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I like going to (brick and mortar) bookstores (and gamestores). Its recreation for me, so that's why I support them. But the service at the local Borders seems to have gone downhill lately. I called them last week to inquire whether they had (or could order) some books. The woman that I spoke to...

How about zombies carrying kegs of gunpowder instead of dwarves? Makes use of the enemy dead, and doesn't blow up your own troops.Of course, there's that pesky moral problem with animating corpses...

The eponymous sword from the Luna Brothers' comic series The Sword. Keeps you perpetually young, allows you to regenerate all damage (but not regrow severed bits), and grants immense strength and speed. Oh, and is a very powerful melee weapon besides. The drawback is that you have to touch it...

The mediium that inspired me the most is books. Howard, Lovecraft, Smith, Tolkien, Lewis, Vance and many more. More recent writers like Cook, Mieville, and Wolfe have also inspired me. Movies are secondary, but have had an influence, too. I'd include many of the same movies that Stormonu did...

Generally I offer them the chance to run an NPC - unless they have somebody else to run already (such as a henchman/cohort).

I've had a female DM, but only briefly. Female players are more common - but players are more common than GMs.

I've never been to a game store where the politics were "in your face". I think that a store owner expressing different politics than mine wouldn't bother me - unless the views were abhorrent rather than merely different. I have friends on both sides of the political spectrum, and we disagree...

Sure - but its much smaller. And probably has a thinner neck.:)

I played in it as part of a campaign. Since our PCs knew that the place was reputedly a fiendish maze of death traps, we acted with great caution. A lot of spells did, in fact, help. We didn't advance one step without a find traps spell running, and doubtful items/areas were viewed with true...

Its never come up in my campaign. My own neck is about 5" in diameter, so a proportionately-sized human with a 10' neck would be 144' tall. I assume that a dragon would be somewhere in that ballpark also. My players have never squared off with Godzilla. If it did come up, I'd rule that the head...

Just 10 is hard, but here goes... 1E DMG 1E PHB !E Unearthed Arcana 1E MM 1E MM2 1E Fiend Folio 1E Deities and Demigods (with Cthulhu) Arduin Grimoires 1-3

I never saw a group that always went left (or right, for that matter). I once was played a paladin of Varda (one of Tolkien's Valar) that preferred to go west rather than east (because the Valar resided in the uttermost west). "East is beast and west is best" was his slogan. :)

I guess that its a matter of taste, but I liked a lot of the stuff that Frank Mentzer wrote. While the majority of the Fast Forward stuff was pretty awful, Gammaworld and Metamorphosis Alpha were pretty cool. Tim Kask I know only as a Dragon editor, and the other fellow I don't know at all. The...

Many times. Most recently a monster critted a PC, leaving her with very few HP remaining. The next round the monster won the initiative. With two attacks, the monster was over 75% likely to hit with at least one, and average damage from one hit would drop the character. The monster attacked and...

Almost indefinitely. In a 1E game I was an elven fighter/magic user. I reached my level max in both classes eventually, but still had a lot of fun with the character. There are other ways to improve besides going up in level.

IMC, magic is the process of drawing substances, energies, or influences from other planes. In a D&D world the barriers between planes can be (temporarily) opened just by achieving certain mental states. Spells are just recipes for achieving the right mental state. The words, gestures. material...

Monks (of the "kung-fu fighting" variety) in the quasi-European part of the game world are members of a single order (which then split into three over theological differences) sent into the area as a consequence of a prophecy.

Not exactly. I once ran a one-off adventure where the PCs wake up naked, bald, and bearing surgical scars on their heads, with complete amnesia. The character sheets that I gave people had a physical description and no more. At first, they didn't even know what game that they were playing. Thye...

I think that the average unburdened person walks about 3 miles an hour on a nice, flat, level surface. Assuming a reasonable travel day of 8 effective hours gives about 24 miles/day. The eight hours of travel are spread over perhaps 10-12 hours of actual time due to rest breaks, stops to eat...

I am one of the folks who started with AD&D and prefers it to either 3E or 4E. I don't hate 3E or 4E, but I have no desire to play either. Since that is indifference rather than hate, I guess this goes along with the hypothesis in the OP. OTOH, I did buy 3E stuff to "steal" things (e.g...