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Someone urged me to post some fiction here today, so I'll start with an old piece of fan fiction. This is based on the original Baldur's Gate CRPG, so if you've never played it alot of the humour won't make much sense. Please enjoy. ---- A Ghoul’s Gotta Eat. The ghoul sat down upon a...

Selling by sex has been a feature of gaming for a long time - as long as I can remember at least. I mean, who's the quintessential D&D artist? Surely Larry Elmore has a big shot at that title, and he's renowned for cheesecake (as well as beefcake). Most of the other contenders (such as Todd...

I'm a wannabe author. Having only just found the storm which mythusmage stirred up in a now closed thread I feel lead to write a few words. 1. While I don't like all of the art in this forum, I can't draw at all and so admire the skill and passion with which every artist here approaches their...

I'd love a chance to study the pdf in detail - the rules seem really interesting. I've been trying to reconcile monk abilities with psionics for a while but have never been really satisfied with the outcome. Your version looks like what I've been trying for. I'm starting a new PC in the...

Re: Re: Re: Also Really? Your average medieval king couldn't make a siege last long enough to starve a fortress so well equipped, certainly not in the middle of a desert, where Masada is. Secondly, the defenders were not on the brink of starvation, they were on the verge of capture because...

Re: Re: Re: Also Your point is well taken, but the fact remains that defeat is defeat, and when pitting Rome against a medieval force it is more than just Knight v Legionnaire. Many Roman generals were master politicians and sought political as well as military solutions to warfare. It doesn't...

Re: Also Ask the Somalis or the Vietnamese how decisive technology is. Both these third world, backwater nations successfully resisted the military intervention of the most technologically advanced military on Earth. Tech is cool to have, but if that's all you have then it's not enough, as...

How about a culture that might have existed if the CHinese had developed regular trade with the North American natives in the 5th Century AD.

Two of the greatest generals of history, Napoleon Bonaparte and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were both short, unattractive and uninspiring men - until you put them on a battlefield. About Napoleon it was said: "When he put on his [general's] hat, he was six feet tall." About Toyotomi: "He looked like a...

I've kinda got the impression that many of the persons on the boards feel that a DM should not apply any metagame infuence to scenario building and more importantly, should plan ahead of time for encounters rather than doing anything ad hoc. The question that comes to mind is what do people...

Graf: Sounds like we're both suffering a bit from "I'm not sure I remember!" However, the details that you list lead me to believe that you have studied the period more closely than I and so I defer to your memory. There's loads more that I'd kinda like to say on the subject of racism but I...

I don't have my text books with me at the moment (I'm at work) but this is something that came up as a part of Perry's justification for his actions in ?1854? As far as how they found out, don't forget that the Tokugawa Shogunate did leave two cities open to trade and foreign legations, on the...

From 1616 until the arival of Commodore Perry, the Tokugawa Shogunate ordered the closure of all of Japan to foreigners, with the exception of one city (IIRC Shimoneseki). Any foreigner found anywhere else in Japan was summarily put to death, no exceptions. The US confronted Japan in the 1850's...

Canis, but a lazy intelligentsia is really a product of the late 20th Century Western malaise. As recently as the 1960's, intelligentsia - in the form of university and college staff and students - were involved in radical political action as a matter of course. The Weathermen, SNCC, SDS are all...

As I understand it. Shaolin kung fu has had a massive influence on Chinese fighting arts or wu shu, dating back at least a thousand years. But even in China, there are kung fu arts that owe nothing to the Shaolin tradition - Chin Na is one, IIRC. Also, a vast number of Chinese arts have...

The sifu at my school tells the story of how he was always getting into pub brawls when he went out with a particular mate of his. For years he just thought this was part of life. He went to study in Hong Kong et al. for a while and never got into one fight (except tournaments). He came back...

Some years ago I found that I had developed the habit of saying - "I could care less." As the poster above observed, this had the opposite meaning to what I was intending. In order to correct this, I developed an additional clause to the sentence - so now I say "I could care less, but I'd be...

I was always taught never to put a comma in front of "and" - and I'm an Aussie

The number one training that we do is stance training. At every grading, we have to hold stances for a specific set of time. I'm at the stage where for my next grading, I have to be able to hold a low horse stance for ten minutes. (My current record is eight) We also do a lot of conditioning...

For my impertinence I apologise fully. I was under the impression, falsely it appears, that you were teaching your art. If not, my statement still has meaning. In BSCLF there are more relationships than simply student - teacher (sifu). There is also the relationship to si bart (coequal in...