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Very nice setting. Looking forward to a story hour set in it. A piece of advice. If you try to omit giving a name to the city, it's gonna take effort. You don't want to have a nameless city that does in fact have the name of "Nameless". You might want to have all campaigners in the setting...

You are many but are small, Numerous but weak in all. We are watching from above, Keep on dreaming, puny droves. I have to say, I liked the clip. The end part especially. Good humour.

I don't think that'd be enough. Even if a character's alignment is changed completely, it can still think rationally about where it is right now (metaphysically), and where it used to be. It is still possible to make a decision agains common sense, and against its own wishes. Even if the...

Really? Aren't you worried that someone will have a flash of insight and spoil your story line? For example, I recently found some plot hooks buried deep in Planewalker that have some eerie familiarity to your story. Pity the server is down though. Anyway, it's been a while since I last reread...

Strange, how the actions of one can affect so many, both direcly and indirectly. One of the greatest experiences of my life so far consisted of a game based on D&D. May he rest in peace.

May he rest in peace.

Long, elaborate, intricate and detailed discussion as to why Hollywood sucks, people don't have any imagination and Terminator needs to die. Have to agree, Christian Bale is a good actor. I guess we'll have to see how he does.

Well, the story hour has, for me, come to a pause more abruptly than I would have hoped for. I... well I haven't really analyzed how excellent it is yet, seeing how I haven't actually had time to think, eat or sleep for want of getting it done. Long has it been since something gripped me to such...

Just wanted to drop by to wish a Merry Christmas to everybody and especially to our resident writer. Wish you all a good time. Tal Rasha.

Yes, I did think about that. My reasoning was -- Planescape isn't in-print at this time, it's not actually used, so it shouldn't be particularly expensive to use its intellectual property right? I mean, from the owner's (TSR?) perspective it would be 0-risk income. Thoughts?

Hello there. How's the book going? If all is progressing well then I am looking forward to buying the book when it is published, and will patiently wait until it is released. If however work on the book is not particularly advanced (>= 50%) then I would like to respectfully disagree with your...

Overall I agree with what you said, and I am tempted to think of my previous point of moral ambiguity as a subset of a sympathetic villain. So we have that recommendation. I will say that I didn't like Hannibal Lecter as a villain that much. I was impressed the first time I saw the movies, but...

A good epic villain has to be at once powerful and mysterious. Some points to consider: + actions speak louder than words: it is one thing to hear someone talk about wanting to exact bloody revenge for his wife's death. It is quite another to find a village of 200 people all impaled on stakes...

If I had the money to build it... Large tower, stores of food, fuel and weapons, many gun emplacements. A 30 foot ditch all around the tower, build with straight, smooth walls. You conceal the ditch in some simple way and put up the sign saying "Free live human buffet inside, help your undead...

In Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card uses the Portuguese term descolada to name a disease that breaks the links of a being's DNA strand, leading to mutations in that being. It would not be too much of a stretch to use the term to denote magic that introduces mutations in reality - magic...

Gently bumping this thread and very subtly reminding the writer of his readers. :) Regards.

Umm... why? This statistical issue aside, I can't say I agree with using a computer for your rolls. But I wonder, do people use computers to do all the math that comes after the rolls? As in, type in your dice roll, type in the monster's roll and get the damage inflicted?

Different direction Most people think time is like a river that flows swiftly and surely in one direction. But I have seen the face of time and can tell you, they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. Personally, I dislike the ontological paradox, I simply find it annoying. Also, I find it...

Very nicely written so far. Hope to see more soon. Might I suggest one minor correction? In the last paragraph of the second post, I believe it should say "His role in this story is already complete, but that is because his role is very complex." Regards.

Right, I could probably have expressed myself better. I meant to ask to which degree you think the character's intentions matter. That is, he's at one point beating a person to death. Agreed, the act in itself is evil. But how, if at all, do you factor in his motivation? Although a bit hard to...