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For that price you're probably buying a "disposable" PC. Meaning it won't be very upgradeable (if at all), and while it might play the current games now, in two or three years it probably won't. E-Machines have a rather mixed reputation. I haven't seen the inside of one in a very long time...

Have you considered having your character keep a journal, which you would actually write up between sessions? I did this once, and while it was a lot of work (I found it impossible to do without taking detailed notes during the session, so it felt a bit like being back in school), I really...

Any of the major metro areas in NC should have plenty of Blockbusters and at least one Barnes and Noble. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill and Charlotte are definitely the big metro areas, but Wilmington (on the coast 90 minutes or so southeast of Raleigh), Winston-Salem (central-ish in the state) and...

What Sir Whiskers said. 3E was a good edition not just because it was new, but because it got people excited about the game again and got a lot of people who hadn't played in a while to check the game out again. That's what a 4th Edition should do. And yes, the company who produces D&D needs...

Good point. It's got me wondering if I've missed out on an important something before: gamers are likely to discuss sci-fi and fantasy by default because it's a topic they're most likely to have in common, not necessarily because it's the only one. Or, put another way, discussing...

Any advice then for what a "pale fanatic" can do when surrounded by the more serious fans? For one thing my expereince has been that the serious fans don't always take it well when you've tried their favorite fannish thing and it's not your liking, no matter how diplomatically you phrase your...

But Diaglo, if I can be blunt here, you do share one thing in common with some of the types of fans I'm talking about in that you (humorously or not, it's hard to tell sometimes via messageboards) refer to things you don't like in a way that's sort of a put down. Whether this is the intent or...

Morrus, After reading your idea, I wanted to mention some concerns I have. Not in the spirit of stomping on the idea, but in the spirit of trying to find problems before they happen so they can be prevented. The idea overall seems pretty cool. And I can certainly see advantages for EN...

I'm curious about this because I don't really consider myself to be a fantasy/sci-fi fan in general. I happen to enjoy (and consider myself a fan of) certain specific works in those genres (Babylon 5, Harry Potter, and the "Proteus" stories of Charles Sheffield to name a few examples), but I'm...

I found my current group while hanging around at the local gaming store. My (then-future) DM was there looking for players to replace a few he'd lost to scheduling conflicts. You might also try www.rpgregistry.com . You can search for other players as well as games by location.

I kept seeing people recommending ENWorld on newsgroups and at another message board (probably Monte's, though possibly WotC's). Eventually my curiosity kicked in and I checked it out. Couldn't say exactly when this was, but I wanna think when I first started coming the url was different...

Well you don't get much more "layman's knowledge" than TV and movies, and I don't recall ever seeing local police on television or in the moivies being at all happy about having the FBI come in. On NYPD Blue the FBI are usually portrayed as incompetant rich boys who rely too much on their...

A version of Sleep I can cast on myself so that insomnia is finally not a problem. (He says at almost 3am.) A version of Charm Person or the like which works over the telephone so when telemarketers call I can convince them to find a new line of work. For that matter a version of Protection...

You need some Thoreau (who also works well for Druidic and CG/CN philosophers). You might also look into Carl Jung. He had a lot of interesting things to say on individualism versus collectivism. First a few Thoreau links: http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/thoreau/extracts.html...

Something I read about that particular piece of spyware (possibly in a link I didn't post) indicates that it's particularly difficult to get rid of, but apparently very easy to get (or get back), as it seems to come in through Internet Explorer. Oh and this is interesting.... for spyware...

I haven't tried Mozilla, but as far as customizability goes, I know Opera has loads (way more than I'll ever use), but lots of it seems to only be achievable through manually editing configuration files. For me, once I get my toolbars how I like them (text only, buttons in the order they were...

If you're gonna go with pre-made characters, I'd remommend letting the players choose from them instead of just assigning them randomly. This gives them at least a small amount of control over their characters. It also avoids the luck of the draw leaving a player with a character type they...

I've been using Opera as my main browser since 2000. I absolutely love it. It's fast, reliable, customizable and has almost never been found to have any security flaws (although on the rare occasions it has, they've been patched within three days or less). Before Opera I was a Netscape...

I think part of it is the distorting nature of the Internet. It's much easier to discuss characters in terms of "builds" than it is in terms of motivations, so discussions about builds tend to predominate. After a while of being constantly exposed to mostly those kinds of conversations it...

I use Opera 7.23 on two different machines (one Win 98 the other Win XP) and don't have that problem on either of them. This probably isn't the cause, but have you checked that Opera's auto reload feature hasn't become enabled? It's under Navigation > Reload Every > Enabled. If you've got...