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I'm reading Way of Kings now. I am about 250 pages into it, and it has been very slow going. It's the proto-typical blockbuster format, the first four chapters all introduce new characters, and then even when some are revisited a few times, later chapters keep on introducing new characters...

NASA's Kepler Discovery Confirms First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Double sunsets, confirmed!

I play word games, starting with a person or place name, and work on transforming it one letter or syllable at a time to something else. I string random syllables together that sound appropriate. I built a Fantasy world where everyone and everything had names made-up this way. The players...

I picked up Mongoose Traveller, High Guard, and Cybernetics a while ago. I have scanned through them all. I have rechecked the main rulebook, and found one section of three paragraphs on learning new skills (at the end of the skills chapter). It offers training for obtaining a new skill point...

You sir, are a gentleman, and a scholar. Of course, this may be because you share the same opinion as I on the above subject. I also found Taltos and Issola to be excellent, and have read each about three times. I cannot say how many times I have read Jhereg and Yendi, probably more than ten...

In Eberron, overall levels are lower than in, say, Forgotten Realms. Higher level characters, upper-teens and above, are rare. I would consider a longer-term advancement system, like the Pathfinder slow experience chart. Using that chart, your players would stay in Eberron's primary target...

PETA just drives me bonkers, period. ---------------- As for the croc itself, it looks big enough to serve as a capital ship in a naval battle.

I dodge. But seriously, you cannot fix casters by eliminating them.

Red gold is a real thing. The fantasy taint in the Belgariad, that's something else.

I don't remember the page counts of the hundreds of novels I have read, but here is my list. In no particular order. The Amber Novels ~ Roger Zelazny Nine Princes in Amber The Guns of Avalon Sign of Chaos The Hand of Oberon The Courts of Chaos Chaos Series ~ John C. Wright Orphens of Chaos...

Stating you can't investigate the blatantly obvious because it would be metagaming is ridiculous on the face of it. The conversation you provided strongly indicates a form of irrationality is in play. There isn't a kinder way of putting it, regrettably.

I had already been referred to the original blog from somewhere. The critique linked here is basically what i was thinking to begin with.

Unless they plan on roleplaying conjugal activities, it should be ok. If they do, then maybe they need to review FATAL, or something. Be ready for drama related to the relationship, though. Obviously, if one is threatened, and they love each other, there are going to be issues. Which is...

I've been to the West Rim of the Grand Canyon at the Skywalk. The cliff face there is 4000 feet of absolute vertical drop. Strangely, it doesn't really appear that deep when you're looking straight down through the glass. It was funny, though. The Skywalk glass starts about 6-10 feet before...

Way back at the end of 2000, when I was preparing to run a D&D 3.0 campaign, multiple players approached me during character creation to point at Toughness and mention that the feat was underpowered as written. At the time, I agreed and house ruled they could role one extra hit die (for the...

Didn't you know? You've just described four-fifths of everything coming out of Hollywood.

I'm not a normal anything. No, wait...

Fair warning: Horror is not my thing. For my purposes, you would have to do a re-write to get it below NC-17. I don't know your players, but I hope you do, and if they're fine with this sort of thing, then go ahead. You're description already went too far for me. I looked up the Imprint...

I read Dream Park around 25 or so years ago. I thought it was so-so. I barely remember anything that happened now. I never felt any compulsion to read it again.

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