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Pyior whispers to the group, "They have seen us so it's unlikely sneaking up is going to work now -- they are on alert and it's too dangerous for the scout. In any case, we know what we are facing, a group of Rhodin, and we can assume they are dug into defensive positions. We can continue...

"I'll take the penultimate position, behind Danwyn and in front of Ys-Baddaden, if it's ok with everyone."

"Hmm, maybe Danwyn should go first... Or should we try to find another ladder somewhere in the keep?"

Pyior examines the ladder to determine if it will hold Ys-Korros' weight and reports his findings to the party. If it looks safe he will follow Ys-Korros and Ys-Baddaden down.

Good points FireLance. While the article's analysis is quite shallow (the real world is very complicated), this could be carried into a game to make different cultures feel deeper. What does it say about a culture that gives new names in their language to people and things. Maybe on one hand...

Yes there are false cognates (or false friends) between Japanese and Chinese using Chinese characters. For example, the Chinese chnaracters for (hand) (paper) mean letter in Japanese. In China (well the PRC specficially it's different in Taiwan) those two characters mean toilet paper. That...

Heh, quite an oversimplification of a complex issue, that article... but anyway you are asking about the language. First thing is that Japanese didn't create katakana specifically for foreign words so it isn't "an alphabet created for foriegn words". That is simply how it is (mostly) used these...

Not to make it seem that I don't like Erikson. Deadhouse Gates is amazing IMHO.

Now onto Necropolis by Maureen McHugh.

"Oh! You said carry so I thought... Well, I can do that too, but I better save my strength for other dweomers that may be needed."

"Ready! But keep your wits about you. This may very well be the secret passage through which the rest of the Rhodin escaped. It may be trapped, or they may have left some of their number behind as guards."

"Err... I have a candle here if you would like to use it."

Situation: 1) A medium sized creature is wielding a glaive or other weapon with 10' reach. 2) The creature also has a natural weapon (say a bite) secondary attack which has 5' reach. If the creature takes the full attack action, does it have to take it's secondary natural attack after or...

Now I'm on A Scattering of Jades.

What's up with it is that: A) The module tops out at 10th level, so the content is only designed to go up that far B) All the content (art) and coding for the extra levels powers and feats, but mainly SPELLS that players would get access to by levelling up doesn't happen for free. They aren't...

The Gollantz books reorders the stories into chronological order, I think that is the big difference. There are also a couple of essays in the C:CotC version that may have given the feeling it was more snooty to jester47.

Did anyone notice what Conan told Belat about Crom and speaking his name isn't consistent with his behavior in the later stories?

Along the lines of this discussion, here is a review of Gardens of the Moon that I found insightful. It summarized what my problems with the book were on my first read: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=92dc8db5.0402190859.58aa9db6%40posting.google.com&rnum=1

Pyior seems loathe to set his staff on the ground with the two giants walking around and the heavy objects carried about. He comically tries to pick up a few objects while carrying his staff at the same time without much success. "Hmmm... Obviously I'm not cut out for this so I'll take a quick...

Pyior makes his way back to the group and reports. "There's some kind of trap door under all the junk in the back of the room! It would take a while to clear a path to it. Should we start doing that or leave it for now, perhaps searching some of the other rooms?"