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Active-X warnings You know, that might be it. Apart from the Java feed, whose IE 6.0 shutdowns were logged as "external call out of reference range" (i.e. completely unsafe), I noticed that the active-x warnings were only popping up once the page has almost completely loaded. It's the second to...

Error in assumptions Dragonblade, the key here is this: A standard D&D fantasy world is still very much an agrarian society, NOT an industrial one. The number of people who have the drive to become clerics is very small. Ditto Wizards, all of the other PC classes and the Adept class. Thus...

"Q: How can I customize E-Tools to make it do what I want? A: When you install E-Tools, you have to do a Custom Install and specify the components you want installed. If you have already installed without choosing Custom, you will need to uninstall and reinstall the program choosing Custom when...

Something changed on the boards today, and whatever it was is annoying the heck out of me. I use IE 6.0 (thank you, E-tools) and the latest version of the Java Runtime Engine. Yesterday, when I browsed the boards, the JRE never popped up, and I had no problems whatsoever. Today, every time I...

Serfdom Here's how serfdom worked: Joe Peasant, having left his old village due to (whatever), decides to settle down and approaches a lord to farm some land in order to support himself. The lord gives him some land to farm, and says "you owe me x weeks of work every year on those lands that...

Double-weapons in general The Latajang is an RL martial arts weapon. The inspiration for the "double-sword" is obviously the dual-bladed lightsaber used by Darth Maul. However, the inspiration for the dual-bladed lightsaber (and the associated fight sequence) comes from various "staff vs. two...

Zoloft JPL-- Take a look at the onset time for zoloft, and talk to a pharmacist and/or your client's doctor about it. If your boy was only taking it for a week, it might not have actually kicked in yet. And if you do use this defense, be aware that the prosecution might bring up the onset...

Hardest RPG Continuum. The game for MIT theoretical physicists. Not only do you need a brilliant GM, you need damn good players, too. Not to mention a lot of notepads or an eiditic memory... Amber also needs a good GM, but it's actually easier to play it via a message-board or forum than face...

Why wizards are rare Another thing that's fairly clear from reading the books is that, in general, wizards just don't get along too well. The ability to cast spells and use magic seems to be linked to willpower as well as intelligence, which means that most wizards, once they move beyond their...

Buying and selling magic items I'm playing in a long-established 1st edition campaign (interrupted occasionally by diversions into Champions, Deadlands, and Living Greyhawk) and the DM, I think, has got it right. Our characters rarely sell magic items. The high-level group runs across a large...

Ian Richards Ian Richards is the "head" of the RPGA; ianr@wizards.com Now, I used to know the sequence above Ian, but it looks like a> this has changed since Loren Greenwood became VP, and b> you probably don't want this information anyway. :) Tarek

Epic levels The Lady clearly is an Epic-level wizard before her Naming, and even afterwards, when she tapped into Kina's power, she managed to build herself back up almost to those levels. In The White Rose, Lady pretty much comes out and says that she cast one spell in the past which made her...

E-Tools help file Well, the help file/manual is accessible by opening up E-Tools, clicking on "Help" and then on "Contents." :) I still haven't gone through it, because it's a "Help" file and not a printed manual, but it looks like several frustrating features are explained in the file. Tarek

I.E. 6.0 & E-tools E-tools requires IE 5.5 or later to print and I think to generate stat blocks (although I could be wrong about the latter). Unfortunately, E-tools calls IE directly, and you cannot substitute Netscape Navigator. I would suggest getting IE 6.0. Fortunately, you don't have to...

Documentation Go through the "help" file. That has a surprising amount of information, including a page on "how to buy a magic item (potion, wand, scroll)." That would have saved me half an hour of screaming frustration if I'd read the manual first... It can give you a quick run-through of the...

Corlor vs. b&w/grayscale Another possibility, and one I personally use a lot, is to change the setting of the printer so that grayscale/b&w is the default. A color cartridge is $60. A high-capacity black cartridge is $30. The black cartridge will last a whole lot longer... and can be bought in...

Right And I could have sworn that 9mm and .357 were the same.. By the way, 9x18mm? What cartridge is that? Tarek

Pronunciation I believe it's pronounced r(short u)d. Man I wish I knew the codes for the phoenetic characters... Tarek

Doh Buzzard, I just realized I was thinking of the .38 special when I was talking about loading the 9mm in a .357 revolver. That was one way to keep things cheaper, as was purchasing the reloads that the gun store and range was selling. Fairly reliable but somewhat dirtier than factory ammo. It...

Boards down Fluid must have taken the boards down in toto within the last few hours; they were up this morning. Tarek