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I have just finished reading this story: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,987172,00.html Someone please tell me that moves are already afoot to end this evil. Edit: added OT to subject line.

Queen of the Demonweb Pits always offered high level adventurers the option of slaying Lolth - has this been put into print as fiction/canon? That might be it.

I have no problem with the officer's actions, as they stand, but the man at the centre of this acted neither out of evil, nor discernible malice - he did it because he was suffering from a mental illness. This does not excuse his actions but neither does it mean that his family won't experience...

Re: That's very sad... I'm willing to be corrected by those with greater knowledge, but my understanding is that when confronted with armed individuals the FBI counsels that officers should immediately commence fire if the individual comes within ten feet of them, since once within the ten...

I will soon begin to DM a PBEM game and have never done anything like this before. Is there a good reference guide or a list of dos and don'ts you could point me to? Thanks in advance

Welcome: I've been here over a year and still feel like an outsider so my welcome doesn't count for too much. Nonetheless - welcome.:)

Start with questions - my number one writing maxim is "Interrogate the scene". What does it look like; sound like; taste like; smell like; feel like? Is there birdsong? What birds? What do they look like? Where do they come from? What's the light like? Why is it dark/bright? Is the sun the...

Oh sure, mention the cross guard. ;) Actually I was more referring to the fact that the main body of siangham is less likely break since it has undergone a less rigourous forging process. A cross guarded dagger is always going to be superior, but there are plenty of daggers that were never...

This is at least five years old - the designers (Australians) were doing demos for local news here before I got married. (Notice how I show superior knowledge and parocial loyalty all in a single sentence:rolleyes: ;) ) The feature of electronic ignition that they made a big deal about was the...

It's a bar of solid metal - there's no wood in a siangham. I'd much rather have this to use to parry or block than a plain old dagger. In combat application, it corresponds to the European poniard. It's "arrow-head" tip is square in its cross section, meaning that any puncture wound from the...

To quote H. Simpson, "The two sweetest words in the English language; de-fault, de-fault!!" Can I prevail upon the judges for a response anyway? I'd rather have won a different way but a victory is still a victory! My sig-line will be adjusted accordingly!:D

Sorry 'bout that - that's what I get for only doing a quick scan. :(

I've done a quick scan and cannot find the one word that immediately springs to my mind - Gaul. If the Romans have an unconquered Carthage to worry about just across the Med., then chances are that they won't have the resources left for Julius C's adventures in northern France. When noting...

If my vote counts for anything, I can wait. I'd rather compete in a full contest than win by default.

Thanks, that'd be really cool. Actually, I'm planning on sending a copy of mine over to Skywalker Ranch for George Lucas, since he's responsible for so much of my thesis' subject matter.

Anyone who claims to understand post-modernism, doesn't.;)

One last tilt at the wheel “So this is kind of like a ‘God-playing-dice-with-the-universe’ thing, then?” asked Horode. “No,” replied the sorceress. “This is an undead-blue-ogres-can-screw-up-life-the-universe-and-everything kind of thing.” She continued to wave her hands in an intricate series...

Uh...I'm an analyst. I don't advocate resistance...or compliance. I'm academic now. As soon as I can find an ivory tower with a nice view, say some mountains or maybe the ocean, I intend to move in and never contribute meaningfully to humanity again!;)

See, that's the great thing about post modernism - personally I never expected to see Jeanne d'Arc and Lara Croft in the same sentence ever.;)

LOL!! That's just made my day. Thanks a huge tonne!