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I didn't notice the comment until I posted the reply. I didn't even remember the thread at all, I'm active intermittently on a few different forums, and don't usually post thhat much in ENworld except in one particular long-running (and oft-ressurected) thread . If this constitutes 'thread...

Well, I think maybe that is part of the problem with how 'tight' DnD has gotten in it's last two or three incarnations in the pursuit of 'balance'. I'm by no means trying to start any edition war nonsense here, but somewhere along the line the game changed to start to build-in expectations of a...

The idea that you have to have ressurection in a Fantasy RPG game is another example of unnecessary baggage. It should be an option; it should not be hard-wired into the rules. G.

But you are missing my point. I don't use things like cloakers in my campaigns. I don't think "Cloakers=Fantasy" I don't find cloakers in the fantasy literature which defined the genre; Jack Vance or Fritz Lieber or Robert E. Howard or Lovecraft or Moorcock or Clark Ashton Smith. For that...

Well I have some semi- bad news. I think this long lived thread (has it really been almost 2 years? That is hard to believe and a little bit scary) may be about to come to an end at long last. I got in a little tiff with a moderator on another thread (about realism in RPGs, go figure) and...

Hey glad to hear you like it. I told the author. Apparently he is doing two more in a series, I'm looking forward to reading the next ones. G.

Hey, I was describing my own life experiences, if somebody took that as a put down of Superman comics I can't help that. G.

Check out this crazy East European style re-enactor combat, steel weapons, full contact YouTube - Битва наций - Хотин (02.05.2010) Fighting to metalica YouTube - Бугурт 21х21, Битва наций, Белоруссия - Украина YouTube - Bohurt-Russian, Belarus, Ukrainians vs Polish knights battle...

I found a really good website on medieval firearms, here: Hand Gonnes & Matchlocks

I wrote a review of my friends new book, thought I would share it here I really liked it, I think anybody into Medieval history would dig this. Amazon.com: The Wayward Apprentice (9781452876818): Jason Vail: Books G

Here are some cool videos of missile weapons in use shot with a high speed (300 frames per second) camera, which I blundered across on http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=19403] My Armoury [/url] What makes this particular interesting to me is you can see the physics of the weapon...

Coroners records of dueling death-injuries 16th-17th Century Speaking of reading between the lines, Matt Easton of Schola Gladiatoria posted this on his site, I found it quite interesting.

Yes it's an amazing story, told from a simple soldiers point of view, but, really absolutely amazing. Everyone who I gave that book to who read it was stunned by it. You don't have to sympathise with either side, Conquistadors or Aztecs, surely they were all horrible for the most part and many...

Wow that is super cool too bad they didn't show more statues, shows how much different things were than we picture them, I always kind of think of ancient Greece as all white, like in "Clash of the Titans", everybody dressed in white, with white marble everywhere, some white birds..... evidently...

Thanks and ... yeah that's scary. It reminds me of one of the Viking Sagas, this Viking army was tramping across Sweden, led by Ivar the boneless no less who is a semi-historical figure who apparently conquered almost all of England, and suddenly all these vikings are stopped by ... a cow. A...

Cool videos on Chinese fencing, reconstructed from manuals like with the modern HEMA revival Chinese traditional battlefield swordsmanship YouTube - 單刀法選 Chinese Longsword Ancient Techniques

Do you have any interest in explaining whast you think constitutes verisimilitude or historical "realism" in games? G.

Get more mileage out of your old javelin with the weavers beam technique: Arms & Armor This is a trick which goes back a very long way, to pharonic and biblical times, and remained in use through the Renaissance. G.

Speaking of these type of symbols, this very interesting Renaissance alchemist / physician Paracelsus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia had a very interesting theory about something he called the "Alphabet of the Magi" which screams plot hook as does the very life of this very colorful...

I have a lot I want to add to this thread, but I have very little time right now, I'd like to interject quickly. I kind of agree with the Orc here on one level, I think you don't want to restrict your Alchemist class too much. I believe it would be artificial to limit them to just one...