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BTW, I would encourage you to read Paul Kennedy's excellent book, the "Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" - the first 2/3 of the book are a great resource for understanding how nation-states actually fought wars - the last 1/3 deals with post WWII that has become a might dated.

Absolutely - wars between nations-states are fundamentally about the staying power of those nations. Typically the one that ends up winning the war is the one that is best able to fund the war. That being said, it is important to understand that magic is simply another resource - like steel...

LOL!!! I was going to say this. Although I have to say frmo my perspective it is worth nothinig more than a normal PHB - but then again I never by Collectors or Limited Editions - all I want is the goodies inside and not more stuff to keep in my house.

Phoam, Got your e-mail - unfortunately my WIN 2K local profile got corrupt so I did not get a chance to respond. I am definately interested - the only catch is that my wife has Jazercise on Tues (and Thur) until about 8 - so I would not be able to get there until 8:15 - 8:30. Second, I am a...

It went Gold a week to a week and a half ago......

I have been eying this one - I wanted to see what the consenses was before dropping any money into it - but what I have heard has been good - and will likely purchase. The only bad thing that I have seen is that the Single Player campaign may be kind of short (10 -20 hours) Supposedly, they...

I will likely purchase it - if for no other reason than to have a pre-made parthenons and assosciated creation myths already put into 3e terms that I can use Homebrew settings are enough work building without having to create the Gods as well - so if I can lift them from the book and change the...

Hmmm, mabye I did not play with the right people, but my experience was downright mediocre... not horrible, but not great. Further, while it was realy neat to use actual Real World equipment, the ability add new stuff seemed limited (however memory could be bad here) Now to the Champions...

An interesting and fair assessment. However based off of the types of books that you recommended, I am not surprised that you do not like Martin. You like the Good guys wearing white. Weis, Hickman, Eddings, Salvatore (and to a lesser extent Williams, but his Otherworld series was definately...

Prepare for the ultimate What the..... experience www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/ enjoy....

Old One - You can find out more about Carcassone at www.riograndegames.com King Stannis - I do not deny that Risk (and I own it) is a classic and was certainly a mainstay of my adolecense....... but there is so much better stuff out there. - Of course I have not tried Rsik 2050 - but have...

Strangly compelling.....can't seem to pull away......... Of course, this forced me to explain All your base are belong to us to my wife... edit spacing did not work out how I wanted it to.

The interesting thing about this thread is that truly few Beer and Pretzel type games have been mentioned...... the classics are of course Axis and Allies, Risk, Shogun, Fortress America, Twilight Imperium, History of the World (All but Risk are good - however the arbitraty nature of Fortress...

Having picked up Geanavue last week - I certainly think that there are "big" Things going on. Now granted they need a little bit of extrapolation, but I find this good because some types of conflict work for certain types of campaigns, but not others. You have: - Multiple claimants to the...

IMC, I have controlled this by operating under the assumption that all magical purchases (beyond simple 1st level stuff) is monitored by govermental officials - with all items being registered and stored in governmental shops. What this does is ensure that by stealling from the merchant, you...

What time do you play? I might be interested.... Also what is the make-up of the players (older, younger....)? BTW, I live at Parker and Arapahoe

There a couple pseudo cliched ways of getting PC involved in the machinations of the nobility. 1) Have nobel family A hire the PCs to burn/steal (for N and E parties) or "recover" stolen goods (for Good) from Nobel family B. There are a couple of nasty things that you can do here - especially...

In many ways this gets to the does all this stuff we have make life better? I think that in many ways the "keeping up with the Jones" really pushes us. American is still a fundamentally puritan nation as far as work ethic goes - to quote Depeche Mode - "You've got to work hard" or you are not...

UD Said... quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You know Microsoft has the resources to buy quite a few small countries... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The fallacy here is that in order to...

Arrrgh... I just lost 5 minutes of typing. I think that we have to first look at some of the base premises of Cyberpunk settings of the 90s - If it is Asian - it must be good. Many of these games were written at the nadir of Janpanese prosperity. I think that Chinese or Latin Americanization...