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I'm not a catholic priest but I do have close ties with the seminary here in my home town. I may be able to help. My email is m.barron@ecu.edu.au.

Me! Me! Me! Pick me!:D Edit: never mind!:( Edit 2: second alternate:D Now I just need to use my psychic powers to psyche out two other participants. *zap*

Hi, I'm not sure where the War, Evil and Suspected Enemy agents thread broke the rules. Also, I don't understand what your comment about Nutkinland means. Could you please clear it up for me. This is an honest question, not an attempt at debate. I'm quite happy for you to answer this...

On assassin vs. ordinary adventurer: Assassins have to be evil because their standards of destruction are the most extreme. An adventurer only has to drive off or subdue monsters to be successful. Killing is the only measure of an assassin's success. They're evil because their whole function...

An assassin can choose not to be an assassin; a gun cannot choose not to be a gun. Just because an assassin lets themselves be used like an inert weapon, doesn't make them morally neutral!

This was a great issue - one of my early favourites. The Giants in the Earth article by Moore was brilliant. It even contained the immortal line - "using Conan on a low level party is like using an atom bomb to kill flies." Ahh, the nostalgia.

Re: No Way From realpolitik, a philosophy not known for its compassionate stances The "evil" is relative, but that doesn't stop it being evil. Adolf would be proud.;) Seriously though, the fact the we play a game based in medieval fantasy doesn't mean that we have to accept a medieval...

Is the purpose of this thread to discuss the distinction(s) between sf (speculative fiction), science fiction and fantasy? If so then my personal position is that science fiction and fantasy are in essence the same things in as much as the texts present stories which demand lesser or greater...

Point of history - the deus ex machina is not Greek in origin and Greek tragedians did not use it. It dates from European drama in a period between the Renaissance and the Modern era.

Diesel????:mad: I don't hold with this new fangled stuff! My difference engine runs fine on steam, thank you very much. Ye can keep your stinking diesel!

We have a winner! You may collect your kudos at your liesure.

Alecto Megaera Tisiphone (kudos for those who know the origin).

I'd say video game design and pnp design have probably influenced each other. Once computer graphics started to reach a stage where they could reasonably represent rpg concepts, those concepts started to appear in the games. Not so much in the arcade games, but in pc games for sure. I still...

I'm quoted in someone's sig - I have made it as an enworlder. *dancing a happy dance* :D :D :D :D :D

Part 9: Demonweb Test II Descending the stairs, we found ourselves in a simple room cut from the earth. The floor was dusty and the whole area seemed to be lit by some indeterminate means, so that everything seemed to be in dim twilight. Through the dust on the floor we were able to make out...

If our party didn't have a bard, we'd be hard pressed figuring out what anything was, especially magic items. It's not as if a Horn of Blasting (tm) comes with a warranty card and instructions on use. "This end towards foe.":)

4, count them, 4 sandgropers. This has got to be a record. Are any of you others members of the Hall of Heroes and Heroines? I've been thinking that I should look in on it at some stage but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Any info?

The two fighters whose experience I respect the most laugh at the idea of ending up on the ground. Their attitude is "first to go down = first to lose".

Hand up for competition. (will beg if necessary)

*dancing a happy jig at my desk* I knew I got to work early for a reason;)