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I would echo Matthews feelings about Deadliest Warriors. It's a neat idea and I wish somebody would do it a bit more seriously (along the lines of Mythbusters) but sadly it's really more of a 'cheap thrill'.. That said I really wanted to like it, I do watch it, it's a bit of a guilty...

Can somebody link to the new thread? I couldn't find it. G.

You would think. But in reality that was not apparently the case. Many of the top 'scientists' ancient times believed wholeheartedly in Magic of all different types. All of them were astrologers. Al Razi and Al Jebir believed they could summon things. Sir Issac Newton was an out and out...

Ah... you know that kind of statement is like putting a red flag in front of a bull in this thread right? :P I think the above statement is true only if you are looking at a DnD or RPG version of 'real life professions' as opposed to the actual historical one. Yeah... I'm not sure about that...

Yeah I agree with you about both of those points, but he's a longbow enthusiast.... :P. G.

Here is a good video about longbows. Very detailed and interesting. The website is Swedish but the video is in English. Companie of St Sebastian

I agree, I think it's a good fit. The only thing in the codex which doesn't mesh with E6 is that many of of the 'Advanced' Martial Feats don't come into play until sixth level. But for E6 all you really need to do is reduce that requirement to 4th level and no more problem. G.

Thanks a lot Wolf! This makes me think of a documentary I saw about Machu Pichu. After listening to the confident explanations of some people that the stones in a particular wall were so strait they could only have been cut with lasers, a local archeologist walked the camera crew over to the...

Found a cool research website while doing background on the Medieval Baltic for my new canned module for the codex, though I would share: All to do with the interractions of Wolves and Teutonic knights for example, spooky.... http://www.beasts-in-the-woods.org/index.html G.

Interesting tidbit for anyone who thought of using spider silk cloth in their campaign: check it out Spider Silk | American Museum of Natural History notable quote: "For its weight, spider silk is stronger than steel, but—unlike steel—it can stretch up to 40% of its normal length. Scientists...

Wow.. no kidding? Small world huh brah? I was born and raised here, left town for a while in the mid 90's but came back about twelve years ago now, a few of my old friends from the old scene (like the guy in the photos above), live nearby now in the same neighborhood. A bunch of them are in...

Ok speaking of modern pirates and shall we say, misfits? Here is a new innovation from my local fencing group, which hearkens back to ye olde punk rock 80's and our adolescent obsession with Mad Max, I peresent a totally retarded creation, as of yesterday: The SDA NOLA Zompoc urban survival...

Ah well, it's a cool name but ... I think he rocked a lot harder when he was in his old band. But as you know pirates used flags to scare their enemies, I wonder if the old Peter Von Danzig flew anything like this... G.

Ever wondered what a Medieval warship looked like? This is a model of a 15th Century Hanseatic privateer (essentially a pirate ship) the Peter Von Danzig, apparently a pretty tough warship which wrought havoc against the English during the Anglo-Hanseatic war. Peter von Danzig (ship) -...

@Doh! Thanks, I should have remembered the svartalfar .... I think I mentioned them in the post on Elves earlier in this thread. To be honest though the svartalfar and dwarves of Norse mythology have a kind of different feel than DnD Drow don't you think? The Tolkein elves are a closer...

Wasn't that called "avatar"? :) No wait fusion ok nevermind :lol:. Sounds interesting actually I'll throw that on my amazon queue. I really enjoyed this wierd book recently. It's kind of hard to describe but it's set in the Renaissance, has magical elements, and ... it's a trip...

Thats true... the drow world is pretty much Renaissance Italy with absolutely no conscience or friendless... with all the friendly Italian grandmother taken out of it. Like it's 100% Cesare Borgia. And underground of course. Kind of a scary thought. I always did think Drow were one of the...

I'd also like to add that I also equally dislike the kind of phony "Thee and Thou" Elizabethan accent fake Ren Faire fantasy dinner theater type of role playing at least as much as I dislike "roll playing" FRPGs. I think role playing FRPG games should be kind of like a grown up fantasy novel...

Thanks for posting this. I think you have wonderfully encapsulated the most common WOTC target audience and specifically the ideal 4E fan right here. Personally, for this type of gaming I'd rather play squad leader, I'm just not that into the kind of middlebrow cartoon world you see in WoW as...

Introducing the Balestrino So one of the tropes of fantasy films, computer games and RPG's is the Pistol Crossbow. A nifty device to be sure. The question is, did these weapons actually have any basis in fact? The internet is flooded with modern toys like this and completely useless...