dragonslaying archetype, a bunch of heroes get together...

Damn. Living Greyhawk was fantastic fun when I was playing it. This announcement doesn't hurt too bad though. LG died for me a while ago when they kicked half of Australia out of Perrenland without any consultation and shoved us in a different metaregion to boot. Still angry over that...

Nah, that's just Ron Spencer. Of course, given that he's similar to WAR in his over-the-top comic book stylings and use of colour, I don't think he could draw an unnatractive female.

Arcanis. Who doesn't want to conquer Rome? Similar to Birthright, the whole place is going to hell in an express elevator too, as kingdoms and empires all over the joint tear themselves to pieces and feud over a fast-crumbling pie.

Fistful of brown mould into the plane of fire. Infinite fire causes infinite expansion, displacing the plane of fire and thus destroying a fundamental elemental balance. On the serious side of things, some kind of cosmic-level shatter effect that causes a crack in the sphere, allowing Outside...

Wilderlands of High Fantasy box, AU$25. The box was scratched. Oh noes. Doubt I'll ever use it, but such a sexy product. Fistful of 1E modules last year, banged up, creased and in mediocre at best condition, but for like $5 a pop, I'll take that. Includes Ravenloft, Expedition to the...

My first move was to normalise all 4 "Words of Faith" (Blasphemy, Holy Word, Dictum and Word of Chaos) to have the same effects as one another, and to have them all dependent upon being heard. The fact that Blasphemy is just flat out better than the other three has always irked me (action...

Giving up THREE schools? Sounds dangerous to me. I personally couldn't bear to ever give up three. As I see it, you never EVER give up Abjuration, losing Dispel Magic and its cousins is a one-way trip to Suicideville, population: YOU. I'd rather cut my own damn arm off than give up...

My party has just completed the Gathering of Winds, and yeah, AoW insanely heavy on undead. Best thing we found was let our rogue take Distruptive Strike from PHBII. Lets them feel useful.

My personal list (heavy on the metal, since that's what I love to listen to) Emperor: Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, In the Nightside Eclipse Nile: Black Seeds of Vengeance, In Their Darkened Shrines Pink Floyd: The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon The Beatles: Revolver Green Day: American Idiot...

And here's where the troll fails on the troll-o-meter. Arguing against something he calles 'formulaic' while calling for the most formulaic thing of all... Formula is another way of saying stereotype. And stereotypes exist for lazy people to use, and everyone else to break.

Savage Worlds is an absoutely amazing system. Its a generic system that doesn't feel as though it skimps on anything, being open enough to be easy and fast, but detailed enough (thanks in large part to Savage Settings) to feel complete. Customisability is high, characters are flexible and the...

Theory: If there ends up being an X4 (which I suspect), then the villain is obvious. Nathaniel Essex, AKA Mr Sinister is the man to go to. Why? Because whenever a ressurection is needed, he seems to be the man to do it in the comics. And consider who died. Can't be coincidence.

Here's how I treat it. Knowledge checks are always based off the BASE HD of a creature, basic 10+HD. For a tiered monster, like a Dragon, the DC to get information on an ability is based on the lowest possible HD to get that ability. The basic check tells you name, type and subtype, and 1...