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Maybe in a modern army, where all combat is essentially skirmish based - everyone's got a versatile missile weapon as their primary piece of equipment. Fighters from the pre-modern era mostly expect to close with their enemy in open combat, not get shot at from behind trees by an enemy using...

The dance of seven veils is a famous belly dance - it used to get mentioned a lot in Hollywood movies fromt the 30's - 50's, especially the Arabian Nights style movies. I didn't have that impression at first, but I did think that Veil referred to a piece of clothing. Still, there are much...

I wonder if I was entirely honest: Str: 17 Int: 17 Wis: 14 Dex: 12 Con: 9 Chr: 15 It's made me feel good though.:)

I think the problem for many DMs is that their party won't wait long enough to find out that a bugbear is pacifist. The swords are out and the fireball's already winging its way to the bugbear before it has time to say "We are all brothers...(erk)!" However, I do agree that if handled properly...

Superficial: check ill-informed: check quoting important authors without fully understanding their work: check failing to acknowledge the longstanding film tradition of sf, heroic fantasy, historical fantasy et al: check massively us-centric vision of worldwide cultural trends: check Yup...

Part 4: No mind flayer gets out alive. As the mind flayer disappeared with our unconscious comrades, I dove forward to the point on the floor which they had just been occupying. Seeing the illithid vanish, I could tell what psychic ability it had engaged and I knew that I might have a chance at...

Obviously Crothian is enworld's no. 1 guy for what Thieve's World is, but since he hasn't bitten yet - Thieves' World began as a series of short stories by numerous fantasy authors, published in collections edited by Robert Asprin. The stories were set in and around the city of Sanctuary, a...

I'm with Geoff, I'm afraid. You are mistaken. There are reports of Revolutionary War musket balls which bounced off heavy leather bandoliers; and these were rifled bore weapons. The Japanese had armour that comfortably prevented musket-ball penetration. Tokugawa Ieyasu once walked uninjured from...

Runequest (2nd ed) Bushido (a lot of proto DnD 3e concepts here)

I think all preachers would consider what they say as sharing. On a side note, what's with the "hehe" all the time?

I had no idea that "australian lamb" was a real phrase. I've never known any other kind.;) This menu reminds me of a send up of bad tv cooking shows that I really like. The script runs like this: cooking show host: "Hello, and welcome to another episode of cooking for people other than you...

Personally, I was impressed that that the secret conspiracy has enough manpower to have two agents turn up on his doorstep within an hour - did the third reich or the USSR have this kind of surveillance coverage?:D Fun read though.

The plot of the film Predator would make an excellent travelling adventure. The party has to make a journey through a deep wilderness, where all of the terrain is a challenge (as per a previous poster's comment) then add in a single assassin/monster, using hit-and-run tactics to attack the...

Is this a base class or PrC, cause its only got ten levels but no entry requirements. If it's a base class, then what's the thinking behind the ten levels?

Part 3 - The Mind Flayer's Lab When Mark returned with the news that a mind flayer lurked at the end of the passage, I knew that we had stumbled upon something of greater scope than some random monster terrorising the lizard folk of Scalytown. Illithids are not given to random acts. They are...

Mine also derives fromt he Princess Bride, though a little more obscurely. When the masked "Man in Black" is asked who he is he replies with the enigmatic "No one of consequence." I always thought it was a cool response and it's almost never taken on boards like this, so when people see it they...

Very cool thread Edena - just the sorts of things I like to discuss. As far as medieval ethics versus modern (or proto-modern) there is a need to be careful in our views. The medieval period is hardly homogenous - there's a lot of variety in the past. For example - your quote from the story...

I just checked my PHB - I have no idea where I got the idea that Spiked Chain was a double weapon!!??!! This is going to require some thinking.:(

To reduce off hand penalties with the double weapon.

Kites could be used to attack fliers. If made from fantasy materials - magical cloth, adamant struts, mithril strings etc. - then it could attack fliers at an intermediate range - like a missile weapon. A kite master could make kites that fly on ethereal winds, making them usable in conditions...