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Funny you should mention George R. R. Martin. If not for "vulgar" language, "A Song of Ice & Fire" would be missing one of the best bits in the entire series (between Tyrion and his father...don't want to get in to spoilers since it's really not that relevant). Although not fantasy, the...

I've only read one the of the Sharpe books, but it was great historical fiction. Lots of fun t read and a nice mix of proper history and Sharpe himself kicking some serious butt. The historical accuracy is good and the author actually notes in the afterward where he deviated from actual history.

That could be interesting in the corporate world. I can just imagine someone shooting down a suggestion in a meeting and the subsequent sound of steel being drawn in the conference room. :D All we have in the conference rooms where I work is a telephone that looks like an alien spacecraft...

Is that the one by Paul Crilley? If so, how is it? I have that in my "to read" queue as well. Right now I'm reading one of the Del Rey Conan collections (the one with People of the Black Circle). I just finished the second Eberron "Blade of the Flame" book by Tim Waggoner, which was a big...

Sorry about that. I didn't actually mean "versus" as in actual military conflict, but just if there was differentiation in the tactics of different forces. Valenar and Karrnathi cavalry just came to mind randomly as two examples of vastly different tactics (I'd expect).

Two questions (still can't find this book at local stores): 1) Do any fans of the Keith Baker novels know if they mention anything about Daine's unit (that would be in Cyre) or the Battle of Khelden Ridge mentioned in the novels? Geeky quesiton, but just curious since the opening scene of...

Actually, I don't think the slave thing was something that came from Howard. It was either created for the movie or maybe in one of the awful pastiches written over the years. As far as I recall, Conan was never a slave and grew up in Cimmeria. He did travel enough that it's not unreasonable...

From reading the thread on WotC boards, the comments made by Ari and Keith (I'm sure both can explain this better than I can) seemed to make it a point to mention that the bits about the Silver Flame seemed like too much, too quickly to fit with the already published material about the Church...

I'm definitely looking forward to this one, and I'm not even running an Eberron game. How much detailed info on individual military units is there? Also, how much focus is on adventuring in present day versus the pre-Day of Mourning era?

I was originally pretty excited about Undermountain, being a huge Realms geek, but now it's gone from a "must buy" to a "browse throught it at the store first". I'm not writing this one off yet, but I haven't heard many good things about it. The maps on the website look awful; I'm not...

Since the OP isn't really asking a question, I'll just throw in my opinion on the whole thing. Even though I started with the red box D&D set, you couldn't pay me enough to go back and actually play it. There are so many things that game designers have learned from past products, that the only...

I may have missed it earlier in this thread, but has anyone say if X is even enjoying the games? Like I said before, if she's forced to play a different character with the connotation "you're just not good enough to play a character like this", it could end in some messed friendships. If X...

Actually, I didn't really intend to make a judgment either way. It all depends on how miserable the others really are and whether or not stopping this guy from playing the character he wants is going to end up ruining a friendship. It's a tough situation. The best scenario would be that...

Is X actually enjoying playing these "social" characters? If it were me, I wouldn't enjoy playing a character where I'm constantly in situations that make me feel, for lack of a better word, incompetent. I certainly wouldn't force him to change characters, so I suppose if he's really set on...

The Akashic sounds interesting in name alone. Could you give a brief summary of what the class is? Also, are most of the AE classes a fairly nice fit with 3.X?

Aces & Eights looks interesting but probably not something I'd end up actually buying. I would probably lean towards something ilke Sidewinder if I wanted a traditional Western RPG. Adamant Enterainment's Spaghetti-Fu-Punk game "Far West" . I definitely dig less traditional westerns and...

The Press Release forum doesn't seem to get a whole lot of traffic, but I just wanted to stop in to say how completely, perfectly awesome this game sounds. Gunslingin' wuxia action with some steampunk? Sign me up!

Another CSA renewed...let's keep going, guys! Without ENWorld I'd have to actually work when I'm at my job. ;)

I'm not Ernst, but you can get the Dabel Brothers trade paperbacks through Amazon.com (Canada).

I haven't read the Malazan books yet, but they're on my "to read" pile. The sketches look very cool and I've really enjoyed Ptolus and your George R R Martin stuff. I may have missed it on the website, but is there a release date for the Malazan stuff? At the risk of thread-jacking, is Dabel...