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I completely agree. It's Dark Sun, this is something the PCs should be doing. I'd just figure another treasure parcel's worth of food, survival, and basic equipment. Plus a wagon (with no animals) if you wanted to be generous. Most of it would have been taken by the bad guys, because they...

Yeah, that's what I mean. I got that Olivia didn't have the power and Bell sacrificed himself due to his atomic instability. However, I thought the whole reason they could travel between dimensions in the first place was because Olivia's cortexiphan power is to see/interact with the other...

I winced at that as well, more so because my specialty is (microbial) molecular biology techniques such as chromatography. Obviously they just thought it sounded like "color" and ran with it. That said, the microscope would be the first piece of equipment I would use; long-lasting...

I'm hoping someone can answer a question for me. I just got into the show and recently got caught up to this episode. How is it that the Bishops were able to travel back to the blue dimension if they needed Olivia's power and Red Olivia was never dosed with cortexiphan? Has this been...

It's episodes like this that really make me wish they'd kill off Young, Rush, and Wray. Between the three of them (and Telford) they managed to do everything possible to piss off the LA people. At least Wray tried to make things good. (Mini-Rant) At this point in time, I really don't get how...

Sounds like a nice distraction to me. :p This annoys me too, especially late game when wars are common. I was on a Scientific Victory and every turn I'd have three or four civs asking me for various pacts, usually the same ones every turn. Blah. All of my victories (except Scientific, for...

I'm meeting this news with guarded pessimism, for a couple of reasons. The big one is that WotC doesn't have the greatest track record with digital offerings. Aside from the CB and Compendium, I've found all the rest of their offerings (including the MB) to be quite buggy. Their...

I'm going to have to go with...

Yes, because someone who won't link it to a federally protected bank account will attach it to a credit card... :uhoh: Another option that I've seen suggested, but never tried and never heard back about, was using one of those pre-paid credit cards. They're not tied to any personal stuff, so...

Plant-wise: most plants sun-side are probably going to be photosynthetic in some way. Not necessarily green, but definitely converting solar energy to biochemical energy. On the other hand, dark-side "plants" will almost certainly be chemosynthetic - converting chemicals in the ground to...

My knowledge of astronomy is amateur at best (as can be seen from other posts here :blush:) and I know pulsars aren't fully understood but there were a few issues I had: 1) If they were close enough to the pulsar (likely emitting high-energy x-rays, but not necessarily) so that vaporization...

I can't really seem to make up my mind on this episode. I'm trying to suspend disbelief for the Scott/Greer escape, but it's just not happening. I'm just going to write it off, because whatever. Likewise the implications later in the episode where some regions of the ship are protected and...

The problem is that we are entitled to it, because we're paying for it. CB updates are included in the DDI cost. It's not a matter of internet entitlement, it's a matter of customer dissatisfaction with product. Now, do I think WotC is being unprofessional? Hell no. In fact, I think they're...

I told it to reroll anything below a 5, unless I misunderstood the text field. [EDIT] Unless you mean it only re-rolls once, in which case that's not strictly how something like Brutal 1 (to use a 4E example) works.

I didn't see a REROLL test, so... [EDIT]So there's an issue - obviously in the third example all the d6 dice should be 6 (while the d4 are presumably ignored). [EDIT2]I also want to test EXPLODE with a value of 1, but I'm afraid of crashing the boards or something.

I agree, I think the Social Policy idea is probably the best innovation of Civ 5. I think some of the policies could use some tweaking (Piety, for one) to bring them a little more in balance. Still, it's an excellent idea. If you hit 'R', it will pop up icons with the resources on each tile...

It depends on what you're doing and the setting you choose, but overall game-times are generally shorter. I did a standard-time game going for a cultural victory with minimal cities and military in about three and a half hours game time. However, that's a minimal time; most of my turns were...

The first "season" (the miniseries) and second season of The 4400 were great. After that, it started to go downhill.

HIMYM was amusing but they've had the first two seasons on syndication here and there's still no comparison. Still, I thought the episode was better than most of the fifth season. I stopped watching Chuck in the first season as well. I caught a couple of second season episodes as House...

No, sorry, but you're wrong. That argument is true for 4E, because of the bonus to rolls scales with level. That argument is not true for Alternity, because the modifiers (d4/d6/whatnot) don't change much (if at all) with level, only with situation. There are of course exceptions - most...