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In my hometown (barely a stone's throw from Detroit, actually), we just stole the parts of Palladium that didn't suck and inserted them in AD&D campaigns. One day, somebody attacked Odin with a Veritech, and it all got weird. Because Palladium practically asks for abuse by picking pointless...

A "scavenger," you say? You don't have my Armory d6, do you?

The first two sets of dice I ever bought were blue: A set of 1980s baby-blue TSR dice, and a set of blue Armory gem dice. They finally wore out but good last year (some of the numbers on the TSR dice have almost worn away), so I bought two new sets of dice from Gamescience at Gencon: blue...

Probably just a different company. There was never "one true way" of numbering d20s. Take a look at Kevin Cook's page on the subject: http://www.dicecollector.com/d20face.html

There was a commercial version of this game released as a tie-in to the movie. It has rough-edged dice (to simulate hand-carved dice) and plastic dice cups sculpted to look (vaguely) like leather: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F0H80K Myself, I usually just go with craps, because it's...

Project Gutenberg has the text of Charles Skinner's Myths and Legends of Our Own Land -- a collection of American ghost stories, "Indian legends", and monster tales collected in the late 19th century: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6615 For academic work, it's a good way to get some...

WOTC (and TSR before them) never figured out how to make money from non-randomized metal miniatures, either, but Reaper's obviously figured that one out. WOTC is the market-leader for roleplaying, and I'd be inclined to listen them when they talk about the roleplaying market. The miniatures...

Except that when Alan Moore talks about the 1950s League (like here), he doesn't talk about characters from TV, radio, or film. He talks about characters from Keruoac and Burroughs. The core characters of the League series are always from literature. With that in mind, I'll second arscott's...

All the TV and movie characters bother me. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a tribute to the literature of a given era. I would stick to characters from print. That said, Jack Ryan could always take the "government liason" role. After that, I'd go after characters from modern pulps...

There was a discussion about this at The Miniatures Page a few weeks ago. TMP has a surprising number of current or former prison employees as members. The gist of that discussion was: It depends on what jurisdiction the prison is in. Some prisons will ban roleplaying and wargames because of...

I've never seen that 12-sided trap die before. I want one. (I have already have 6-sided trap dice. They're fun. When a PC triggers a trap, you can make the player roll to see what kind of trap it was.) I really like that one, for some reason. I could have used it back in my Spelljammer...

...and I just happen to have a set of AD&D Monster Cards in the same room as my computer! (Mostly, I use them as color references for painting miniatures. Did you guys know that succubi and mermaids use the same color scheme? But I digress.) The cards also list "Giant, Hill" as having "HD: 8...

The reaction die with faces is part of Flying Buffalo's "Monster Dice" 5-pack. That set's easy to find online. Koplow doesn't have too much in the way of novelty RPG dice right now. They do have a 12-sided hit location die, an eight-sided "compass die", and some dumb things like a...

It's "A." Two huge problems with interpreation B: 1) It's inconsistent with the monsters that definitely have a variable number of Hit Dice: Dragons, hydras, shambling mounds, sahuagin clerics, sharks, titans, and whales. All of those monsters have their Hit Dice ranges clearly written as...

Actually, a lot of companies have sold "scatter dice". Kevin Cook (who I'm sure will post in this thread sooner or later) has pictures of a bunch on this page: http://www.dicecollector.com/THE_DICE_THEME_DIRECTION.html As Treebore said, Chessex currently makes alignment dice and PC class...

OK. True story I wasn't going to tell, but you forced me: My brother is named Adam (and also used "Adam Bomb" as a nickname in grade school), and named his second child "Nathaniel". The story gets better, though, because he convinced his wife to use "Adam" as the kid's middle name. His wife...

The Social Security Administration has a page where you can look up the top 1000 baby names (in the U.S.) by year. They don't have 2006 numbers up yet, but there's a script that shows the up-and-down over time for individual names. None of the purely fantasy names are common enough to show up...

There was a guy in my university gaming club named "Ken Solo". He refused to wear a nametag at Gencon, on the grounds "Star Trek fans keep giving me advice about baby names."

There was an RPGA tournament that used this premise back in the 1E days. Might be the same one mentioned by brehobit. I know "PCs are all magic items" adventure was published in Polyhedron, but I don't think the "all PCs are familiars" version ever showed up in the Newszine.

Yep, they were there. Even had a coupon in the swag bag. Egor's ebay store, in case anybody needs it: http://stores.ebay.com/Crazy-Egors