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Its going to be hard to simulate powerful characters from different universes without a lot of crunch.

I think that proving I'm right might be a logical impossibility; the old "you can't prove a universal negative" thing. Were I at your house I could look behind the couch. I think that spectroscopic evidence pretty well rules that one out. I can't, as I wasn't with you last night. If we...

There were many fewer varieties of monsters in the Conan stories than in D&D - but still more than 10 kinds. I think that I'd be bored with only 10 varieties of monster; but I love monsters, so I may not be typical.

I've made a statement - let's call it a hypothesis, "statement" is too definite - of the form "x does not exist". Citing 1 example of an x would surely prove me wrong. Not logically impossible at all.

I'm not asking for an example of an actual time machine; I thought that was obvious. I'm asking for a theoretical time machine (much like the one in the paper that I cited) that allows time travel back to a time before the machine existed. I can't just swipe the the text, but the paper is...

I think that, using the mechanism described in the Morris paper that I cited that the statement is true; one couldn't use the wormhole time machine to go back to a time before the time machine existed. Can you give a counter example?

See (coincidentally), Morris et al, 1988 (ref below) in which the authors speculate that a wormhole could be turned into a time machine. Such ideas may never be physically realizable, but they do exits in theory. General relativity is most definitely not my field, and maybe ideas have changed...

I can't cite a movie, but how about a paper published in a well-known physics journal? Tipler, Frank J., Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation, Physical Review D, 9, 2203, 1974.

Theoretically, general relativity allows one to create a time machine. (that doesn't mean that it will ever be possible in practice). Such a time machine allows one to travel back in time, but no further back than the creation of the machine. So, until someone builds a time machine there's no...

I have a budget for game purchases - just to keep from running hogwild. If there's an unexpected expenditure (like the Reaper kickstarter) I keep track of the overbudget amount and "pay it off" over time. In other words, if I go over budget because of some purchase I buy less in subsequent...

Sorry, but no. Creatures in AD&D 1E have movements in inches, which are tens of yards outdoors, and tens of feet in a dungeon. A banshee is an incorporeal spirit, and is fast (15" is faster than a human's move of 12"). Likewise, the creature's wail affects those within 30' - she doesn't need to...

Not quite what you're asking for, but in the old module "Temple of Death" (X2) the big final fight is against . In the module, the baddie offers the PCs a chance to throw in with him instead of fighting him. When I ran X2 three of the (nominally Good) player characters had committed questionable...

For OSRIC there are 25 Advanced Adventures and counting, and a number of other adventures also (see OSRIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).

Agreed on both counts. Better movies could be made of either of these novels.

IMO, the lesson is "You are responsible for what you create". The novel's subtitle is "A Modern Prometheus". Since Prometheus stole fire from the heavens and was punished by Zeus, this leads to the "don't tamper in God's domain" idea. But (and more to the point IMO) in Greek mythology Prometheus...

True, but wish is an answer to most of that. On the subject of death and how easy it is to die, I am playing in a couple of Savage Worlds games. In one, PCs cannot die unless there's a TPK, a coup-de-grace or something of that nature. In the other, death is quite easy. I like both campaigns...

I'd agree, this is pretty much the opposite of a railroad. On the subject of fudging, I only do it if I think that I have made a mistake which is severely disadvantaging the players. If the players make a mistake, or are even just unlucky I let the dice fall where they may.

I agree that arguing about which edition is better is pointless. Its like arguing about which tastes better, steak or lobster. I prefer steak, you may prefer lobster, but neither tastes better objectively. Therefore the edition that I run is the one best suited to my taste.

I'm involved in two gaming groups regularly. The members of these groups include a physicist, two chemists, a mathematician, a cartographer, a philosophy professor, among others. It does take a lot of education to be a member of these professions, but it also takes intelligence, IMO. Some of the...

I miss 'em. For a while I subscribed to Kobold Quarterly as a replacement, but then moved on to Fight On! and Knockspell. Since neither of these has put out an issue in about a year, I'm feeling the absence of a regular gaming mag.