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by technophile
Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:39 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 11952

Sadly those "tags" or BBCode, that is standard on 98% of forums today, is not something ONESITE.com adheres to, so it will take a lot of work for posts on the new forums to be fixed. Speaking as someone who actually writes software (including social software)... no, it's really not "...
by technophile
Tue Sep 08, 2009 12:27 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 11952

I wonder if WOTC considers that a feature. I mean, all the CO boards really did was point out how consistently badly their stuff was playtested/balanced; killing it probably looks like a win from their perspective. ;)
by technophile
Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:19 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 11952

Did they just break all of the old permalinks?

Man, that's fucking helpful.
by technophile
Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:53 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 11952

I was on the site yesterday hunting some obscure crap for a limited booklist thing - every single old (BBCode) link is broken. Irritating. Yeah, any sufficiently complex (i.e. worthwhile) old thread is essentially unreadable with all the formatting tags stuck in there. If they were going to be too ...
by technophile
Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:19 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: 3E NPC/Monster creation
Replies: 70
Views: 15476

I would just like to point out that the 2nd Ed. DM's guide did have a section detailing a system for generating the XP value for any given creature from the stats you had given it, which whilst not really the same as a CR, was the closest 2nd Ed. had as a guide to the power level of monsters. So it...