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Is it too late to congratulate the August Administrator? Or, now that August is over, should I just wait and congratulate the soon-to-be-announced September Administrator instead?

Yeah, I wondered about the height thing too. I also wondered if the cooling pad would sit up high enough off the desk or table to generate enough airflow to make a difference. Unfotunately with a laptop there's not much else you can do to cool it besides using a device to draw heat away from...

Very cool, thanks. That's the kind of excellent customer service that keeps me coming back. It's much appreciated.

I'm down the road a bit from you, over in Asheville. I only know one Haywood County-based gamer at the moment, but I'll be sure to point him to this thread in case he knows of anyone else. Also, if you feel like making the commute, the Asheville Gaming Society meets at Pastimes on Merrimon...

So.... will the September WotC products (specifically the Star Wars minis) be available to order within the next two weeks? *crosses fingers*

This sounds a lot like the local gaming club that meets once a week at one of the game stores. The only difference is that we shuffle to new games at the first meeting of every month, though occasionally a game will go long and run for two months. Still, within this month's game there are only...

Can't help you with the Bluetooth stuff. I guess I'm just a little too distrusting to go for wireless networking. On the cooling issue though, there are a number of laptop cooling pads available. There's basically a pad with fans in them that you set your laptop on and they move heat away...

Varies from store to store. Both the local game stores here have gaming space, and both have certain times that are reserved for specific events. The rest of the time gaming space is on a first-come first-served basis. Neither of the stores here normally charges for use of the space, but I've...

You might also try these messageboards. I haven't looked them over closely, but they seem to be dedicated to running old DOS and Windows games using a variety of emulator type products (including the DOSBox one that Chorn mentioned). With all the other retro stuff that's constantly popular...

Looks like all of SP2, since some programs are listed as not being able to be installed. While there are some programs that require Net access to install (and could thus be interrupted by the firewall), most don't, so it's probably something else in SP2 that is breaking them. And yeah...

You know, now that I think about it, why I am I not terribly surprised that SP2 introduces problems for a non-IE browser? I don't use Mozilla myself (Opera's my browser of choice), but I wonder if maybe the reason it doesn't work is that the DL manager is a plugin or seperate program, so when...

Yeah, true... though unless the artwork gives some clues or text in the entry includes the real world name of the dinosaur, it makes it rather difficult for anyone besides a hardcore dinosaur fan (which I'm not) to figure out which real world critters the MM3 versions are based on. Odd, since I...

What's with the dinosaur names? Did someone from battlebots or the wrestling federation sneak onto the Dinosaur Renaming Commission again?

[thread hi-jack] If you'd said giant space hamsters and the hippo-headed Giff, I'd have totally agreed with you. I liked crystal spheres and phlogiston and can even tolerate the occasional planet on the back of a giant turtle. Although I'm generally aware that they derive from past real world...

The old FASA one? That was the first RPG I ever bought, years before I ever heard of D&D. Never found anyone else who was willing to play it though. Still, I know exactly where it is and if my house ever caught fire it would be the second thing I'd grab, right after my computer. As for weird...

Depends on the character. Sometimes a voice is so central to the concept of the character that I can't play the character properly without it, such as my old 2E cleric who was a former sailor. His voice was sort of a cross between Wolverine on the old X-Men cartoon and Arte Johnson's Dirty...

Retconning is a very imperfect art. Personally it doesn't bother me. Any shared world is bound to have its share of continuity glitches. I've found that the secret is to not be too literal-minded about past events when viewed in the light of later revelations. Waukeen went into hiding...

Here's a couple of links that might help you configure the firewall so Firefox's DL manager will work with it. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0204.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/internet/sp2_wfintro.mspx The first one seems to be more...

Very rarely. I'm eagerly anticipating the release of the new Basic Set in the hopes that I can get my 8 year-old nephew started on D&D. Aside from that the last two releases I was eager for were the FRCS (which exceeded even my very high expectations), and Song and Silence (mostly for the...

Mine arrived in the mail today (slightly water-damaged), although Books-A-Million didn't have them in yet as of two days ago, even though they've had the new Dungeon in for at least a week. As for the contents.... every time Dragon does a make-over or "very special" issue I wind up asking...