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How about the world's shortest war. It lasted all of 45 minutes. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=46235

Fantasy: Prince Arutha, Jimmy the Hand, Nakor, FitzChivalry, Paksenarrion SF: G'Kar, Garibaldi, Lester, Han Solo

I played Omega some back around the time I was in High School. Prior to that, I also had a game called DND that came with a dungeon called "Telengard", IIRC, and was designed to take "add-on" dungeons. We played that a lot at lunch during High School. It was a game like these other, but...

So, how did you manage to survive being inside a worm with an expanding Daern's Instant Fortress?

I find it interesting that the author of this article equates "Rural" with being a loser. Especially given how he goes on and on about the supposed prejudice in fantasy novels.

Yeah, these things can vary a lot. I used to get something called "Shrimp Cantonese" at a little place when I was in college and it was SO good. I haven't been able to find it anywhere else now that I've moved and nobody seems to recognize it. It was peeled shrimp cooked in a thick brown...

When I was in college, the cons that were put locally on generally offered a reduced price ticket for the dealer's room only. Generally, it was about a dollar as opposed to $12-$25 for a con badge.

I'm looking for a very specific picture. We've probably all seen the old US Army recruiting poster with Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer and the caption "I want YOU for the US Army!" below it. For my next campaign, I'd like to recruit players using a similar poster but featuring a...

I haven't played much but I'm very fond of war dogs myself. They seem so effective that I suspect they'll be nerfed in a patch sometime. Another tactic that I'm fond of is hitting phalanx units in the flanks with cavalry. VERY effective if the cavalry get a bit of a running start. I like...

When I look back at the previous editions, I'd say I like the Grey Box version best. It had just the right amount of mystery and wonder in it without going over the top with either. It seemed to open up new vistas of possibility to me at 17/18 when it came out and I'm really fond of it. The...

I was also surprised the Sawyer (the "Redneck" according to Sayid the Iraqi) took out a bear with the handgun. Bears are difficult to kill even with rifles. He was very lucky or else something else was going on. I think it likely that Sawyer does, indeed, have extra clips and he will now...

Didn't there used to be a thread where one could post requests for artwork to see if someone was interested in doing it? If so, where would I find it? Thanks.

I have a second moral. Despite what too many people seem to think, it is not illegal to go around or double back. I see too many people who think they have to go directly where they are going without ever deviating from their course. Sometimes, like here, it takes the form of slamming on...

I've heard something similar. The one I heard was that villagers would occasionally walk the boundaries with their neighbors and they would bring their (not-yet adult) sons with them. Every time they reached a marker of the property line, the boys would have some 'memorable' thing happen to...

Success isn't a guarantee of more pulp films. After all, where have all the fantasy films been in the wake of the success of the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Well, true, but I don't really think of Aragorn as a young orphan. I was actually thinking more along the lines of the whole thing being a farce where Aragorn was really the lost king and Gandalf wasn't as befuddled as he let on either. In my version, the kid would be a more or less ordinary...

I always thought an author could have fun with this plot by twisting it so that: 1. The young orphan and the ditzy old man turn out to be a decoy so the bad guys will concentrate on trying to find and kill them while the competent folks half a continent away actually do the stuff that sets...

Well, the more immediate lord might have cared because it meant less income and, if it went on, made him look like he couldn't protect his lands. I think the one reason you didn't see so much terrorism in the old days is that people back then were much more ruthless and brutal in dealing with...

As a D&D world, it was simply "The Known World". Later, when it was made into an AD&D world, it became Mystara.

I don't have the books here, but I'd look along the Delimbyr or Dessarin valleys in the North. THe southernmost of the two rivers runs along the north end of the High Moor and has a forest along it near Daggerford that I seem to recall being thought haunted (though its really elves). I think...