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I wouldn't bother playing an MMO like that. A table top game with a large group of friends could make it interesting, but a game open for anyone to play from across the world wouldn't be interesting at all. For one, the server would most likely be dead, as few people would want to play it in...

If you don't need them to actually hold water, you could always try making them. They're not that hard with a few basic hand tools.

I too find the ranger's character to be poorly played from what is presented here. But I want to know where the insanity came from. Can someone explain that? How do seers work? Did he have visions of this as being you were robbing a grave, or were you robbing a hidden treasure? What exactly is...

scenario 3: He takes any weapon, and takes his revenge while his target is sleeping. This depends: Do I get bullets with the Colt? How many magic missiles can I cast in a day? In a round?

Can two or more sides be 'fighting the good fight' against each other? Of course. In one of the novels I'm currently working on, the main political storyline revolves around a plot that sees several great houses of one nation fighting each other for control of their nation's crown after the...

To me, a castle must be a defensible structure, which also serves a non-military purpose. A starfort with a governors home and a few gardens built at its center would be fine as a 'castle'. Lacking that, it is 'just a fort'. Neuschwanstein Castle may not be the best fort of the period, but...

Those are interesting points, and we could get into writing series of books to get into all the details over the divides and trends between palaces, fortifications, and whether or not they are built as different structures. However the development of the cannon had an undeniable effect on how...

One big thing for using Skype is to have everyone look up how to bind the mic mute function to keys. Tools: Options: Advanced Tab: Hotkeys: From there, enable the "Mute Microphone" and change the short cut to it to be something that doesn't conflict with your other hot keys. Personally I use...

In the Starwars Sega game I'm currently playing every week. We're playing during the Empire era, a few years before the whole death star thing, and forming the core of the rebellion. We have a group of 4 players, who just all advanced to 5th level at the end of last session: 1. A jedi padawan...

This also assumes you are in a fixed, regular, 3D space, with not twists or intersections. Imagine you are in a 'maze', but this maze only has 5 identical rooms with no way to tell the difference from each of them, or direction. Now each room as 4 walls, and on each wall is a door that opens...

I'll take: A textbook on stats A textbook on Combinatorics/Discrete math A small book of tables with precomputed things like distribution of multiple dice rolls. An Anthology of Myths and Legends Fill the rest with large books of blank paper. Why read when I can write?

When you were referring to my preference of firearms being loud, higher damage than bows, slower to reload, and optionally having ammo hard to find, and cast a small 'obscuring mist'. I have to ask, what exactly is 'overly complicated'? They're loud. Meaning if you are trying to sneak attack a...

4) Open mold to remove shot. 5) Snip spur and finish round. The powder is likely bought. While it is a fairly simple process to produce, it is far easier doing it in large, more industrial batches. I think it isn`t till the mid or late 18th century that you see the production of shot towers...

Well the extra things like long load times and potential of miss-fire all depends on if it does more damage than bows and crossbows. If they're more powerful, then they get drawbacks. Personally I enjoy the drawbacks and such, as it makes firearms feel different. If they do the same damage as a...

Reconsider just how large your cities are. A few thousand people makes for a good sized city in medieval eras. If your world is full of hundreds of multimillion person cities, then it may feel a little weird. Also you can simply have the same NPCs be important each time you come back to a given...

Maybe they go with the idea that their other parent was dumb enough to get it on with an orc? As a half human growing up around other orcs, they were picked on as a child and the repeated blows to the head softened their brains?

And "often running relay style", meaning most of them drove a good chuck of the trip. Without a complete data set of who ran when and how far, you can't draw many solid conclusions from that article about how far a human can be pushed over an extended period.

I also question why people would think that magic is so unlikely to be a science. Who made the first spells? How are new spells made? Did someone find a spell book that contained ALL the spells just randomly laying around somewhere in the forest? Also, if magic does not function consistently...

Personally I like the option of modeling early Firearms as more powerful than bows or crossbows, but with shorter ranges and other drawbacks: Harder to reload, ammunition can be very hard to come by, it is LOUD so everyone in the area is going to know you just fired it, cause limited 'obscuring...

Actually, professional armies brought the era of the armoured noble knight to an end, not firearms. After all, suites of full plate armour rose along side the firearm. They didn't come onto the field for centuries before, and then suddenly disappear overnight when guns hit the fields. Design and...