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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10983 Posts
    
Umass Amherst Baby!
 | | 04/06/2007 1:09 AM |
| Mine would be the quasi-shared worlds of Robert E Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecaft. The first Dungeons and Dragons game I ran was heavily influenced by Conan. Well that and the fact that most of the player wanted to be him.
As of late I've been getting into the works of Fritz Lieber, which has nothing to do with my recent aqusition of Runequest: Lankhmar.  | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Sirohk
Commander
3912 Posts
USA
| | 04/06/2007 4:23 AM |
| Here are some of my favorites (not necessarily in this order):
1) Nehwon - of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser by Fritz Leiber (influenced my D&D worlds)
2) Melnibone - of Elric of Melnibone by Micheal Moorecock (influenced my D&D worlds)
3) Ravenloft - ran a number of campaigns here and had a lot of fun
4) Greyhawk - my first "purchased" campaign world using the old maps that came in the brown folder)
5) Blackmoore - originally from that little brown book (which I used in a campaign), I used the later published modules DA1 - DA4 (except for the technology one) in a number of adventures
6) Spelljammer - my group had a lot of fun and adventurers over a number of years chasing a Vampire Lich across the Spelljammer Void
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Sirohk, the Bard of Heartstone
Knight of the Rahshasa's
And Crusader of the Zakya, Ak'chazar, Naztharune, and Naityan Rakshasa's | |
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Qucalion of Celene
Sergeant
967 Posts
Salt Lake City, Utah
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 04/06/2007 9:25 AM |
| Are we talking reading wise or gaming wise? I have lists for both.  | |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7535 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 04/06/2007 9:38 AM |
| The Forgotten realms, for the rich in-game history and massive size of it. Size does count sometimes.
Greyhawk, for being the first and the real-life history it has
Ravenloft, for the thematics and ambience.
Eberron (maybe) or going in a new direction, and having a "Magical revolution" instead of an industrial revolution.
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Against The Giants Called Shot: Huge Green Dragon
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 04/06/2007 9:57 AM |
| The Forgotten Realms is the grandaddy for me, my all time favorite D&D campaign world.
Dragonlance is cool, sadly I've never had the opportunity to play in it on a long term basis. | | | |
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zenthrus
Warlord
5082 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 04/06/2007 11:22 AM |
| Middle Earth (Tolkein's rendition, not some of the more recent stuff)
Wheel of Time (whatever Jordan is calling that world)
Recluse and Cyador (Magic of Recluse Saga by Modesitt)
Greyhawk (Living and otherwise)
Talsorian's post-apocalyptic Earth
Magnamund (Joe Dever's Lone Wolf)
not necessarily in that order  | |
Knight Warlord a.k.a. Commander (#32) in only 6 months. Where's my pie?
Champion of Dwarven Thunderlashers
Knight of the Large Dire Chicken
Have/Want List
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Faragdar the Wise
Commander
3518 Posts
Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | 04/06/2007 11:46 AM |
| Xanth. That setting is awesome and totally hilarious.
The Land. From the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - an amazingly detailed and vibrant fantasy setting that really caught and kept my interest.
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"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein
Champion of Myopic Half-Orcs
Winner, WBC X | |
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Sirohk
Commander
3912 Posts
USA
| | 04/06/2007 12:28 PM |
| Posted By Faragdar the Wise on 04/06/2007 11:46 AM
The Land. From the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - an amazingly detailed and vibrant fantasy setting that really caught and kept my interest.
That was a totally awsome setting, on top of the books being great reading.Â
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Sirohk, the Bard of Heartstone
Knight of the Rahshasa's
And Crusader of the Zakya, Ak'chazar, Naztharune, and Naityan Rakshasa's | |
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7535 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 04/06/2007 2:46 PM |
| Posted By Faragdar the Wise on 04/06/2007 11:46 AM
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The Land. From the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - an amazingly detailed and vibrant fantasy setting that really caught and kept my interest.
I thought you meant the land of the lost for a second. I was about to get worried for you.
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Against The Giants Called Shot: Huge Green Dragon
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 04/06/2007 3:01 PM |
| Since we're branching into books, in no order:
Forgotten Realms: One of the first shared worlds I read and still a favorite
Athera: Janny Wurts' fantasy world
Wendar and Varre: "Historic" fantasy by Kate Elliott
Recluce: L E Modessitt, the most realistic fantasy world I've ever read. It has contries with working economies.
Isles: David Drake, cool fantasy with Alexander-esque tech instead of a standard mideival world
Westeros: Gerorge R R Martin, absolutely great.
