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More from Terry Gilliam.... They Always Break In The End Play: When caught in a bad position and trying to weasel out of it. Effect: If the NPC you are negotiating with has an attitude of Indifferent, you automatically get her to release you. If the NPC's attitude is Unfriendly or worse...

Well, my parents are concerned about my spending so much time playing. They think the folks I game with are not really my type. I don't know how, but somehow I've become the most liberal guy in my group. I don't know how I keep meeting conservatives :) I think they're right, that I'd be...

Is it me or are they giving halflings a particularly bloodthirsty image? I can remember in the Halfling issue last summer they had that picture of a halfling standing over an orc he'd killed, all splashed in blood and looking like he enjoyed it. Now they have "flesheaters?" Oy!! This is NOT...

This wasn't really a notice, not so's you could see it in the DVD, but I was watching LOTR again in the theatre (man, it was out forever round here) and when it comes to the big battle between Aragorn and the Uruk-hai, it went on forever, and a day, and when Aragorn won and cut off the...

I Got Better Play: Whenever you have suffered from transformative spells or effects, such as polymorph other or petrification, for 24 hours or more. Effect: You return to your normal state. You do not heal hit point damage. This effect only works if you were an unwilling target of the spell...

Here's one from Man of La Mancha: 103 (?): The Mirrored Knight Play: When a companion is suffering from a mind-influencing effect. Effect: You are able to show the companion what he has become, thus snapping him out of his delusion. If the poor fellow has deluded himself (by voluntarily...

733. Just before you start the game, roll a d20 (any d20) several times and note how many naturals you get (or not, that part's optional). When the players ask what you're doing, tell them you're estimating how lethal the game will be based on how you're rolling. I have a DM who does this...

SPOILERS! This last week I got Ultimate Spider-Man #25 (?) and ASM #44. Yeah, I'm a one-trick pony :) I liked USM, even though most of the middle of the book was in the last one from Spidey's POV. I liked the little phantoms swarming around ol' Norman's noggin, and the permutations of...

I don't know... I'd give my eye teeth to look like Elrond. Sure, he can look haughty, but I'll bet he's pleasant-looking enough when he's smiling. Plus, he owns Rivendell :) The rest of them... Gandalf's too old for my taste (I want a life ahead of me!), Aragorn and Boromir are too he-man...

FYI I don't think anybody was ever comparing LotR to WW2; I always thought that WWI was the influence for things like the Mere of Dead Men, seeing as Tolkien served in that war. Also, I think part of what gives Tolkien depth and history is that he's got characters who saw the things happen...

You've got a good website out there. A couple of things: I'm fairly sure that certain early revolvers used powder ammunition. The drum would come out and the chambers would all be charged at once. I haven't seen anything historical, mind, but I have read of such weapons in Cormack McCarthy's...

"Good for you! You've decided to clean the elevator!" Or "There goes the captain. Always was a lucky devil." I haven't seen this film in a long time, but I'm fairly sure that's the gist of the quotes. Then there's "Who ith it more important to pleathe -- the King of Thpain, or God?"...

How 'bout a d12 hit die and some specials that grant you AC bonuses or something? It just occurred to me that the barbarian is really set up to do the same kind of thing, i.e. fight with little or no armor. Of course, the barbarian gets really angry like Captain Furious, so that's not really...

I'm doing research on alien encounters and UFOs in preparation for a few short stories, and I figured I'd try here since I can't really go to the library in the middle of work :( There are several classic close encounters in the late forties early fifties before the greys started kidnapping...

I thought that was Australia -- which it is :) (This from someone who lives in a country founded by criminals, gold hunters, and religious outcasts -- I mean, Georgia was a penal colony, and Rhode Island was founded by a guy who wanted freedom of religion! We're fooling ourselves when we say...

Okay, this has been bothering me for about a year now, but I haven't done anything about it because I haven't needed to; I'm posting this now out of boredom and opportunity. I am not very clear on how much an acre of land is (:eek: For shame! Imagine a Kentucky farm boy not knowing how big an...

Okay, a little nitpick here... if it gets as warm as a campfire, won't it burn? What are the elfs going to use to cook their meals if they only have these to heat with? And what happens in hot climates? Does the stone not affect hot temperatures, or does it aggravate them? As for the...

I have had the virtuous impulse to enforce encumbrance rules for all of about three sessions; and then all of my players are complaining and so I drop it in order to focus on storytelling and whatnot. How does everyone here feel about the encumbrance rules? Do you enforce them or not? As...

Well, no, Inigo Montoya wouldn't have used a dagger. But then he didn't study that style of fencing. There was one, trust me, in which the fighter used a dagger in parrying his opponent's blade; the French called this dagger a main-gauche (lit. "left hand"), and it was that style I was...

Has anybody made a prestige class for a fencer? I'm thinking an unarmored figure wielding a light sword and perhaps a dagger. I know there's one in Sword & Fist, but I don't have that. Has anybody come up with their own? TWK "You speak treason." "Fluently."