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I don't quite agree. It depends on the monster and their motivation. An animal that is acting out of hunger might kill the PC, then defend its food source. One that was just angry at being disturbed might attack several before running off. It also depends on ifit has been injured. Many...

I would think it would depend on the situation.....if the bear was being actively attacked it would likely move to the next target.....but if it wasn't being pressured by other PCs it might finish the PC off. Banshee

Not only that......but a company in the US that is profit oriented and focused on providing assistance only to those with money could use a patent on a gene sequence to prevent health providers in Canada, Mexico, and much of the EU that believe in universal health care from helping their own...

What day/time is it on Space? I get the channel, as I'm in Canada but I've never heard of the show. Banshee

I'm not necessarily sure the whole resting encounter cycle is unrealistic. In real-world terms, the U.S. has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the western world. Yet that rate is about 1/40th or 1/50th the murder rate of England in the 1700s. So the world was a more dangerous...

Are you aware ASUS will be releasing an EEE Pad Transformer Prime that runs Windows 8? Banshee

Agreed. When you're actually doing something creative, and that you pour yourself into, to have other people (many of whom are like armchair quarterbacks, with their own opinions, but nowhere near the skill to create anything themselves) tear apart your work, yes, it's disheartening. I don't...

I haven't had much success with wallpapers....I'm using ADW Launcher on my Transformer, and I just can't figure out what size I need to get a wallpaper to display correctly. Everything that worked great before no longer works. I might turn ADW Launcher off once I do the ICS upgrade, and see...

I suspect that Paizo, given that they ran Dragon and Dungeon magazines, were in a good position to measure the popularity of system changes, new ideas etc. that were published in those magazines, and served as precursors of ideas that were eventually wrapped into Pathfinder. At the end of the...

Agreed. I didn't play FR or Eberron during 3E...but I collected several of the books. The fact that other companies produced Midnight, Swashbuckling Adventures, Dragonlance 3E, Scarred Lands, Oathbound and others gave me settings that I liked, and more reason to buy D&D books, to support...

I'm not super keen on the idea of Vancian Magic. I *like* the spell system of 2E and 3E, and dislike that of 4E. But I could do without "fire and forget". A spell point or spell build system would be cool....but I don't think we'll get it in 5E. It would likely be judged too difficult. But...

The reviews I've seen were generally not positive...but honestly? I thought it was neat. A good mystery behind the whole thing, some sci-fi elements blended in with a cop drama. It had good intensity though. Gravitas, I guess you'd say. Banshee

It's a tough issue. At the end of the day, doctors etc. are supposed to help people.....and their ability to do so should not be limited because some company somewhere was granted a patent for some kind of biochemical mechanism. At that point, you're hurting a patient, or preventing them from...

I'm not against a company getting compensated for developing a medication. On the simplest level, I don't feel any company should have the right to patent the finding that lowering cholesterol reduces heart disease. I *do* feel a company has the right to patent a medication they create that...

Probably a good idea. They had problems with a percentage of users having something go wrong with the update on the Transformer Prime. I use my tablet all the time at work, and the last thing I want is a bricked unit. I've heard, however, that those who've received the update on the Xoom have...

Enterprise sector....in the U.S. :) Cloud based computing causes problems for us in Canada. Given that most cloud services I'm aware of are based on software hosted on servers in the U.S., they're subject to the Patriot Act. But the Patriot Act potentially puts Canadian companies who use...

I agree. These lawsuits are getting ridiculous. What worries me is that this trend appears to be starting to infect the medical field. I read that there are some cases now where companies are trying to patent medical findings.....such that other companies couldn't make medicines that use...

very cool.....time traveling criminals... Definite potential. Banshee

Well....wait a second. The court stated that the majority of Microsoft's claims were not valid....only one was found to be violated. Whether it will be a problem depends on how easily Motorola can work around it. Banshee

I'll see if I can find the link. There was a lot of talk about this right before Christmas in the Android community. The gist of it was that Microsoft's been stomping around, and basically depending on the fact that as more companies bend, the ones who are remaining figure there's legitimacy...