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A silly campaign setting based on @Whizbang Dustyboots' suggestion over in the 5 Words or less thread. I'm just playing with ideas and welcome contributions of the quirky variety. There is a Keep. It is on the Borderlands. Borderlands that look suspiciously like the North American Northwest...

We’ve had a bunch of favourite movie type threads recently. So here’s another. What are your top 5 (ish) movie quotes of all time? Quote the quote, and name the movie it’s from. The Big Lebowski That rug really tied the room together. <It was either this or the Stranger’s iconic speech to...

There’s a side discussion in the Settings of Hope vs. Settings of Despair thread about whether or not the fantasy genre looks back on the past with a mythologising/romanticising lens. This has got me thinking about examples of fantasy stories that don’t do this. Just to be clear – I think most...

Hello good people. I've just learned that a favourite TV guilty pleasure, The Serpent Queen, has been cancelled. There will be no 3rd season. Sad times. I will be the first to admit, it aint great TV. I said trash in the thread title and I meant it. But my wife and I now have a serpent shaped...

Inspired by the "safest place in FR" thread... Where's the safest place to live in the World of Greyhawk? I'm voting for Niole Dra in Keoland. Nothing seems to ever happen there. Hell, Keoland were even late to the Greyhawk Wars (which are retconned out of existence, I know.) I have read...

Something in the Pineapple Express thread got me thinking about the endings of TV shows. (Sorry, I can’t remember exactly what was said that started this train of thought.) I got thinking about TV shows that have endings that elevate the show above and beyond what it already was. Whether the...

So I was inspired by @Dannyalcatraz' reply to the Iconic Space Ships thread. He linked a clip to the old Buck Rogers tv movie that included Princess Ardala. Which got me thinking about space princesses. So, who are your top SF/F princesses? Rules: they have to be some sort of aristocrat in the...

In the Black Widow thread it was mentioned how the Marvel movies tend to suffer from less than exciting villains. Now I don't think that that's universally true of the franchise, but certainly it is in some cases. But which cases? I don't know. I mean, I have my opinions but what's to say...

This is aimed at those who do a lot more running than playing. When you GM you draw up and play a lot of NPCs. Are there any that you'd like to get the chance to play as a player for a change? F'rinstance. I've got a couple of NPC villains that I've drawn up for a Champions campaign I'm...

The other day my GM told me that an action of my character's moved me a step closer to Lawful Neutral. Fair enough, after all I lied to a bad guy, promising his freedom if he coughed up information we needed. Then executed him. (He was a dangerous serial killer, my character could not in good...

Forked from: How Many Beers per Gaming Session? Figured I should fork this from the above thread since it's getting kinda off-topic. I like to travel when I can. I like to have good beer at the places I stop. If I were to turn up in your part of the world, what would you recommend to drink...

So I'm just reading the latest OOTS (603) and Haley is in her home town that is entirely run by the Thieves Guild. But I'm having trouble with a town that is totally under the thumb of a Thieves Guild. Specifically I'm having trouble working out how exactly a (fantasy RPG) town can be run by...

Forked from: Games that didn't survive first contact. . . What follows is just an attempt thrash out an idea that is nagging away in the back of my head. So if you're not interested in that sort of thing best to tune out now. (Dykstrav: I hope you don't mind me using large chunks of your...

A bit of background: So a while back I bought and painted up a bunch of minis for my players. All Dwarves in shiny silver mithril plate armour. The PCs had a bunch'o'mithril and one of the players was a budding weaponsmith so I figured it was only a matter of time till they were all shiny and so...

Forked from: Why hate onthe drow? (Forked Thread: How is FR changing with 4E?) Have forked the thread for those who might want to have an argument, er discussion, about who are good fantasy authors and who aren't.

Gencon Oz 2008 Apologies for taking so long to get this review up, but after the con I took a few day to visit family and friends in the area. So only just back in the world. But enough, here’s the review. The Basics This is the first time Gencon has been run here in Australia. It took place...

Hey I was just wondering if anyone was heading to Gencon Oz in Brisbane next week? Edit: I'm going along for all 4 days, as are some of my mates.

As my players have gone up in levels their responsibilities have increased. They'll have a bunch of small unit battles to fight, a few hundred troops per side. ANyone know any system that may be good for this and that can slot into d20 without too much work? thanks in advance, Glen (edited...

Or Blackguard. Or Deathknight. Call them what you will, they're the guys (and gals) who revel in their own evil and wear black armour with too many skulls on it. They're suave and sophisticated. They're the ones who challenge you to honourable combat then stab you in the back. They loudly mock...

Now I never did manage to get psionics to balance back in the day. The system just didn't really go with the rest of AD&D. And I'll admit to not having read the 3rd ed rules (yet!) Nonetheless the good old Illithid is a fine and creepy secret master of the world type bad guy. So please share...