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    Preventative Measures

    Reflecting on the recent database catastrophe, I've been contemplating ways I could contribute to preventing future crashes. I, for one, would be willing to provide storage for periodic (monthly?) database backups. As a suggestion, we could make a monthly torrent download and allow people to...
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    Limewire...free AND legal?

    Limewire is just a client for the Gnutella filesharing network, which is actually one of the oldest around (dating to the barely post-Napster days). With all such networks, the legality of any file you find on it depends entirely on the material within the file. If it's copyrighted and not...
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    Escape from Hurricane Katrina + Live Blog from N.O. Hell

    The stories of the looters shocks me, but probably the most shocking thing to me and my girlfriend (who is from New Orleans, and whose family barely made it out) was this: Congressman Hastert (IL, Rep) proposes not rebuilding New Orleans I mean, could he have said anything more demoralizing...
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    Louisiana is set to be *smacked*

    My girlfriend is from New Orleans. While thankfully she wasn't there at the time, and her family was able to get out before it hit, we just found out yesterday that her house is up to its roof in water. I don't think many of us can understand the kind of shock one feels when one realizes that...
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    Heroic Tragedy?

    I thought that was horror?
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    Heroic Tragedy?

    Maybe I'll have to look closer at Midnight then. I was always fascinated by the tragic heroics of the Noldor in the Silmarillion, and by the story of Turin Turambar. I'm very interested in the use of Fate as a story element. And I do feel that the heroes who die standing up to the impossible...
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    Heroic Tragedy?

    Are there any campaign settings/roleplaying systems out there that support playing in the heroic tragedy genre? My feeling is that stock D&D doesn't support the genre very well. It encourages more of a pragmatic style of play. I'm looking more for a feeling of heroes standing up to great evil...
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    Best Magic System

    I have a hypothetical system I'd like to see that's something of a hybrid of Mana Points, and Recharge Magic from UA. Basically, a caster should have a pool of mana points, and spend them to cast spells. But rather than regenerating each day, the points spent should regenerate after a period...
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    Help. Eastern mysticism is impenetrable to me

    All forms of Chinese mysticism placed a great deal of weight on the mystical properties of writing. The ideographs of the Chinese writing system were considered to hold a certain magical property of their own, the results of which was that most more developed systems of "magic" featured written...
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    D&D trivia: Quiz

    16 is his BASE dex. As in before his racial modifier. Therefore, he DOES have +4 dex modifier.
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    D&D trivia: Quiz

    See above. It was supposed to say Halfing Monk. Relatedly: #3) Halfling Monk2/Paladin2. Base Stats: 16 Dex, 8 Con, 14 Wis, 18 Cha. Takes Great Fortitude and Iron Will as feats. All saves are +12. Fort: +3 Paladin +3 Monk -1 Con +1 racial +2 Great Fortitude +4 Divine Grace Ref: +3 Monk +4...
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    D&D trivia: Quiz

    Oops. That was supposed to say halfling.
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    D&D trivia: Quiz

    #1) Human Monk. 16 Dex, 14 Con, 18 Wis before adjustments. Takes Great Fortitude as his feat. His saves are +7, +7, +7. Fort: +2 monk +1 racial +2 con +2 Great Fortitude Ref: +2 monk +1 racial +4 dex Wis: +2 monk +1 racial +4 wis
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    Have you been disillusioned by Eberron?

    I find it a bit sad that a lot of people seem to have skipped on the third adventure because the second one sucked. While Whispers of the Vampire's Blade was pretty bad, it was also totally removable from the storyline for the series. In fact, one of the major complaints against it was that it...
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    Have you been disillusioned by Eberron?

    I'm definitely not burned out on it. I still love it! As many have mentioned, I love how it handles psionics. Also, I love the lack of high-level NPCs and the lack of significant metaplot. Those are the 2 biggest reasons I despise FR. Anyways, my copy of Five Nations should arrive soon, and...
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    Power Gaming

    Count your blessings. At least power gamers are easy to entertain! Seriously, though, power gamers are not the worst thing in the world. Sure, you might have to modify some encounters to compensate for the fact that you have someone who's good at dishing out damage, but you always know how to...
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    Logic question with Vader/ Anikin (EP 3 spoiler)

    Just as a side note, in Knights of the Old Republic, at least one Sith lord appears as a Force Ghost. When you're on Korriban and have to "earn prestige" to infiltrate the Sith academy, you have to option of retrieving some Sith master's sword from his tomb. While there, he appears to you as a...
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    Rate Revenge of the Sith *SPOILERS*

    Well, I sought it. My thoughts: JUDICIOUS use of Force jumps is a good thing. In excess, they complete kill lightsaber fights. I HATED the duel with Count Dooku because all he seemed to do was quadrupled backflip in place. BORING! Since when is R2 so mobile??? Aside from the rocket...
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    [FULL] Star Wars D20 Revised Episode III - Episode IV

    I'd be interested in playing, but I'm about to leave the country for 10 days. If you're not going to start for a while or could handle inserting another character ex-post-facto, I'd love to play. My character would be a Jedi Counselor who left the order several years previously over...
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    ML3's FREE Home Brew Monster Art

    Hey, ML3, here's one for you if you're so inclined. Silk Demons Silk demons are cousins of succubi in the fiendish family tree, using similar techniques of entrapment to lure mortals to their dooms. Physically, silk demons appear as lengths of red, orange, yellow, and purple silk that twirl...
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