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I saw your thread title and thought "What's D&D got to do with Relational Database Management Systems? Wrong RPG forum." :confused: Anyway: The second most evil thing I did as a DM is get the players to advance the villain's plot for half the campaign. The most evil thing I did was blow up...

I'm sure Oliver Cromwell would've had a few things to say on the matter. My house, for the record, is decoration free. :) (where's a halo smily when you need one).

The ten commonest Japanese family names (courtesy of my dictionary): Sato, Suzuki, Takahashi, Tanaka, Ito, Watanabe, Kobayashi, Nakamura, Yamamoto, Kato Not sure about first names, but I think Akira is equivalent to John.

True, but scorpions are sea scorpions in the same way that birds are dinosaurs. If you want to be pedantic, you could insist that scorpions aren't really arachnids.

Wouldn't work. Halloween and Bonfire Night have already merged into one 5 day event which seems to be called "setting off fireworks all night". Adding another event in November would just extend it further. Besides, it wouldn't feel right eating a turkey in November :confused:

I can recommend pad thai as well, and both green and red curry. The restaurants I know (Disclaimer: My brother-in-law runs one) also do pretty good starters. Try crab sausages dipped in honey if you can.

Played once. Got eaten by a dragon while praying to my dragon deity. It was quite funny. Due to personal reasons, I now think the whole game is in bad taste. Don't let that stop you having fun though.

Isn't that what both ER Burroughs did for Tarzan's hollow world adventures and Gygax did for Aerth's interior (Dangerous Journeys)? My campaign map started as a continent/ocean inverse, but I added some plate tectonics and a couple of asteroid impacts, and now the resemblance is only passing.

There are only three monkeys. The fourth monkey is someone's idea of a joke. A funny one, fortunately.

Correct. You pass. You are not pretentious. So if you said "opossa" you are pretentious and wrong, and if you said "opossumak" you are pretentious and right.

Thou art most wickéd :lol: Great pretentiousness trap: plural of "opossum". Any takers :]

Sort of "played" H1 with my sister. She was nine at the time and more interested in the little cardboard figures being copies of Robin Hood & co. Needless to say, we quickly moved away from the plot and into a "how many times can we rescue the princess" type game.

Yes, a fellow octopodes user! You make this language pedant very happy :D :D :D I'm sure "boni" started as a joke, because it's not obvious what it means, whereas people will take "octopi" at face value even though its wrong.

I too am a parent whose child likes toys of a moving plastic nature - Doctor Who action figures in his case. I share your pain and damaged nails :(

I believe another anti ethereal/teleport/scrying measure was a building covered in vines, on the grounds that you couldn't magically get inside or through another creature. Similarly, you could have a larger building protected by a banyan tree or an aspen stand, or an underground chamber...

I remember the Gorgon blood thing, but I can't remember where it was from. Another idea was a lead (or gold) mesh around the area - a bit like a Faraday cage for magic. Similarly, you could mix lead into the mortar for a building.

This may sound weird, but I've never actually played or ran Keep on the Borderlands. I have played and ran B3, and ran B8 and B10.

Remembered another one. The rabbucks from Dougal Dixons After Man, where rabbits have evolved into deer-like animals 50 million years into the future.

I had a weird thought the other day. How many rabbit/hare based monsters are there in the genre. My off-the-top-of-my-head list was surprisingly long; Wabbits (Gamma World) Al-mi'raj Jackalopes Moon Folk (Magic: the Gathering) Vorpal bunny (Monty Python) I'm not counting furries (no Usagi...

Nicely put - I'll remember that. In other words, 10ft isn't its base size, it's its turning circle. Speaking of 10 foot and weird D&Disms, how about the buildings with corridors wide enough to drive cars through and rooms the size of concert halls?