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Okay, the thread is about killing people, specifically gamers. (i.e. It is an off-topic thread that has nothing to do with roleplaying - although unfortunately a load of people keep on trying to threadjack it into a discussion about character deaths. For some reason, the moderators have neither...

Hmm... Would that be the insansity defence you're going for there? Yeap, clearly barking. The poor man's clearly finding it hard to distinguish between reality and the game. I can just imagine the police breaking down the door to his apartment, and finding him standing amid the blood-stained...

THREADJACK!!! :)

I want to say that when it comes to wanting to kill problem players, I know the feeling - but I can't help thinking that it is in fact the rest of my gaming group who "know the feeling". :)

I once read a (supposedly true) story about a cockup an author made on a novel. He'd finished his final draft, and was just about to it in, when - at the last moment - he got worried that the name of his lead character wasn't "macho" enough. But in the world of word processors this wasn't a...

Well I guess the assumption here is that you can trust yourself to not blab about it afterward. But since this entire thread began with an invitation to anyone who'd ever "offed" - either deliberately or otherwise - a fellow roleplayer, asking them to come forward and tell us about it...

Yeah, I think you've pretty much only got two ways to go: a) Admit to killing him straight away (call police and ambulance etc.) but say that it wasn't your fault because the roleplaying screwed up your mind (clearly this question refers to a situation where both killer and victim are...

Well we might be among friends, but if anyone has ever murdered a fellow player, be it a friend or just some bloke they met at a convention, I'd advise them to get legal advice before posting what will basically amount to a confession here. :)

I seem to recall (from a talk I attended some months back) that the Conan RPG has a completely different magic system, although having not yet got my hands on it I can't confirm this. The January preview has some examples of spells: http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/pdf/Preview3.pdf And the...

Well although it's on the Central American mainland it's a former British colony, so I'm guessing they probably have English as a first language, rather than the Spanish that the adjacent countries would most likely have.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Hawaii had been part of the United States since the late 19th Century, and a fully-fledged state since 1959? :)

Well if Adobe lost the trademark then there would be no risk whatsoever in anyone producting a photoshop package, just as there is no risk in anyone producing a spreadsheet package. So you might have say Adobe Photoshop, Borland Photoshop and Microsoft Photoshop. And who's to say that Microsoft...

I don't think that they expect you to change. It's just that if they don't formally tell you not to do it, then they will be deemed to be saying that it's okay - and then they'll have their trademark taken away from them. i.e. They've got to go through the motions, as absurd as those motions...

"Corn Flakes" was once a trademarked term, but I believe the company marketted it in such a flawed way that they screwed up their advertising. Basically, in a situation like that, where you are saying that "Corn Flakes" is a name, not a phrase, your advertising must reinforce that. So if your...

Exactly. The closest we've come so far is a probe parachuted into the atmosphere of Jupiter, where all we had to do was successfully hit the largest gas-giant in the Solar System. Incidently, in about a year's time - after a seven year journey - we will (fingers crossed) make our first landing...

I'm still holding on Long Island... I mean it's pretty big big... Unless [hedging] it's that big one in the lake on the Hudson river upper New York / Vermont / New Hampshire way... :confused:

Isn't that a Disney cartoon one with the cats? The Aristocats or something? Can't remember exactly (and I'm not going to Google because that would be cheating). ...and I suspect I've got it totally wrong. :)

Well if I was guessing - which I am - I'd say Long Island. On the wild off-chance that I'm right, how many faces does Big Ben have?

It's 3.5. (Someone asked the question on their forum). http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=686

Damn it! Spotted! And there was me thinking I was the F117 of Internet posters... :)