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No, it solves the problem of moving at *any* angle (well, as long as you start and end on a hex, of course). Just count the number of hexes along any of the shortest paths from A to B. No need to count distances different, depending on the orientation of the path.

I already brought this one up in the "movies which surprised you" thread earlier, minus the details... Terry Gilliam's Brazil was held up by Universal for a loong time, because they wanted to change the dark ending over the strenuous objections of Gilliam. The "Sheinberg Edit" (after...

Actually, it looks like there's one on every table (pictures 2, 5, 7 and 8). Probably some sort of promotion.

Or: Bunch of 1st level adventurers meeet in a bar. While the dwarven cleric is drinking himself under the table, the paladin and the CE sorceror come to blows, and the TN rogue takes advantage of the distraction to start pickpocketing everyone in sight. A bar brawl erups, one thing leads to...

Looking at the pictures... is seems like WotC is making desperate attempts at raising the number of female gamers! :D Have a look at the second picture... a table with 3 quite attractive women and 2 guys. If you look at the people in the *background*, you only see 1 woman and 14 other guys...

Then again, "irrefragable: impossible to refute" and "remunerate: to pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, or expense" screams "Lawful" to me. (Not to mention "praxis: exercise or practicing of an art, science, or skill".) I'm going with Boz's LN, even though he was put under undue...

Some nice action going on, over in Erekose's thread.

Well... in that case, you'd be better off just letting people roll N sets and pick the best. Otherwise, the first player will get "best out of N", whereas the last one will get to pick from N-1 sets that have already been rejected by other players, plus one new one. Not a very equal distribution...

Ah - so the conclusions you wanted us to draw were that some retailers are using predatory pricing, and not that prices for the books are plummetting because they suck?

Or... the creature makes a point of remunerating the party for any damages done. Killed 3 party members? It leaves the 4th with enough gp to pay for 3 resurrections. Or it might pay what *it* considers a reasonable price. Maybe it'll repay the deaths of the 3 PCs with 3 of its human prisoners...

Exactly. Let's say the King (i.e. the DM) has given the PC's control over a small duchy, complete with castle, in reward for their past services. Of course, said duchy is on the border with the orc empire, so they will need to hold the line against orcish raiders. Obviously, any Leadership...

So if the party winds up surrounding itself with more NPC's than it has followers - say, the party assembles a small army, or rules a town, or a large castle with lots of servants/guards etc. - do you feel it would be fair for the DM to say "you managed to assemble 100 NPC's, 20 of which are...

Is that particular triskele important to your setting? You could always pick another one that is more recognizably bronze age, e.g one that has more of a "coiled wax" look. Here are some options: Some of these are of celtic origins rather than greek, but fact is that these simple symbols...

Much! Still doesn't scream "bronze" to me though.

Much better. The armor spikes are still somewhat impractical (not to mention those horns on her... back?), but definitely better.

Actually, I assume Dragon-Slayer meant *lack* of detail when he said "because of the level of detail" up above. In any case I'l add my own vote - It's not so much a lack of detail, but rather the fact that it's hard to make out the shapes. The skeleton head is easy, and I *think* there may be a...

Let me guess... the one with the katana is a sorceror? That would explain all the buckles. And the fact that she doesn't seem to know how to hold a sword... :p

I totally agree. If you're aiming for "Swords & Sorcery meets Homeric Greece", you may want to include some elements that actually reflect the bronze age. The little spiral is cool and could very well be based on an authentic bronze age design, but most people would probably associate it more...

YES! As was stated by others before, I would stay far away from any rpg book that had an image like the blue horny girl you posted earlier on the cover. Because I would assume it was aimed at an immature, juvenile audience. Doesn't matter how good the contents is - I wouldn't even get to...

That's why I referred to meteoritic and bog iron, two sources of non-oxidized iron, which don't need smelting (not to mention reduction - i.e. getting the oxygen out of the iron "rust"). Iron artifacts were known well before the process of extracting iron from ore through smelting was...