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It's very pretty, and the writing is, as expected for Whedon in a contemporary setting, quite amusing. Nothing much really happens, true; but things start happening, and I didn't find it boring. EDIT: It's the first X-men book I've ever bought. I've read plenty, but... hey, it's also the first...

These are things endemic to anime and manga (which are tied very closely). They're not present in all anime, for which I count my lucky stars. - Visual shortcut lexicon: big sweatdrops, the 'wavy tearstream', mouths bigger than heads, blue wavy lines and all sorts of things that have meanings...

I didn't actually play 2e, nor run any game that transitioned betweeen editions, so I didn't vote. However, were I to find myself in that situation, I'd just say 'hey, new rules, I think these work better, let's update the characters'. Because frankly, I don't care about the rules - I care about...

Does that even matter, though? If I'm the target for 'come play D&D', odds are good I don't know the rules - it's the purty manga* pictures that drag me in, and the rules sneak up on me. If I'm an average Joe walking down the street, I don't know the first thing about D&D, but I may have an idea...

Ouch. My dog's not doing well, so I have an idea of how that feels. You have my condolences. /OT: In D&D, warlords are mighty-thewed warriors, leading their legions to conquest and smiting their foes. In real life, you gotta look out for the short ones. Napoleon won't be played by Arnie any...

Something to bear in mind is the fact that the attitudes weren't as, um, clear cut (the other metaphor I was thinking of really doesn't suit) as you might expect - simply because prejudice was institutionalised doesn't mean everyone subscribed to it. Sure, probably most people did, especially...

Large bodies of water will evaporate, yes. The water will stay suspended in the air, more or less. If the air stays low, it'll probably form dew and mists and such and create a fairly nice region. If it rises, the air's capacity to hold water drops, which is why clouds happen above the ground -...

Let's put it this way: If I, the DM, have come up with a splendiferous evil plot that makes me want to cackle (and you just know when you have), I want to tell someone about it. Preferably someone who isn't in the game I'm running. Why should a villain, whose emotions are strong enough to...

Why psi? Why not? So long as it's as integrated with the world as magic, there's nothing wrong with it. You could use it to add a weird Victorian flavour (gotta reread A. C. Doyle's The Lands Of Mist some day... that's the one where Professor Challenger investigates psychic goings-on in the...

Only pointbuy campaign I've been in has been 26-point. So there's a pattern-breaker.

Email sent. But I am busy, so someone with more time may have a better chance.

I voted 2-3: D&D and the old ICE MERP. If you subdivide things that use a d20, however, I'll raise the stakes to D&D, Stargate, Babylon 5, Mutants and Masterminds, and Silver Age Sentinels d20, bringing my score to 6.

You could send it to me because, lo these two years and further, I have given the world such love with my webcomic, and asked for nothing in return. For reference, recent comic updates have been done entirely with a (virtual) paintbrush, in full colour. Does my sterling labour mean naught...

If it happens... it'll probably be worth watching just to go 'ooh' at the pretty colours. If they can pull off good stories and characters, that's just icing* (or perhaps it's the cake, buried under a landslide of icing that has come to resemble a main course of fudge more than an accessory to...

My webcomic Dungeon Damage turns two today, and I'm celebrating with a competition. More details here, but really, I just want people to read the comic and tell me what they think. Plus I think the dragon I drew for the occasion is rather spiffy.

You misunderstand me (perhaps due to my phraseology). I'm referring to the relativistic phenomenon of mass increase, caused by the fact that you (the generic 'you', the many readers who may not have studied this sorta thing) have to carry your own speed. Kinetic energy has mass. Eventually...

Taxonomy for dummies*: There are big trees of classification. A scientific name deals with the last two junctures on the tree: genus and species. Take Homo sapiens. The genus is Homo (note, genus is always a proper noun, and can be abbreviated after it's been used once to H.). The species is...

'Lengthy', I guess. I haven't written too much about 'my' setting because it's an altered medieval Europe, simply letting the wisest men of the past three thousand years write it for me. But I have written some clarification stuff; it doesn't overwhelm the other stuff, and it isn't too long, but...

Allow me to clarify. Yes, everything at speed c has its mass infinitely increased. But photons are only encountered at the speed of light, because it's their own speed - they just don't exist at any slower speed. Why is this? Well, my reference tells me they have zero rest mass. But is there a...

To my mind, the DMG is more of a list of odds and ends than a coherent book. It requires some savage game-pruning, but I could concieve of trimming the book line in the following way: PHB cuts out setting-specific stuff, possibly including races and alignment, definitely including gods. Maybe...