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Well, you want a Chinese like setting as opposed to a Japanese one, so to make it feel Chinese, use the following: Bureaucracy Foreign mercenaries Saving face (rather than preserving honour) as a plot device Multiple religions, all official (see "Bureaucracy" above) (I know it's a bad cliche)...

Nah, wouldn't want the pay cut. Which is the heart of the problem really. Overpaid corporate lawyers swamp underpaid bureaucrats with paperwork until said bureaucrats just say "okay, whatever, we'll file it!" (Disclaimer: I have two patents to my name. But they're both quite funky.) I used to...

Anyone remember Dragon Dice, specifically the Magestorm expansion? TSR had a patent on the d4 in it, which was basically an elongated tetrahedron. When you threw it, there would actually be a top face, rather than a corner, to read. Pretty cool, but I don't know if it was worth patenting.

That's actually quite close. He's based mainly on captain Nemo, with a bit of Sinbad and Francis Drake. Definitely a port and cigars man. He's good with children, 'cause he's not entirely sure which are his own. Plenty of connections in high places, plenty of enemies too. His background's not...

Sorry to threadcrash, but I'm drunk and I've got writer's block :] I'm trying to write a book - fantasy novel, parallel universe. There's a great character. He's a captain of a ship. He's not a pirate, but whenever I try and write ANYTHING about him, Jack Sparrow just pops up in my head and...

A very good one. Reminded me of Farscape, with plot twists every 10 minutes and references to pop culture.

Well it'll scare the neighbours, if not the slugs. But don't they only flower every 30 years or so?

I've planted rocket. They make the best BLTs. I just hope some of them will be alive tomorrow. Mind you, looks like the start of heatwave, so maybe the surviving slugs'll stay hidden.

I like the idea of courgettes. I'd go for zucchinis, but the rest of the garden wouldn't understand their accent and they'd feel left out :p

Doesn't have to be. Anything which is suitable to plant in May really. Preferably edible.

Well, my garden was like a scene from a Cthulhu game this morning. Trails of slime and decomposing bodies, that sort of thing. Yes, slugs ate up all my pumpkin plants, and then drowned themselves in the beer trap. No pie this year :( As a result I have a patch of garden suitable for more...

How about Rumpelstiltskin? He's the devil in all but name (which is, admittedly, an important part of the plot).

I'm slowly selling off my collection, namely everything I haven't read for over ten years. Sometimes I get pennies, sometimes I get pleasantly surprised and something goes for way over what I originally paid for it. I'm not expecting to make a profit, just get a bit of pocket money to buy other...

This mystified me as well. Nyambe is beautifully designed but is no way historical. Anyway, I'm trying to read between the lines here, so I suggest Hollow World, TSR's old D&D setting based on (or rather, within) Mystara. Each of the Hollow World's kingdoms closely follows an ancient Real World...

But men are the main people called c***s. Women get compared to animals, men to genitals. Interesting story: When the Normans conquered England, they brought over their nobility terms - except "count". There are no counts in England, only countesses. Realise that French "ou" and Old English "u"...

I think the general rule about online profanity is a good one. Don't do it, you don't know who's reading. Anyway, a while back I had a friend who was playing an early MMORPG which had anti-profanity rules and GMs who enforced it. Several of us are chatting in his room, with him casually playing...

Allip: Things which live below Annose Assassin Vine: Makes "special" wine. Also good for clothes, rope and soap Barghest: Fancy word for people frequenting taverns Basilisk: Lizard made from fragrant herbs. Tastes good with tomato Bulette: A small bul Choker: A helpful monster which gets your...

(Apologies in advance for the really obscure linguistic references :p ) Lich: Template applied to a monster after it's dead Skeleton: Template applied to a monster after it's dead for some time Werwolf: Template applied to a wolf after it's dead Ghost: A monster you can still see after it's...

No, that was Scaroth, last of the Jagaroth in City of Death, 'though the resemblance between him and Sek has been commented on elsewhere. I was vaguely wondering if Sek was to become the face of Boe, but then there's the eye issue. EDIT: Oops, forgot to comment on the episode! I liked this...

1st level, though obviously it'll need to be a really minor artifact or one whose powers are limited in some way. There are some examples from published modules: Both The Sentinel and Dragons of Despair are low level adventures which revolve around artifacts. My memory's quite vague on this...