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Don't forget "falling down a lot" too. I don't think anything nefarious is going on, just poorly thought out. I shudder to think how many playtesters are sending emails as we speak, despite pleas to the contrary, thinking they will somehow also get permission to talk (a ticket to instant geek...

What's Penance? Anyway, my vote for "originality" goes to China Mieville's floating city, Armada. As for adventuring hooks and use in game, I'd have to go with Freeport. It's Cthulhu AND pirates. It also has enough material of different tone to do a swashbuckling campaign, Mythos game...

Reading China Mieville's "The Scar". For whatever reason, it seems to be going a lot quicker than Perdido Street Station, where the first third of the book really seemed to be taking its time.

Scourge of the Slavelords, or it's separate bits? That was a nice railroad-y, 1st edition adventure. You were out of luck if you didn't buy in to the starting point of being imprisoned without any other course of action. Green Ronin has some event-based adventures with good roleplaying bits...

Yeah. Purely speculation, but it was a "doth protest too much" scenario when Pathfinder was first announced. I can't even recall how many times that was explicitly stated. It seemed very odd at the time.

Yeah, Summer Glau was very good in "The Unit" and not at all like her characters in Terminator or Firefly. I thought it was pretty good, considering it was a first episode of the series. I'll certainly watch it, especially since there's hardly anything else worth watching on TV right now...

I've got a definite feeling of "meh" with regards to the changes. I don't see anything that's really exciting, but I don't really miss the things they tossed either. I'm certainly not sorry to see Mulhorand and Unther go. They always stuck out, in a bad way, to me. They're like ancient Egypt...

I don't know a lot about the battlerager, but the bladesinger was always supposed to be a mobile, lightly armored fighter. I don't necessarily know if the swordmage will emulate that part. The duskblade certainly didn't.

That sounds like awesome, geeky fun. Sign me up!

That sounds reasonable, but I wouldn't rule out an appearance in the Forgotten Realms book. Bladesingers have been fairly prominent in FR for a while now. Sounds interesting. I guess we couldn't persuade Mr. Baker to part with some mechanics on this? No. Probably not.

Yeah, I think Will Smith is a great actor. The problem with I am Legend was a script that completely pooped all over the original source material. Good source material. They at least could have done the book the service of naming the movie something else. I think I said this before (probably...

The stuff in GHotR doesn't strike me as any more soap opera-ish than the Greek gods. They played out like a season of the Real World with slightly more angst. I'd love to see a newly risen Aumanator get a little cranky at being forgotten for millenia and grind Shar in to dust and then have his...

It's a mystery why any semi-reputable actor would be in this movie. The dialogue from the trailer is hilariously bad. I predict that it will suck, very very hard.

That's some good news. I'll definitely be in line to by a 4E Tome of Horrors. That's actually one of the few good things to come out of the poop-sandwich that is the new "OGL".

$5000 for resources to publish material for a game they haven't even seen yet! I hope Goodman and Green Ronin get on board since they're two of my favorite companies, but I certainly wouldn't blame them if they said "no thanks" to the Dev Kit.

Yeah, it is kind of ironic. I remember two specific companies with more money than talent who just released glossy, hardcover crap at an amazing rate. One of them actually seemed to have open disdain for the concept of the D20 STL and Wizard's PI. It's a little disappointing, as a consumer...

He's in the UK.

That sounds like something Bender from Futurama would say. Good advice, though. Even if you don't have metal bits.

We're currently playing a plane-hopping, Stargate-esque campaign with a hound archon PC. There *are* a lot of Scooby Doo jokes. I'm not blaming the designers for that, but it is hard not to chuckle at the situations that come up when you have a giant bipedal dog guy in your adventuring party.

I just finished Erik Scott de Bie's "Depths of Madness". It had some rough bits where it seemd like the editor got a little enthusiastic, but it was a very interesting entry in the series of "dungeon" books. Almost a fantasy/horror book. Last night I started Steven Brust & Megan Lindholm's...