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Sure, why not? Either one. Take your pick. So long as the rules aren't being broken, what difference does it really make? It's your game (or your DM's), so you decide (or ask your DM). There's nothing necessarily wrong with, for example, having a character that more or less looks like a...

Here's the idea... Both HGW and ERB got it part right, but also got a lot of details wrong in the way that legends normally do. What HGW thought were Martians weren't. They were just as alien to Mars as they are to Earth. (In my campaign, these guys are going to be either Mind Flayers or...

I'm awfully curious about this as well, since I've got a variation of Dark Sun in mind that sits down to dinner with Wells and Burroughs... Barsoomian Mars existed, the War of the Worlds actually happened, and Athas is what became of the Earth after we lost. So, my dilemma is... Do I...

But, to a large degree, that's still buy-in... Buy-in being generally defined as a shared commitment to a common goal. The only difference is how you decide what the common goal is. Many DMs ask their players, "What type of game are you interested in?" You are asking them, "Are you...

I find this terribly interesting... If I'm not mistaken, Gearheart is the Americanization of Gerhardt, a German name (I have quite a few modestly distant relatives by that name), which in turn is derived from Gerard, a primarily English name first introduced by the Normans, which literally...

For the record, no. It's not nearly enough to cover all the land on the planet. If all of the Antarctic ice (roughly 90% of all the ice on the planet) melted, sea levels would rise by about 60 meters (~200 feet). In fact, it would only affect a relatively small percentage of land. Although...

Here's another thought... Must the name be British-sounding? What about something like Amélie L'Enfant? Or Victoria Delafilo?

It's more than just titles or mechanically sounding stuff, though... For example, my wife recently made a pulp character (the naming conventions should be fairly similar for steampunk, since very often steampunk can be considered Victorian Age pulp) for a Spirit of the Century game. Together...

I'd do it one of two ways... The first is the ever popular mistaken identity schtick: The PCs are all hanging out in a tavern, when a shaky looking elf rushes up to them out of nowhere. Before the shoked characters can do much of anything, he presses a crumpled wad of parchment into their...

Oh, here's another one I'd forgotten about... Star Thugs

Invade, schminvade. All they need to do is drop a really fast rock on top of your moon base... It doesn't even have to be a very big rock. Problem. Solved.

7th Sea

I've had aspirations for foreign bodies ever since I visited France, when I was in college.

Oh, I thought about that one... Except that I wasn't entirely certain what Eric's Grandma would have thought about that bit in the middle.

As a general group, we consumers are kind of stupid that way, aren't we? :p

YouTube - ‪Yakko's Universe Song‬‎ It's a great big universe, and we're all really puny. We're just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney. It's big and black and inky, and we are small and dinky. It's a big universe and we're not.

Right... I can fully understand the "We made a truck load of money, let's make another truck load of money" vibe. What I can't quite understand is "Let's slaughter our cash cow by making a half-assed movie that we fully acknowledge as not even good enough to put into the theaters". If they...

Absolutely, they are... More like really big Mercuries, than Earths. But still, it bodes well for the future of our exoplanet detecting abilities. But something else that a lot of people forget about is that gas giants tend to a lot of moons... and very often, large moons. Consider that...

That's not exactly true... If you check the list of Extrasolar Planets, we've discovered at least a dozen that are no more than ten times the mass of the Earth (Earth's mass is ~0.00315 Jupiter masses). One of them, Gliese 581 e is less than twice the mass of Earth. Another, COROT-7b is...