Troll Lord Games

<t>I remember reading, some years ago, an interesting article about hairyness and hairlessness amongst intelligent tool-using creatures. The author felt that the domestication of fire would be the telling point.<br/> <br/> Humans are by far the least hairy of all the hominoids. Even a hairy person i...

I...I...there are no words to convey the awesomeness of what I have witnessed. The intro by itself- was that the Wolfman?

<t>Thanks, Jim; interestingly enough, I was able to find a copy just a couple of weeks ago from another distributor, so it all ends well. You can witness my joyous frothing at the end of the Issue #10 thread. I blame the painkillers.<br/> <br/> When my original sub expired I looked into resubbing, b...

You're a winner, Seskis!

Concobar, I dunno what that movie is, I just know I want it.

Happy birfday tooo yoooo!

Looks like something's definitely gone wrong then, if US subscribers are still waiting. My copy showed up at the FLGS on Monday, and I was able to fetch it today.

Issue 18: w/c 8/6/09. Actual arrival at store w/c 15/6/09

Who needs stats? You encounter it, you die. It's a bacon TPK.

What we need now, though, Serl, is a full-length chef video, Delia-style, so that we may all see the creation of this terror.

<t>All right, my contribution:<br/> <br/> Odd little post-apoc job. Mid-level manager's "marriage" with his sex-bot goes awry when she has a terminal reaction to washing-up water. The ecomony's on the skids, and no more of her model are available; not even spares. At least he's got her brain on disc...

CharlieRock wrote: On the assumption that LoDyn is right, here is another one: (this movie was very good btw) Magnum P.I. is a cop in the near future whose job is pretty secure as long as robots go crazy. Fortunately for him and us we dont have a shortage of those. But there is a bad guy making all...

The "other" gods book? There's going to be more than one?

<t>Well yes, and the spacetime warps that result can change over time as the source of gravity increases or decreases in mass, amongst other things. These changes propagate from the source at the speed of light, hence "gravity waves".<br/> <br/> There are some pretty good illustrations of them <br/>...

Yes, specifically, one of my lessons was "While it's fun to pull your t-shrt over your knees and pretend to be an owl like they depict in the Muppet Show, it hurts more when you fall over than they depict in the Muppet Show, and your nose bleeds a lot more".

I agree, it'd be a crying shame not to see it on something.

<t>OK, I have tried for a way to describe this game, and after reading Gallowglacht's fulsome and effective review, Dr Rotwang!s excellent blog post, and after finally bending my rusty old brain around it, I finally have an answer; a way to answer the original question without taking up more pages t...

<t>I have to agree with Serl, there. Too many spells can lead to homogeneity, but a selcet number of "basic" spells and the incentive to research your own new ones makes for a unique campaign, an extra level of interest and, I find, happier wizard players.<br/> <br/> I give 'em XPs for successfully ...

There are some lessons in life you just have to learn the hard way. I know I certainly did.

Go0gleplex wrote: The effect (force) of Gravity is faster than light...in that it can bend and capture light. Meaning that light also has mass (or at least the photons that are within light) if it can be diverted by the force of gravity. Therefore, if you have a mass (light) traveling at light spee...

<t>Different syles of fighting. IF the samurai can get his one-shot into play and the swahbuckler forgets to dodge, he's dead.<br/> <br/> In a (comparatively) protracted fight with a Western sword, that katana* is a mess of chips in a few heartbeats and the faster-moving swordsman is likely to have ...

DangerDwarf wrote:
No, that just makes me think of THIS

Nnnnnng!

Aaaand that's my next adventure written. Cheers!

40K's another one, although I'm not fond of the term "science-fantasy". Either it's scientific or it's fantasy, and just becuase you might have ray-guns and spaceships doesn't make it scientific.

Perhaps techno-fantasy would be a better term.

<t>Well, cold fusion never got so far as becoming a theory; it never got past being a widely-disputed experimental result. It was a rough hypothesis at best, couched within the theoretical framwework of Quantum Mechanics.<br/> <br/> Wormholes also have a problem that they are still only theoretical ...

I think the trolls were experimenting with different colours for different books, just like the title script was red for the PHB and green for M&T in the older cover styles.

In the end they went for one colour.

All of the above.

Julian Grimm wrote:
That sounds like a bad Spider-Man villian.

Great, now I've got a mental image of Steve in spandex tights. Curse you, Julian Grimm!

<t>This is a cool thread; I am pleased and heartwarmed (is that a word?) by its contents.<br/> <br/> I'm personally very glad that the updated information will be made available for use by those who must yet, or otherwise simply choose to, hang onto their current prints; this is a grand show of good...

CharlieRock wrote: Time for the obligatory except if: I've worked several times with friends and family (that is, friends I knew from before I got the job) and that usually works okay. So: working with firneds/family = good, working for friends/family = not so good. There is some small truth to thi...

And somewhere, in the deep dimensions beyond the mortal realm, the shade of Frankie Howerd smiles gently in his repose and rests in deeper contentment...

Should prove useful to anyone trying to write for the magazine.