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And I have Native American friends and in-laws who HAVE. As an insult. Vig has showed the dictionary definitions. People with actual Native heritage have brought up their points of view, which, not to put too fine a point on it, sort of outrank yours as far as getting to decide whether a given...

I'm seeing a lot of "how can you tell what is and what isn't" arguments here. That's a lovely argument, and I wish it well. There seem to be a lot of people everywhere, and I'm not saying here in particular, who enjoy doing a little song and dance about how it's impossible to know, really, what...

1) Yes. Was this up for debate? Would you like to concede the point, or would you like me to explain how a racial epithet might be mildly annoying when your racial group has most of the money and most of the power and leads a comfortable life, while a racial epithet applied to somebody who has...

Really? I mean, where I live, I don't hear the N-word being dropped except by black people using it in conversations with each other. To me, the N-word has fallen out of use except as a term of casual friendly insult between African-American men. Perhaps I should lobby for that as the new name...

I've had a wiki for several of the major campaigns I've run. Some of my players set the first couple up for me -- a nice benefit of playing with computer geeks. :) It's definitely handy. I just started one for the pbem campaign I'm running right now. There's not much in it at the moment, but...

FX-specific. :) Our viewpoints may not be as far apart as we thought, then. That jives with me to a certain extent. Where I disagree with you is what the Bluff is. Sense Motive is not meant to serve as a lie detector -- the fact that the Investigator gets a special class talent that lets him...

I believe I noted that. I'm asking what, in your mind, is the actual functional difference between FX and non-FX. This is, to me, like saying that a fireball spell should do different fire damage from a fire-grenade. Fire is fire. Damage is damage. If you take fire damage, it doesn't matter...

No. I do think there's a point to a Will save. An Intimidate check turns a target NPC's attitude to Friendly while threatened (which can be direct observation or perceived area of threat, depending upon the Intimidate check). A Friendly attitude doesn't automatically mean you follow orders. It...

The key is to pick your metaphors. The Will save can always be useful in a game that makes it useful. If you're in a no-magic game, I could see Will saves for: - Someone who has failed aa level check against an Intimidate and is being coerced to do something he doesn't want to do (breaking the...

Extra note: I don't play many MMOs, but the one thing I DID like about DDO over NWN is that it added the third dimension to some extent. Swimming, jumping, stuff you don't get in Neverwinter. My dream online-gaming-game would take the Neverwinter functionality and pack it into a next-gen engine...

I really love the versatility of NWN. For awhile, we actually prototyped plots for our upcoming games in Neverwinter -- it didn't always look perfect, but you could test the plots and the dialogues, and you knew you were getting a stable engine, as opposed to whatever engine the actual game had...

Not sure they want BioWare employees as beta testers, but I'll probably submit an application anyway.

Excellent. Done. I've got a 10th-level game going, and with two people who are 4th-level casters with high ability scores, I really hated the idea of them having Spell Burn Resistance 7 or thereabouts. Thanks. I got that off one of the boards, and I'm actually ramping it up further than that...

So after failing to get my old group to switch from d20 Modern to Grim Tales, I got a partly new group for an e-campaign, and got them all into Grim Tales under the "It's d20 Modern, mostly" banner. It's worked really well so far. I really enjoy the new treatments of the classes, and I'm having...

I'm kind of in the good-riddance category as well, for the most part, although I AM bummed at the effect this has on small companies for whom E3 was the primary way to get the word out about a product. I'm not in PR, but from my discussions with the folks who demo'd Mass Effect and Jade Empire...

Chuck: Clarification on your quote of me? John: I don't discount the Blu-Ray stuff, but I'm cautious. Maybe I've only just heard the bad press that suggests that they still haven't gotten it working. If it comes out and it's beautiful and it works, then that will definitely drive some people to...

Chuck, I'm not sure why you chose to write "except" there when what I said that the PS3 is going to be "roughly on par" with the 360. I don't see what you wrote as a disagreement with what I wrote, unless 5% is a major difference for you. My argument was that we should assume that they're about...

No argument there. There's been a lot of outcry, but I think that most PS2 owners who were planning to get a PS3 won't be turned away because of price. I think it would be more accurate to say that the PS3 is supposed[ to be more powerful than the 360. As you say below, we haven't seen a real...

I know the guys on the Live Team were really excited at the prospect of having this update come out. It's one they've been hoping to be able to share with other people for awhile. :)

Not to snark, but was Brightman trying to fill space on a slow news day? That article takes a fundamental "duh" premise, packs in a couple of sound bites, and stretches for a conclusion that is properly doomsaying. (Not that I think it was bad of Flexor to post it here, mind you. It's on topic...