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Well I can't beat you on the height, but I might be able to take you on the width... :) That's 44 metres of shelving in total. I'm very proud of it. It's just a shame about the rest of the house (which is a total dump). On a slightly more relevent note, fitted shelving like this is a much...

Yeah, I was trying to work that one out. Surely if you don't have room for a bookcase, then you wouldn't have room to stack of boxes either? :\

Well be fair, it was a World Cup qualifier, the single biggest* sporting event on the planet! If it had merely been a Copa America qualifier, now that would have been stupid. :) And I think a lot of blame must be attached to the Honduran team, who got so upset by being fire-bombed out of...

Well, it's my understanding that in our history it was long known that the world was round. People often get confused between the knowledge that the Earth went round the sun (which - in the West at least - is a relatively recent discovery that could - and did - get you persecuted by the medieval...

Well my general approach is to say that the rules are a toolbox of all the things that could conceivably exist in a setting, from which you as GM can then select to form a set of elements that actually do exist in your particular setting. I also think that a setting should have a strong theme...

Yes, that is a good point. I suppose though that I would feel that you have to draw a distinction between the rules and what I'd term "flavour/setting". An example: The rules say that to make an attack you roll a d20, add your attack bonus, and if it exceeds or equals your opponent's AC then...

Brilliant! :)

Well that's fine for mundane items, but I have to say that to me it doesn't feel right when you're talking about magic items which - traditionally, in legend and story - were usually associated with a single person. I mean Excalibur was very much Arthur's sword, for example. It wasn't left...

Yeah, but the trouble is that you have to go to Swindon and - Mongoose and the Magic Roundabout aside - there's apparently sod all to do or see there. :)

I suspect it might be a bit different now. Certainly, the curries on offer are likely to be far superior. :)

There's also the Victoria & Albert Museum on the same site, which does more art/craft style things - if that's what you're into. The whole lot is a very cool complex, with the three museums (the Geological museum is - I believe - technically a sub-unit of the Science museum) all connected by a...

But this has nothing to do with D&D. People would have been giving him the exact same advice if he'd been hosting Opera appreciation evenings, in his mum's garage, with teenagers attending, and someone had complained. It's a fact of life that teachers can't really be seen to socialise with the...

I'm here! I'm not late am I? [Bounds eagerly into the room, only to find that everyone else left two years ago] Yes, I have been with the newly acquired - for me - (ego)search function. :)

He was treasurer of a group called FixGAMA (http://www.fixgama.org) who I believe were campaigning (successfully, as it turned out) to replace the then leadership of GAMA with their own slate of candidates.

Well it can't be that bad - it got a higher rating (2 out of 5) than my Slayers Guide to Games Masters (official ENWorld rating of Appalling 1/5*). :) *Which I believe was the lowest Mongoose score in history, something which - I confess - I take a certain perverse pride in.

Well when I went through Hackney a few times a couple of years back, it was pretty much a dump. :) Can't say what it was like in the 1890s I'm afraid. I'm sure there's probably nice bits, but I think it hasn't become as gentrified as other similar areas because it isn't very well connected to...

If you ever see a guy at a British or Irish airport with a "MY HATE OF D02 KNOW NO LIMIT" bumper sticker stuck on his suitcase, it'll be me. :) (Although it's been stuck on there for about a year - and 10 flights - now, so it's looking a bit tatty).

Mongoose books used to be printed in the UK, but I believe that they are now printed overseas. Generally, a UK RPG company is going to pick the printing option that will enable them to have the lowest price in the United States, since that is where they will sell most of their books. I know for...

WFRP (Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay) has printing technology as part of the setting (such as the printing firm Hewlett und Packard). I suspect therefore that lots of the books you'd come across are printed rather than written. In a campaign I played in, our PCs made a fortune from a bookshop we...

Now I don't want to be rude, but it's people like you that give roleplaying a bad name. It's called "table-top" roleplaying for a reason - YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PLAY IT ROUND A TABLE. If you want to sit on sofas, then that's fine. Play in a games shop? Okay by me. But when people start playing...