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Well, the last rules I saw for this are now one edition old. Player's Option: Combat & Tactics (Boo! Hiss!) had fatigue rules. Basically, everyone has a number of fatigue points equal to their hit points; fighting costs 1 fatigue point per round. Once fatigue = 0, you reset, are fatigued...

Eh, it was in the Pacific Ocean somewhere. I'm not too sure where. One of the farmers was of Japanese descent, so that's maybe where the Japanese angle comes from. I quite liked the book, which is called "Strangers from the Sky," BTW. There's a dichotomy between the aging Kirk et al (it's...

Go, alsih20 and all you others, go! Go! My father smoked for decades, and quit two or three years ago, cold turkey. I'm so proud of him; I'm most proud of a certain feat of willpower he displayed. One Christmas, he wrecked our car. Someone crossed in front of him in a dysfunctional junction...

So what you're saying is that adventurers are basically Australians with a homicidal bent? :D Seriously, I don't worry too much about the economics scale (we don't play so long we can afford to!), so when it comes time to buy things I let the party have them at the PHB prices. When and if...

OT -- did you know he beat out They Might Be Giants in an influential magazine poll? They came in fourth behind Jesus, Hitler, and Ric Flair. Oy! No, he's an archlich. Thus, he's someone who has been so utterly pious and forgiving that God won't let him die. That's why he forgave the man...

Arr! Anyone be sayin' I cain't talk like a pirate I'll split from stem to stern! Arr! Arrr! Arrrrr! TWK Us Whiner Knights are never more dangerous than when we're dead!

You mean -- like JRR Tolkien? :D Okay, I cede. Pippin tipped them off. But I think it was necessary, or at least inevitable. Something has to turn Gandalf the Grey into Gandalf the White. I'd be unsatisfied if it were anything less than the Balrog. Gandalf's supposed to be a major bad...

Well, a lot of the Imps in the fiction and movies are absolute bastards. I've always understood that the farther from the Core (and thus the Emperor's power base), the worse they could act because it wouldn't affect the Emperor's image very much. So make this one Imp (or several of them) a...

I was looking at CrossGen myself, except that I was trying to find a way to model the sigil's granted power first and worry about things like races later. The only CrossGen comic to feature more than one sigilbearer as regular is Meridian. They've had some crossover issues, and one new line...

Edena, I think you're too hard on Pippin. So Pippin is tied up, ignored, treated like excess and unnecessary baggage, and generally intimidated... BY HIS FRIENDS! I don't think Frodo would have stood for this. I don't think Merry or Sam would have, either. Gandalf the Grey certainly...

Space Combat Sims I've known.... X-Wing: Not very realistic, but it works like an airplane sim for the most part (except there's no bank or yaw controls; you just turn), but hey, you get to shoot TIE fighters!! What more do you want? There's a Win95 version out there. You get access to...

Easy -- he heard that the mines were being used for shady practices. Maybe some Hutt spice smugglers were hiding there, or the Rebels were, or pirates, or something. Anyhow, his immediate superior can't be bothered to detach any troops to go look (since the Imps don't do anything alone :)), so...

Kurtulmak proves that, yes, you can pack that much bitterness into that little space. Good going, Midget! And I must admit that my favorite bit of guilty pleasure in HOL is the device known as "Kitty Kitty Bang Bang." Not that I'd do that to a cat, of course. TWK

In the last game I played in, our paladin was detecting evil from up the corridor. We came around a corner and ran into some Bugbears, who aggressed at us (though not very much, because we had surprise; they growled, was all). So the party commenced to slaughter them, and didn't even give them...

Aha! More Thieves' World fans! Pity -- most of my group doesn't know TW (and my gf doesn't like it) :( I picked up a copy of the box that was missing the Personalities of Sanctuary, but I figure I can stat 'em up on my own. Haven't got around to it yet, though.... It's early 80s and looks...

In a week I'm going to see my girlfriend from Oak Ridge. Either she comes up here to Lexington, KY, or I go down there. Nothing's standing in our way! Tonight I'm going out with my brother to see a movie and do some patriotic shopping so the economy will jump start itself and we can afford...

I think what SemperJase means by "Comics Code" is a policy instituted by TSR in the mid-80s. I don't know the terms of the policy, but I infer that they were similar to the CCA (no dripping bloody necks). I admit I'm not too fond of the new "gritty" look of D&D, but I don't see why we should...

Another thought... Dragon #290 has a couple of articles on those social skills we all know and neglect :) and their use in-game. What if folk of a particular background knew a common jargon and received a bonus to use it with each other? Some professions could use slang or cant, but jargon...

I was just looking through my copy of Dragon #286, and back past all the Shannara stuff there's an installment of Silicon Sorcery dealing with Arcanum; specifically, backgrounds. For those of you unfamiliar with Arcanum or the article in question, each character gets to choose a background...

I'd say determine the outcome of the battle WITHOUT the PCs -- that is, if the PCs were not there, who would win? It sounds like the Shadow Academy, because they've got numbers. Then, determine several key points in the battle where the PCs' actions could influence the outcome, and develop...