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Here're some things to benchmark its quality: If they mention the legal battle for the Wrights to be declared first heavier-than-air aviators (resolved in the 30s/40s, after one of them was dead), instead of a US governmental contractor whose designs never flew until the 30s brought new...

Why did they need codes for Zion? Here's what I think: Remember those giant doors? Remember when ? Trojan Horse tactics. Send in one hovercraft loaded with Sentinels, dock, kill everyone, cripple defences. If you don't have access codes, they don't let you through the big giant doors, maybe they...

OK, I apologise for the 'brainwashed zombies' comment. That was more directed at Hollywood execs, as filtered through my brain, and came out more vitriolic than I intended it, and interpreted as an attack against people I was inferring to be victims, not villains. If I instead asked people who...

Interdenominational Place of Suffering, yes. I love dragons, always have, and the promise of lots of dragon art alongside rules is too much to pass up. When I see this, I'm spending money.

First d20 roll I ever saw in 3E. I'd bought the books and decided to run a combat with my friend. He made a character, attacked some goblins with a scythe, and rolled a 20. Cut two of them in half right there with Cleave. A great start, and one preserved for the ages in my webcomic. (That...

Actually, after consulting the Rate Revolutions thread, it seems the AVERAGE is 64%, but the distribution is all wonky - it seems you either think the movie sucked (a minority), or (like most people) that it was very good. Not awesome, according to the figures, but very good. Just like to set...

No it doesn't. Well, not for me, and not for the people who've rated it, who seem to rate it somewhere between 5 and 9 stars. Say 75% and you've still got an enjoyable film, right? Anyway, I think most problems have been caused by people accustomed to Hollywood garbage, where everything MUST...

That was cool. Now we see what the Matrix Online has to say about it... (that's the MMORPG currently in development, set after Revolutions). There may be interesting things there... I am a little disappointed that Why is everyone so down on DragonBallZ, though? Is it perhaps that there's a...

(I recall that Eddings makes it a point to never read within the genre.) Anyway, this is actually a good point. Fantasy tends to be poorly innovative. Perhaps it has so many tropes that simply toying with ones that real people don't care about is a demanding process, and it would all make more...

Insofar as my notable ancestors and relatives include a Duke of Brittany, the oldest of Irish bloodlines (the ones that predate history), some Earl of Somewhere English, and Captain Morgan (pirate and Governor of the Caribbean), I'm about as colourless as an anaemic cavefish that's just had a...

I've got the Dune miniseries on DVD, I've watched the first two (of three) episodes, and the third counts for more TV than I watch in a week so I'm putting it off. What's happening? I'm supposed to be a TV junkie, and there are three half-hour cartoons per week making up my entire schedule...

I've only done the Rampaging Goblin Horde. Then again, I'm not going for 'typical', I'm going for 'Why the heck not, and "My brain hurts" is not a valid response'. For those of you who read my campaign webcomic: Don't think you know what's going on.

I've got an original idea in which the heroes are Nazi soldiers. Challenging, to say the least. Last I heard, they were actually planning a live-action TV series of our Honor. "They" is possibly ADV Films, who are definitely developing Weber's 'Mutineer's Moon' into an animated property. So...

See, this is why we need to modify soldier's brains (via genetic splicing with chameleon DNA or creature microneurosurgery) to be able to process two images at once. Maybe even upgrade so they can process two 3D images at once. Then you just plug the gun into their neural interface, and they can...

Technically, DBZ the toon is based on DBZ the manga by Akira Toriyama. Manga = comic, if you will - except unlike Western comics, it's drawn and written by one guy. So I reckon it counts as a book. (A profusely illustrated book, but comics are nevertheless literature. Which could open up all...

DaemonEye Publishing has an open critter called the Psycholus. Look to the bottom of the page. Seems very... familiar. I'm encountering problems with illithids myself, trying to come up with my own variant for my own reasons. It's tricky.

I tend to use +10CR (or higher) things. Then again, I never planned for them to lose... which made the mummy-priest fight on the Elemental Plane of Water an interesting event, because they nearly beat him, despite the 15-level difference. And the fact that most of them were unconscious.

Depends what sort of fight you're looking for... C. S. Forrester does great, great Age Of Sail naval engagements. I profess a profound dislike for the mundane, but Forrester's Hornblower stories really got me hooked. David Weber can make vectors and electronics exciting. Again, like Forrester...

Wow. Howl's Moving Castle. That's certainly going to be interesting! Meesa going to theaters lots next year!

My approach: I game in Medieval Europe, so I just say, "Everyone speaks Latin, OK?". That's the equivalent of Common. There are organisations keeping it alive - mostly religious ones - in all reaches of the continent. However, there are other languages. Because I've replaced whole ethnicities...