Recent content by JDJarvis

From online test- STR:13 INT:13 WIS:12 DEX:13 CON:13 CHR:14 supposed i'd be: War-1/Rog-1/Expert-5

Don't like it. It used to be a useful boss monster to use against lowish level parties and a weakish monster that was still a threat on occasion to higher level parties. Yes the cone of cold was fearsome but only useable once a day, providing some fearsom oppunch but not continuos overwhelming...

VH-1 Classic has a whole lotof music vids. Now and again there is a music themed movie but during the week a whole lot of music videos. Neither VH-1 nor MTV themselves have been real music video stations for 10 or 15 years. I got MTV-X, for a while (MTV-extreme) it kick butt, it was the...

PL-6 .... never ? Gravity Induction <- uh, nope. Handwavian tech right now. a lot of that other PL-6 stuff is just around the corner sort of stuff however.

wow what a warped vision of how corporations sell tech to the goverment, which is usually the first customer and who it is worth developing new tech for. It is nice to have a customer pay you for a product before you are even done completely designing it.

I'm learning Guitar slowly but surely, not sure if i'll ever master it but it is fun.

I've been a proffesional artist for about 20 years now and have been employed as a concept-artist/animator at an R&D engineering firm for about 8 years now. I actually get to draw combat robots, soldiers and all sorts of related goodness on a regular basis (in addition to such excitings...

Stereotype not true. I wasn't even aware there was one. Go check out http://www.criticalmiss.com some time. Sure the postings are old now but they give you a pretty good idea of what some english gamers can be like. I also met a fair number of foreign students during my schooling and...

i know this is days old but i can't help myself. A shortsword is not basically a large dagger with the same balance and use when you compare mass. There are strikes one can use with a shortsword that are not done with a dagger, even a long one. There is an twisting overhand strike that...

1.)How long have you been gaming? I've been gaming for 28+ years. 2.)What do you play? Lots of things. Mostly D20 stuff these days. Have played many dozens of RPGs and always find my way back to D&D. I started playign wargames back in the seventies amd really thought microarmor and...

Lots of "undefeated" dungeons in my campaign. I design the big ones to be used over and over again so there is little chance of a party cleaning one out. A big dungeon never has to be defeated it can be used time and time again if it is built that way. dungeons in my camapign the players have...

My dungeons are all over the place in size and particulars. Some are simple 4 or 5 encounter/sittuations in size others are truely huge. There is one dugneon in my game that is 50 levels deep not to mention sub levels. Another is a large ruined city that itself hold dozens of smaller...

Hmm.. sci-fi/fantasy may generally take place in entirely fabricated universes and "normal literature" doesn't. Otherwise I'm with the "what is normal literature?" set really. Are authors like Ayn Rand, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins and Paul Theroux folks that write "normal" literature?

I play D&D because i like spendingn hundreds of hours developing rich characters, complex plots, challenging puzzles, clever situations and a rich and well developed fictional world carefully built together from bits of real world cultures and beloved works of fiction. All to be ignored on a...

I would. I picked your second choice but i'd prefer the original booklets and supplemt 1 (greyhawk) that way there could be fighters/MUs/Clerics and Thieves in the adventuring parties without a whole lot of other stuff (there'd be paladins too but they'd be rare).