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Quite. We still haven't found any dinosaur comparable to the babirusa. If you don't want to read the article, this is a pig whose teeth grow backwards and out of the top of its skull. I really need to turn this into some sort of island dwelling orc :devil:

In the computer game Ultima 8 there was a mace, forget its name, that 5% of the time would kill the foes outright. It was the most powerful weapon in the game since that 5% was enough of an edge to defeat any foe you care to mention. Now take your doubling die. The average damage is...

Are the coeurl public domain? Mughi from Dirty Pair is obviously a coeurl - but his species is never given. Or are the coeurl in a copyright grey area, like most of the Cthulhu mythos?

Anyone know where the name comes from? Is just one of the Gygaxes said "what if we take a polliwog, but make it a bully?". Anyway, here's my suggested replacement name: ranakin. I was going to go for ranaman, but that sounds like a cheesy superhero.

The best way I've found to read these PDFs is on a laptop turned sideways. On most keyboards the page-up and page-down keys are then conveniently next to the thumb. Unfortunately, the magazine PDFs are laid-out to look good in an A4 size, so you've really got to have an appropriately sized...

Know what's really scary? I've lived or worked in four of the (real world) places on that map.

I'll have to name three: 1) Complete print run of "classic" White Dwarf magazine. That is, every issue from 1 up to about when they became a GW house organ. 2) Complete print run of Dungeon magazine. Unlike the White Dwarves, they've only ever had one owner, me. :cool: 3) Signed copy of Iron...

In the spirit of the "Worst fantasy names in our Real World" thread, how about some names which are just, well, awesome. Some starters: Ormskirk: literally "Church of the Dragon" (Lancashire) The Isle of Foulness. (Essex) Dunwich. (Suffolk). Yes, it was a real place. Before it fell into the...

Passed another today: Witchampton. Just down the road from me and I never knew it was there. And how could I have forgotten the UK's top undead areas, Lichfield and the Isle of Wight?

Upham and its neighbouring village, Lower Upham. Downton (but no Upper Downton AFAIK). Nomansland. There's also far too many Kingstons in the real world.

I remember a 2e wizard who carried around a two-handed sword. The logic being that he wouldn't be able to hit anything except on a natural twenty, the -5 penalty wouldn't matter. A high CON and a few defensive magic items meant he was about as safe in combat as the thief, and his presence in...

Use what you want. Many languages influenced by Arabic have jinn as the singular. Turkish has cin, plural cinler. Albanian has xhind, plural xhindet, Malay has jin, plural jinjin. All just take the word and adapt it to the local linguistic conditions. English seems to be the weird one in trying...

The most senior guardsman (Corporal Carl?) is in charge, and has been even when the PCs were around. If the PCs don't stay, he'll mobilise the reserves. The PCs don't answer to him unless they've actually joined the guard. If the captain's competent, he'll have left his second in command in...

If they're coming from Hong Kong, could simply be unpainted minis en route to whether they get painted. The sculpts do look authentic. Are they legally on sale? Not sure.

Durkon's put more than the expected number of ranks into Break Fourth Wall. Wish that was on my class skill list. I'd love to know how the universe really worked :erm:

Non-Euclidean geometries are perfectly describable and mappable. We live on one for example. Just realise that a flat world map can only approximate a globe but is still good enough, and you can map an infinite world with a few approximations. IMC I have a spirit world. It has a finite...

'Twas 106. "A Plethora of Paladins." Good article, but not balanced.

Just checked my Amazon UK cart. Adventurers' Armory and the Gamesmastery Guide are still in there with delivery dates for end of March and June respectively. I'd pre-ordered them last December. Maybe it depends on who Amazon's local distributors are in a particular country?

None of the stories I've got (from Robert Elsie's A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology, and Folk Culture) refer to vampires being held at bay or "turned". They are normally defeated by being tracked back to their graves and set on fire. Here's a description from that book:

Definitely pre-20th centruy. In Albanian mythology, wolves and vampires are enemies. A wolf can force a vampire back to its grave. Eclipses are also blamed on vampires. Another source of this rivalry is that werewolves are native, and vampires are slavic. What's more, there are Christian...