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    Game session abruptly canceled

    Your feelings were more than reasonable. Steel Wind is out of line. I'll leave it at that.
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    Staples refuses to print my PDFs....

    I don't know where you work, but you are cracking me up with these assertions. I work for a network design and management company. By your definitions, it is our job to make a working network, and to troubleshoot failures. But not to make the customers happy. You would get stopped in the...
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    Complete Champion excerpts

    For the other end of that opinion scale... Despite being a big fan of what many would call borderline powergaming, I have always been opposed to purchased healing items, most especially wands. It just seems cheap. Take that level in a class that will offer some minor healing to the team...
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    Does "Fantasy Role Playing" attract people who have a hard time in reality?

    Having been a "letterman" in multiple sports in High School, and competed successfully at the National level in college, I have to completely disagree with the idea that participants in sports are particularly adept socially. In fact many of my peers were constant sources of discomfort and...
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    Complete Champion excerpts

    *Sigh* How nice that would be. :)
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    What ever happened to spell research?

    I am having flashbacks, except replace "an overpowered" with "a new or different". That apporach is why I hate spell research in play. Why wouldn't a DM give a player more guidance *before* the research fails as to what is "OK"? Too many DMs would rather take your lunch money than play with you.
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    Complete Champion excerpts

    Except, it was never "big amounts" proportionate to *any* other healing available in game. Tenth level Paladin, who has an 18 Charisma = 40 points, and that is it for the day. (I also picked what seems like, roughly, a sweet spot for the LoH ability compared to the feat, when the ability starts...
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    What ever happened to spell research?

    I never once played with a DM who would gladly provide the downtime to research a spell, much less allow you to accrue the resources. And heaven forbid you sacrificed enough and petitioned enough to actully get it done, because your research always failed. I love the concept, but in play I...
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    Fly spell and hold person?

    Actually, that only implies that weight and or mass are involved.
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    Confusing User Name

    You know, your obsession with having the entire Complete series is going a little too far now...
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    Dragonlance: Our LotR?

    Not even close in my estimation. There is a certain camp of diehard DL loyalists who think it was the greatest series ever written, but my experience reading it was...different. As an avid Fantasy and SciFi junkie, who has whiled away countless hours of my life reading across both genres, and...
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    "Invisible Fences" for dogs...

    The problem of a properly motivated dog running fast enough to blow through the fence before it reacts to the shock, and then being stuck outside if actually very common, and one of the two top reasons I would advise strongly against the idea.
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    Sainthood?

    Being forcibly raped would *never* constitute violating ones vow of chastity.
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    Is it ok to hate cats and still be a gamer?

    There are so many things here I could debate, but the one that I can't take any longer... Several people have mentioned "Guide dogs" and the lack of a feline equivalent. Do you see any "Guide Chihuahua's" out there? No. Why? Because they lack the mass to be able to influence the direction of...
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    Is it ok to hate cats and still be a gamer?

    I have never understood the mentality (that I have almost only seen coming from self-professed "dog people") that you either like cats or dogs. But not both. I love them both, I am an "animal person" not a dog or a cat person. I currently only have cats because they are lower maintenance, and...
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    Mearls on Balance in D&D

    Still does not eliminate (or even reduce) miss chances, even if they don't take a move action (or even a 5' step) to cause you to guess the wrong square...
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    Have fantasy novels gotten "better" since D&D?

    I'd say a resounding "no" based on my reading experiences.
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    Increase Initiative

    Thug [Forgotten Realms CS] +2 Initiative and +2 to Intimidate
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    Who's got the right stuff for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1990s?

    On the Elvis front, might I suggest the Elvis from Bubba HoTep? Now that is an Elvis meant to fight things in the shadows.
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    What if all skills were allowed as class skills for all classes?

    I think it would be a small ding to Rogues, but if you consider that most clases don't have enough skill points for the skills they want that *are* class skills (and rogues would still get the most), I think that it would add interesting variety w/o an undue unbalancing effect. Heck I would do...
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