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See, a co-worker brought in doughnuts this morning, and I was all like, "This office has great morale boosters!" Jealousy is unseemly, jealousy is unseemly, jealousy is unseemly..... I heard a review of Ratatouille this morning; the reviewer said that it was a terrific movie first, and a...

Maltese Falcon was made, IIRC, three different times before 1950. The Bogart version was the only memorable version. And boy howdy! Until I saw this movie in my early twenties, I thought I didn't like B&W movies. Its dialogue is electric and, in the old-school meaning of the word, awesome...

Yeah, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it comes across as threatening. As I mentioned before, if I'm pretending to be an innocent dude who's just woken up and gets up off the floor, that doesn't automatically indicate my hostile intent to my enemies. All it indicates is that someone...

Bards get good disguise skills and spells. If a bard knows that an opponent is in a particular location, she should be able to enter the location in disguise and start the fascinate without triggering combat. And I absolutely don't think that the AoO should clue someone in that it's combat...

I played a bard as a backup character once when my main PC was dead. It was in a dungeon in which a hag (annis, maybe?) guarded a set of extradimensional prison cells that were entered by standing on a platform when a switch was thrown. The rest of the party hung back while the bard, under...

Heh--from what I've heard, that's one movie that could only have been improved by torturing the protagonists to death. Daniel

...then you're bound to love Courtney Solomon's new flick, Captivity. It combines his unique directorial vision with the uplifting social vision of torture horror for a tasty movie treat. The movie is rated R, according to an infamous billboard, for, among other things, "grizzly images." I...

I think there are eight seasons. Of course, I'm on season 5, and my efforts to avoid spoilers of any kind (even meta-spoilers) has been completely ruined by references in places like NPR political commentaries and this freakin' comic. Grr! Still, hilarious. Daniel

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For most people, getting up from prone requires the use of the arms. Getting up from a chair does not. I think that's a huge difference between the two, and I'd rule no AoO for getting up from a chair (unless, as the RotG suggest, it's a very low chair, e.g., a Turkish-style cushion on the...

If they twig to what you're doing, they can ready actions to attack you when you dominate, making your attack fizzle. Protection spells will be a huge help. High-level characters may well resist your save and present a serious problem to you. Daniel

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What about spell resistance? Daniel

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Definitely see if you can track down Flashman. He's not for the easily offended, but he's a total hoot. I've not read Sharpe's books. I'll have to look for them! And if you're having fun with the Napoleonic Wars, I doubly recommend The Count of Monte Cristo: Napoleon has a brief cameo, but...

IMC, I'd say (in response to any player questions) that they are unable to find any reliable research on how the item works, but they're welcome to be the pioneers in such research. I'd then make rulings on the fly, based on how cool I thought it was. I'd remind players that magic like this is...