Recent content by Anathos

Failure to find the tomb doesn't have to be permanent, i.e. they instead find the tomb later than they should have. The most basic and unsatisfying is to just say "You fail the skill challenge and take a few extra hours to find the tomb." This can be spruced up a little consequence-wise by...

You both missed this part: Not Remaining Hidden: If you take an action that causes you not to remain hidden, you retain the benefits of being hidden until you resolve the action. You can’t become hidden again as part of that same action.

Indeed, the character receives feedback on how difficult a task was to achieve (and likely has an intuitive understanding of that difficulty before the attempt) that the player doesn't receive. Allowing the players to know the check DC is a reasonable technique for imparting that kind of...

You seem to be under the impression that if as long as you don't do any harm then it isn't an infringement of copyright, and you're wrong to think so. The bit about the effect on the value or market is supposed to be a supporting point, that you are somehow within the other aspects of fair use...

They can't authorize uses of legitimate copies, but they can refuse to authorize copies that are made for certain uses. For example, they can't do a thing if you buy a book in a store and then use it as a masturbation aid, but they can refuse to allow you to print stuff off of the Compendium for...

Not really. WotC gives you authorization to cache the data for the purpose of viewing the data online in the same way that they authorize you to copy down powers from books for the purpose of playing a character. Other uses of that data have not been authorized, and using in those other ways...

If he doesn't want the check to fail so much that he lies about the die roll why doesn't he just say they succeed automatically? And the reverse-engineering bit is nonsense; if a player figures out the DC of a check and then finds his immersion broken he deserves what he gets. Let the player...

Not really. That covers bypassing security systems, which the system as presented by RLBurnside doesn't do. You aren't bypassing security features when you look stuff up on the Compendium and write a paraphrased version down, you're using the system as intended. All that a program would do is...

High level programming language code is copyrighted (but not patented), but machine code (the binary that your computer runs) is not. And while companies and the UK courts use the term Intellectual Property, US courts do not and neither should you when discussing the applicability of laws to...

No, they were created to force people to go through the creator of the work in order to obtain it, permitting creators to profit from their works for a short time and creating an incentive to produce works. Preventing others from profiting from the creator's efforts was just the method, and the...

US law does not recognize the term "Intellectual Property". You cannot own ideas. Please stop using that term.

Wrong. Fair Use covers stuff like including quotes in works of criticism and the like, not copying everything. In fact, making a complete copy of someone else's works is exactly what copyrights were created to prevent, regardless of absence of profit motive.

1) What issues are you talking about? Please enumerate them so that I might address them. 2) I'm glad that I didn't check that thread because the rules on Immediate Interrupts are very clear that they interrupt conditions and not actions, and I have no desire to read someone's incorrect...

Shaman is also a pretty cool class. Most of their powers are "melee", but you can drop your Spirit Companion anywhere within 20 squares, making it act like it's ranged without the disadvantage of cover or prone. There's a build in the Dark Sun Campaign Setting that dismisses the companion with...

I would rather have more options that I would like to use than options designed for other people. If this makes me greedy, so be it.