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Well, Traveller. My FLGS even has reprints of the originals as well as the GURPS versions, and the store down the way has the wayward T20. For a game from the 1970s, it did an good job of projecting technology, though its computer systems are pretty darn laughable. Then again, GURPS 3e, from a...

Well, I played a middle-aged Latin professor in Call of Cthulhu for a bit. However, old characters in CoC are much more advantageous than in D&D, and no one survives combat with Hast-- uh, him. Were combat the focus of the game, as it is in D&D, I don't think I would have played him, at least...

I always tie them to a temple, urban, rural or whatever.

I always considered the cleric more tied to his church than to his other environs. To hijack this a bit, each class has a "flavor" to it, something that determines how it is presented and, to a lesser degree, what its abilities are. As follows: barbarian = wilderness, bard = urban, cleric =...

Cleric/rogue prestige class. I adapted the temple raider of Olidammara since it was so weak, but I would enjoy a better effort than mine.

Nothing in particular. My point is that it makes little sense to make something as a protective measure and destroy it in the process of making it protect you, especially since once destroyed, it no longer protects you. Speaking of Nagini ... is Nagini the snake Harry frees in Philosopher's...

Harry, Horcruces and Death Folks, Harry is not a Horcrux. Points of evidence: * The only reason Voldemort bothered to kill Harry was because of Trelawney's prophesy. Thus, Harry would not have been on Voldemort's list of items with which to make seven Horcruces. If he wanted to make seven...

Indeed. One of the biggest problems I have with d20 Star Wars is that it doesn't run as fast and furious as the older d6 game. Something like Star Wars benefits from a rules-light system. I would like to see a Fudge Star Wars.

Anything Palladium. I really liked playing TMNT in high school, as it had a fun mutation system, but otherwise, the rules were awful. I've never seen a game system so blatantly encourage munchkinism -- I was regarded as odd in my group for making a pilot character and not taking a bazillion...

So far as I can tell, using "people" implies plural, when in this case, we should be using the singular.

You know, you were the guy who wrote the great review taking down Magic of Incarnum. There's your original product. So what if it wasn't any good? The previous mistakes are fixed. It's called an "erratum." I think you just like this argument. Don't buy the book and move on.

Mind telling that to both my college Shakespeare professors?

Past tense. Stouffer sued and lost. Rowling handling this case was part of the long delay for Order of the Phoenix. Using the idea of a adolescent boy being schooled in magic and fighting a magical creature is hardly plagiarism. In fact, I'd be very surprised if Gaiman was the first fellow to...

I've never seen a gay or bisexual PC. Something tells me I may have seen one or two as an NPC, and the GM was making light of this, but I really can't remember, and were this so, it was long ago, circa 1990 when I was still in high school. We weren't mature then, and in 1990, gay-bashing was...

My understanding of Jo Rowling's position on a Harry Potter RPG is that she thinks there is already enough Harry Potter merchandizing as it is. I can't see her having problems with RPGs -- many folks have homebrew Harry Potter RPGs as it is, and Rowling has to know about them, being as she reads...

In this compendium, is there a 0-level enchantment spell (for wizards) other than daze (which doesn't scale with level at all)?

Or you could just skip the product. We're not talking a necessity of life here. We're talking about a freaking game. If you don't like it, DON'T BUY IT. If enough gamers agree with you, WotC won't put something like this out again. If enough buy it, then they'll put out a similar compendium for...

GM's Guide? Where did you hear this one? My notes from the last Pyramid chat log mention nothing about that, and it's not like I don't read the SJG Fora.

Dang, I loaned my copy out ... at least I can still find the friend who has it. I loaned my GURPS Prisoner out to a friend who had it stolen, and I have NEVER, EVER seen another copy. That was 12 years ago ... Anyhow, I ordered Cops, Shapeshifters and Old West yesterday. I narrowed it down to...

Or the Kamikaze Kobold Korps from Dungeon #17. But more to the point, where has one of these books been for orcs and goblinoids? Races of Butt-Kicking would definitely be more interesting than the current publication list.