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I learned most of my English from roleplaying games and fantasy novels. Nothing expands the vocabulary quite like a diet of Gygax and Greenwood. Fantasy games also sparked my interest in history and mythology as well as a more general hunger for knowledge. Call of Cthulhu D20 taught me more...

Mmh. This is why I stopped buying their minis a couple of years ago. I figure that the way things are going, there will soon be a very large amount of GW miniatures available for a very low price.

Tsk. D&D owes a great deal to its past, and the old settings are still popular, and I don't think there's anyone saying Planescape wasn't an original idea when it debuted. For clone worlds, you may have a point with Mystara, the default D&D campaign setting at one point, but the rest are very...

1. A series of Campaign Classics books. Each of the discontinued, old 1E and 2E settings - Birthright, Planescape, Dark Sun, Mystara, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, and, yes, Greyhawk - revisited for one 320-page hardcover, done in the style of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, converting the key...

Mmh... Now you're trying to apply logic to an X-Men plot. It doesn't work in the comics, either. The one good thing about the movie is that the events are self-contained and the next, hopefully better, director in the series can decide what to keep and who to bring back. Xavier is already back...

Remember that old guy with no brain activity that Moira McTaggart was treating, as seen in Xavier's lecture? Remember how he discussed the ethics of moving the mind of a father of four with terminal cancer into the "empty" body? Yeah. Charles is back. (Although a guy who's never had any brain...

I know I didn't. As an action flick, it's passable. As an X-Men movie, the badness is of such intensity that the earth quakes, oceans boil, and mountains come tumbling down.

Not sure if there's a sha'ir in there. However, I can tell you that there's a 3E conversion of the sha'ir in Paizo's Dragon Compendium and in Dragon #315.

Yuan-Ti Pureblood Sorcerer is the first one that springs to mind.

The clerics could be of Boccob, Ehlonna, Ilmater, Mystra, Selûne, Tempus, Tymora, Uthgar, Waukeen, Arawai, Aureon, Balinor, Boldrei, Olladra, or Onatar, of the most commonly encountered deities who have the right number of letters and haven't had a priest mini yet. I have difficulties seeing a...

Truly, Lordi won the competition. Not only did they defeat every other contestant, but also the competition itself, dealing it a mortal blow. After this, the Eurovision Song Contest must be born again or self-destruct in its own irrelevancy and mediocrity, trapped forever into circling former...

Yes. I can tell you that there's at least one currently active Core module with access to quiver of Ehlonna. Getting any more specific would be against the rules, however.

I think I last saw mounted combat happen in late 2004. Before that... eh. Not sure I ever did. We don't get that a lot in dungeons.

Well, then I think we can enter a debate on whether this is a sign of the evolution of language or a sign that the school system is underfunded. Personally, I think the latter. Or it could be a hongism, like "ninjae". As for the release schedule... it looks interesting, and I'll probably buy...

It means a campaign setting you've designed yourself, as opposed to a commercial setting like Forgotten Realms or Eberron.

A continent in Eberron, where most of the psionic stuff in the setting comes from.

Nope, there were no exceptions. They were all interconnected, though one of Dragonlance's great upheavals had the side effect of sealing off the crystal sphere and destablising the portals leading there. Athas of Dark Sun and Aebrynis of Birthright were also pretty distant from the planes and...

And Monster Manual II, where I think the OGC was from Sword & Sorcery Studios. This product lineup looks good. I think it's good that WotC is releasing more adventures nowadays, and an in-depth look into star elves is just what we need. Maybe they can even make the reading lamp people cool. My...

Like "Mad God's Key", a Dungeon adventure that could also be run as a Living Greyhawk adventure? Sure. Retired Living Greyhawk, Legacy of the Green Regent or Mark of Heroes adventures released in Dungeon? No. Perhaps as heavily rewritten and a lot longer versions, but the normal LG format would...

I'm currently reading Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which is something of a criminal drama set in Victorian London, and is beginning to feel like a retelling of Dickens' Great Expectations from Magwitch's point of view. After that, I've got the first six books of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files lined...