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Goblins are viscious, evil-minded creatures. They create effigies of the killers, and make primitive scenes with the corpses showing the slain goblins getting revenge by tearing out throats, etc. They are crude but offensive in nature. The corpses are trapped in various ways, ranging from...

I wish I could play the whole Baldur's Gate series again WITHOUT knowing the details of what was going to happen, and without being used to 21st century graphics. That series has to be one of the longest computer RPG series with the same character ever -- the equivalent of Morrowind continuing...

Is it strange that I bought a pound of bacon and it came pre-printed with new D&D4E character classes?

I don't think "lack of interest in the property" matters much. The '79 TV series followed a decades-long hiatus on film for Buck Rogers, and it was relatively successful for a sci-fi series. The trigger event was probably the unexpected success of Star Wars, which also led to Battlestar...

OK, so the idea is that "ghetto" means inferior? That doesn't even make any sense based on the literal definition of the term. Ghettos are sometimes poor, but that isn't what defines them. Because ghettos are, by definition, ethnic enclaves, it doesn't take a huge leap to see how this could...

Um...I don't get it. Why is rolling max damage "ghetto?" I may be too old to understand what it is supposed to mean.

Any topic is "mature" if it makes people uncomfortable. Standards are going to vary significantly. Nudity, alcohol, and violence are examples of topics that trigger very different reactions in different parts of the world. The risk that a company takes when it publishes mature content is that...

This occurred to me last night as I was drifting off to sleep: The Ghours: The PCs encounter three generations of women, all tormented by demons, whose lives are intertwined in subtle ways. Oh, and they're all lesbians.

Dye Hard: PCs are trapped in a sweatshop overrun by Ragomoffins. The Filth Element: PCs must protect a child of prophecy threatened by mud paraelementals. Twelve Monk Keys: PCs have to stop a dozen monks of Talona from unleashing a deadly plague from a Pandora's box -- in the past, BEFORE...

I noticed today that my Geek calendar at work marks the date of Gary Gygax's death (RIP). The got me thinking about my introduction to gaming. It was something that I discovered on my own, to an extent. The first gaming product I ever purchased was the hardcover Traveller rulebook. I...

Keep in mind that throughout history, the clear split between "residential" and "commercial" we have due to modern zoning laws is pretty recent. There was recently an article in the media about how ancient Greeks often used private homes as taverns and/or brothels.

Subtle things I've noticed LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this game... Here are a few things that struck me as useful: 1) There is a max percentage you can repair things based on your Repair skill. It seems to be higher if you fix a low % item with a high % item instead of the opposite. So, fixing a 10%...

I just went over to look at the online editions after seeing that DDI is going to start charging a fee. I noticed that much of the content is produced by fairly well-known (in the D&D community) authors and designers. While this sounds like a good thing, the impression I got was a certain...

Maybe having a .45 pointed in your direction is much more stressful than having a .22? :) As far as horses go, it's all well and good to say that horses aren't effective by themselves, but that much animal is darned intimidating. I think that's part of the reason urban police forces still use...

My first thought at the OP was, "Dark Loft, adventures in student housing..." :P I would think that part of the problem would be that "evil" needs to be a bit darker in Dark Sun to stand out. I mean, the whole setting makes Gamma World look optimistic. Midnight is probably the only setting...

Just started, with some trepidation, Dhalgren, by Samuel Delany. Also reading the old (1996) The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America by Philip Howard.

Wasn't that basically the premise of the old SnarfQuest comic in Dragon magazine?

Alien & Aliens: These two films are probably the best example of how to take the same theme and deal with them in entirely different genres. Ridley Scott made a horror/haunted house movie, while Cameron made an action flick. Both films have basically the same premise. Spirited Away: This...

The articles seem fine...but I'm big on physical product. I like having something I can hold in my hands. I've never been big on PDFs, either. It's just a personal preference thing.

Something the other day reminded me of the old B5 TV show, and how the Drazi used to pull sashes out of a barrel. They randomly got either a purple or a green sash, and the two sides would beat each other up until one side won and got to rule. I also vaguely recall a sci-fi novel where anybody...