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Thanks. Must just be my connection...

Hm... metal aside, if the dwarves have all the gold, they could hire faster-breeding mercenaries to fight in their armies. Of course, that would have repercussions. Another possibility would be lot and lots of constructs. :) I stopped working on it, but in a homebrew world that I was working...

Can anyone connect to rpg.net currently? You guys didn't attach a see-saw to rpg.net's servers, did you? :)

Do you guys know about the "Red Nails" animated Conan movie that's going to be made? http://conanrednails.com/ Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Slade in the Teen Titans animated show, etc) is going to do the voice, which I think is just fantastic.

Well, I just finished a very good book - Ancient Seige Warfare by Paul Bentley Kern. I'm now reading a book about the religion of Mithras in ancient Rome. Forget the title.

Um. The Nemean (not Nymean) lion was a full-sized lion - maybe a large lion, maybe you could make it oversized, but hardly house sized. And it didn't breathe fire!!! If you want a size reference, keep in mind that Heracles wore the skin of the lion as a cloak, including the head. This would...

Justin, have you read Simmons' Ilium and Olympos? I haven't read Olympos yet, but I thought Ilium was just fantastic. If you could articulate what you don't like about military in fiction, or what it is that you do or don't like, it might help people suggest books. Unfortunately I'm more...

On the one hand, I can understand being bitterly disappointed by a letdown in a series. On the other, well, maybe your tastes are just changing. You say that you don't think you can like fiction any more, but there's more to fiction and reading than science fiction and fantasy. Maybe it's...

Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm reading Bloody Crown of Conan (Howard). It's a bloody good read! :)

Sepulchrave? Do you mean Mervyn Peake's books, then? Please do give us thoughts on what you do like. Maybe something about the reasons would be helpful too. :)

I'm almost done A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich. Recommended!

Well, I read on rpg.net in a discussion of non-combat-oriented games, like, a hypothetical Agatha Christie like murder mystery, that combat could in fact be resolved by a single roll. Which is to say that games do (and should) have more detailed resolution for the things that they are focussing...

Man, if you want dark fantasy... not in terms of evil, but ... err... depressing? Then her early book Wizard of the Pigeons should be right up your alley.

Tsk, that is REALLY sloppy of Mongoose. Thanks for the PDF! Is there anything else that comes to mind as missing from that specific book, but included in other Mongoose books? Maybe I'll stroll over to the Mongoose forums.

This is actually an adaptation of a monster in Interludes: Sands of Pain, to Iron Heroes. (The only part of that that matters, though, is the way the entry specifies Active and Passive defense.) I found a lot of problems with the writeup in the book as I was typing it up, so I took a crack at...

Grump, do you have a copy of that book? I looked at it in a store today, but I didn't buy it. I was looking at the entries for building seige weapons, which said that the stats (for use in combat, I presume!) were in the next chapter. Only, so far as I could see, they weren't. Is that in...

Sure, I'd be interested in seeing those rules! It sounds like Strongholds and Dynasties is the more broadly focussed book... some of the other stuff in it might be of interest to me too. Hm.

Hi all, I know at one point, several books were released with a war focus, like Cry Havoc and Fields of Blood. I'm wondering if any of them, magic issues aside, provide details on, for instance... the damage done by boiling oil, the time to dig a tunnel to undermine a wall, the cost (speed...

Well, at least someone prefers it then... me, I love the Mad Mod episodes, and the one where they end up in the wizard's hat. With these "focus on other hero" shows, there's less chance to pay attention to characters because they're busy setting up stuff/showing off the new characters' powers.

I've read the two books making up The Dreaming Tree. They're well-written, but very melancholy.