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I'm curious, how have retailers been burned by D20? Are the official WOTC products flopping, or is this a reference to the proliferation of D20-related products? I don't know much about the...

I wouldn't sweat the copyright issue unless you're planning on selling your program. The first rule of lawsuits is always to follow the money. If you're infringing on a copyright in a way that...

For those who may have been following the story, the third and final part of "The Lord of Darkness" PBEM chronicle is complete and posted on my website:
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Well, look at what happened to Gil-galad and Elendil for their troubles. And, contrary to Peter Jackson, all we know for certain from Tolkien's text is that Isildur used the hilts of his father's...

Don't forget the zillion incarnations of "Gundam". The best series, both for tank/air warfare as well as for a compelling story, is the original "Mobile Suit Gundam" from 1979.

Those "Macross"...

The STAR TREK viewers have changed: they've gotten older. My buds and I are now in our early 30s. A dozen years ago, when TNG was flying at its height, we never would have dreamed of missing an...

Undiscovered Country even has a chapter devoted to it in the recent cultural-history trade book Gilligan Unbound (an even larger chapter is devoted to The X-Files). The author makes the interesting...

I don't believe there is anything in the rules that prevents an Elf from being affected by the Black Breath. And it wasn't as if the Elves during the War of the Ring were lining up to tangle with...

I think this is promising work, Ineti. As is, I don't find the tactical mass combat system in the CRB to be very useful. I just use the simplified basic form (which actually works fairly well). ...

For those who may have been following the story, Part II of the second chronicle for "The Lord of Darkness" PBEM is complete and posted on my website:
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The most compelling account for this that I've encountered is that the supposed Germany invasion of Britain was part of a disinformation campaign to convince Stalin that Germany would be...

LOL, I can't believe I missed that little gem. :p Ahhh, Nietzsche. It must have come from the second season, when the show was getting fairly good right before Wolfe got canned and the series...

I've said it before, I'll say it again: "STARSHIP TROOPERS, a Hollywood movie based on the cover of a book by Robert Heinlein." ;)

And here I thought I was alone on the matter: I also thought that...

I think most people who doubt the historicity of Plato's Socrates argue that Plato used the real Socrates as a model but put his own words and ideas in Socrates' mouth. However, many of Plato's...

Good! Let me know how you like them. I'd be happy to chew on any of the scenarios presented in more detail.

Despite being longer, I didn't find the recent Dune miniseries to be an improvement over Lynch's 1984 film. If anything, it gave me a better appreciation for how skillfully Lynch's script squeezed a...

Ahh, thanks for the clarification, I appreciate it. The books definitely are worth picking up. You very likely did come across reviews of them as a librarian. The first book was very well received...

I am dubious of Berman's claim. I'm glad he's staying positive and talking up the chances, but that same website has a May 10 listing about an article in Variety making the case that the series...

Shiny!

No need to get personal, friend. There nothing "pretentious" about a deterministic view of history, which has been around and talked about quite a bit for, oh, 300 years now. B5 was hardly making a...

Wow, for a guy who missed an entire season you somehow have learned pretty much everything important that happened. Heck, I've watched almost every darn episode and even I hadn't heard about the 6th...

Uh, then why is your link a dead link? Which "iconic moment" is supposed to be in this scene?

Okay, leave it to me to play the Bad Guy and break up this little love-fest we have going on here... ;)

Boo to "agency" history. I'm sick of the new-generation historians trying to put the focus...

What did the deleted scene show? I just get a dead link when I try to view it.

I agree, this is a very stimulating thread.

While I concur with your perspective that the Eastern front has been downplayed in military historiography until the 1990s (but, for that matter,...