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Can't help you with any Greyhawk type mechanics, but if it's quotes you're looking for you should try Omar Khayyam: http://www.armory.com/~thrace/ev/siir/Omar_Khayyam.html

Sure did- there was a Ripper-style letter sent to the papers making that claim. Someone even wrote a song for the occasion, called it "Axeman's Jazz". I think the letter is reproduced on the site, actually. At any rate, there's no way of knowing if the letter was written by the killer, or was a...

Right after WW 1, there were a series of decapitation killings attributed to "the New Orleans axeman" that caused quite a stir. The killer, if there was one (and not instead a gang, or a series of copycats, as has been speculated) was never caught. Could make for a neat, locally flavored...

My favorite world (and the only one I've run in the past 10 years or so) has always been Mystara. This is largely in part to the first Gazetteer I ever bought, the Principalities of Glantri. Glantri is a magocracy, full of wizards, and I've run about three different long campaigns set there. I...

Spells with verbal-only components, such as Dimension Door and Knock. Combine with the Silent Spell feat, and you've got an arcane get-out-of-jail-free card.

A quick skim of HoE's list looked to me that a lot of the clubs had generic names, or weren't clubs at all- concerts would be given in ballrooms, or community halls, or the like. Nightclubs were still developing at the time, and places like the Cotton Club are so famous because they were still...

The Game Mechanics posted a free zombie called "Anthropophagi" that might be what you're looking for. Check out the link here: http://www.thegamemechanics.com/freebies/TGM_Anthropophagi.asp They seem to have the same speed as they did when living, so you'll just want to adjust the speed to...

I've had this page bookmarked for a while now, but haven't really checked it out or done anything with it. It's essentially similar to the geocaching idea. http://www.bookcrossing.com/

I've been hearing some stuff about a Russian movie called Nightwatch that's supposed to make it over here sometime in later summer. Apparently it's gotten a ton of fans over there, enough to be seriously considered for a trilogy release worldwide. Dread Central (where I found the link below)...

I've probably worked more night jobs than day jobs in my time- I prefer it for higher pay (even if only slightly more), less traffic and commuting hassles, and less management types breathing down my neck (though not always- and the flipside of that is that most jobs I've had have generally...

I was 29 when I went back for my Comp Sci degree. Your decision to pursue something that you're more interested in is definately the way to go, especially with the way computer jobs are these days. I took CS because I liked it, and I'm not sorry that I did, but it would be nice to get a job that...

I think (and I could be wrong, this is just something that I was mulling over at work tonight) that DK is referring to people who basically just do pure coding (ie translating specs into program lines) rather than any kind of lifecyle development or software design. In which case, yeah, I can...

Getting back to the original posts... I like the idea of using CHA in some sort of opposed class check situation. Especially between two members of the same class, this could represent reputation and the like, such as one wizard knowing that the high-CHA one has a reputation for being fearsome...

I'm definately with you here. Actually, I'm sort of sick of the whole undead/demons/outer planar monster portion of fantasy in general. It seems like every book and module coming out these days has to have undead, drow, devils, or some other super-evil, Lovecraftian menace or pure malice. Now...

I did mean Circuit City, sorry. And yeah, that's what I was wondering, if you were talking about the stores themselves or the corporate offices. And no, repairing computers in a retail chain doesn't sound all that appealing, but neither does spending the next few years in what's basically a...

For general postings, and for cold application resumes, I'd agree. For active hiring in IT, I actually have gotten more interviews from online applications and e-resumes than from paper. It's just a question of how the field handles the technology, I think. For larger organizations, like the...

I'm another in the "just got a CS degree and can't get an entry-level job" group. It's been about a year now, and I'm currently doing a temp job for overnight data entry, just to get some money coming. I haven't had all the bad experiences with headhunters and the like, every time I've gone to a...

I feel the same way about rp awards. One particular pet peeve of mine is games that I've been in with player votes for best RP. I find that, almost always, the award goes to whomever had the most attention-grabbing (in some cases, even disruptive) PC, and never to people who stayed in the...

Slight hijack here- I'm getting a PC together for an online M&M game, so I haven't actually played the system yet. I've seen a couple of other people mention that the game seems to move faster, and I'm curious as to why this is. Is it just that combat moves faster? I could see that, based on...

The thread on players arguing over xps amounts led me off on a tangent- most of the time, requests I've seen for more xp aren't due to what's been killed or accomplished in the session. They're due to the fact that someone (perhaps even everyone) is only very close to a new level- maybe by a...