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I have written MORE MATERIAL about the function of the rules I use than the actual rules I use . If this is literally true then you are one stupid moron. I suspect it isn't though, shadzar could see that writing massive defenses of rules rather than posting the considerably shorter rules is stupid....

And I am rather annoyed that I am expected to deal with criticisms like that when Frank appears to get a free pass on the level 1 barmaids auto-seducing the king into doing things apparently no rational man would want to do (according to Frank, aspiring arbiter of your new Infinite Sized Circumstan...

The problem I have with Pl's system is that there seems to be no reason to ask for a diplomatic compromise. ie 'Lets not attack each other's kingdoms.' It seems like its just as easy to go with 'How about you give me your kingdom and also become my personal jizzrag?' Encouraged even, since asking fo...

AMIB, is this: "I don't care if a new rule isn't the "optional choice,"" a direct quote?

If so, rofl.

"Paradigm: A scientific or pseudo-scientific path of math. " As much as pseudo-scientific math would be hilarious I assume thats meant to be magic. The alternate use of bullets and bold looks really odd, almost like the bold are subsections of the bullets. I'm going to go against the grain...

That is a really good point. OK, from now on I'm reformating it so that glossary words are bolded and stressed words in sentences are italicized . Works for me. Put a note to that effect in the intro, then hope people read the intro. ;) When you get nearer final editing can you post a list of gloss...

Basic tests are called for whenever it is important to what degree the character succeeds or fails on the task. You mostly seem to be using italics for reserved game words. The sort with a defination in the glossary. Here you have 'important' itallicised for emphasis. You should stick with one or t...

Wow, that actually explains stuff in anime. The last few pages of this thread weren't tterly useless. :0

Mine used to work with the never logging out thing. Now its pretty spotty, good the last couple days though so maybe its had its hissy fit.

When I click the view newest post button for a thread it is taking me to what was the newest post one or two days ago. Is anyone else getting this? I've only had it happen since getting a new PC with Win 7 if that matters.

The server farm my group runs costs $4M/year and it's fairly tiny. The big cost is personnel and it's easy to have a bunch of sysadmins and programmers costing that by themselves. (Not gross, but once everything is factored in.) If I needed a bunch of servers in disparate locations, with maintenanc...

And on the difficulty of keeping the lights on: I think it's pretty clear that you can keep your servers running indefinitely with a hundred thousand people paying ten bucks a month. For fuck's sake, that's 12 million dollars a year in gross. Those City of Heroes servers aren't shutting down any ti...

My WoW guild was once a super hardcore Shadowbane guild. SMS at 2am to get up and defend territory hardcore. They took over an entire server. If you just read that and thogh, "sounds super lame for hardcore nerds" then welcome to my prediction for WoD. Stopping a few very hard core people ...

Desdan_Mervolam wrote:Hold on, stop. Hang on. I think I just figured out what is wrong here.

People are talking to shadzar.

Thread over, Ant wins at the internet.

Oberoni wrote:Oh hey, is this 2nd ed? I won't pretend to be a D&D historian like shadzar, but I will pretend to be able to read words.

Thats awesome.

Also, toasting in an epic bread.

The threshhold for banning is doing stuff that makes fbmf have to work extra. As long as he doesn't go on a spam spree or something clearly stupid and time consuming to fix he won't get banned.

tussock wrote:3.0 and 3.5 are just move and standard, or full round, plus one AoO. The rest of the crap appeared in the XPH and spread from there.

Nope, the free action but not quite goes back to the 3.0 phb. Slow fall and quicken spell use it.

Your email on gmail is technically private for 90 days. After that mail that has not been retrieved is much easier to get with no warrent. This is a throwback to the days when you actually downloaded your email and it was removed from the email server.

I am often amused that people come uninvited to the Den to tell us who we are, often in a lame attempt to defend something we are talking about in one of the most obscure corners of the internet with a handful of regular posters. Pretty much this, you've gotta be really defensive to give a crap abo...

So, I have always been in favor of a company's right to read the e-mails of their employees on the company sever. But recently, a thought occured to me about it. Every day, more and more people switch from standard mail, to electronic mail, and if I were to open up a letter sent to an employee that...

In the crushing dystopia of the near future there is only stardom. With so few normal jobs to acquire and work at to buy the [nationality] dream hoping to become a superstar is about the best bet for anyone who isn't already rich.

EMP plus sniper rifle to the head. Hes not bright enough to extract you from some parts of the room even with grenade spam.

With all due respect Draco, this is a thread where I refer to "The Austrians" as a school of thought, and some nitwit thinks I'm talking about residents of Austria and starts posting non-Austrian citizens to show how wrong I am.... lulwhut If you really need to read a coherent answer, PM ...

You want to roll 30 dice to find the damage of a CL10 spell? Thats pretty insane.