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Hello! Let the pedantic firearms-enthusiast trivia begin! ;) For the vast majority of semi-autos, this is true. However, there are designs that are made to be loaded by literally stuffing a loose cartridge into an empty chamber. They are usually engineered-for-simplicity designs that...

Hello! Dracula came from the area of Hungary, and his title was Voivode of Wallachia. Presumably that would correspond at least roughly with the Western Count. The Russians used their version of the title (Voevody) to refer to provincial governors. Russia's old, aristocratic nobility were...

Hello! Don't own any night-vision gear myself, but HowStuffWorks is a fun technology general-information site, and has a decent article on the subject of night-vision equipment here, covering both thermal-imaging and light-intensification technologies. They say that the difference in...

Hi again! Indeed it is. Fascinating. Struck me as NetHackish or Zorkish at first, but looking it up, it turns out to be even older. Where I had seen it was its entry in the Jargon File. Here's another page of info on the subject. And one more quote tossed into the ring: "You lose...

Hello! Morrus' GenCon Odyssey: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of role-playing, the webmaster, trolled for years on end, after he took on the burden of the proud site of Noah. He saw Milwaukee and learned the minds of many...

Hello! Gotta love it. :D Brings to mind my favorite Wizardry anecdote. My friend Walter and I are sneaking in a little forbidden gaming on the computer lab's Mac Pluses. He's playing Strategic Conquest, I'm playing Wizardry (I actually still have the Master Disk around somewhere). He...

Hello! Hmm, into the third page of a "Greatest Villain of All Time" thread on a D&D Messageboard, and no one's mentioned Lorraine Williams yet. Perhaps her image is slowly being rehabilitated... ;) Lots of other nice suggestions, though. Richelieu, Moriarty, the Great Old Ones, Morgoth, Dr...

Hello! Well, first I intend to have a little fun and get the feel of the new rules by rebuilding some of the many Epic-level NPCs of one of my favorite campaign settings, Mystara, under the 3e rules. Actually, I'm converting a bunch of NPCs, not just Epic-level ones, but because BD&D...

Hello! ROCK 'EM SOCK 'EM GAUNTLETS! Gotta love it. "You knocked my block off!" Suicide as atonement, while perhaps realistic for harsh lawfuls, generally does not improve the game experience, you're right. Perhaps a peek at the character's fate - his petitioner (basically, spirit, see...

Hello again! Thanks for the list, RogueJK. I kinda suspected that the Karameikos boxed set must have had an associated module, but I didn't know what it was. And I've heard of those survival kits, but didn't realize they were Mystara-specific. This is supposedly a pretty widely held...

Hello! Hmm...tough, tough, call, choosing between my two favorite worlds, Birthright and Mystara. I chose Mystara, since it looks like it needs more support, but my true favorite among them depends on what mood I'm in when I'm asked... Inspirational response, Sigil. It does my heart good...

Hello! So...the sinister secret behind the Tin Man's seemingly innocent wish is revealed at last. One can only shudder at the thought of what might have happened had the Wizard been able to give him an actual heart... Excellent work, Talath! :D

Hello! Like so many other fantasy themes, the flying island/castle/city thing was played with a bit in the old BD&D world of Mystara. There, these items tended to be concentrated in Alphatia, a highly magical empire with a historical specialty in air magics. The kingdom of Floating Ar...

Hello again! This is true. As I mentioned above, the Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games (GURPS, Illuminati, Munchkin, etc.) is a Texan, and the Steve Jackson of the Sorcery! series and other Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks is British. I also seem to remember hearing that the British Steve...

Hi again! Wow, that was quick! Thanks again. Now I'll know to keep my eyes open for them in the new book stores, as well as the used... :D

Hello! Cool link - thank you very much, Eternalknight. Any word on other titles? I'm hoping especially for the Sorcery! series (The Shamutanti Hills, Khare - Cityport of Traps, The Seven Serpents, and The Crown of Kings), my own introduction to the genre. I played a bit with a friend's...

Hello! Optimium combat stats for a weapon/familiar/summoned creature are all well and good, but among players I've seen, they are regularly trumped by a thing called sheer coolness. Going, say, the swashbuckling Finesse/Rapier route, the knightly Lance and Spirited Charge route, or the...

Hello! If Wizards rejects that, you might want to do up a GURPS treatment and fire it off to Steve Jackson - he's supposedly a serious Lego-phile. In either case, sounds like you have a sweet "product placement" deal just waiting to happen... :) Perhaps this one would bring some measure of...

Hello! As always, my own standard of munchkinism is defined by several of the characters in the classic story, The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters. All major characters in the story except Ringman are powergamers; those who have stuck with the Union until the end of the story...

Hello again! Boring? You're too modest - you did quite a nice job in the post that started this thread, parody though it was. Again, true. It just doesn't fit the "Real Man" stereotype of role-playing that is more or less the topic of this thread, and which has much in common with my own...