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    Naked Adventurers (no, it's not what you think)

    When we play we often boil magic item values down to strict GP amounts. These amounts were divided, you could either take cash or the item. If you took the cash and wanted to buy something, we had some availability charts for how long it took to buy an item, if it was available, etc...
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    What is it about Drizzt that you just can't stand?

    I don't like Drizzt because frankly - he's another albino dark mysterious elf, rebelling against his kind .... oh and he's nigh-unstoppable - too stereotypical - I was too old when the books came out and a sword named "twinkle" or "twinkie" just wasn't at all funny. I found it a bit inane...
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    d20 Mass Combat Systems - anything out there?

    Can someone post a link to Fields of Blood?
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    Now Recruiting for WWDA: Weak Willed DMs Anonymous!

    Must relate amusing story. Think back. Its the mid to late 80s. I'm in high school. Me and my friends were playing in a long-running Mechwarrior/Battletech game amongst a few others. This was a bit different, as three of us handed off every month or so but (oddly) things remained somewhat...
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    How/Where were you first introduced to gaming?

    My uncle who had played it in the military told me about it when I was about 8. A few weeks later I picked up some Ral Partha orcs at some store (Sears maybe even) and tried to paint them. They didn't have the books, so I was basically out of luck for a year or so. Eventually, I got the basic...
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    Thinking on your "feat": dynamic character design

    I have little to no problem allowing this as a DM, as long as I pay attention and keep things fair. This just recently occurred to me as a player, however, and I was glad to have the opportunity to switch. I had built a 6th level character to join a game with the understanding from the DM that...
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    [alignment, sort of] Which philosophy are you?

    1. Aquinas (100%) 2. Aristotle (94%) 3. Spinoza (82%) 4. Stoics (74%) 5. Epicureans (73%) 6. Augustine (66%) 7. Rand (61%) 8. Mill (59%) 9. Sartre (59%) 10. Plato (58%) 11. Bentham (54%) 12. Kant (51%) 13. Nietzsche (47%) 14. Hume (40%) 15...
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    abbr.

    I work at a company where TLAs are loved and cherished. A TLA, if you must know, is a "three letter acronym"
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    Major WotC Announcement At Origins?

    Well... (1) If it is sold, I think whoever speculated that the FR and DL stuff may have some rights kept by WoTC is probably right. (2) The submission idea takes on a whole new direction - it really is no longer D&D related AT ALL - instead its novel/board/TCG and MAYBE d20 related (3) Whomever...
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    How did you find your gaming group?

    Silly story I put "close friends since school / college" and that is essentially true...however. The core started out as about 6 people in early highschool (mid 80s - right after I moved to North Carolina). Two of us went to the same school. Two more I brought into the fold from my sunday...
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    Book of Vile Darkness is really unnecessary...

    Dipped in chocolate...mmmm crunchy monsters. My same point on another board on a side topic applies here.... if you don't like it, don't buy it Frankly, IMO this is fictional info, right? (Unless the folks at WoTC have some sort of real-world diabolical insight and demons affect the real...
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    Character death and Is this Fair?

    Sounds like Painfully got to bid with someone else and wasn't pigeon-holed into the "replacement character with fighter attributes when he wanted to play a sorcerer". That, I think, would be the thing folks complain about. For that reason, I really like the default array. I know its cheesy...
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    Best (cheap) DMG Magic Item

    In a game where you can pick and choose starting equipment for a mid level character, mithril everything rocks. You can cram small strength characters with good armor and not sacrifice much mobility, armor check penalties, etc. Mithril is a fine thing indeed...
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    Flying Islands and Water Worlds

    Anyone ever read the later Moorcock / Elric novel with the giant land ship? Before anyone gags, this was not a flying land ship. Instead, it was a huge monstrosity, a rolling construct similar to a barge and holding a fairly large sized city on its back. When two of these things collide, it...
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    Hurl ideas for details about my new character at me!

    Sock puppets (wiping tears from my eyes) That will certainly wierd them out. You could also be a clown. Clowns can be freakish scary. This isn't a soon-to-be-villain though.... I'm like the bluesy approach - the common man singer. Frankly, you could also go folk "Aint been no rain...
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    What type of product really grabs you?

    Mass battle systems or other miniatures games. I'll buy it to try it and keep buying if its good. If not, I'll wait until it goes on clearance and then buy it for the miniatures it contains. Books about demonic / celestials and their wars. Not outsiders in general, but real and true good and...
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    In Place of Chainmail?

    Pewter vs plastic Ye gods! Most of the hardcore war gamers I know collect in a specific way. First, you buy some kicking and deadly cool looking miniatures for your front line troops. Second, you find a game (Battlemasters, Crossbows and Catapults, Dungeon Strike, Hero Quest, etc.) that has...
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    Stranger than fiction

    Off Reuters today...link to this site - the State of Maryland - Department of Natural Resources warning us all of a new threat in Maryland ponds. Got a low level party? Want to freak them out? Forget the orcs, give them .... THE FISH !!!
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    [NEWS] Giant Monsters Are Here!

    Sweet. Time to break out my hundreds of little plastic dinosaurs and Monster in My Pocket games....
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