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Hasty Timeline I think, in all honesty, that Peter Jackson was rather hard pressed to keep everything within his three-hour timeline. That being said, how hard could it have been to imply the passage of time? IIRC, he footnoted the beginning of the film -- saying, "The Shire, year...

Instabilities Sorry about that. I overreacted just a bit. (They don't have a sheepish grin smiley here, do they?) As for things to do... 1) The PCs' tribe is threatened by another invading tribe, which is pushing the first tribe out of its stomping grounds. The PCs' tribe can't really go...

The what? And, naw, anything named "Neolithic" has got to have its roots in the modern day! [/SARCASM] I wasn't casting the whole world as monolithic; just the region in which the PCs are first active. And, FYI, the culture I was thinking of was inspired by the Native American display at...

CrossGen.... I was reading through CrossGen's "Mystic" title, and at the beginning of one book the characters are in a wizard's bar and there are all kinds of cameos in the crowd behind them. Lessee... I can recognize plenty, but I can only name a few: Dr Strange The Scarlet Witch Harry...

Why would Australopithecines have halfling stats? Maybe without the size bonus; somehow 3E halflings are, IMO, kinda short for ape-men. Otherwise, this'd be good. How about some Saurials instead of lizardfolk? A recent Dragon presented four Saurial races for play. This is all well and...

Private Hudson, to Ripley, in Aliens Special Edition. A scene that, IMO, was largely redundant; I'd already gotten the idea that Hudson was all hat and no cattle from the original release version. Try this one [not a movie]: "Twenty dollars? I wanted a peanut!" TWK

I'm currently trying to read the FR novel Azure Bonds, which I found at a used book store and just couldn't resist (it was a moment of weakness :D ). I'm having trouble since GURPS Prime Directive just barged its way into my life, and this month's Spider-Man titles just arrived. Someone's...

Well... there's always the "There's a monster in the woods and now we can't go gathering fruits and nuts or hunting in there because it'll kill us, what are we going to do?" chestnut. I figure a few adventures in defense of the tribe ought to be sufficient at low levels. Maybe the PCs can...

I never said they were technology-impaired. I said this was a Stone Age setting -- they have stone axes and tools. How d'you think our ancestors got through the Stone Age if that wasn't enough? And how much more frequent are monsters in this era than in others? I didn't think I'd up the...

I never thought emotion was verboten. I just thought using the Force while experiencing fear or anger was bad. In fact, the only place I have seen anything mentioning control of emotions in situations other than the use of the Force has been in the source (read: spin-off) materials. Yoda...

One era of history I have not seen in an RPG is prehistory or primitive people. I'm not talking barbarians here, but Stone Age or earlier. I'm just going to jump in and detail a few things you'd need for Stone Age playing. Feel free to argue or add things. 1) Terrain. The terrain would...

Just what the heck are midichlorians, anyway? There are two possibilities: 1) They make their host Force-Sensitive. 2) They are attracted to Force-Sensitives. In either case, the more midichlorians there are, the more powerful in the Force the person is. If the first is true, then all you...

No One Said They Didn't.... No one ever said the Jedi didn't procreate. The fact that Luke is Vader's son doesn't seem to have raised too many eyebrows. No one said "Oh, hey there, bastard boy. You don't have a father. Come, let the Dark Side be your father...." ...or words to that effect...

One Shot per Stormie Then I suggest you rule that the stormies don't have that many vitality points. I haven't looked at SW d20 v2, but in the first edition they weren't much more than first-level thugs. They couldn't take many hits, but they were still more powerful than first-level...