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There was also Dungeoneer, Blacksand and Allansia, the last of which covered outdoor adventures and even mass battles. The new Second Edition rules include the Heroes Companion, Blacksand and Beyond the Pit. I don't know of any other books that meet your description.
I have the trade paperbacks of Dungeoneer and Blacksand, and Allansia is around here somewhere. I've got 3 different editions of Titan, 2 different editions of Out of the Pit, and the Arion edition of Advanced Fighting Fantasy. I've also got the Quest for the Crown of Kings (the source book, not just the gamebooks and spell book).

Heroes Companion is one that I want, and I was wondering if Beyond the Pit is just a new edition of Out of the Pit, or if it has all-new material. Ditto Blacksand; I need sources with good, readable maps, and if the new edition of Blacksand has new information, I'll get it.

If there was a source book for Khare, I'd get that in a heartbeat. I decided that my Sorcery! character was born in Khare, grew up, left, and was returning when the Crown was stolen. She turns out to be the best candidate available to get it back. The lack of official information and even much fan-written information (I belong to a couple of Yahoo! gaming groups and a Fighting Fantasy forum) means I've been making some stuff up myself, as to how that city is actually run.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever read in the various Dungeon Masters' guides was to consider what happens in the adventure's location when the adventurers are not there. It helps lessen the "WTH, that doesn't make any sense!" problem.
 
Well, Arion Games does have some maps as well. They are UK-based (of course), but that shouldn't be too much of a problem for such specialist goods. :)
 
Well, Arion Games does have some maps as well. They are UK-based (of course), but that shouldn't be too much of a problem for such specialist goods. :)
Why would UK-based be a problem? (other than the exchange rate) When I first got in to Fighting Fantasy, the bookstore I bought them from carried the Penguin editions imported from the UK. I've always preferred those. But it was so frustrating, once I found other FF fans online who are from the UK and they'd talk about such-and-such a book, map, magazine, etc. and I'd realize that those items were ones I hadn't known existed because they never got here. So now it's an expensive proposition to complete my collection.

Sadly, the items I'm interested in on the page you linked are marked "sold out." :(
 
Well, I imagine that 6,000 miles of postage won't come cheaply either. Try setting up an account with them and then flagging those items as desirable, so that you can be emailed when next they're available.
 
Well, I imagine that 6,000 miles of postage won't come cheaply either. Try setting up an account with them and then flagging those items as desirable, so that you can be emailed when next they're available.
I'll have to check out the postage and then find a currency converter. Some of these items are available on eBay and Amazon, but the Amazon prices are beyond outrageous.

On the positive side, though, the time it takes to get stuff from the UK is sometimes a lot faster than it takes for me to get something from Ontario or the U.S.

There have been some insane holdups at the border in recent months, and one person (an Amazon Marketplace seller) trotted out the excuse that "overseas costs more and takes longer." I pointed out to him (it was an American seller) that there is no ocean between the U.S. and Canada.
 
Trope is just about as cacophonic a corruption as meme is :/
Should have been tropos, and mimes (given it already exists anyway) or mimetics or some such.

"Trope" sounds like some physically ill person clearing his throat.
 
Here's the OED's citation of the coinage of meme:

R. Dawkins Selfish Gene xi. 206 The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun which conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. ‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene’. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme... It should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘cream’. Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.

Where you'll observe that Dawkins actually was a little reflective or hesitant or second-guessing about what he chose, but that he specifically wanted a one-syllable word. I think he was wise in that decision. I think "meme" has caught on in part because it is a crisp little monosyllable.
 
I always thought it's called "meme" because of the meme in which you spam "MEME" or, perhaps, in a more philosophical concept, because of memes being all about "MEME".

Or something. I'm talking outta my ass.
 
It's not like English has a large amount of monosyllables to begin with.
 
Here's the OED's citation of the coinage of meme:



Where you'll observe that Dawkins actually was a little reflective or hesitant or second-guessing about what he chose, but that he specifically wanted a one-syllable word. I think he was wise in that decision. I think "meme" has caught on in part because it is a crisp little monosyllable.

(edited drama stuff :) )

Of course he didn't want to mean the state/action, but there isn't any actor here anymore in the noun; a mimesis can be seen as an object itself, much like a war is an object itself as well as a state.
Although in (eg web) memes one can identify them as an object replicating some specific thing or in specific way, the mimesis is constant, and the separate conveyors of the mimesis (the "memes") are not actors but set by those making the "memes".
 
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Around the same time and because of Vincour, I too have achieved such heights.
 
I've never been particularly likeable, so it'll probably take me quite a while to catch up. :p
 
That I am, rather to my surprise. ;)
 
Lucky you. I'm stuck in the doldrums of semi-likeability.
 
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