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Sufficiently Advanced. I had a similar experience when our group played Sufficiently Advanced. It's a little-known system that takes place in the far future where technology is so advanced and widespread that nearly anything is possible. When faced with a problem the party usually freezes...

Sounds like it's a sleeper spammer.

Meh, I don't know if Scarred Lands is a good fit from what you described. One of the big features of the setting is the littered remains of the titans all over the place. There's a sea of blood, because a titan is chained at the bottom, eternally bleeding. There are mountain ranges made of...

The guy who sat in the chair did give him a bit of useful info, though whether that was new info to Rush or if he was just dredging it up from his subconscious if up for debate. If they're part of his psyche, why do they only appear in the control room?

I think the active volcanoes were to explain how the gate got buried, and to sorta rub it in Rush's face that the gate might not be recoverable (what if it got buried in solidified lava instead of loose rock?).

I really doubt that. The Game Table was much more than they could chew, and they'd be much smarter to work on other, smaller tools similar to the CB instead of that monster. The Game Table really needs a dedicated software company, not just a few programmers that work for a publisher...

Exactly. The Sims was not targeted specifically towards women. I seem to recall that the amount of women who enjoyed The Sims was a surprise. I wish I could find statistics to back this up (my Google fu is weak today, and all I can find on this topic are several year-old articles) but all of...

Do you know why video gaming is becoming more popular with women? I can sum it up with two words: The Sims. The video gaming hobby has changed over the past few years, and The Sims was the first game to have around a 50/50 split in gender of players. After that, game manufacturers realized...

Do you have a dual-core system? Sometimes older games don't do well on dual core systems and they run too fast. You can fix this by bringing up the task manager while the game is running, going to the Processes tab, and finding the process that goes with your game. Right-click on it and...

PayPal's protection is kinda iffy. If you read the fine print you'll see that even if they find in your favor they can only refund the money if the person you sent money to still has money in his PayPal account. If he's the type of person that withdraws his PayPal money as soon as he gets it...

Woot, I seem to have gotten Icewind Dale working! The problem was definitely my antivirus program. I had to dig through its settings before I saw that turning off "Antivirus Auto Protect" doesn't actually turn off all of its protection. There's another feature buried in it called...

Paypal accounts cost nothing if you only use them for personal stuff.

Hmm... anybody think about how the light side could be like the feywild and the dark side could be like the shadowfell? :)

I'm imagining a world with life stacked on one side, steaming jungles with plant life so thick in places that you need to tunnel through it or climb over it to travel. Civilization lives in the narrow band of twilight, the sun being a constant spot on the horizon, an unerring point of...

They didn't actually say that hydroponics was the ONLY protected area, they said that hydroponics was ONE of the protected areas. They knew that the LA didn't know where else was protected. Heck, they probably didn't even know where else was protected, otherwise they probably would have given...

Aren't Venus and Mars in the "Goldilocks" zone of our own sun? Being in that range doesn't automatically equal life, it's just more likely than other planets outside that range. They're talking about this on the news like we found ET, talking about how the civilization could live within the...

This has been brought up before: http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/288660-cant-mark-forums-read.html The last theory I remember is that when you click that button it's also trying to mark as read forums that you don't have permission to see (Admin forums). The workaround is to mark forums read...

See, if that's gonna happen then the fade in/fade out won't work. And if that player knew the group was going with the "fade" technique then they're being a bit of a schmuck by bringing it up. Everyone has to buy into the "fade" technique for it to work. Since the trick of the fade technique...

Do replicators bleed?

For my current group we decided to rotate DMs every adventure, and we needed a way to explain why one PC would disappear and a new PC would appear each session (we didn't want to get into a habit of having DMPCs). We agreed that our PCs were part of a larger adventurer's guild. A slightly...