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I know this topic has come up before, but I didn't pay attention then. I've been playing a game with a good friend in Colorado who will be moving to Japan in a couple of months and would like to continue our game. We've been playing via MSN Messenger which has proven adequate for our needs...

Piratecat, stop thinking about work! You're here for fun!

Every couple of months there are questions about this book, so thanks for the answers and the pictures. Windhaven just keeps looking cooler and cooler.

Warduke, thanks for the link. Now I'm starting to get really annoyed with the game--the bloody computer HAS to be cheating to be advancing as fast as it does. This is starting to really limit my enjoyment of the game.

Picked it up yesterday. I like Age of Empire I/II, Civ 3, so I thought I give this one a try. Looks good (animation is sweet) but I get more combat than I'd like and (this is the point for this post) I can't for the life of me figure out how the computer players can get more food, iron, stone...

Been a fan for about a year now or so. To Hard8's question, I like the new format. It almost feels like the early years of Dragon (which is not to knock the current form of Dragon, which I very much enjoy). Stay the course!

Japanese is not a syllabic script; it uses 1,945 standard kanji characters but then mixes is the katakana/hiragana syllabaries to show grammatical endings, spell foreign words, etc. One could write all Japanese in hiragana if one wanted to simplify the reading of the signs. From The Blackwell...

Omniglot http://www.omniglot.com/index.htm (links to fonts http://www.omniglot.com/links/fonts.htm esp. helpful) This is a really great site, and if you are looking for something to add some variety to your game, check out the following examples from this site. This first group can be done...

I second this as a great book. Huge variety of scripts sampled for you. Another great one is The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems by Florian Coulmas. If one wants to talk about writing down sounds/meaning, it's better to speak about "writing systems" than "alphabets" since the...

GAHHHH!!! *claws at eyes*

My view is that he is in complete awe of this Glorious, Beautiful Army that, by eliminating Rohan, will eliminate those who humiliated Wormtongue. When I watch that scene, I hear in the back of my head that line from Raiders when they open the Ark--"It's beautiful!" I don't think he really...

No, no, no! WELVERIN is you.:D

I got my copy--very nice. Good content and good art. I look forward to number two. There's also a thread going in the Gen forum about Iron Rations. So hype it up!

Just so everyone's aware, Christian had an earlier zine called Scrollworks which had some really great stuff but proved a little tough for Christian to keep doing. So if you like Iron Rations, ask Christian about Scrollworks back-issues. I was a Scrollworks subscriber (and occasional...

I'd pay good money for MEG Hal, because it's a boy's name AND a girl's name. How flexible!:D

Remember the Simpson's episode where Homer gains weight until he can go on disability because he weighs 300 pounds? Went to the doctor last week for the first time in years. Hop on the scale. 303 pounds. (Insert mild bad word here). Time for some new health habits. From now on, I'm...

A parchment map of the Shire that I found online.

:p LOL I echo most of the comments already made here (good film but with flaws), but there are two words that really make this movie enjoyable for me--Miranda Otto :) :) :) Definitely planning on seeing again, and not just for Eowyn either.

This matter of "What if the eagles just flew the Ring in ..." comes up a couple of times in the commentary on the extended DVD. I think it was Jackson who said that the eagles were their own free race, and had essentially chosen not to be involved at this point. I'd re-check this, but my...

This was the topic of the editorial in the latest Knights of the Dinner Table issue. Jolly gave XP to get a guy to show up for a game.