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If memory serves, ADA Cabot faked her own death and moved into the witness protection program after running afoul of the mob. I dunno if she'll be making a special guest appearance or not, but I wouldn't expect her to have any kind of recurring role. Lots of former regulars on the L&O series'...

Coming from what sounds like a similar background (I stopped reading X-Men around 1990 and only recently dipped my toe back in), I think Ultimate X-Men is your best bet. It starts pretty much clean from issue 1, with all the X-Men (well, except for Woverine and Xavier) as teenagers. That of...

Actually, I'm reasonably certain the "before" part is inaccurate - I'm pretty sure coloured icebergs have been displayed before, just normally in paintings or artificially created and smaller. Really, what's happening here is the artist has figured out a way to get more publicity for his work...

Most of the time when "first edition feel" is tossed around, it seems to actually mean "Pre-FR/Dragonlance feel in adventure design". From a marketing standpoint, that meant products were usually only loosely related to each other. Adventures were location-based and didn't refer to any larger...

The entry pack has more minis (as many as two boosters), but only one rare mini where each booster has a rare. The entry pack has a rulebook, battlemat, modular terrain cards to place on the map, a d20, and counters for record keeping. The boosters cost less, have only minis and have half as...

I believe that was last season's cliffhanger, with the plotline continuing for a couple of episodes at the start of this season. I don't think Goodman as president is really worthy of spoiler tags - he did a fantastic job in that role, I wish they'd made him a series regular. He had to resign...

I haven't run a campaign in a world that small, but I have been gradually changing to a small area approach to world building and campaign design over the last five or ten years. Basically, I only map out and detail a small area at a time, and the rest of the world only exists as broad strokes...

You'd need so much magic to keep 'em alive that you can basically have whatever you want happen to them. Perhaps have them turned into a statue that's sentient but immobile, in which case they'd probably become overgrown with moss and vines. If you do leave them as some kind of organic matter...

Improvements in TV makeup and a higher budget. For the in-continuity explanation, Worf gave the official word in the Tribbles crossover episode: "We do not speak of it."

I might be quaintly old-fashioned, but I'm kind of baffled by the notion that there are DMs who could be uncomfortable about ruling on which house rules are in effect. I have trouble believing anybody could sit behind the screen for more than a session or two and not have to make such a ruling -...

You might want to pick up The Deed of Paksenarrion which is a reasonably current release that was originally published as three novels - Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance, and Oath of Gold. All three are worth reading, but the first one features the title character joining a mercenary...

The publisher (Baen Books) also makes a lot of books available for free download: http://www.baen.com/library/ Since they mostly publish series of books, their policy is to make the first 1-3 books in a series available for free, so people will read them to get hooked and then buy the more...

Well, in my experience there are three reasons why I'm not a fan of min-maxing: 1) Disparity between PC power levels. If half the group min-maxes and the other half doesn't, you can end up with some pretty huge differences in effectiveness that make it hard to run a fun game. 2) Lack of...

Easiest way, IMHO, is just to have plane-shifting spells take you to the entry area. So you plane shift to the underworld, and show up right in front of the gates with whoever guards the place looking you over suspiciously. An alternative that I've seen used is to have all planar travel spells...

"Lifestyle" in this context is a marketing buzzword for "a line in which customers will keep on buying related products for a long time". Whether you actually play or just stack the books up somewhere is secondary to the fact that you buy them, so far as WOTC's marketing strategy goes.

Others have covered the jurisdictional matters. Something that might help you in the portrayal - even when jurisdiction is lawfully asserted, police officers (of any type) usually don't like to hand over cases unless the case is clearly over their heads (and sometimes not even then). A classic...

If you're having magic/psionics re-emerge, why not just link the explanation to that? The return of psionics drives 99% of the people suicidally insane, or some big magical event kills a huge number of people. But if you really want a "natural" explanation: - bioweapons getting out of control...

OK, but note that the 'why' question will have a big effect on the answer to 'what happens'. In a typical temperate environment, some large well-built structures will probably be around at 1000 years, but most of the smaller stuff will be rubble long before that. You probably won't even be...

I still give modifiers, I just base them on the player's plan - a player says something like "I want to convince the captain of the guard to help us - I'll tell him about the vampire that's after the king", and I say "OK, make the roll and give me an idea what you say." If there really is a...

I think a couple of important points here are (1) you're talking to people you know, and (2) you are a christian, and they know that, too. My experience is people are likely to think better of D&D if they know someone who plays and share some kind of connection with them. To look at it from a...