They are both really fun. I've logged over 80 hours for both the original and Chaos expansion. Having said that, I also feel compelled to put in a plug for the original dawn of war. It captures the feel of the Warhammer universe extremely well, is probably really cheap now and has a fantastic number of unique factions. Dawn of War is more of a traditional RTS, albeit with some unique elements such as having to expand to capture "requisition" points. Also if you are interested in learning more about the Warhammer Universe itself I cannot recommend Dan Abnett's series enough. Both his Gaunt's Ghosts and Eisenhorn series are fantastic.

I read this series of 3-4 books when I was in High school and I can't for the life of me remember the title, the author or the name of the characters. All I can remember is that the main character was a prince with purple eyes who couldn't look in mirrors or he would go mad. At the beginning of the first book he get's involved in a duel with whips and then he goes on a quest, although I can't remember what the quest was for. There is also a side character who is super ugly, but at the end of the series he becomes beautiful but doesn't like it, so he gets turned back. I think that's all that I can remember. If anyone has any suggestions I would really appreciate it.

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I've been reading a lot of both on my kindle lately and have come to conclusion that Fantasy must be harder to write than Science Fiction, since there are quite a few decent science-fiction self-published books out there, but very few fantasy. Having said that, I love both but nothing is better than a terrific fantasy novel.

THis was a prank that I was only tengentially involved in, but when I was a freshman some guys in my hall got a bunch of cheap alarm clocks and ricked this one guys room. They unscrewed his vents and put a clock behind each one and hid them all over the place. They were timed to start going off at one, followed by one every half hour. The next morning we found bits of smashed alarm clocks in the hallway. He must not have thought it was funny.

You know that your sense of touch can be fooled, just like any of your other senses. It's just harder and would take more effort to make you think you were touching something that doesn't exist or vice versa. You may now go insane with the knowledge that nothing you think you know about the universe is true.

I like book series for the same reason I like TV series, because we are already familiar with the characters and setting, and there is enough time for real progression. Best example I can think of is Jim Butcher, who's own increasing skill as an author has made each book in his Dresden Files better than the last.

I've lived overseas for most of my life and I've seen some things that can't be unseen. Also, I had a school bus driver who used to periodicaly stop and take leaks on the side of the road with the whole bus watching... creepy. Incidentally on the same bus there was this one kid David who couldnt hold it ( i had an hour and a half bus ride home in middle school ) and started peeing in a bottle but he was, shall we say, a poor aim. It was awful. Complete and utter pandemonium.

Eisenhorn is probably my favorite Warhammer series. Ravenor isn't bad either and I like the Gaunt's Ghosts novels quite a bit. Tried reading some other Warhammer novels and... let's just say they didn't measure up.

Actually most english grammar rules - like not splitting an infinitive - actually come from Latin and were arbitrarily applied to english. That's why our rules make so little sense. And (HA!) tons of respected authors start sentences with conjunctions. I think that grammar rules are stupid anyway. Language is an inherently fuzzy concept that is constantly changing. As long as it is easily understood and doesn't distract from what is actually trying to be communicated I couldn't care less where you put commas or quotations.