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First I thought it was Master and Commander, but I checked and I'm wrong. James Caan, in "A Bridge Too Far," which was a good movie I should have remembered...

I think you could do a fairly good show based on the 30th century time patrol, or some such. We've seen multiple allusions that such a thing exists, and it would provide a REASON for the ubiquitous time travel we see in Star Trek. There is certainly enough to patrol... TOS had Kirk falling in...

He had a romance with the girl whose dog was a shape-changing murderer. He was also married in the possible future from "All Good Things..." We saw him get dumped once on the holodeck, but that can't be the only dating he did, and presumably some of them ended in a second date (and 24th...

http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/worldstatues/spirit/spirit.htm Now, this is how you sculpt a miniature... :P

Lost Empires and Underdark. I just really like ancient evil... :)

Yeah, that is such a rip-off. It was so totally like Moses leaving Egypt, or Xenophon leading the 10,000 out of Persia. :) There is NO story that isn't based on snippets of other stories. Having said that...the character of Star Trek would have changed under this treatment. JMS, for one...

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cnhc/potm-jun00.html Metal boat bitten by a crocodile. Not armor, but still, a bite by a fairly small croc into a metal hull. Scale that up for Mr. Dragon. Suffice it to say that I will NOT be volunteering to put on the "dragon suit" and get lowered into a dragon's...

In the Miracle of Science Web comic, it isn't revolting -- it has evolved into a world-mind whose technology far exceeds that of the rest of the solar system. http://project-apollo.net/mos/ Highly recommended, if only for the concept of "Mad Scientist's Disease."

http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/2006/06/spaced_out_star.html Bryce Zabel posted to his blog the treatment he and Straczynski put together to re-boot Star Trek. You folks might find it interesting.

Marlowe in The Big Sleep.

I give a third recommendation for Shakespeare in Love. Also good for seeing how filthy cities used to be... If you want a film that is guaranteed to have any slightly emotionally sensitive person in tears by the end due to star-crossed love, try Sommersby. I watched it with two ladies...

Wow, $39 is a lot for a mag sub? I pay a lot more for The Economist, though that is admittedly a weekly mag. I get both Dragon and Dungeon. Both are entertaining. Dragon has more player-oriented content and better comics (Nodwick, Dork Tower, Order of the Stick, Zogonia). Dungeon is mostly...

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Chasing Amy.

The brass unicorn quote is Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes in "The Abominable Dr. Phibes." Quote: "I want to eat your face. It could just be so yummy. I'd like to have your face, in my tummy." Any one of several titles will do.

A couple of ideas have occured to me that might result in some neat campaign options: 1) An advanced race (spellweavers come to mind, but it could be others) sets up a world with multiple portal stones. Rather than take you to other planes, however, the portal stones actually create mirror...

That is fine if the fantasy world in question has a common source of moralism, i.e., good or evil. That is the case in many fantasy worlds, and it certainly could provide both a sense of common cause and a restraint on competitive urges. It is certainly not the case in the real...

I agree SpiralBound has covered the basics. IIRC, the DragonLance campaign settings used a form of deific fiat to explain the diversity. The Forgotten Realms is basically a crossroads world with portals going everywhere in the known universe. Spelljammer and Planescape (and Dragonstar) don't...

Because, frankly, species are competitive. Whoever got there first would wipe out anybody challenging that dominance. Assuming they got there around the same time, then they would fight it out until one side won. This assumes that natural selection is the operative force in the fantasy world...

Just curious...how do you explain the existence of multiple species of sentient humanoids in your campaign world? In the real world, we have one dominant, sentient species, one extinct branch (neanderthals), and a handful of intelligent but not quite sentient mammals and birds. I'm looking for...