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I thought the (5) food groups were sugar, salt, grease, caffiene and alcohol.

Any monster that is part of real-world myth or legend should be core. No matter how obscure. That's banshee, catoblepas, and peryton right off the top of my head. The abishai are too cool to not be core. And the modrons ... gahhh. Want to talk about early hatred of these guys? When I...

Ask away, it's a large part of why we're all here, after all!

Geron Raveneye, I really like your simple way of taking care of called shots. Consider it adopted. Maybe the reason it makes sense to me is that it reflects something that happened to me in game once. I was playing an archer, and once when standing guard he drew his bow and told an intruder...

Chiming in with Queen D here. In an earlier post, I said genuine compliments are good things in and of themselves -- and that's one of the best compliments I've ever heard of!

I'm with those who want more details about what's wrong with how you describe things. What's funny about that is that we're basicly saying you need to describe the situation better. ;) Of course, it's entirely possible that the reason that's all you're telling us is that it's all your players...

Paladins are military men. Military tactics have a lot to do with fooling the other side with misdirection, false intelligence, etc.. Of course, killing a citizen on the peaceful street is quite a bit different from killing enemies on the battlefield. The slope is slippery, and a player's...

Two separate questions, really ... Making out while gaming is as rude as reading magazines or watching TV while gaming, even if said parties are married to each other. Not cool in and of itself. "Tell or not tell" ... so many people have different answers to that one. I myself really don't...

The original Top Secret game has some rule conceptions that really don't work for me, SI was better, but Spycraft looks good and Spycraft 2.0 looks even better. Not an RPG, but I truly hate "Risk". If I'm playing a game and notice that it structurally models down to being the same as "Risk", I...

Mark, I've actually considered handing those lyrics to those who play paladins in my campaign! With "To fight for the right, without question or pause" in bold.

I wanna quote William Ronald here: "It is also possible to have values that trump the truth on occassion. For example, paladins of some deities may be able to lie in the defense of life. According to the Talmud, life is so important that with only three exceptions, every single Jewish law may...

I very much lean toward all the things Henry said early on in this thread. I appreciate it when writers try to do it correctly, though I know even professional writers have professional editors to catch their spelling, grammer and idiomatic errors -- and goofs still come through. Speaking of...

Compliments are good. No matter how little regard we have or try to have for the opinions of others, as social animals we partially rely on the cooperation and good will of others, and compliments tell us that, for whatever reason, we have something that gives us some security there. A genuine...

My parents thought that science fiction, horror and fantasy were bad for children's minds. I rejected this idea completely, but one day I was watching an episode of the original "Outer Limits" ... without seeing the intro, mind you, with the "Control Voice". It was an episode called "A Cry of...

I could use a genre break! Sword and sorcery is great, but I like all kinds of adventure stories, so naturally I'd love to play them, too. My top wants are: 1) Espionage; I got the Spycraft 2.0 rules this weekend and they look great. The sub-plot xp rules are definately getting yoinked...

Creating my own campaign world is something I've wanted to do for a long time, with way too many false starts since I don't DM that much (until recently) and have had a few multi-year gaps in opportunity to play at all. Since I did start DMing more extensively about two years ago, it's been a...

Court TV had a bit on Catherine Crier's show today. Some private detective was talking about this being a resurgence of the D&D cult murders we saw in the 80s. To the credit of the show, they followed it up with Ashley Banfield pointing out that all the actual evidence that's been released in...

Yes, Spoony; figure out what's inside the event horizon, get the Nobel and a huge place in history. But as Umbran points out, we've got things on this side very thoroughly investigated. That whole speed of light thing has been analyzed to whatever degree has been technically possible since...

No. Primo Numero Uno fact of the universe we live in: light has one speed. It's a consequence of "Time" and "Space" being in reality one single, absolute entity called "space-time", which warps itself as needed to preserve that speed no matter what viewpoint you use to measure said speed.

A friend of mine got us tickets to see that Lewis Black / Dave Attel tour. He injured his back in a couple of days prior, but it was Lewis Black, dangit, so he popped the Vicodin and we went anyway. So what if a piece of one vertebra was completely broken off? We were both fans of Mitch...