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Almost afraid to read it, given the craziness that is Turn Order Warped ;)

And I'd just wondered yesterday when something like this was going to pop up. Good price is gravy :D

Free booklets with the purchase of your cardboard box!

A female DM? Yeah, like that ever happens.

Wow, that is some really, really bad luck! Do magic springs count? <ranma1/2> Spring of Drowned Panda Spring of Drowned Girl Spring of the Drowned Yeti Holding an Eel and Crane while Riding an Ox (no, I did not make that last one up....) </ranma1/2>

One of my favorites, though that is the opening to the26-episode follow-up TV series, Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight. The original Lodoss is a 13-part OVA. I liked the original, lost interest about a third of the way through the TV series, even though that opening is my...

Besides the Rules Cyclopedia, I'd add: DMGR1: Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide DMGR5: Creative Campaigning The Complete Book of Villains Great advice on plotting, planning, pacing of adventures/campaigns. It really helped me to broaden my focus in adventure writing. There was also some...

Looks to me like you're not missing much, really.....

I can 't speak for how AD&D 'feels' in play, never having played enough to develop much of a feel for it, but I can say that Basic D&D played nearly nothing like the bullet points you outline in the OP. In many games, my players did, in fact, run 3d6 in-order characters. After a bit, we went to...

I'd check it out, but for some reason, Wizards seems to think my cookies are turned off, even though they aren't....

Yoko Kanno, Taku Iwasaki.

The Video Game battle themes can work, although they may fall into "to familiar" territory (along with much of John Williams' music. Alas, no Imeperial March!) As has been said, the various Final Fantasy themes are good (especially if you can find fully orchestrated versions); also, Chrono...

Alternity is highly narrative-friendly. Layer on as much complexity as you like.

I would recommend (in addition to the excellent albums already mentioned): -- Anything by Yoko Kanno (Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Cowboy Bebop) -- For BBEG fights, you might try the Shadow of the Colossus, by (spelling of his name varies) Ko Otani. -- Anything by Yuki...

No tea. A thing your aunt gave you that you have no idea what it is. Pocket fluff.

Usually when running a game, I only call for broad skill checks -- a hero can step up to any specialty skill appropriate (that he has ranks in, of course), and the outcome is ultimately determined by that. So, while the ambush may call for an Awareness check, a hero with ranks in -perception...

Lighting is simply an element of the overall environment that can help or hinder a check, be it -perception, -intuition, or Ranged-pistol. Really good lighting will give you a bonus, poor lighting a penalty. In the dark room example, if the thugs were still scrambling for position rather than...

For the most part, Awareness and the two specialty skills are "passive." The heroes don't call for checks (unless the heroes need a nudge of some sort after coming to a complete dead end). Awareness is used to determine who gets the drop on whom to initiate a surprise phase before action...

Isn't that what commoners are for, though....? :p

Trev, you may want to loot the WotC d20 web enhancement from the Menace Manual, which is a step-by-step rebuild of an Alternity monster into d20. Combined with the old "Dungeons to Drivespace" article from Dragon, I've found the Menace Manual's web enhancement to be invaluable in crossing the...