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    Greatest Character Showdown Round 6 (Results IN)

    1. Indiana Jones "That aztec coin belongs in a museum!" 2. Odysseus (he was known as Ulysses or Ulixes in Roman mythology.)
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    Greatest Character Showdown Round 5 (Results IN)

    1. Conan 2. Gandalf 3. Odysseus 4. Indiana Jones (Han shot first but Indy took his name from his dog!)
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    What D&D scenario would make the best D&D movie?

    "When a Star Falls" I think the encounters in that would be varied and visually interesting. Also, several different locales above and below ground.
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    Help me populate a 400-person village.

    Bill Groom - 15 year old human male, strong enough from working most of his life around the village, healthy lad with a bright smile. Will engage in chitchat from time to time but dislikes gossip or someone trying to get him to take a side in an argument. Bill likes horses, however many are...
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    It's almost August - what are we calling this place?

    August it's time to make up a new name!
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    Greatest Character Showdown Round 4 (Results IN)

    1. Odysseus 2. Buffy Summers 3. Gandalf 4. Sherlock Holmes 5. Tarzan 6. Indiana Jones 7. Superman 8. Captain Jack Sparrow Missed the one question... I reserve my comment about Batman for after this is over. Yes Yes
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    Is The Orc and The Pie a well-designed adventure module?

    Pie arn't square, pie are round. Cake are square.
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    Ever had a player get so bent out of shape over something small, then refused to play

    One guy I knew showed up on a night we knew he had a date and explained it thusly, "You can get laid anytime, but a good game of D&D... it's priceless." He didn't understand why we all laughed at him. Later, I found out the woman he went to see had been drinking, wanted to talk about their...
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    Campaigns in a nutshell. Adventures in a sentence.

    Imperial Summons The campaign setting was based on the comment in the 1e DMG about there having once been 10th+ magic during which time artifacts were created. I set an ancient empire where this was so. The armies were all outfitted with magic armor and weapons and there were military units...
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    Greatest Character Showdown Round 3 (Voting CLOSED)

    1. Gollum 2. Superman 3, Buffy Summers 4. James Bond 5. Tarzan 6. The Doctor 7. Sherlock Holmes 8. Bugs Bunny 9. Hal Jordan 10. Spider-man 11. Robin Hood 12. Yoda 13. Ra's al Ghul 14. Han Solo 15. Odysseus 16. Mr. Spock
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    Should a NPC cleric heal himself?

    Gotta love Wiki Arduin Arduin was great, it had the basic concept that anything was possible and the more dangerous it made the game play for players and GM the better.
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    Greatest Character Showdown Round 2 (Results IN)

    1. Dream (The Sandman) 2. Samwise Gamgee 3. BA Baracus (A-Team) 4. Horatio Hornblower 5. Cthulhu 6. Raistlin Majere 7. Rufus (Kim Possible) 8. Ra's al Ghul 9. Optimus Prime 10. King Kong 11. The Gray Mouser 12. Khan 13. 'Dirty' Harry Callahan 14. Tigger 15. Allan Quartermain 16. Bugs...
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    Fallen (tonight) ComicCon Review (Spoilers)

    Definitely an odd marketing scheme. I figure there must be some issue built into the contract that made this happen. SciFi is an odd network anyway. Some things work better than others.
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    Fallen (tonight) ComicCon Review (Spoilers)

    Things that made me dislike this show. 1. The lead character, Aaron, asks something about God and a character, I think it was Exekial, comments "Allah, Shiva, Tao..." giving the impression that all religions are from the same source. From a comment on another board, I think the book this is...
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    Greatest Character Showdown Round 1 (Results Posted)

    1. Batman 2. Cthulhu (Urp!) 3. The Cheshire Cat (I had to choose between two I nominated?!? man, that's rough!) 4. The Doctor 5. Wonder Woman 6. Jack Burton 7. Sherlock Holmes 8. Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) 9. Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the...
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    Greatest Character Showdown! (Nominations CLOSED)

    I take your meaning. After the nominations are closed I'd like to mention some that I think would be interesting if no one else nominates them.
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    Greatest Character Showdown! (Nominations CLOSED)

    Find me a quote from a mere dragon that non-fantasy types can quote. lots of folks know the phrase "Quoth the raven, "nevermore". ;) Wait, this might do! :D #104 Puff the Magic Dragon From wikipedia "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow and...
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    Greatest Character Showdown! (Nominations CLOSED)

    #94 The Raven From "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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    Greatest Character Showdown! (Nominations CLOSED)

    #80 The Cheshire Cat Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll "And as she went along, there was the Cat again! And she told it she didn't like it coming and going so quickly. So this time the Cat vanished quite slowly, beginning with the tail, and ending with the grin. Wasn't that a...
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    Greatest Character Showdown! (Nominations CLOSED)

    #77 Jonah Hex is a bounty hunter whose face bears a scar from a hot tomahawk, and whose attitude is fittingly surly and cynical, although tempered with a personal code of honor. He had a wild and dangerous life with some happiness amidst the misfortune. He traveled in time and his corpse...
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