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Same here. And Mark's version was just so much easier on the eyes. ;)

Ah! I never checked back against the original posted by Roman. Mark's colored version was just so much better - except for not being accurate. :p Sadly that post got ignored once Mark's version got posted. I did the same legwork on Mark's version, but of course couldn't find a pattern...

Yes, I was very careful to check my counts before posting. Just like Tuzenbach, I printed out a copy for reference. My counts are correct. :p :cool:

Agreed. :D Obviously this a thread hijack of the first order, so I'll stop here. I agree with just about everything you stated in your last post. One the main lessons of history is that nothing is as simple as it seems in a textbook. The Civil War & the issues surrounding it are still open...

This was definitely unsolvable for us on the boards. The diagram Roman gave us (of which Mark made the nice color version) doesn't fit the solution provided by the DM. The count on the upper left section of circles should have been 29, while the count on the upper area of arrows should have...

I know we're in the minority on this one, but I dislike this rule too. Whether you have thick skin naturally or because you wear it (as armor) shouldn't really matter. But the game system encourages a naturally thick-skinned character (or monster) to wear armor too, even if that armor is...

A few quibbles... There is some evidence to the contrary. The Southern slavery-rooted agrarian capitalistic system was by most measures quite competitive, so much so that many Northerners were secretly concerned that free labor couldn't compete with slave labor - despite their vocal public...

Clerics & Druids don't get LGoI. Sorcerors & Wizards weren't the only victims of the readied non-targeted Silence. While the Arcanists had a viable counter strategy, the Divinists didn't. And after I (as DM) used this trick against the party Cleric & Druid a few times - followed by the party...

The spell is fine except when used with the ready action to stop enemy casters from casting spells. Our solution was to lengthen the casting time for silence to a full round action when not targeted on an individual. Since a character can't ready anything longer than a standard action, this...

IIRC 40% of the population of the South were slaves. There were about 400,000 slaveholders in the South according to the Census of 1860. The vast majority of these slaveholders owned 20 or fewer slaves. But the majority of slaves were owned by the small minority of slaveholders that owned 20...

I don't think this is necessarily true. If this puzzle has a solution, the number 3 seems to be significant. There are 3 symbols. And each of the symbols have 3 separate formations. This would seem to be an intentional link to the 3 lesser temples & their associated gods. If we assume that...

"McGuffin" (or "Maguffin") is a term devised by film director Alfred Hitchcock to denote anything for which the main character is searching. The McGuffin can be anything from a lost love letter to a nuclear device - as long as the character wants/needs it & will thus overcome whatever...

In our game, we ruled that it was the same as drawing a weapon. That meant that a character with a BAB of +1 or higher could combine switching grip with a regular move.

This is another of those underrated classics that I have used time & again - most recently in 3E. As hong might say "a railroad runs through it", but I found it plays well enough. The first time I ran this (back in 1E) I was worried that it might prove too deadly for the players, as the module...

Yes, if you actually use the encumbrance rules, STR is an important stat to a lot more character conceptions than just the melee tank. We learned this lesson in our 1st 3E campaign when the players of the human ranger & the halfling rogue actually toted up their encumbrance on the char gen demo...

Since I'm bored at work, I thought I would include some stats outlining the advantages of high STR meleers. Assuming a 1st level good BAB meleer using a longsword (or equivalent 1H martial weapon) attacking AC 15 (a fairly standard enemy AC at low levels) here are the expected average damage...

Right. This is one of the reasons that the 3E designers felt that STR is the "most powerful" stat. For a melee-focussed character one stat does almost all of the work. High STR increases average melee damage 2 ways - first directly by increasing damage per hit, but also second indirectly by...

Put me in the chorus singing the praise of knowledge skills. They really flesh out a character & contribute to the campaign. The real problem we found was that the typical character simply doesn't have enough SPs to spend on the skills necessary to fill out his background - even a Human...

Well, that was almost 25 years ago, so I'm not sure. ;) Actually I know that I was playing 2 of the pregenerated characters from A1 - the human fighter "Ogre" & the female half-elf ranger. So whatever monster was in the first occupied room of the module - ghouls perhaps? Anyway I definitely...

To answer the original question, using minis has occasionally changed the game. I find myself using monsters I wouldn't normally use because I have the mini. So the new booster packs keep my game fresh as I don't always go to the same well of monsters every week. But that doesn't mean that I...