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    I will Living Greyhawk no more!

    Living Greyhawk is definately a mixed bag. I don't play any more (fundamental disagreements with the rules changes, and the fact that rules changes occur rather frequently - 3.5 will mean the 2nd change of rules this year), but I do DM it a lot. I mostly run slot-zeroes to prep DMs for our...
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    Recognizing an enemy (goblin, ogre, etc.) on sight

    I've been thinking about this question since about the time 3rd ed came out, and still haven't come up with an answer. I think that normal monsters should be recognised using a wilderness lore role., while magical creatures with a knowledge Arcana role. Undead would probably be best with a...
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    What's the deal with Dragonlance?

    Well, the basis of the original trilogy is the return of the gods, along with the return of dragons. About 300 years before the original series the gods abandoned the world because of the hubris of the priests of the time (demanding the gods answer their prayers, for example). Now the gods are...
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    16th level party TPKd by a goblin?!!

    Dark Eternal: Sounds to me like you played it well. The party had heard of this threat for a long time. You gave them the cues that the encounter would be tough - it just seems that they thought once they killed the Dragons that was the end of the adventure. Luck happens, but did they have...
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    scarred lands calander

    Re: fonts Hmmm - well, on the properties of the file I see that the size is : 17,020 bytes, and it was last modified Wednesday, 21 June 1995, 1:00:00 PM I downloaded the font from http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/fonts/ I hope this helps - has anyone else been able to get this to work? cya...
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    scarred lands calander

    Re: fonts San, what OS are you running? You need to download the "Moon.TTF" from the yahoo group where you got the calander file. Then you will need to add the font to your computer, which depends on your operating system. If you are running Windows, have a look in "Control Panel". If you...
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    scarred lands calander

    Re: moon phases NP. Adding the font depends on the O/S you are using on your PC - if you can open the word document, try checking out the word help on fonts. I use WinXP (and I'm pretty sure it was the same in 2000 - can't remember '95/'98/NT) - in that I open the control panel, and there is...
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    scarred lands calander

    Hi Everyone, I've done some work on the Scarn Calander I did a while ago, as an attempt to include phases of the moon. I've posted the files in a folder in the Scarntalk list. Note that you will have to download and install the font also in the folder. The folder is located in...
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    scarred lands calander

    Looks alright to me, without checking all the names in the book. What does the orange colour in some squares mean? Duncan
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    scarred lands calander

    Twas me, I think. I mentioned that now that I had R&RII I would try to put phases on to the calander, but that became more difficult when Joe said that the full moon of the Nameless Orb mentioned in TSA was an aberration rather than it's usual - we still have no Point of Reference for the...
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    PCGen sellout

    check out http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=25576; It lists the statistics of downloads for PCGen. You will see that in the last week the number of downloads have been somewhere around 8,000. Since PCGen tries to put out a new release every week, and I'm sure that many people that...
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    PCGen sellout

    Re: Re: PCGen sellout From the front page of http://www.codemonkeypublishing.com: ---- As for PCGen charging, etc - I'm not too bothered by a smallish, one-off charge. What bothers me is the claims that the fee will be annual. But I can't find anything confirming this. I'm also worried...
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    How to organize a gaming convention?

    I've been involved with organising conventions in Australia for nearly 10 years, and the helpful hints are many and varied. I'll try to list some I can think of... 1. Figure out why you want to do it, and if it's the right reasons. DO NOT expect to make much money. 2. Try to get someone...
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    [OT] Australia burns!

    It was 35 today, and they are predicting 40 degree on Sunday - currently the hottest ever recorded in Canberra is 39 Duncan
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    [OT] Australia burns!

    They are asking us to stay off the mobiles as much as possible to free the network up for emerncy workers. The fires were started nearly two weeks ago by lightening strikes (as were the ones in the snowy mountains). And as for our water - we are in the horrid position now that if we do get...
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    [OT] Australia burns!

    There already is a lot of this going on between the US and Australia, and a bunch of firefighters arrived from New Zealand yesterday (we also have major fires in National parks with Ski resorts in the middle of them, and these guys from NZ are specialists in that type of environment). We even...
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    [OT] Australia burns!

    Ah, well. As I said, it was on a news report I just saw on TV - but maybe there were some further qualifications to it I missed ;-) BTW, I just wanted to point out that now less than 5% of houses in Canberra are without power, which is pretty good going IMO. By the end of the week nearly all...
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    [OT] Australia burns!

    Well, It's Monday night, 2 days after the fire. On Friday and Saturday today's temp. was predicted to be 39. Yesterday they changed that to 35. But due to the huge smoke cloud it only got to 31. I'd like to point out that the front of the fires was spread out over 30Km. There were 300...
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    Alternatives to PCGen

    I understand this interpretation, but since it's just stats of NPCs in a module, and not the module itself, they cannot replace the module. To DM RttToEE someone still needs the module. This is different to books of feats/spells/prestige classes etc that can face a lot of duplication in PCGen...
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    Alternatives to PCGen

    I did, Scott. That's where I started from, updating them all to version 4. Thanks for all the work you put into them. I'm now up to the CRM - I hope to put them on the yahoo group, but they also require some special files that are no longer available in PCGen - ie, the RttToEE files from...
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