For roleplaying, I love FR, Greyhawk, and Rokugon (2nd ed). Eberron is starting to move up the list | |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
For further info go to My Reference Thread and Trade Interface
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scruffydude7
Underboss
1196 Posts
Rock Hill, SC
| | 04/06/2007 3:04 PM |
| For RPG:
Forgotten Realms
Planescape
Greyhawk
For Literature:
Middle Earth
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Champion of the Revenant
Knight of the Elf Duskblade
Complete Trades: Oni, Kidkach, Melrune, callidusx3 | |
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Round Table
Thenameless
Warlord
11426 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 04/08/2007 5:30 PM |
| | Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms in no particular order - there's a reason they're popular I guess. I wasn't much of a fan of the latter, but an awesome DM introduced me to it, and I was hooked. | |
Over 270 successful online DDM trades. | |
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dagonet
Sergeant
442 Posts
| | 04/08/2007 10:31 PM |
| Posted By Sirohk on 04/06/2007 12:28 PM Posted By Faragdar the Wise on 04/06/2007 11:46 AM
The
Land. From the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - an amazingly detailed
and vibrant fantasy setting that really caught and kept my interest.
That was a totally awsome setting, on top of the books being great reading.Â
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Best Fantasy ever written, as far as I'm concerned, and the best part
is that we're finally getting a Third Chronicles. I'm also a big
fan of Middle Earth and most of Patricia McKillip's settings (the
Settled Lands of the Riddlemaster books, Ombria, the Forest of Serre,
etc.).
   Ironically, though, most my borrowing for rpg-use
has come from low-fantasy:Â the unnamed world of the Black Company
novels, Saberhagen's Swords books, bits of Moorcock, etc. And
Lovecraft, of course, because that King in Yellow from Dungeon last
year was just too good not to modify. . .
   Cheers,
   Dagonet
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"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."
Champion of Kyuss and his Servants of Squishy Doom | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10425 Posts
United States
| | 04/09/2007 6:14 AM |
| Once upon a time, when I had time to read, I really enjoyed the Belgariad books by Eddings. The world was fairly well-designed, had a rich history without being crazy-deep (like Tolkein), and the characters were compelling.
And, somehow, he made the adventuring parties almost "standard." A paladin, a barbarian, a rogue, a couple of sorcerers, a warrior, etc.
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Knowledge Arcana editor issues 5-9, Phoenix Lore Magazine editor, assistant editor for Rite Publishing;
My Trade Thread and My Reference Thread; Winner of WBC IV, IX and XIII; Rule #0: bshugg is always right! | |
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yack
Commander
3254 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 04/09/2007 7:56 AM |
| | RPG and reading its the Forgotten Realms for me. | |
Champion of the Peryton
Vindicated Champion : Pit Fiend, Devourer
DW: Duergar Priest
RPG Only!!!! The Drumming Drunkn' DM | |
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Faragdar the Wise
Commander
3518 Posts
Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | 04/09/2007 9:31 AM |
| Posted By dagonet on 04/08/2007 10:31 PM
   Best Fantasy ever written, as far as I'm concerned, and the best part is that we're finally getting a Third Chronicles...
I agree, but I never recommend it any more. Too many people get hung up on the unsympathetic nature of the protagonist. And I have yet to pick up the third chronicles. | |
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein
Champion of Myopic Half-Orcs
Winner, WBC X | |
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Sulaco
Underboss
1605 Posts
| | 04/12/2007 7:24 AM |
| Gaming: The Warhammer World
I love the feel of it, the darkness, the grittiness. No other game setting feels even remotely as verisimilar to me.
Fiction: The Discworld
Nuff said. | |
Champion of the Gelatinous Cube. Nemesis of Gnomes and Dinosaurs.
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. ~ Terry Pratchett | |
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Bert the Troll
Commander
3964 Posts
Adelaide
| | 04/17/2007 6:13 PM |
| Posted By dagonet on 04/08/2007 10:31 PM Posted By Sirohk on 04/06/2007 12:28 PM Posted By Faragdar the Wise on 04/06/2007 11:46 AM
The Land. From the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - an amazingly detailed and vibrant fantasy setting that really caught and kept my interest.
