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X4 - Master of the Desert Nomads, IIRC. That came out in 1983, a year after The Dark Crystal. They've appeared in Creature Catalogue and the 2e Mystara stuff.

Can you give me any examples? In most fairy tales wizards live in castles - towers being used as prisons.

One of the classic fantasy cliches is the wizard in his tower. Does anyone know when this convention started? It's certainly pre-Tolkien. The earliest I've found is Enid Blyton's Wishing Chair in 1937.

Reroll ones for both hit points and healing.

Multiclass as Favoured Soul. After all, the character gains a few bonus cleric spells as the game progresses. When I first saw the favoured soul, I immediately thought of Greek mythology, where all the heroes are children of gods, as well as Baldur's Gate. All I needed to do is drop the...

Sure. Roll the d20 at the same time as the 2d6. You're only looking for snakeeyes - no adding involved.

BTW, I've done the maths for several different dice. 2d6 gives you a 50% chance of getting at least 24 arrows before running low. You then have 50% chance of getting at least another 4 shots.

I'd like everyone's opinion of this idea for tracking ammo/charges. Ammo starts "full" - i.e., a quiver full of arrows. Everytime an arrow is fired, roll 2d6. If a double 1 is rolled, then the level drops to "low". At low ammo, everytime an arrow is fired, roll 1d6. If a 1 is rolled, you run...

If you ever find yourself in Taiwan, try the Taiwan national museum. A large chunk of China's history is there, "rescued" by the KMT when they fled the mainland. But I agree, the British collection is more impressive, but then we did invade more countries :uhoh:

To whoever's interested, I've outlined a review for Robert Elsie's "Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology and Folk Culture". This is an academic work about Albanian folklore, i.e. not a role-playing product, but of potential interest to people on enworld. Is it worth me writing the...

Since there are Lesbians who are not lesbians, Samaritans who are not samaritans, and Welsh who do not welsh, why can't there be Laconians who are not laconic? And don't get me started on all those Frankfurters who are not frankfurters.

Some were.

London Eye: Touristy, but worthwhile (unless it's foggy). Greenwich Market. You can also see the obervatory, and take the Greenwich foot tunnel to the Isle of Dogs. The museums The aquarium

Wow, accuracy in a Hollywood epic. Who'd've thought? (BTW, I haven't seen the film, but I was aware of the fighting in the shade joke for some time).

300 didn't make that joke first. I don't know if the comic precedes this, but even if it does, I expect it's an old joke.

Use the correct gender, please - she. She was female for thousands of years before some medieval mystics got their hands on her; the wikipedia article splits Astaroth from Astarte, whereas most mythological references combine the two. She might be the same as the Babylonian Ishtar, probably is...

Confession: Sugababes. Brag: All of Metallica's early stuff, including Garage Days. Bonus brag: I disliked Smashing Pumpkins before anyone had heard the word "Grunge". Bullet with Butterfly Wings is awesome though, I do admit.

As well as Orc's Nest there's Playin' Games, 33 Museum Street, near the British Museum. Excellent selection of board games as well as an impressive RPG selection. If you head further north, there's Leisure Games in Finchley (100 Ballard Street). Not exactly central, but worth visiting if you're...

I14 Swords of the Iron Legion is Forgotten Realms. It even has the Forgotten Realms logo.

Wonders of Lankhmar. It's a great little set of generic adventure hooks, but has little to do with Newhon.