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    Traveller: which is best?

    er, what? are you sure? okay i confess i havent scoured the setting section but i could have sworn it was set in the 970's, putting it about 40 years before the Classic Era as for rules.. i like what i've read of T20, i also like GURPS Traveller (tho it bugs me that they sort of removed the UWP...
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    If you were a General...

    thats a wee bit metagamey for me, how would the Pay Corps know that Buldriq the Invicible was a 10th level fighter and not a 5th level warrior? (dont anybody say Sense Motive!)
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    Your original die

    excluding the various d6's from Monopoly etc, my first dice were a red d20 numbere 0-9 twice, and 3 translucent d20's numbered 1-20 (it was either 2 yellow and one pink or 2 pink and one yellow ~ i didnt pick them tho, twas the first time i ventured into Games Workshop when i was 9 or 10, i...
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    1001 Ways To Get Characters Together

    alas not my own, i think it was in an adventure for Kult or somesuch: the PC's are summoned to a dinner/lunch/meal in a festhall that is filled with people from all walks of life, the only thing that the people have in common (including the PC's) is that everyone was born on the same day and...
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    House Rules

    hmm, i rather like Thannee's Level Drain rule, house rules i am contemplating trying out with: 1) death at minus CON (assuming i dont just use AU/AE flat out) 2) a purchasing/selling system based on the version from the Minrothrad Guilds Gazeteer (wherin seller and buyer roll appraise checks to...
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    If you could Add one more race to the PHB

    Goblins & Orcs (Because they are green and cool) or Gnolls (Because they are big and cool) or Centaurs (Because they are er horselike and cool..) ohohoh: Illithids! because none of the other races eat brains :D
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    Your Favorite Skill

    Rope Use :heh: *cough* failing that, Sense Motive and Open Lock
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    What beasties are in WFRP Bestiary?

    ooo! are they the short Assyrians with Blunderbusses type Chaos Dwarves, or the newer Kyton wannabe ones? oh and snotlings are lesser lesser goblins: goblins, but only 1' tall
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    How did you arrive at D&D?

    hmm *wracks brains* i used to watch the D&D cartoon and Knightmare on TV, then i discovered the GW hobby via Space Crusade & HeroQuest, and my mother picked me up a copy of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay ~ but i never played it.. then i started sort of making up my own RPG's based on computer games...
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    How much does coal cost?

    i'd price it in line with firewood, since according to a recent Dungeon Magazine, D&D Coal is made by burning wood.. (obviously somebody didnt know the difference between Coal and Charcoal..) oh and incase anyones interested, apparently medieval northern english monks did alot of coal mining..
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    What RPGs do you own but haven't played?

    hmm, oh dear.. Conan, Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, Greyhawk, Iron Kingdoms, Midnight, Judge Dredd, Deadlands d20, Redline, Spellslinger, Traveller d20, Star Wars d20, Vampire: the Masquerade, Vampire: Dark Ages, Vampire: Victorian Age, Mage: the Ascension, Mummy: the Resurrection, Classic...
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    What is your favorite chromatic dragon?

    The Red is the true classic, but i always prefer things to be different, so voted for Blue, that said i loved the Purple dragon that was in Dragon in the mid-late 90's, the one that breathed a plasma beam ~ which i always pictured (and would have described it as such had i used it) as being like...
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    Profit warning hits Games Workshop

    er, i havent heard much companing about the paint drying out since they changed the 'pots' last year
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    What would Batman do if Gotham City was invaded by another country?

    i thought Batman was trying to kill him? but he just didnt have the physical strength left to do it ~ but the Joker took his loosening grip to mean that he had decided not to kill him so killed himself
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    D&D terminology pet peeves

    okay i havent read about this in years, but if memory serves it was the exact same thing, following the norman conquest all the growing and production was carried out by the English speaking downtrodden Saxon peasantry, whilst the final product is eaten by the French speaking Norman nobility
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    Battlestar Galactica Season 1 DVD set

    no he's talking about the new one (the original came out on DVD in the UK last year, it was the new on that came out on the 28th, also BBC2 shows the original every few years)
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    How to destroy a magic item?

    have a hobbit burglar or a planewalker kender steal it and hightail it to the nearest volcano
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    D&D/D20 Vampires and Werewolves...

    check out Lords of the Night: Vampires http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=product&productid=118795 (i am not a sock puppet!) it has lots of very different vampire types, the only real draw back is that the writer is somewhat obsessed with level draining attacks (all vampires get a slam...
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    Who's from the UK?

    i'm a 24 year old Gentleman of Leisure (read: worthless bum) born, raised and residing in Reading, Berkshire (a place which until my recent visit to Maidenhead i believed to be one of the crappest places in the multiverse) with delusions of intellect.. Games wise i went the HeroQuest/Space...
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    What was the first monster you killed in D&D?

    i believe it was a goblin, however i didnt so much kill him as incapacitate him only to have him die of his injuries whilst i was interrogating him ~ my paladin didnt speak goblin, and the DM didnt know if goblins spoke Common, i think he just expecting me to kill the goblin and take its stuff...
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