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If you were in the UK, then Waitrose, Tesco or any good butcher. You can get venison and wild boar as well as pork and beef. I'm assuming you're in the US though - in which case I have no idea.

<cheap_shot>So when airlines give us crap food, it's not their fault, it's because Boeing supplied them with the leftovers from their pot luck meals?</cheap_shot> Seriously, I'd suggest sausages. My knowledge of sausages in the US is formed mainly from jokes about the contents of hotdogs in...

Why? As other posters have pointed out, it's less average damage than a magic missile, and only to a single target. I think these spells where dropped for flavour reasons, but I'd allow them.

- The famous rules lawyer Phermadt has claimed to have developed the optimum character build, which includes two levels of commoner. Sadly, he did not have space to write the character sheet down in the margin of the book he was reading, and rules lawyers ever since have been trying to reproduce it.

There's also a difference in weapons and tactics. If your ancient undead army fought against spear wielding infantry when they were alive, their armour will be different from an army which expects to fight cavalry supported by bowmen. The acronym is the objectionable bit, not the reference...

- Kobolds cannot catch diseases off goblins - 3% of swear words in common originally came from orcish - Some sages theorise that Dragons are not actually reptiles, but are more closely related to the shark - Elf sweat is the secret ingredient of a popular dwarven ale - Halfling archaeologists...

Does anyone here know Korean?　Mine's pretty weak. Si-in-kam potentially means "arrow blade sword", but I can't find any reference to this. I got that looking through my dictionaries for characters which would fit. Here's the hangul and hanja. Hope your browsers can read it: 시인검 矢刃剣

I thought it looked and sounded familiar! Well spotted.

Interesting. Wish they'd list sources. The Chinese Ermei ci it mentions means, I think, "Ermei thorns", Ermei being one of the Shaolin mountains. I found this line in an article from Imagine magazine issue 25 from 1985, written by Graeme Davis: So, we've got Siangham, Siangkam and now...

I think we're losing track of the question. It's not: "are there metal pointy sticks in the real world" to which the answer is an unsurprising "yes", but: "is there a pointy stick called a siangham in the real world, and if so, who uses it" to which the answer is "don't know, but it...

Can't find it in any Bahasa dictionaries (though "siang" can mean "cut" or "gut a fish"), or in any references to Malaysian martial arts. The only source is that wikipedia article - and that's highly suspect. Can you provide a reference?

Inconclusive, but interesting. Thanks. The jutte is a nice weapon. It's a close relation of the sai and is the basis of modern police batons. If we're going to reopen the siangham investigation, maybe start by finding out what language it is. It's certainly not Japanese or Mandarin. Looks...

I wouldn't use the word "laughing". More like "staring in amazement". Let's see, my local petrol station charges 93p per litre (and that's cheap!). I believe, after litre to gallons and pounds to dollars, that comes to $7 per gallon. BTW, over 70% of that is tax.

IMHO, and bearing in mind I ran a lot of Planescape on the Inner Planes using my own adventures: The monstrous compendia supplements. The Planes of ... boxed sets (Law, Conflict, Chaos). Guide to the Ethereal. (not strictly Planescape) Manual of the Planes, 1st edition (which you'll...

An uncommon but widespread mythological figure is the half-man: that is, a human cut in half lengthwise (one leg, one arm, one eye, etc.) The most famous example is the Celtic fachan, but there are others: The Arabian nasnas, which might be the same as the Celtic fachan. The Vietnamese Doc...

I have all three, and the red is the only one stayng in its box. I love the black though. Looks like it's plotting something, or commanding a bunch of scaly minions.

So, Captain Axe is his player's new character then? Certainly looks a bit like Roy.

I love steampunk. However, how many steampunk memes are acceptable in a non-steampunk setting? In other words, which of the above could you put your favourite fantasy setting and not break the illusion that it was fantasy?

Wasn't the umber hulk part of this set of toys? The name rather suggests a big brown unidentifiable monster.

I believe that Beorn was also very good with healing herbs. IIRC, the AD&D werebear could cure disease. That, plus the werebears' good alignment (all the other lycanthropes were evil or neutral) definitely link the werebears with Beorn.