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This is hardly cutting edge, but these were movies I've been meaning to watch for a few years now... and now that I finally have, I'm sorry it took me so long. Sure, its pretty much the Dresden Files set in Moscow, but its awesome.

Zavulon is the best movie villain since Hans Gruber! I had to goob over the scene where he turns down the magic artifact that would allow him to turn back time and correct any mistake:

"You never make mistakes?"

"I never cry over them."

SCIONS OF THE SUCCESSION

After the Great Deluge (aka the Cataclysm of Water), the world of Cronus was ruled by mighty dragons until their great schism and the War of the Winds (aka the Cataclysm of Air), in which Tiamat led the evil dragons against Bahamut in his palace behind the East Wind. This ended the reign of the dragons, giving rise to the Age of Giants, which itself ended in the great earthquakes of the Worldbreaking (the Cataclysm of Earth), ending the reign of the giants and shatterin… Continue

I’m gearing up to start a new campaign in D&D 3.5. I’ve come up with several possible campaigns I’d like to run with my homebrew world, Cronus, but can’t fully decide which one to go with and flesh out. Since none of my players frequent the Dire Café, I’ve decided to write up a campaign outline for each one and run them out for your commentary and suggestions. Each campaign integrates modified versions of published materials to some extent. Here is the second one:

II. INFINITE REFLECTIONS… Continue

I’m gearing up to start a new campaign in D&D 3.5. I’ve come up with several possible campaigns I’d like to run with my homebrew world, Cronus, but can’t fully decide which one to go with and flesh out. Since none of my players frequent the Dire Café, I’ve decided to write up a campaign outline for each one and run them out for your commentary and suggestions. Each campaign integrates modified versions of published materials to some extent. Here is the first one:

THE WEAPONS OF ARMAGGEDON
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As some of you know, my major hobby is setting up anime-related events. In connection with this, I spent most of today working on a PowerPoint based multimedia presentation on anime adapted from erotic computer games for a seminar presentation I was asked to do.

This topic is actually a whole lot less racy than it sounds. See, the majority of Japanese "H-games" (games with pornographic content) have only a very tiny fraction of their content that is explicitly sexual, and that is usual

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