Recent content by heldenhammer

You can do a lot better than 20MB for a 2 minute video, but you're right; it does depend on the compression codecs you use. I find Sorenson 3 makes really good looking Quicktime movies. If you're serious, you may want to invest in a compression program like Sorenson Squeeze or Discreet Cleaner...

I have played with more-or-less the same group of people for years now. We hate trying to come up with an in-game justification for why we're all together. These days, any game we run starts with the premise of "You all know each other" and we go from there. There was a Warhammer FRP game I...

Do you suppose the airline might have seized the baggage because of that dagger, even though you checked the bag instead of carrying it on?

Ham Foulbrew isn't evil. He's just misunderstood. ;) The Freeport adventure is called Black Sails Over Freeport and there are three additional authors of the game (I'm one of them). Find out more at Green Ronin's website ! I'm glad you had fun playing our demo. There'll be plenty more...

Re: Lurkers, Non-Genconners, Tell us about your games, please! 1 - as many as 9 players. 2 - Yes. 3 - Yes, three or four others. We usually trade games from week to week. 4 - Two women, the rest are men. 5- The Compleat Strategist, baby! Yo, New York City! 6 - mostly homebrew stuff. mostly 3rd...

Argh! But people DO expect the books for free, unless all the infuriating threads about that have died off. Books aren't software. 3.5 isn't an upgrade and your campaign won't crash or become obsolete if you don't run out and get the new core books.

I ran my PS2 through my VCR to minimize connections and, predictably, I ran into problems playing DVDs because of the Macrovision copy protection. If your DVD Player doesn't have the right inputs (or any inputs) then go to Radio Shack and pick up an A/B Switch. They sell all kinds of different...

You're five minutes late! That's just like stealing!

I have friends who really like these games: http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/ but I've never tried them myself. I see there's a demo you can check out.

My group still plays WFRP. We were nuts about the game back in college. The WFRP rules are still one of my favorite game systems ever. Converting it to d20 rules would be fairly simple, I imagine, but why do it? You gotta love that critical hit chart!

Mostly, I'm sick of the software analogies being used w/r/t D&D. It has gotten noticeably worse with the discussion of 3.5. No, the 3.0 books won't be "obsolete". I won't have to reboot my campaign and there's nothing wrong with the D&D "kernel". I can appreciate the fact that the idea of the...

Whoever has possession of the character sheet, I'd say.