That was a totally awsome setting, on top of the books being great reading.    Best Fantasy ever written, as far as I'm concerned, and the best part is that we're finally getting a Third Chronicles. I'm also a big fan of Middle Earth and most of Patricia McKillip's settings (the Settled Lands of the Riddlemaster books, Ombria, the Forest of Serre, etc.).    Ironically, though, most my borrowing for rpg-use has come from low-fantasy: the unnamed world of the Black Company novels, Saberhagen's Swords books, bits of Moorcock, etc. And Lovecraft, of course, because that King in Yellow from Dungeon last year was just too good not to modify. . .    Cheers,    Dagonet
A third chronicles? IÂ hope it is as good.
In RPG worlds it would be greyhawk, dark sun, plane scape and lesser degree spell jammer.
In books, a long list:
Moorcock, tolkien, piers anthony, saberhagen (I running a camp now where the quest invloves the song of swords), julian may 'saga of exiles', frank herbert, Gemmel, terry goodkind, lankmar, conan & most cultrual mythos stories like greek pantheon et
Fiction & fantasy, cantget enough. | |
"Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don't look like mutton again tomorrer." Bert the Troll - The Hobbit
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Champion of Epic Lolth, Orcus, & Demogorgon and bring us Asmodeus! | |
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thekidxii
Sergeant
450 Posts
No Yack. I said.. we need a DM not BM!
| | 04/18/2007 6:57 AM |
| first off. WOW a third chronicles! Yay! love those books, but rarely recommend them.
...keeping in book settings: Middle Earth, Forgotten Realms, The Land (as mentioned above), really into Raymond Feist's Midkemia right now and I don't remember what it was called but my first fantasy book(s) were by LLoyd Alexander. (Book of Three; et al) I did most of my book reports in gr5-6 on his books.
RPG... Forgotten Realms (IMO the best!) , would love to see Midkemia adapted to d20. Greyhawk was cool too! | |
Champion of the dire hippo.
Audi Vide Tace
"Nothing matters but the weekend, From a Tuesday point of view" -Diamond & Zero | |
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Dordledum
Commander
3389 Posts
Netherlands
| | 04/18/2007 10:04 AM |
| No specific order:
Planescape, FR, Ravenloft, Seven Cities, Genabackis (both Steven Erickson), Discworld, R.E. Howard's world, and everything Lovecraftian.
D. | |
Member of the Bearded Devils
Champion of the Huge Spider (WotDQ 46/60), A New Umber Hulk (DoDe 57/60), and the Orog Fighter! | |
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Raland
Sergeant
915 Posts
| | 04/20/2007 7:50 AM |
| First and Foremost for me would be DragonLance (named my daughter Tanis)
Wheel of Time
Saberhagens Sword stories (often incorpated them into my homebrew campaigns)
Earthsea | |
Champion of the Kender
ckissee - "providing TPK's since 2007"
Albert Einstein never once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left" but the theory is a scary prospect. | |
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warty_nosed_goblin
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 05/01/2007 8:23 AM |
| Posted By Sulaco on 04/12/2007 7:24 AM
Gaming: The Warhammer World
I love the feel of it, the darkness, the grittiness. No other game setting feels even remotely as verisimilar to me.
Fiction: The Discworld
Nuff said.
Warhammer Fantasy or 40K? I don't know much about fantasy, but I like 40K, if only because of Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, and it's essentially fantasy (albeit with plasma weapons) anyway.
Fictionwise, it really varies. Right now I'm not reading much, but I like pretty much all "core" Dragonlance, Tolkien, George RR Martin might be my current fav though for sheer grittiness, Westeros is by far the most believable fantasy setting I've read in a while. | |
Call me: W.N. Gobo!
originally posted by grim:
While he is clearly insane, he does have a point. | |
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Pedro
Commander
3926 Posts
Czech Republic
| | 05/06/2007 9:45 AM |
| I'd go with:
1) Final Fantasy (best setting ever)
1.5) Discworld
2) FRealms
3) Planescape
Honorable mention goes to Star Wars, which is not fantasy but I love it | |
2007 & 2008 Czech Republic Champion
2008 Czech Republic's Player of the Year
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Next Icon Called Shot: Baldur's Gate pack - Khalid, Jaheira, Minsc (and BOO!), Imoen, Xan, Sarevok...
Against the Giants Called Shot: Phoenix (/no luck)
Demonweb Called Shot: Yagnoloth (I like demons!)
Feywild Called Shot:
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 05/06/2007 3:18 PM |
| Posted By Pedro on 05/06/2007 9:45 AM
1) Final Fantasy (best setting ever)
Curious if this is specific to one of the games or movies or is it just the franchise in general.
