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No question or hesitation: ForeSight, first edition.

Perhaps the family want to know whether the deceased died of old age. If he or she died of another cause they will shell out for a Resurrection. But they don't want to blow the considerable cost of that spell only to have it fail because their granny died of superannuation. Or maybe the life...

"Divine" is a noun (meaning 'clergyman', 'theologian') as well as an adjective. St John the Divine's epithet is not supposed to indicate that he was Godlike.

The version I heard was that the modern penthalon was designed as a training exercise at a French military academy, a test of the skills of an aide de camp (junior officer acting as a despatch-rider on the battlefield) in the Napoleonic period. I have sometimes speculated about what the events...

Athletics plays a big part in the society in my fantasy setting. Athletic training is considered to make up half of a balanced education. All settled communities set aside areas for running, jumping, wrestling, archery, weapons drills, sparring, and javelin-practice. Most build more-or-less...

Well, in the first place there is no need to melt the steel. Until the invention of the blast furnace during the Industrial Revolution iron was smelted, fabricated, and hardened, and recycled without melting. In the second place, in steel and cast iron the carbon is not just mixed in with the...

Just so. A lot of things are exerecises in problem-solving and communication, but aren't role-playing games. For example, an undergraduate maths exam is an exercise in problem-solving and communication, and so is a career as an engineer or a physician. So even though an RPG is an exercise in...

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