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I like gmail best out of the main free webmails - I also have hotmail and yahoo accounts, not least because of the MSN and Yahoo groups that I need accounts to access. I tend to log out of my gmail account when I'm going to use Google searches though.

Apart from still reading The System of the World trying to catch up on my reviews and magazine reading with ENGamer #3 and several issues of New Scientist.

In the campaign I GM the druid PC has a wolf companion, so pretty much every melee as it's a waste for a wolf not to try and trip an opponent. In the campaign I'm playing in at the moment its been used pretty frequently by a mixture of characters - human fighter using a halberd, human monk...

Yay, multiple choice poll. I voted for Belkar and Elan, if it'd just been one I think it would have been Elan.

We have a title anyway! In the UK, it'd be stuff like the Thatcher years in government, CND marches and anti-nuclear campaigners, the miners strike, city yuppies and redevelopment of London's docklands. TV: Edge of Darkness, Dr Who with Ace as assistant, ridiculous hairstyles - Use Hairspray...

I like playing Clerics best, then it'd be Wizard, Fighter, Bard, Rogue. My last couple of D&D characters would be a human cleric and a dwarf fighter, with a Conan Borderer in there as well.

For a moment I thought that the Comp Science side of things would be looking to it to get the geekier students to mix with other people face to face rather than just on line.

Surely you mean OD&D - the only true game :p I'd vote 3.5 as it's current edition, the For dummies book is on this edition as is the starter stuff, and most product now is in 3.5 versions. Rule differences are not so huge that either has fundamentally different mechanics just details (spell...

I suppose I'd expect to see Pawn Shops, low rent taverns, loan sharks, there will still have to be food shops and stuff, but more likely to have guards employed. Rag and bone men collecting around the streets.

I like the renaissance look of Warhammer FRP personally.

In most of the games I play sexuality is pretty much left out, there is little if any hetrosexual activity and the same goes for gay/lesbian. Most PCs have not really had any preferences expressed so it is assumed that it matches the players.

I would have been interested to see how many just had 1-3 like me with just the core trio.

City State of the Invincible Overlord is an estuary port so a bit upriver rather than pure coastal, still think its the best city. See my review for detail. Freeport is to me second choice.

In truth the huge bodybuilder types aren't even that strong and have next to zero stamina, for real strength look to powerlifters (who often have a big gut as well as the muscles), track and field athletes (especially decathletes or javelin throwers) or penathletes (who actually do a sport which...

I prefer Franz Ferdinand who've managed to make two really good albums now, but Kaiser Chiefs are pretty good and becoming very popular in the UK now.

My watch is my main running stopwatch and I prefer to check it for the time than my cellphone.

I carry a Swiss Army Knife in my rucksack normally - so as well as a couple of short blades I've got screwdrivers,etc always to hand. :)

Unless the area is the the grip of a drought and famine then move on up the road, its easy enough to hunt food or the farmers along the way will probably be willing to sell food (possibly for inflated prices).

I've just used a stack of 5"x8" file cards with character, NPCs and monsters each having a card and then putting them in order for each combat. Simple and cheap, but not giving as many features as using these predesigned cards. Trickiest thing is usually tracking the life of spells with a...

An interesting op-ed article about intellectual property at the Guardian Its interesting to see how quickly companies like Amazon are trying to patent things which at least IMHO should not be patentable, not least because of prior art and it does remind me of the story that some guy attempted...