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Just for the record, I have always considered Indianna Jones a rogue (not a thief, per se, but a charming, charasmatic rogue). Shooting the scimitar-weilding henchman-boss in Raiders is a classic example of critting on a sneak attack (the henchman lost the initiative and was conisdered...

The one warforged I have played (a CG druid) focused on the tiny details which he could observe, in a similar manner to the way I have heard autism described. For example, he first encountered the party while they were exiting a city (he was hiding out in the forest) with a mule carrying their...

My D&D group's DM collects character sheets every now and then to make sure the numbers add up. For a novice group, this is not a bad idea (D&D requires a heap of book keeping). I run Shadowrun games, and in my mind, a player's responsibility is to keep his sheet up to date. When a player...

"Undergrowth: Vines, roots, and short bushes cover much of the ground in a forest. A space covered with light undergrowth costs 2 squares of movement to move into, and it provides concealment. Undergrowth increases the DC of Tumble and Move Silently checks by 2 because the leaves and branches...

Turns out Saudi Arabia actually imports sand.... ... mind you, it's high-grade stuff to make silicon chips out of, but anyhow. //Hauling coal to Newcastle.

I'd have to rule that any creature with a fly speed begins flying immediately upon entering the air. Mind you, if the cavern is tight enough, those with poorer manuverability will smash into walls before they are able to come about at right themselves. Put it this way, if you knocked a...

When founding a new town, I tend to look for grasslands or plains, particularly near a river, unless I'm going to have to fight to defend the town, in which case a hill is in order. Next I think about the long-term industrial sustainability of a town, in particular, looking for hills or deserts...

Wow.... this just makes me think that under the influence of "charm" anyone can look attractive.... Gives me an idea for a CE orc sorceror

All of the ancient artifacts in my dungeons carry the label: Store in a cool, dry place. * ** * else the demon I have bound to this object will hunt you until the end of time! ** Do not remove this tag.

* Drunken sailor found adrift in a longboat (ear-ly in the morning). Is he a mutineer? A pirate? A cast away noble? * The PCs spot an island where none used to be (if they ply the same route regularly) * St. Elmo's fire dancing in the rigging alarms the crew and threatens the welfare of the...

Humbug. I'm just not a fan of the new "one-function" lego sets. Cool as vikings are (and they are cool), I'd rather see a youth putting together his own viking longboat out of standard pieces, rather than relying on the nice folks at lego to mold him one.

Don't forget that infants and some toddlers have sonic attacks.

Here in Rhode Island, the state is so small that we: * Are only permitted to play halflings, gnomes, or small fey * Call miniatures "life-size representations of our gaming world" * Have to treat a d12 like a d10, a d10 like a d8, a d8 like a d6... * Find that our area effect spells spill...

When one of your players comes to you halfway down the line and tells you that they want their superhero to gain slug abilities, I'd let them. That will make for a neat "redemption" plotline. Is there a cure for slug infestation?

Mmmm.... half-earth-elemental treant....

In my Shadowrun campaigns I have served PCs sushi made of water elemental (don't ask how--they wanted to blow 5,000-10,000 nuyen on dinner at an underground Yakuza restaurant). Also, they have found out the hard way about SoyaFizz (TM). It's made of people. Yeah. People. Tell the world. Whatever.

There's nothing wrong with recycling material if you are in a new place and offering to DM. I have a couple of Shadowrun adventures that I ran my new group through in the early days of our adventures and they seemed to enjoy them. Now the campaign has moved beyond my prepared material and is...

I spent two months on a glacier in Antarctica (www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/pdf/1334.pdf) in a tent this past winter. Yes, when the wind was howling and we were snowed in I did pull out my laptop (used for downloaing digital photographs and backing up data-loggers) to look at the e-books I...

The net transport of surface waters actually tends to be orthogonal (at 90 degrees) to the direction of the prevailing winds. This results from a special case of the Coriolis effect called a "Nansen spiral" (the Coriolis force works in all three dimensions, including "down," which is not...

Playing a wizard these days, I do not think that they are overpowered. The big problem is in spells per day. I have all sorts of spells in my character's spell book, but never know what the adventuring day will be like. There's nothing worse than being called upon for fire support and...