Recent content by Dom1

Best run so far has been with the Zoltan cruiser. I managed to pick up two Flak II weapons, and the pre-igniter. By the end I was swimming in scrap because I rarely took any hull damage. On balance, I'm losing a lot more than I did.

Romeo and Juliet spoils itself within the first ten lines. So yeah, fairly safe. :D

I am a teacher (English and Classical Civilisation, private school) - it's really refreshing to see that so many people actually have some respect for us! It's strange, most people I meet have an appreciation of how tough the job can be (although they tend to think of it as breaking up fights...

I think being their teacher will help me out a lot. They're used to going along with what they're told, and I'm *ahem* used to winging it in the classroom. And my plans are looking pretty epic. We're going to be building up the school site from a fairly run-down manor house to a huge...

I like the idea of splitting over different weeks - I might do that once I've run through the introductory module. I'm also intending to open the activity out to geekery in general - giving kids a space to paint WH40K figures or hook up LAN games or something. And yes, 2e, purely because it's...

I know it's going to take an age - unfortunately I only have one session available per week, and the school tends to let the kids opt for whatever they like. So if I refuse to take more than six kids, I'm going to be compared unfavourably with cookery or dance club. Is it bad that part of me...

Hi guys. I'm a teacher in a UK boarding school and part of my job involves running extra-curricular activities for the students. This year, amazingly, I've been able to persuade the Head to let me run a D&D 2e campaign once a week. I'm incredibly lucky, and really looking forward to getting...

I would have agreed with you up until the point when you ran out of missions for one faction and it made you go and complete missions for the other faction until it was ready for you to move on. Oh, and you would think that if a highly talented mercenary had chosen one side, they would give that...

It was a brilliant concept. There were elements of a genuinely ground-breaking game in there - the injury system, the fire physics, the scale of the world - it could have been perfect. Unfortunately, they pushed so much effort into that side of the game that they apparently didn't employ any...

I'll agree with you on that much at least - the ending gets a bit tedious, but I guess they couldn't have added another 45 minutes to an already pretty long film. I still say that Bombadil was a tedious arse, and fairly easily replaced by a ten-second scene handing out some swords. Edit: I...

Lord Of The Rings - it feels like sacrilege to say it, but there's an awful lot in the books that a good editor would have cut out. We didn't need eleven pages of Elven song, or Tom Bombadil (at all). Peter Jackson cut what needed to be cut and made the whole vision much more compelling.

For a vaguely sensible in-game explanation, how about something like this: Rogues are inherently pretty agile, crafty people (otherwise they wouldn't be doing that job). So to begin with they have a big natural advantage against something unexpected like a petrification spell. Essentially...

Seconded. That was a terrible, nonsensical film. Being an atheist didn't help, but I'd like to think that even most Christians can't suspend their disbelief that far.

A melee-focussed vampire wielding a brush hook? Actually, since he's Toreador and hasn't killed an innocent yet, as long as I don't pick up a weapon I'll be fine. Well, possibly I'll have a lot less blood, but I'll live.