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This is one of my favourite "things that happened that Europeans have conveniently left out of history". Or at least it's an interesting theory. It sounds like Menzies is a little generous in attributing it all to China - still, way fun to think about. Thanks for the review. (a thorough and...

The best scenario I've run in recent years had the players shipwrecked on an island owned by a (now dead) mage. The mage had been experimenting in building an iron golem and had used his apprentice's spirit as the power source for the creature. It had gone berserk and killed the mage just a...

Re: Re: Sympathiser speaks :D Thanks Gez. I needed that.

Sympathiser speaks ::phew:: just finished reading the whole thread. I had a long agreement to the original post and rebuttal to many points made, but I just reached a point where I thought - what is the point? I think that the reason that I agree with the original post is that there are just...

LOL!!!!!:cool:

The comment made about this "not being America" was probably referring to the spate of school shootings which was occuring just prior to 9/11, not to the notion of America being a dangerous place. Remember also that Bowling for Columbine has recently had a run here in Oz and just won an Academy...

My 2gp - (observant readers will note that I've offered this notion before) Law vs Chaos = Duties vs Rights This is how I play it. Lawful alignments are concerned with order - this also means that they believe that there is an appropriate order to things, a right and a wrong way for life to...

It's astonishing how many people seem to think that executing prisoners for convenience sake is a morally good act in war. Just because you can't feed your enemy doesn't mean that you can just kill them all, Geneva convention or no Geneva convention. As to alignment based response - All good...

Points to consider: 1. European martial arts traditions were superseded by the use of firearms (certainly in the armies). 2. From the sixteenth century, Europeans experienced almost continuous warfare often using conscript armies (or at least large numbers of conscripts). An army cannot waste...

Oy! Oy! Oy! :rolleyes: I can't believe I just did that.

I always felt that Traveller was pretty evocative. Empire of the Petal Throne gets the vote for classics though.

"Surrender is still possible." "It will give me no pleasure if you force me to kill you." "Allow me to show you some of the finer points of the :insert MA style name here:"

"I told you - we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a bi-weekly meeting, with a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs, but with a two thirds...

Strictly yes, but since my university doesn't have a dedicated cultural studies department I've done it under History. When people ask I tell them I'm doing a PhD in History and Cultural Studies. My markers were respectively an expert in sf studies, a cultural studies expert and a literary...

I've just completed my PhD thesis looking at myth and modern sf film as a prime site for myth of the metaphysical in the late 20th century. As you might well imagine, the Star Wars saga featured prominently, as did Campbell - though personally I made better use of the works of Mirceau Eliade...

There's the Weightless Foot PrC from the OA issue of Dragon a year or so ago (WotC no longer has the covers on their website so I can't find the issue number, sorry) It's a pretty easy class to qualify for (5-7 lvl), but I don't think it gets continuing monk abilities (unarmed attacks & damage...

Sorry Tacky, I see it now in your original post. I'm reading at work and have to scan pretty quickly sometimes. I really enjoyed Sean McMullen's books and have considered introducing this concept to a campaign of my own. I think it'd be really interesting.

Something that hasn't been raised in this discussion is "call anchors". These are devices that everyone wears on their belts. They're clockwork and have to be reset every hour or so. If they don't get reset then they fire an anchor into the ground. The idea is, if the call sweeps across you and...

It's a Baldur's Gate fanfic site - I write fiction there mostly. Some of the authors are quite good, though quality can be variable.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, my hand is up yet again! Also: NiTessine - nice to see you over at the Attic.