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Bertrand R. Brinley's The Mad Scientist's Club and The New Adventures of the Mad Scientist's Club. The two most fun books ever written, with this thin patina of plausibility that gets kids into them in a way that's hard to replicate. Everyone I know who read them as a kid still gets enthusiastic...

Yes. (I would have in the first place, if I'd had the book handy to jog my memory...which I still don't, so I may be over-generalizing.) Books on vellum were stored in presses to keep them flat, and I believe may have been chained to them as well. [edit: Some confusion in that statement. While...

You might want to flip through Henry Petroski's The Book on the Bookshelf, which is a history of storage methods for books. It's interesting. Really. Bookshelves as we know them weren't the preferred method 'till quite late. Some of the other methods might come into play if your PCs decide to...

The New Arabian Adventure site is supposed to have the next version of its netbook out on Nov. 1st, conceivably they may have one there (It's not in the current version.). You could check with the webmaster. http://arabianadventures.org/

Monte Cook mentioned it on his site: http://montecook.com/arch_lineos60.html

#282, April 2001 (Volume XXV, Number 11)

I think it's the standard, humdrum, everyday spam that's the most bizarre. When I see subject line after subject line filled with spelling and grammatical errors and coming from a random collection of letters at Hotmail, offering life insurance and pharmaceuticals ("Feel Better With Super Humone...

Ah, it seems I was conflating. What I was actually thinking of was American Science & Surplus, which doesn't seem to offer the factory seconds anymore (however many there actually were), but has a set of 18 dice with various symbols on them for $1.75...

I think there's someplace on the web (and in print catalogs) that has a dice by the pound deal. [edit: this has all been cleared up] Not a gaming business, just various types of odd stuff. I think it might have "science" in its name. I'm not having any luck tracking it down, maybe someone else...

Materia Magica www.darknebulae.com (Oh, and it was "gear," not "stuff.") (Not that I'm being petty.)

I used the word "everyone" in the context of an expansion on my original post, talking about our groups response to the new rules. Those were the only people I was referring to.

I think it's more of a personal gnosis.

Congratulations! Save your Huggies points, it you're using that brand. You can actually get some nice stuff for your son with them.

Just occasionally, it's amounted to that. ;) An example to clarify what I mean: everyone really, really likes the removal of racial class limitations and multiclassing restrictions, but there's some psychological barrier to just removing them without switching to a whole new set of rules...

I'm playing in a 1e campaign that started in 1983, though I didn't join it until '89. The DM decided to convert it as soon as 3e came out, but it's taking a little longer than expected (we've been on a fairly irregular and widely-spaced schedule). While everyone wants to convert, and prefers...

I'll dip my french fries in ice cream and hot fudge at McDonald's as well, and in frosties at Wendy's. Fries don't seem that terribly far from nuts in flavor to me, so it seemed intuitive. Now that I know there's someone else who does it, I'll have to find some other deviant but completely...

Congratulations! (to BluWolf and -- unofficially -- die_kluge as well) Save your Huggies points.

Yes and no. Male victims take double the Con damage and have a -6 circumstance penalty to their Fort save "since their bodies are not normally capable of giving birth." Reading along and seeing that last bit of thoroughness gave me a fit of giggles. I suppose they just felt for stylistic...

Actually, it reads as well as a lot of Amazon reviews originally written in English do.

And I admitted it might. Just so there's no misunderstanding, I was just trying to make clear to people that don't have the magazine that while the article is thematically linked to BoVD, they aren't making any explicit editorial claims that it's anything more than that -- though it does...