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This has got to be good for a topic: which films scared the life out of you as a small child? Bonus points for films that when watched as an adult are not really scary. I want films which showcase the terror/fear that atmosphere and an overactive imagination can produce.

Because the info in that link is verbatim copyrighted material that has not been released to public domain, I'm removing it. No harm done, but we can't allow anything that still counts as viable IP to be posted here.

There's not much I'm looking forward to. There's stuff that could possibly be quite good (Troy, Alexander), stuff I'm confindent will be okay, but nothing special, (Spider-man, Van Helsing, Around the World in 80 days & Harry Potter), and some stuff will promises to be absolutely heinous...

There's something I've noticed recently, mainly wandering thought the fantasy section of bookstores. Sometimes - instead of hardbacks - there are big (large print, large page size) softbacks produced. What's this about?

I been thinking about this. If you watch the films just for the action I can see why you'd choose Crusade, which has an action set-piece every 15 minutes or so. The best bits of Raiders surround the uncovering of the Ark and the setup to the Ark. There are large chunks of the film where there...

Is there a leach swarm out there? This is something I've always wanted to spring on my players...

I really like this thread. New ideas for customising magic are always welcome. I wouldn't go with the wizard=defiler, sorcerer=preserver or vice verse though. From what I recall of the setting all magic draws from life, and preserving/defiling are different stages along the same continum. I'd...

I re-read Raymond Chandler a lot. He writes detective fiction, and even though I know his books inside out, the style with which they are written has me grinning like an idiot as soon as I pick them up. I also love the way they're so carefully constructed, both in terms of the plot and the...

I've been wondering whether anyone had any books they re-read, and why they re-read them? What is it that had you returning to a book even though you know what will happen?

Would you care to cite some of these stories? I've no doubt that Tolkien drew on Medieval and Norse tales and poems, but these stories are very different from the Lord of the Rings in both form and content. I'm not claiming that Tolkien originated either travelogs or the battle against evil...

I just want to try and defend my remarks, which no-one has agreed with so far... I've almost finished the first book, I'm up to Lothlorien. So I've only a provisional opinion at the moment - and I will keep reading. So far it looks to me like the begining of The Sword in the Stone tacked on to...

I've been reading Tad Williams The Dragonbone Chair recently. It is a derivative Tolkien-clone; but is still the one of the best derivative Tolkien-clones I've read. What has really come as a surprise is the enormous and obvious influence it had on George R. R. Martin when he came to write A...

Joe, I think you're being somewhat dogmatic. Federal law does not apply outside of the US: so it can be legal for some people but illegal for others. Even the article you linked to refers to the uploading/downloading distinction: They say downloading can be (as opposed to is) illegal, there's...

The legal status of peer-to-peer file-sharing depends on your locality, no-one knows this (apart from you) so it's hard to comment. There may also be uncertainly as to it's status in a given area. For example there's just been a ruling that music downloading in Canada does not break the local...

Is there a good online source of OGC spells? If so could someone point me in its direction.

Thanks for the responses. It's all really interesting and useful! Could you expand on what you mean by "high concept"? And perhaps give some examples. I think I know what you mean in theory, but am unsure what it equals in practice. I, for one, would love to see it.

Somethings along these lines: I like the Half-Giants, but dislike the way they've been linked to psionics, and particularly the stomp 1/day.

What are the important ingredients of a good adventure? Of the best of the "classic" adventures out there, what makes them so good. I'm interested because we often get long threads recomending good modules, but little is said about what sets them apart from the crowd.

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In afraid I don't have much to add. I just want to offer my wholehearted support to your opinion. I've been reading Jack Vance's The Dying Earth tales recently. One of the setting features, that didn't make it to D&D, is the idea that there was once a golden age of magic, but most of this...