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First off, let me emphasize that you can have a fun experience either way. My personal belief is that Spycraft is definitely better by itself for a spy-themed game -- but if your group knows d20 Modern well already, I don't know that it's better ENOUGH that it's worth learning a new system with...

And if you choose my 1-on-1, I'll even sign it, increasing its value by, well, probably not a lot. But hey, signed copy. :)

I'm in with the others. If the well-paying job isn't a job you MIND, that's the one I'd suggest. Having money doesn't necessarily make all your problems go away, but NOT having money creates all kinds of new ones. NOT having money combined with moving to an area where I'm assuming you don't know...

Hong, you know nothing! Are you trying to cost me my JOB, man?! Shhh! There is no romanceable unicorn subplot! The sylvan dressage obstacle course is an urban myth! You have heard nothing about the gelding minigame!!! (cough) Ah, blogs.

KotOR versus Morrowind is a pretty good example of something that's being talked about a lot in the CRPG industry right now. There's a popular argument that there are essentially three facets to gaming enjoyment: - Progress: How powerful your character gets, how cool your loot is, how many neat...

Yeah, that bugged me in KotOR as well. :) "Why couldn't I just use Stun and Sneak Attack and take him down NOW?" Especially when said baddie had gained a few levels or something (or was stronger in his place of power, if I remember right), and was essentially unstunnable (and thus...

My Morrowind experience was brief and unhappy. It's a really nice wide-open world, but I personally like a bit more work put into making plots react to each other (and I'm not saying that in a "people who don't feel that way are inferior" way; it really is just me). I wandered out of the first...

Technically, Jade Empire cannot be played on a PC yet. While a PC version of the game has been announced, but not a firm release date. http://jade.bioware.com/pc/ The game is gorgeous at the new resolutions and with the new art, and it wasn't bad to look at before.

I left a few months ago when things seemed to be getting bad here. I'd been away for awhile and hadn't seen the big enormous thread-loss until well after the fact. Hope everyone is doing okay.

Wow. Really? My guys can't stand the Daredevil or the Infiltrator. The Daredevil is pretty much referred to as "the ability score-boosting advanced class", as that was about the only thing people saw as a reason to take it. Everything else was stuff that most other classes could do or...

I'm unoriginally in for the Negotiator as well, but it was close for me between that and the Soldier. Any character I'm likely to play for my own enjoyment likely has levels in one or the other -- the Negotiator for pretty much every one of his class abilities, and the Soldier for good hit...

Danke. I'm under no illusions that it's perfect -- I classify it as a faithful successor to the Dodge talent tree, where you take some not-so-great feats in order to get really cool stuff at higher levels. Brawl all by itself, with no followup feats, isn't so much a feat as a roleplaying...

Have used it as written and liked it. It's not just Improved Brawl. It's Improved Brawl, Streetfighting, and Power Attack. You get those -- all of which are Tough Hero bonus feats and all of which except Streetfighting are Strong Hero bonus feats -- and you're golden. The Tough Hero at 4th...

Given the agreement of others, it's looking like the blame lies on the marketers. Well, and the writer and director, for trying to make an Aeon Flux movie without making a good action movie in the process. :)

I am quite comfortable agreeing to disagree on that one. Either you're wrong, or the trailers and ads have horribly represented the movie... in which case, bad marketers. The fact that the action scenes "might be the weakest point of the movie" is a bad sign for a movie like Aeon Flux. "The...

Didn't really like the first one. I thought it had a lot of potential, but it didn't live up to that potential in the action scenes. I was particularly unhappy with the ending, when the the love interest becomes super-hulk-guy who can move faster than the camera can catch and appears to be...

I'm not seeing Aeon Flux. If possible, I'm VERY not seeing Aeon Flux. If the whole point of the movie is the action scenes, and the best you could come up with in the trailers looked that disjointed and awkward, what's the sell? No slam on Charlize Theron, but as other people have noted, there...

Honestly, and this is lousy of me to say as somebody who still tries to sell short stories... not really. I had a subscription to F&SF for a year, and started making a template for how each issue would go: - Near-future story in which bad things are happening and the protagonist has a chance...

Have to respectfully disagree. I know that I was watching the badly subtitled version, and that didn't help, but I have trouble enjoying a wuxia film in which there's so little actual fighting. Sure, people were blowing up the scenery and zooming around on wires, and parts of that were fun, and...

I think that it's worth pointing out that there's a difference between realistic and granular. If I do research on handguns and find out that after all the data is calculated, a shot fired from a handgun kills its target 25% of the time, incapacitates its target 25% of the time, injures its...