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    Why *Dont* you like Forgotten Realms?

    Have you looked at any of the FR products specifically dedicated to the deities? Faiths & Avatars and its two sequels (for 2E) in particular just seem obviously to be best-of-breed, at least to me. I can't imagine giving those a read and still calling FR deities "underdeveloped". (Especially...
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    Why *Dont* you like Forgotten Realms?

    The crunch, and even some of the stuff that's a mix of interdependent crunch and fluff (prime example: the 2E deity books), is general-purpose enough that I can import it into other settings with few problems. So I do own a number of FR books, such as the aforementioned 2E deity trilogy and the...
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    How to search

    :o My bad.
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    How to search

    I can search for particular users' posts, and I can search thread titles (though the latter takes a very long time). However, when I do a search for a keyword and don't choose to search thread titles only, or a tag search, I more often than not get the error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of...
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    How to search

    Unlike the OP, I have seen this and understand and accept search being limited to community supporters. However, it does raise the question of why search is so flaky for those of us who do pay for (among other things) access to that functionality. I can't remember the last time I had a search...
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    Save or Die: Yea or Nay?

    I explain the result as DMs feeling worse about killing characters than the players of those characters feel about losing them. In some cases, the DM sees how much work the player has put in while the player, while also conscious of that, has half a dozen other ideas s/he'd be equally interested...
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    Classics of Fantasy

    I'm necroing this thread again to ask if anyone has current, working links to these columns. All the ones above just take me to the general novels page, which makes no mention of this column ever having existed, and an admittedly quick look through the (unforgivably, non-searchable) archives...
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    Oots 0730

    Those aren't the only ones; Redcloak brought in all sorts of non-core characters trying to get information from O-Chull. (He goes so far as to mention Incarnum at one point.)
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    Where'd the buttons go?

    Missed that - and I am slightly less embarrassed about this than I would otherwise be since someone else apparently did too. It's certainly not as prominent as we have become accustomed to. No biggie, of course, given that the change is temporary and presumably for a good reason.
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    Wayfarer's Step (3.5)

    I see - so the original intention was for it to be self or ally, any time within the next minute, but this was deemed too powerful or otherwise problematic and later changed to self only, right away? (And what ended up being printed in the Player's Guide apparently has bits of both versions.)...
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    Wayfarer's Step (3.5)

    How is Wayfarer's Step supposed to work in 3.5? From the description, it seems like a simple spell for teleporting yourself short distances, but the stat block is very much at odds with that, and also seems internally contradictory. (I am using page 15 of the 3.5 Player's Guide as my sole...
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    Where'd the buttons go?

    This leaves no easy, obvious way to get from the front page to the forums. (There are plenty of Rube Goldberg-ish, not so obvious ways, but some form of link that just says "Forums" is, IMO, pretty essential.) Also, Weem, is there any way to put that image in an sblock or something? It's...
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    False dichotomies and other fallacies RPGers use

    There are people who are professional football players, navy SEALs, Peter Gabriel former Magic: the Gathering world champions, or Peter Gabriel (okay, one person who is the latter) to name some claims I've seen people make online. That doesn't mean I automatically accept these claims as...
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    I quit 4e-DM after my first day.

    As soon as he got to the dragonborn starting to eat people I came to the conclusion that this was a troll; both the story and the idea of blaming the game for this struck me as too absurd to take seriously. In particular, he explicitly says they've played together before, at least twice (since...
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    Oots 0723 - Generally Relative

    I think Celebrim was joking. Whether he was or not, this is the first time I can remember the going fan theory turning out to be right. And it was still worth it even though I was pretty sure what the reveal was going to be, just to see them bond over line delivery.
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    False dichotomies and other fallacies RPGers use

    That would be the most likely reason, especially when they're made in what comes across as a surprisingly aggressive manner (albeit not a point where it warranted mod intervention, or anything like that). Other explanations are possible, but would require some, well, explanation.
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    OotS #721 - Are we getting paid enough?

    The reasons for this have been made as plain and explicit as you could possibly ask for on-panel, near the end of what was to become book 4. This is not some mystery in need of resolution.
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    False dichotomies and other fallacies RPGers use

    Multiple posters have claimed differently, and you have given no reason for doubting them. In the rest of your post even you admit that you have now verified beyond reasonable doubt that this is more than "folklore". Why, then, would you persist in making such a claim?
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    False dichotomies and other fallacies RPGers use

    The fallacy fallacy is legitimate, though chrono22 hasn't quite characterized it correctly. It's the error of assuming that just because one particular argument for a given conclusion is fallacious, the conclusion must be false. This is easily disproven by simply observing that you can make up a...
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