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Are there any gaming stores out there that are worth making a side trip to see while travelling? I know there are lots of good gaming stores out there (and some not so good), but are there stores that have left you stunned? Dazed? I've seen most of the stores in the Cleveland area, and those...

"Thog think no half-elf, half-orc exist because combination of subpar racial abilities too deadly to survive." More seriously, I'm not sure why everybody assumes half-orcs are the result of rape. Orcs in Eberron are a perfect example of socially acceptable orcs. Similarly, any city-living...

In the United States, at least, I don't think you pay taxes on inventory, per se. You pay taxes on the income generated from its sale, and you pay property taxes on the land where it is kept (either directly or indirectly through rent). I could be mistaken... The real cost is the opportunity...

Very good list of D&D monster sources: http://www.geocities.com/rgfdfaq/sources.html The D&D gorgon comes from a description in a somewhat fanciful medieval bestiary, the term "basilisk" used to be synonomous with "cockatrice," a creature whose gaze or touch could turn people to stone, and the...

Wilkes doesn't describe it in great detail, but it sounds significantly more complex than just normal damage, e.g., rolling a 6 on a d6 results in a potentially broken bone.

I've been reading through the new Rules Compendium, paying particular attention to the sidebars, some of which are really interesting in a rules geek kind of way. Some of them have me thinking about the nature of magic in D&D, and I wanted to explore some of those thoughts here online. Bear...

An argument? Oh, no, this is abuse!

What about the setting of the Chainmail mini game (the post-2K one, not the original)? Wasn't that somewhere on the other side of Greyhawk?

Well, more than a month later, I'm in Cleveland and I checked out Warzone Matrix today. Um...the place is a LITTLE disorganized? I admit to being an A-type organization freak, but my apartment is more organized than that place, and I just unpacked everything yesterday. Having said that, there...

I think I may have a similar problem...can't search or see my own posts or threads, but I thought I had a paid up CS account. E-mailing...

A few years back, I was handed a cat that somebody else had rescued. Luckily, it was very quickly adopted through HSUS. One of the rules I had to abide by, though, was that the cat was not to be let outside. The HSUS policy (at least in the Mid-Atlantic region) was based on the fact that...

I thought the character interaction between Galen and Sheridan was great, especially when Sheridan finally says, basically, "Why don't you ever show me anything happy?" LOL. Season 5 was thrown awry by the almost-cancellation at the end of season 4, and so the somewhat dreadful Byron storyline...

An island ruled by a beholder king, i.e., an "eye-land."

I almost forgot: "640K experience points should be enough for anybody."

OMG, Plane Sailing, do you actually remember all those? Windows 2.x was such a useless beast -- you could still run DOS 6.0 with the menuing interface, IIRC. I also remember WFW, back before Windows became the NOS. To really make the analogy between 4E and Vista complete, the online stuff...

I heard the new Monster Manual was going to be done by Pixar, and all the Monsters are Incorporated! It's true!

Happy to oblige. Courtesy of the Wayback Machine, here is the Wizards of the Cost site from October of 1999: http://web.archive.org/web/19991013000321/http://www.wizards.com/ :)

What's the difference? :)

You guys are both right, but I would put it another way. If you're roleplaying natives of another world, then there are undoubtedly going to be mundane animals. Most people in the real world aren't going to be excited at the sight of a dog or a robin. If every common animal in your fantasy...

Does that mean Pathfinder is The Next Generation? :)