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I think it's NIMH, an acronym for something research-ey. My spelling of such things is probably enhanced by having only read the book. And the name Nicodemus has shown up in other places of lore over time, too; I think the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks have Nicodemus as a wizard who lives under a...

These two are not mine; they're from RPGnet, but I think they deserve reporting. First: Someone decided to play a cleric, a man of peace, and called him Ghandi. Fairly transparent right there. But Ghandi died, and this player decided to make a different character. Ghandi's evil twin, Snake...

Many undead are eating disorders, on legs. I think they're designed as terror weapons, at their core, creatures which you drop into an area and they're still keeping it unsafe a thousand years later. I like the idea of ravenous undead who don't need to eat, who can enter some sort of suspended...

Female pirates are not unknown to Western history, although they tended to skimp on hygeine and glamour, and often weren't found out to be women for a while. Discounting that little detail, Western Pirate society was amongst the most egalitarian ever, with records of African and female captains...

What have you heard? I haven't watched this test footage. All I've seen is a picture of the mask without a hood over it (they even got the mouth right, strange as the old Kirby design was), and an interview with the costume designer, Jose Fernandez. Allow me to quote an interview in the...

I'm building the Twilight world in my homebrew system (coincidentally called Twilight), but if I ever get around to publishing, I'll probably do a d20 version or appendix somewhere too. It'll lose some nuances unless I do some serious overhauls to the d20 system and make it virtually...

I shall rant about my conclusions here. Accurate or not, I hope they are enlightening. What Sejs said. Humans are (presumably) built out of positive energy, some Earth and Water, and precious little Good, Evil, Law, or Chaos (or perhaps quite a bit of each, in relative balance). The positive...

From what I've read, blacksmiths tended to make lots of their own tools - often making things up as they went along. There was a certain standard set, but for doing anything more elaborate than hitting iron with a hammer (like punching holes, making various types of weld, gripping funny-shaped...

From the past: Rufins, 'red men'. So named for their distinctive skin pigmentation - it's not like they're painted scarlet, but you wouldn't call them anything but red. Tend to low body fat and well-defined physiques, capable of making some truly hideous grimaces. Dwellers on the plains -...

You have my prayers. I lost my dog recently. I'm still feeling it.

It's good background, but doesn't have much 'vike' to it, and if you throw it in immediately there might be player disconnects. I'd recommend giving them time to get used to the status quo before you break it, handily enough getting rid of the king during an expedition so they don't get the...

There's a difference between X wealth and X wealth-earning potential. I don't know whether dragons care about real value or just have a magpie complex, but they're smart creatures, often with centuries of experience - they could make extremely able fiscal development decisions that culminate...

What nationality is Citibank, anyway? I've never heard of it except in spam.

Well, if there were pools of radioactive waste lying about, the world had been plunged into eternal darkness, and a cult of weird monstrosities so odd that they'd abandoned evil got even more hideously mutated, you'd have the likeliest path to flumphs in my world. But we haven't even got to...

Yes, even European plate was known to overheat to the point where the wearer's heart gave out. That's why the Crusaders (when they managed to get to the Holy Land) never went up against similar military forces - the Saracens lived there, and knew about the practically indestructible tanks that...

The guidelines for artists aren't as informative as those for writers. You may wish to bring this to someone's attention.

Demihuman-hominid evolutionary paths always seemed vaguely sensible to me. However, as I'm no hominidologian, I'm not aware of exactly how far back you have to go before genetics interfere with interbreeding (half-elves etc). It might be that they'd be born sterile but healthy. It might be that...

I guarantee that, were the need for brain-devouring zombies to become pressing, you would make great strides in zombie development - or you would perish and your fundamental information (genetic and memetic) would be lost to history. As it stands, you probably have more drive to order pizza, or...

This trick could work if your evac is reliable (thus, having a wand dedicated to either Dispel Magic counterspells or Dimensional Anchor counterspells would be handy): Get a necklace of fire beads, or whatever it's called - the volatile magic item. Round one: Teleport in. Cast delayed blast...

I've done some none-too-rigorous experiments with dice and psychokinesis that indicated some vague ability to influence the number that gets rolled. (Concentrate on '1'; roll die 20 times; record each result and compare to the 1-in-6 expected distribution; repeat with '2', and so forth.) If I'm...