mearls: Core Stories in D&D

Night Stalker (2005) - TV Series - TV Tome

This is one of those times I'll have to completely forget the old series when looking at the new one. But they're putting it on Thursday night opposite CSI, so doesn't sound like they're serious about it anyway. Playing Kolchak is a guy who was originally supposed to play Aragorn but was thought too young. Oh dear. In other words, NOTHING like the Kolchak of the books.

Oh, well. Just found out that there's a 5-DVD box set of all the Kolchak eps...

May is a month in which falls of various strange kinds have occurred throughout history, according to the esteemed Charles Fort. Here is a list of them, taken from The Book of the Damned in The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, 1974.

• May 1652 - fall of viscous mass with a luminous meteorite between Siena and Rome
• May 1830 - fall of red ("vegetable") matter in rain, Siena, Italy
• May 1858 - fall of great numbers of beetle larvae, "inanimate as if with cold," Mortagne, France
• April 30, May 1 & May 2, [1856?] - fall of reddish to yellowish substance, carbonized, "spread the odor of charred animal matter", France and Spain
• May 1, 1863 - fall of red meal mixed with fine sand, Perpignan
• May 3, 1877 - fall of masses of ice "large as a man's hand, killing thousands of sheep," Texas
• May 3, 1884 - black rain at Crowle, England, near Worcester, accompanied by earthquakes
• May 8, 1802 - fall, during a storm, of a "mass of ice 3' long, 3' wide, and more than 2' thick", Hungary
• May 11, 1894 - fall of a small piece of alabaster, Vicksburg, Miss.; 8 miles away in Bovina, Miss., fall of a gopher turtle, both in a hailstorm
• May 12, 1811 - fall of lumps of ice, a foot in circumference, Derbyshire, England
• May 14, 1849 - ink-colored rain, fetid odor and "very disagreeable taste", Ireland
• May 14, 1864 - fall of "twenty masses, some of them as large as a human head, of a substance that 'resembled a dull-colored earthy lignite'", Montauban, France
• May 16, 1833 - fall of dead and dry fish, Futtepoor, India
• May 16 or 17, 1834 - fall of dead, dry fish (or fish-shaped objects), Allahabad, India
• May 18, 1883 - fall of 'a number of stones of peculiar formation and shapes, unknown in this neighborhood' in a tornado, Hillsboro, Ill.
• May 22, 1884 - fall of flinty stones, Bismarck, [North] Dakota
• May 27, 1884 - peculiar stone "'very like the fourth part of a large Stilton cheese'" found near a fall of a meteorite

I think that pretty well covers the subject for the month of May.

EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - General - Ernest Adams' Some Thoughts on Archaic Language

The Order of the Stick - by Rich Burlew

Students' Pages, JMC 352, Spring 2005 Web pages done by my students this semester.

EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Humor - Ernest Adams' Letter from A Dungeon

mearls: You Can Be Anything I Want You To Be Interesting thread on character design.

EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - General - Allowing PCs to be heroic

Rich Burlew, game designer of THE FUTURE! Advice on creating a villain

EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Do you survey your players?

12 to Midnight

EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - History - Name Five Things You've Done That Others Probably Have Not This is such a great thread! Just goes to show that everyone's amazing in their own way. Maybe some more than others.

Straczynski Project Watch - Worlds of JMS A story called "The Darkness Between the Stars" will be published in issue 7 of BoDW.

Distributors of Book of Dark Wisdom - The magazine of dark fiction & Lovecraftian horror - Sweet! Birmingham B&N is one of the places carrying it!

I printed out a copy of Rolling the Bones today. I'm once again impressed at how nice it turned out. Kudos to 93 Games Studio!

Today I start to work on the Libraries supplement in earnest. Thos and I discussed feats last night, coming up with 5 ideas. Not sure what final form those will take. My working title is Hitting the Books: A Library and Archive Supplement.

Book of Dark Wisdom - The magazine of dark fiction & Lovecraftian horror

My story "Detour" will be published in the Spring 2007 issue!

Rolling the Bones: A Graveyard Supplement is out :: GamingReport.com :: Where Gamers get their News

Rolling the Bones: A Graveyard Supplement has been published by 93 Games Studio! It's available via these four fine suppliers:

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Keith Taylor has done a great job with it. If you play d20 Modern or even Call of Cthulhu, you must own this PDF! And at $5.00 for 41 pages, it's a real bargain.