Punchline Corner

"Lecanomancy? I thought you said 'lick 'em, Nancy!'"

Tabletop Roleplaying Game Innovation

Rules liable to be consulted frequently should be printed out on scrolls instead of codices so they can be unrolled at the table and left open. You could make reference cards instead, but think of the atmosphere. One might even call it the ambience, but only after making some kind of check, presumably.

Beach Awakening Table

Uh oh! Your hero washed up on the beach! A common occurrence, but now the question must be what awakens him.

1. Beautiful girl
2. Hermit
3. Seemingly misanthropic philosopher
4. Prince (disguised)
5. Rival (if hero does not have a rival, now he does)
6. Sounds of battle
7. A strange ship (marine, air, or space)
8. Grandfather's ghost
9. Monster
10. Scavenger (rat person if available)
11. Mysterious item that somehow came into his possession while the ship was breaking up
12. Homely girl

Goodness, that's a number of options suited for being picked by use of a chance-based determination mechanism! I sure hope not everything in your story is like that!

A Filter Not Too Fine And Not Too Coarse

Tig raised his head and flattened himself again a few times before he decided that between committing to the greatest peril and creeping away, he preferred to have money. He ascended, against the objections of his heart and trembling legs, and paused again to survey the floor, the highest but one in the sorcerer's tower.
It could not be so easy. Not a single guard, snare, or lock had slowed his ascent, but only his own misgivings. There before him were arrays of materials and apparatuses presumably mystical in their applications set out on tables, sorted on shelves, perched on trunks, and spred across the floor. With so much, nothing could be left for the highest floor but the owner himself. Certainly there was some trap there, but perhaps one calibrated for the sorcerer's colleagues. Penury meanwhile had both certainty and relevance to Tig's sort exactly.
He therefore informed his heart no further remonstrations would be welcome and set about looking for the most valuable items. His excitement dimmed somewhat as he went along.
"It has been some time now, yet, what? Empty-handed? Does nothing of mine appear valuable to you?"
The sorcerer's words startled every part of Tig, a good thing or else the violence of the effect on some portions of his body would have caused an uneven jerk that would have torn him into thirty sections. Instead, the simultaneous operation of all his components resulted in total paralysis.
The sorcerer beside him had by contrast nothing but ease in his manner. "It isn't. Only I would buy any of this, within fifty miles that is. The capable merchant is someone who realizes sorcerous items are for sorcerers, the clever opportunist turns around upon finding the door unlocked, then comes you, and after that the other thieves, all of them grabbing and trying to sell my things before they realize. That place where you are is what I want in an agent for buying and selling. You won't like the job, but what of that?"
The sorcerer was mistaken as to that last point, but in no way did that diminish the efficacy of his hiring policy.
Finis

Lunar Approachability

Quite frankly, if the moon doesn't come close enough to the planet that the people on either can wave at each other, I don't think your story counts as fantasy. Alt history, maybe.

Addendum

This is less of a concern as it impinges on Babylon, because we'll call that Eternal Babylon. Don't listen to Gundam F91 on this topic, Gundam people don't understand anything about names.

Historical Complaint

If we call a bunch of jokers from back in the day the Neo-Assyrian Empire, what are we supposed to use for future settings? Neo Psychic Assyrian Empire, I suppose.

Future Policies

Should all astronauts be trained in hand-to-hand combat? That seems to come up an awful lot in the coolest science fiction, and those fellows have been right about everything so far.

Addendum

You probably thought Corny was short for Cornelius, but it's actually short for Cornucopia.

Month Mascot

Now that all that unpleasantness is behind us, let's applaud November's new spokesman, Corny Copia! He'll be telling us all about harvesting procedures throughout the ages, hiding corn in your teeth, and making recipes fun! You might not have all the ingredients, but approximately 80% of cuisine is heating something up and adding sauce, so who cares!