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Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
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Pedro
Commander
3926 Posts
Czech Republic
| | 05/07/2007 6:04 AM |
| Posted By gss_000 on 05/06/2007 3:18 PM Posted By Pedro on 05/06/2007 9:45 AM
1) Final Fantasy (best setting ever)
Curious if this is specific to one of the games or movies or is it just the franchise in general.
Well, wait until I fetch a dictionary to translate the word "franchise" and then I will reply | |
2007 & 2008 Czech Republic Champion
2008 Czech Republic's Player of the Year
2.0 Champion of Necromancers! (preferably not Evil:-))
Next Icon Called Shot: Baldur's Gate pack - Khalid, Jaheira, Minsc (and BOO!), Imoen, Xan, Sarevok...
Against the Giants Called Shot: Phoenix (/no luck)
Demonweb Called Shot: Yagnoloth (I like demons!)
Feywild Called Shot:
Starter 2009 Called Shot: | |
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Pedro
Commander
3926 Posts
Czech Republic
| | 05/07/2007 6:12 AM |
| So far I have played 7,8 and 9, watched the films, read some novels...
If I pass the school-leaving and university-entering exams, I will jump into it again... | |
2007 & 2008 Czech Republic Champion
2008 Czech Republic's Player of the Year
2.0 Champion of Necromancers! (preferably not Evil:-))
Next Icon Called Shot: Baldur's Gate pack - Khalid, Jaheira, Minsc (and BOO!), Imoen, Xan, Sarevok...
Against the Giants Called Shot: Phoenix (/no luck)
Demonweb Called Shot: Yagnoloth (I like demons!)
Feywild Called Shot:
Starter 2009 Called Shot: | |
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Shottglazz
Underboss
1101 Posts
Quinte West, Ontario, Canada
| | 05/07/2007 9:03 AM |
| | For reading, Westeros - tops them all IMO...for rpg's my old fav is Ravenloft, followed closely by FR and Mystara...never enjoyed SJ, DS, KT or AQ...my old DM in high school had a great campaign that combined Lankhmar, GH and FR... | |
Shottglazz
"Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand;
I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me."
Completed trades ( 51 ): Pikel, Darrell x2, JeffDHarvey, BiggPappa001, Ghendar, Valinrook X2, Wolfgang x4, Wraithborne x6, Mr Ruffles, Anothermullen, CKissee x3, Browns_Scoundrel, Kyrin, GuJiaXian x2, Tyngfumv, Basic_Aim, Mickey Mouse, Berus316, Crisisman, Zoons, Rockfrd, Sterling40 x2, Brucemc, 2007 Magical Mystery Trade, Redskullz x2, Stephengroy, Lyus_Sleyden, Foolforthought, 2008 Magical Mystery Trade, Kilsek x4, Generic Fighter, Auric, Relientkitten
Pending trades ( 3 ): relientKitten x2, Redskullz
WotC trades ( 1 ): Red_Deceiver
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Wraithborne
Commander
4195 Posts
West Virginia
| | 06/14/2007 4:50 AM |
| For RPG: Red Steel, Planescape and Dark Sun are the top dogs with the Forgotten Realms a distant 4th.
Reading: Randland(Wheel of time), The worlds from Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn; J.V. Jones' Book of Words, ahh crap...I could go on all day on this one. | |
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say "Ni" at will to old ladies.
-Roger the Shrubber | |
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Wolfgang
Warlord
5395 Posts
Milton, Ontario Canada
| | 06/14/2007 9:51 AM |
| RPG
1. Dragonlance i love it!
2. Forgotten realms for the history and how well thought out it is | |
Proud member since March 26 2005
Champion of the SIVAK DRACONIAN
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7535 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/14/2007 12:28 PM |
| I'm reminded of a quote from an old dragon magazine, where they interviewed some 3.0 playtesters. one of the questions was Favorite Campaign Setting. One girl answered "Forgotten Realms, because size does matter"
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Official Delegate, Wizards of the Coast
Against The Giants Called Shot: Huge Green Dragon
Icons Called Shot: Gargantuan Prismatic Dragon
"Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen." | |
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wicked cool
Underboss
2122 Posts
| | 06/14/2007 1:45 PM |
| westeros series
dragonlance
drizzt novels-forgotten realms
lotr
terry goodkinds world
midkemia magician and apprentice
not a big fan of thomas the covenant. he was such a-hole . brooks on the shannara series is just a ripoff of lotr and so is eragon from star wars | |
The ROCK layeth the smacketh down. Long live Farscape
Vindicated-CHAMPION of the INTELLECT DEVOURER
i will change my avatar when martin completes dances with dragons | |
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