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I think it probably would. Which is unfortunate, since it was one of the few threads I found consistently amusing, or at least interesting. Think I'm probably taking the hint and leaving. Adios, folks.

Sadly there's no image of it tumbling out of the sky spilling cultists everywhere after King Broyan settles its hash. :)

Yeah, I forget what its in-game SIZ is rated at, but at least a couple of sites say it's 20m long with a 90m wingspan and supposedly weighs 1,000 tons, with a "carrying capacity" of 120 human-sized cultists. That's well shy of an actual B-52 in terms of length (just under 50m) but much broader...

I'm not even sure if the Greek Orthodox Church does confessionals, but if they do posting yours to a forum thread cannot possibly be a good idea.

More modern depictions of them look a lot more like the lead character from the Howard the Duck movie. Which is not only not an improvement in any way, it makes them noticeably more horrifying than the Crimson Bat is. All the more so if you've had that flash of duck boobs scene seared into...

If it's only there when she's asleep and you're staying up reading I fail to see how she'd even know, much less object. The fact that she'll tolerate reading in bed in the first place suggests she's super-tolerant in the first place. Never slept with anyone who wouldn't have kicked me to the...

Trollpak has taught me that the plural of uz is uz. :)

Not to be confused with a necronome, which is a timing instrument used by the Grateful Undead.

I'm tired of people being tired of people being tired of...you know what, never mind. It's just not worth the effort.

Within the context of the Belgariad novels, it is but there are a lot of limits placed on them by the setting. The Good Side wizards (and this whole stupid series if full of B&W morality) are mostly immortals apostles of a god from the dawn of time, and they're all working toward a cryptic...

Just wanted to say I really appreciate this thread. I'd been a fairly regular Dungeon reader in the earlier days of the magazine, but the entire Paizo run was pretty much a mystery to me so having a retrospective deep dive into what I missed is nice. My main DM at the time was relying heavily...

Side effect for me, it's all about style, not color. It would be different if we were talking about (say) miniatures painting, but that's a whole other subject. Worth noting that color art (even on covers) was not always a given in the early days of the hobby, and interior color isn't...

Not that I disagree with the argument but that's not a great simile there, considering how well scorched Earth strategies have actually worked in the real world. Russia did, in fact, show both Napoleon and Hitler pretty decisively, albeit with a bit of help from General Winter. I'm also pretty...

Huh, I missed Red Solstice #4 coming out. That's been a pretty good zine so far, hits my nostalgia bump for the old days of multi-system gaming mags that weren't pure house organs. And while I know that objectively the Crimson Bat is a Chaos kaiju, a terrifying eldritch horror AND the clearest...

Finished Ngaio Marsh's Death At the Bar, which I believe leaves me with just three of her books left to read for the first time. This is the the fourth "new" (as in unfamiliar) one I've plowed through in a row, the third one where the solution was obvious from very early on, and the third where...

Nothing wrong with a good popcorn read. I agree he tends to be slightly overhyped as far as deep, sophisticated writing goes, especially in the comics community where the bar for that can be very low indeed.

Bedside throw rug? Spare pillow? Leave your bathrobe flumped on the floor at the likely impact site? If your cat refuses to sleep in the bed you bought for them, use it as a book catcher instead? The kitty-bed that is, not the kitty.

The answer is "none" if magic works through sheer force of will pushing around the fabric of reality, which is the primary system in Eddings' Belgariad novels to name just one example. That system didn't have spells, and what you could do with it was more a matter of experimentation and...

That reasoning got me to buy rather a lot of Spacemaster and Traveller 4e stuff over the years, although I'm pretty sure the only thing being evoked by the art in that case was near-religious awe of Chris Foss' artwork. You could put his art on the cover of a recipe book for cannibals and I'd...

Is there a cynical modern version of that slogan that replaces the "is" with "was" yet? Because I kind of feel like there should be.