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I beg to differ. As already mentioned by others, I do not believe evil people are less likely to be loyal to their friends - if they have any. Sure, they are more likely to con and deceive people into thinking that they are their friends, then stab them in the back. That's something else. A...

As someone with an uncanny talent for making up silly names with no meaning whatsoever behind them, I would be interested to know how the good writers come up with their names for characters. Tolkien was great at this, all his characters sounded the part - hobbits were hobbits, elves had elven...

Interesting. My first response would be that this character essentially models a real-life person, which IMHO can't be mapped out correctly by the D&D alignment system. But that's not terribly useful, so let's look at it as D&D. Neutral Evil. Evil, because he maims people, beats them to death...

Oh, but I beg to differ. I just read what you posted so far, listening to Within Temptation's "The Howling" in the background. Let me tell you, that introduction kicks ass. I find that the poetry in the introduction is a bit better than the one in the rest of the posts, but IMO, a story-hour...

I beg to differ. There was a post on these boards a while back, that said (paraphrase): "Most people in D&D are neutral in alignment. They respond to good with good, to evil with evil. Good-aligned people are angelic. Evil-aligned people are vile." I agree with this. My opinion is that evil...

I'm not sure if this fits the criterion of total destruction of the material plane, but let's give it a go. Remove every living being's ability to procreate. Plants, animals, sentients, everything. Everything ages, everything dies. Of course for the sentients it will be the most abrupt, them...

Random ideas for the good guys... As Wolfwood2 mentions, playing on the goblins' loyalties could be a good thing. Another thing you could do is "recruit" some of your own goblins, and have them attack one of the enemy human camps on the night before their expected initial assault. The (sure to...

There's this quote, that in my opinion applies here: "There is no book more boring than a book of jokes." I think that if you pressure yourself to write a funny story-hour it might end up being counterproductive. In other words, perhaps you shouldn't try to force the humour out of it. Some of...

I like the beginning, the style makes for a funny read. The characters aren't bad either, and I'm waiting too see how they will interact with one another. Do you plan to keep up the humorous style throughout the rest of the story hour?

I've always found that there are scores of celebrities that I like but don't care to meet, and only few ones who I'd really like to talk with. Joss Whedon's contributing to a good cause reinforces my previous opinion of him: he seems cool. I think the people going to the dinner will have a good...

Duly noted. Will read up on this. I commend you for your scientific rigour in evaluatings studies. Nevertheless, I respectfully disagree with your opinion of trusting the scientist's opinion 99.99% of the time. I don't wish to deviate the discussion, so I will only add that my argument went...

An interesting approach. It's nice from the perspective of individual worlds, which get a more consistent cosmology and a more cohesive feeling, but I think it also detracts from the Planescape setting by making the multiverse too, let's say, crystal sphere centric. You no longer have the global...

You see, what comes between a paper or study and general acceptance is public skepticism. I believe it is a good, healthy thing. The media often seeks out the sensational. Even if it doesn't, it may not be able to accurately investigate and report all facts. Studies may be biased. They may be...

Oopsie. That wasn't supposed to be there. Could we all assume that I have a valid, believable excuse for saying that? :heh: Agreed, Planescape would be cool, but you run the risk of drowning the viewer in complexity. In planescape I see license to use all the other settings, plus the PS...

I don't think "good D&D movie" is an appropriate denomination, it would just be a good movie that is incidentally set in the D&D universe. I suggest this: action, characters, and story, in that order. You start off with a scene of the main characters hacking their way through some abandoned...

If you're referring to the Lady's blocking individuals that are too powerful from entering Sigil, I don't think that would apply to you in your pre-epic state. There are already people (or, more generally, creatures) there that are more powerful than you. Now, getting back there when you are...

Yep, I think quite a bit of leveling went on between the Demogorgon fight and Irenicus. I didn't know I could go back there, and I do so enjoy playing "hey, let's poke the ancient hugely powerful thing with a stick" :). I haven't played the Ascension mod. I found Melissan challenging enough...

I too think that complaining is not more common among the gaming subculture than among the others. For example, in the computer game industry as well as in professional IT there are fairly numerous unjustified complaints. Perhaps most familiar are those of the type: "Your free [as in beer]...

Random idea... As has been said, before, for starters, power is an important motivator. I would imagine that the higher you get, the more dangerous it becomes. One, you need to get knowledge that is more difficult to obtain, and two, increasingly powerful characters will be wanting access to...

I nominate Baldur's Gate II. In roughly descending order: Demogorgon: an absolute chore to defeat. If anyone hasn't played BG2, I would recommend having some sandwiches close at hand for this one. Jon Irenicus: final boss in the original game. Amelissan: final boss in the add-on, Throne of...