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As your Risk example proves, game rules can be used as springboards or guidelines even if they are complete and coherent. There is no advantage to a game having incomplete or incomprehensible rules. None.

I used to defend Holmes by comparing it to OD&D. However, I recently got a copy of Empire of the Petal Throne and it is astounding how well written the game rules are in that book which came out in 1975, two years before Holmes. That one book has character advancement rules that extend...

I've played both SFB and Fed Com. Here's the lowdown. Fedcom simplified the game by: -All energy is treated as "reserve" energy. You pay as you go except for movement. -There are four speeds (0, 8, 16, or 24). In each of the impulses you get 4 sub-impulses where you can change your speed by 1...

1983! Better game, better music, better hair.

I've heard that the ending/big secret is fall on the floor stupid. Anyone care to share it with me? Since I've done work in industrial computer controls, I just can't sit through any of these types of movies. Plus I've had enough Shai Lebuff for a long while.

Lost is reminding me more and more of Alias. I watched every episode of that show and they didn't resolve 20% of the outstanding questions. Why doesn't Locke ever ask Ben about the button in the hatch? He was obsessed with that button like a month ago and now doesn't even care. Nobody does. And...

One or more maybe. I think the next season will open with the island moving forward to 2007 (or whenever the flash-forwards finish). That way, the show will be completely caught up and the audience won't know the future like they do now. They can get Jack back on the island without having to...

Hehe. That actually makes alot more sense than any of my theories. Of course, I didn't think the island could be moved so easily.

Well, other than learning that the french woman is really dead and Keamy is really alive, we did learn that Kate has some sort of way of communicating with Sawyer. Plus, Jack's dad isn't alive (he mentioned him in the bearded Jack flash-forward as if you could see how drunk he was). We also...

Kate would have had to be -very- obviously pregnant on the plane to have a baby of Aaron's age. That is, unless there is some sort of lost time thing happening when Kate and Aaron leave the island. Enough to make it seem like she got preggers on the island. Also, I don't think Claire stays on...

Why the low screencount for Doomsday?

The date of Jack's flash foward is established by the date of the actual newspaper used as a prop in that episode. Whether this was the intent of the show's producers or not is up to debate. The timeline of the lostpedia is messed up. Check the discussion portion of that web page for details...

When Kate enters the courthouse, some crazy dude with a beard yells something at her. Anyone know what he said? Aaron

I would imagine that they are shopping the movie around hoping for a distribution deal.

Huh. IMDB has this movie being listed as a gay movie first and a cthulhu movie second.

The only true apples-to-apples comparison would be "percentage of total populations that bought tickets".

In BECMI/RC D&D The huge red dragon has 20 HD, an AC of -5, 3 attacks doing 1d12+2/1d12+2/4d8+8, firey breath that does the dragon's current hit points in damage, and the possibility (50%) of being able to use magic spells as a 10th level mu (approx). It has no special resistance to magic (but...

True, I used the term "Basic D&D" to refer to the BEMCI/RC version. Didn't dragons in the companion rules have the ability to land on top of you? I remember an article in Dragon Magazine issue #50 (the first one I ever bought) that had rules for boosting a dragons melee power as well as a...

Basic D&D dragons were more powerful than their AD&D cousins despite the fact that Basic D&D characters were less powerful than AD&D ones (forex Basic D&D fighters only got 1d8 hit point and THACO increased by +2/3 levels). Of course, Basic D&D was better than AD&D in just about every way. Aaron

The problem I see is that there already is a "common D&D experience", and it's exactly the hodgepodge you describe. Up until now, my kids can play a D&D that is remarkably similar to the one I played when I was 12. With 4e they will learn an entire new set of assumptions with a new convoluted...