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Back to basics Revamping the psionics system: Go back to the basics. Psionics is the manipulation of the exterior world using power drawn from the mind and body. (Arcane magic draws on powers exterior to the self, and Divine magic draws on power exterior to the world) Therefore, some things...

Alternate way Let's take an example of 47d12. This is actually fairly easy to calculate. You figure that the mode on 2d12 is 13, which is absolutely correct, *but* you can then break it down to being 6.5 per die (2 being the minimum). Thus, where n = the maximum on a die, and where x equals...

Books Sheri Tepper's The True Game Roger Zelazny's Amber series that first Battletech trilogy (Decision at Thunder Rift, etc) McCaffery's books The Ship Who Sang, Crystal Singer, and the second book in the first Pern trilogy. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. David Drake's Hammer's Slammers series...

Interesting There'd have to be some interesting, logically connected, and useable maps drawn on some sort of grid before I'd even consider it, though. I'm puzzled by the existance of the ramp leading up to the top-most tower/wall. I'm also puzzled by the existance of the tower-wall in the...

>Incidentally, I'll pimp my FLGS in Chantilly, VA: > http://www.gameparlor.com/ Great store. And we're soon opening a second store in Woodbridge, VA! 20 gaming tables, 8 computer gaming stations, 4 miniatures gaming tables, an RPG room, water fountains, and all sorts of interesting games...

Dancing Hut's Origins The Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga is *straight* out of russian folktales. The Baba herself is portrayed as: an ogress, poling with an iron pestle amidst the clouds in her iron mortar; a cruel trickster; a ruthless taskmaster whose servant (if she can work uncomplainingly for a...

Gems and Acids It also depends on the kind of gem. Opals (and crysopals, jelly opals, and other hydrated gemstones) would be particularily vulnerable, as would Jade and Amber. Diamonds, being pure carbon in a tightly bonded octahedral crystalline matrix, are not chemically reactive to most...

Recovering spells You do need 8 hours sleep to recover used spell slots. An interruption can be any length of time; personally, an hour is pushing it, but can still be called an "interruption." However, doing "stuff" for four hours in the middle of your sleep cycle means that you're no longer...

Mage Armor Consider this: Why is a wraith's attack a touch attack rather than a slam attack or a claw attack? Because the wraith is incorporeal, and thus ignores physical armor. I have not yet seen an incorporeal monster whose attacks were *not* touch attacks. Therefore, it is clear to me...

Shrinkwrap Yes, dirty hands are occasionally an issue, but perhaps more to the point, shrink-wrapping a product means that the pages won't be folded, spindled, and mutilated by clumsy people. It means that you'll never find one product half-stuffed inside another. It means that you will never...

oooh A Red Dragon with a Vorpal Blade and a Girdle of Storm Giant Strength. Now there's a worthy opponent... :-) Or did you mean that the character had a Girdle of Storm Giant Strength and a Vorpal Blade? Tarek

Success & Game Stores A good game store, one that intends to stay in business a long time, really needs to diversify and carry family games or mass-market products of some kind. At the game store where I work part-time, we carry boardgames, puzzles, comics (a fair number of the off-beat and...

Getting in touch Gary-- I did in fact try a web search or two. That's how I found out that Mr. Lakofka was heavily into Diplomacy . :-) Unfortunately, the web search engines that I used did not pick up any e-mail address for him, not even through the web sites that showed up. Tarek

Your problems These are two well-known issues with E-tools. The "not printing" issue is solved by updating your XML parser, typically by installing/upgrading to Internet Explorer 6.0. The other issue, "custom items not available to be seen or for purchase," is solved simply by closing E-tools...

Lenard Lakofka Gary-- Thanks for your reply. Certainly, in the newest incarnation of the D&D game, Tharizduun is playing a major role; from Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil to the Living Greyhawk campaign, we're seeing T's cultists all over. As for getting in touch with Mr. Lakofka, I'm...

Dust of Dryness Ferret, if you use Dust of Dryness, the dust doesn't just go away, it absorbs all the water it can and then coalesces into a small marble. You can then take the marble, and when you need to, you can throw it or break it and all that water which it had absorbed gushes out...

Lendore Isle I know Len Lakofka did a lot of work on the Suel and on the Lendore Isle area, but I was thinking maybe you'd know the answer to this question: The city of glass/Gates of Glass on Lendore Isle were meant to be used in the event of some "ultimate calamity." Do you know what that...

Comma usage The technically correct version is to put a comma after every item in the list except for the last two. However, it is not INcorrect in American English to put a comma after every item in the list. A comma represents a pause, after all, as well as an indication of a sub-clause...

News Ticker Yep, it was the news ticker that was causing the problems. Thank you, Morrus, for allowing us to disable it! :-) Tarek

sigh More accurately: "Q: I've cooked the spagetti. How do I make the sauce that I like? A: Take the spagetti noodles from the box and put them in a pot of boiling water in order to make spagetti." Do you get it now? Tarek