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I'm so proud... *sniff* It's an experience my geekhood has not yet included.

I love dragons, so I'm biased. However, there's quite a lot of stuff in here - ways of making distinctive hoards, new spells, what have you - that isn't dragon-oriented, strictly speaking, and really, who wouldn't want to run a dragon-centric campaign after going over all this?

Crimson Skies! Woo! Nathan Zachary rides - Oh, not Crimson Skies. Well, not quite. I'll forgive it though, it look faaascinating. Having watched the trailer (and recurrently failed to find any way to save it) I think the style is perfectly anachronistic. The bit where everyone points at the...

Read the following lines out loud, simultaneously. "Sir! I'm picking up a subspace distortion!" "Onscreen." "Analysis, Number One?" VWEEEERRRRR WHOOOMMM "Target within range, Captain." "Fire." VWRRRRBOOOM This is the narrative method of prediction. Fighters are fragile, but maneuverable...

I use The GIMP for all my processing needs. It may not be the be-all and end-all of programs, but I love the ability to rebind any command to a keyboard command. 90% of my work consists of left mouse clicks, and a sequence of Z . L , SHIFT-P PGUP CTRL-SHIFT-A R etc etc. It's so easy. I have...

I've completely pulled the rug out from under my players a time or two, and intend to do so again. They enjoyed it. That said, the rug was quite clearly on top of something else. They just didn't expect it to be bigger than the room. If that metaphor's too dense, try this: I didn't invalidate...

I must say, I'm beginning to really like the look of Eberron. If they've actually managed to pull off a world where D&D works, without neutering magic, without pretending that you need penniless peasants for it to be realistic, I'll be impressed, because that's what a lot of people seem to be...

I'll use DM, because we really just play D&D. If I were refering to any game other than D&D, I'd use GM, because that's perfectly generic. If I were talking about my homebrew system, I'd use 'group', in order to be as open-structured as possible - the 'group' is that body which makes decisions...

A fantasy acre, of course, has certain considerations that might not be immediately apparent. The theory that fantasy worlds are inherently more fertile appeals to me: plants feed herbivores, herbivores feed predators, predators feed dragons, etc. You need some sort of support for the upper-tier...

Oh, I don't know... B5's Earthforce uses missiles with fairly fearsome destructive ability (see the season 4 culmination where one missile-equipped satellite prepares to destroy the eastern seaboard of America), and there are about a kajillion different types of weapon listed in the B5 d20...

That's a well-done movie. It's rare that I'll tape some cartoon movie off TV and insist that my friends watch it in between translating Caesar's historical writings, or playing Unreal Tournament 2003 just to watch the bodies fall down cliffs, but I taped that. I still want to see the second...

Would that be anything like the interface used by hackers in that old Tekwar TV series (or movies, or whatever they were - possibly both)?

One thing to consider about a D&D tavern is that the ecosphere may be denser to support all the top-tier predators like dragons and manticores and so forth. Thus peasants will probably eat better - there's more grass (and wheat?), more grazing animals, etc. That said, cheese. If you have a cow...

Unicron, surely? There's an Omnivron character in a Mutants and Masterminds Superlink product I illustrated called Above And Beyond. Look over my site (in sig) to see some of the art and get a glimpse at the concept... if you haven't already.

Humans are soft and weak. Puny humans! Why must they be so prone to disease? To sharp things on the ground? To freezing solid in their greatest centers of civilisation? While writing equipment lists for my Twilight game, I included things like Fur Robes, which give you a bonus to social...

True dat. To elaborate, however, there are actually 3 kinds of drive module in Star Wars: repulsorlifts, thrusters, and hyperdrive. Repulsors are antigravity, pure and simple; they require a gravity well to operate, have virtually no thrust, but allow ships to land without standing on their...

1.5kg is equal to a truly massive explosion, one the biggest fusion bombs would possibly rival. A single gram of AM would obliterate whole suburbs with the explosion. However, when you're talking space battles, there's no atmosphere to conduct a shockwave. Your only concern is a blast of...

1) Hyperdrive, the reason we have Star Wars in the first place. Hyperdrive was invented some 25,000 years ago IIRC, and has held the galaxy together in trade and conquest for all that time. With hyperdrive, a single-seater starfighter can cross the galaxy in a matter of days, that's how good it...

Well, I've never seen it on TV, but the GI Joe comics I've come across are passably military in their outlook - more so than anything I've come across recently, at any rate. (My fondest memory is of some mercenaries wondering which nation's special ops group has just rampaged through their camp...

For various reasons of tactical simplicity, I favour squares. Plus, if you want, you can pretend that each square is much bigger and do epic wuxia stuff without a second thought.