Java Fiend

How do you pronounce Ben's name anyway? Is it SAYNZ, or SEENZ, or what?

This comes up regularly on the Tolkien discussion groups.

d20? What's that? I and my friends still play AD&D, with Players Handbooks that have the big orange idol on the cover.

Hello? Hello, may I speak with Java Fiend? This is Java Fiend. Hello sir, my name is Jonathan... What are wearing, Jonathan? Are you alone? What color are your eyes? Uhh... How tall are you? Do you have blond hair? I love blond hair. [click] No, I haven't done it but I would love to try.

Sesame oil. Don't forget the sesame oil, it adds a great and very distinctive flavor. Except, it burns at high heat so don't use it as your main frying oil.

Ohh, now that's cool. It's so... otherworldly!

Angels wear boots?! ...and what in the name of all that's holy is an Astral Mauler?! Very cool.

Well you see, when a mommy ogre and a daddy human love each other very much...

Bakarathi! We haven't had a new Bakarathi figure in ages. Squeee!

I kinda like Hungarian notation.

Whoah, now that's a seriously huge hill giant. I love it.

A friend of mine has a son in the US Army who's stationed in Iraq, and he sent her some photos of a really big and nasty looking bug that he found in his tent. It was sort of a cross between a spider and a scorpion, and it was as big as your hand. He spent quite some time ranting about Evil Bugs. I thought it was a bit much for a bug, but I guess if you're writing home to Mom you can't very well rant about the really gruesome wartime stuff.

I'm one of those old school AD&D gamers who will not buy a Warlord figure -- or Warhammer, or Confrontation, or Rackham, or Freebooter -- because it's got multiple parts. I happen to like one-piece miniatures. As a result, my miniatures consist mainly of Reaper DHL, Ral Partha, Grenadier, Rafm, and reaching farther back, preslotta Citadel, and Superior. I even happen to like broccoli bases. So there. And isn't that what the Warlord line is for? Keep DHL one-pieced as much as possible, and integral-based too, thank you very much.

Try this location instead, and click on the Miniatures item on the navigation bar at the left.

Akuma, you should check Codex Draconis, an effort to catalog all the dragon miniatures ever. It's pretty ambitious.