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The real trick, I think, would be detection of the PCs before they get close. I would use stationary lookouts along likely approaches and roving patrols to cover the rest. The patrols should have dogs, and everybody should have passive IR and night vision. Remote sensors could also be...

Well, some folks obviously know a LOT more about medieval weaponry than me. My original evidence was based largely on prima facie absurdity. It seems like real weapons have a few basic origins: - tools used for agriculture or hunting and wielded in warfare (daggers, hand axes, shortbows...

Keep in mind the following about M-B: 1) Longer questionaires are likely better than shorter for accuracy. 2) Though expressed as an either-or, it really is a continuum, ranging from a slight to extreme tendency one way or the other. 3) The results are meant to be informative, not definitive...

Just went through the first sessions of pre-marriage classes (something Catholics or folks marrying Catholics have to go through). The first topic was the Myers-Briggs topology. I had a game right after the session, and found a lot of similarities with the other members of my group in terms of...

I recall reading that Ray Park was basically staff fighting when he was using the double light saber. It looked fine, but some of his moves involved stopping the staff's motion with his body...which is slightly more problematic when the body of the staff is supposed to be made of coherent...

I always got the impression that the weight listed included scabbard, tools for maintenance of the blade, etc., not just the weapon itself.

I guess it depends on your definition of "highly toxic." Something that kills in a milligram dosage strikes me as pretty toxic. It accumulates over time with repeated exposure. It causes brain damage and birth defects. You could also rule that the weapons contain dimethylmercury, which is...

Just a thought...does True20 have a more OD&D feel than 3.x?

Well, there are a few companies where I buy almost everything they put out: Wizards of the Coast Paizo Green Ronin Malhavoc Steve Jackson Games I have a bunch of stuff from AEG and FFG, but they have largely stopped printing the lines I like. I buy all of the Mongoose B5 books -- but just the...

Since my first exposure to D&D was the AD&D hardbacks and the red boxed Basic Set, maybe a proponent of the OD&D version could explain how it differed from those later editions as they extoll the virtues of the system?

While I am far from an expert on medieval weaponry, and I appreciate artistic license, there are some weapons proposed for D&D 3.x that just seem mind-bogglingly impractical. Perhaps somebody can point out the utility of some of these beyond being "kewl." 1) Whip-daggers: Did anybody ever...

I find the words I learned the most fall into three categories: Medieval archaic terms: barbican, trebuchet, castillian, etc. Odd adjectives or nouns from spell names: lucubration, prestidigitation, sepia, etc. Genre or mythological terms: arcane, eldritch, gorgon, etc. One word that...

Wow, this thread is a little nastier than I'm used to on these boards, albeit subtley so. Some of it isn't from the usual suspects, either...

Counting just WotC and Paizo, there are well over 2,500 unique published feats for various purposes. The count is over 3,000 if you count duplicate printings. My complaints about how they have been handled include the following. 1) Too many feats are listed as "General." A feat that...

They became head of a major TV network? :)

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=319 Funny.

Here is a link to Gateworld's news item on the feature film/3rd series: http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/05/mgmplanningstargatefilmthi.shtml

OK, so hints of a THIRD Stargate television series are popping out. That makes it only the second sci-fi show to go beyond 1 spin-off after Star Trek (I don't count BG despite Caprica because the 2nd show was a remake of the first). I don't get hints that Stargate is anywhere near the cult...

Sorry, I should have searched first...I was running out of work at the time. Anyway, any hints on the 2007 releases? I'm curious as to what "Dungeonscapes" is.

Amazon.com lists the following upcoming 2007 products from Wizards of the Coast: Complete Scoundrel (January) Barrow of the Forgotten King (February) Secrets of Sarlona (February) Terrain: Dungeonscapes (February) They aren't on WotC's site yet, so does anybody have in knowledge about them?