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I don't have much DMing experience, but I wouldn't be opposed to helping a player learn the game and by giving them tips if they requested them. ONLY if they were requested, of course - giving unsolicited playing advice to a player is like playing their PC for them, which is no fun. However...

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Aw man, Torment is one of the best games of all time. Definitely the best D&D game I ever played.

I liked it. When they opened with my reaction was, then they continued to the rest of the story and it was fleshed out sufficiently for my tastes. (I didn't really consider that a spoiler since it was revealed in the first five minutes, but I decided to block it anyway in case somebody is a...

Hey, we're saving up for a house. :) Plus, it works perfectly fine for his needs, which is a word processor and internet. While it still powers up there isn't a lot of incentive to get him a new one.

Ohhhh, I hate that! I swear, a lot of the villains in TV shows and movies just don't aim. Mob1: He's running in a straight line, what do I do?!? Mob2: Aim behind him, that always works! Nobody's ever heard of "leading" have they? :p

Right now we're playing a very informal 4e game where the DM rotates for every new adventure. We decided early on that all of the PCs come from a larger adventurer's guild, which explains why the current DM's PC disappears during his adventure (which was easier than NPCing the DM's PC). Not...

I second Deviant Art. I play an online game, and need images for all of the monster/NPC tokens. Last time I DM'd about 90% of my images came from Deviant Art.

My husband's laptop is XP. It's getting on in age. I think it's got 2 GB, and that might be its max. The funny thing is, his XP desktop has similar specs, but it handles Norton just fine (with some extra startup time like mine). It also runs a particularly CPU/memory intensive game (Dwarf...

If I'm not already using that version I hope my ISP upgrades to it soon... My husband had to turn off some of the features on his laptop because Norton absolutely slowed it to a crawl and made it feasibly unusable. He was very close to ditching it until I convinced him to just turn some of the...

Merkuri is fine. :) Yeah, my husband got one of those viruses. He's not as much of a computer expert as I am, but he knew something was fishy when the "you have a virus, click here to get antivirus software" dialog didn't have a cancel button, just OK. He was also swift enough to realize that...

Hey, my ISP gives it to me for free. Who am I to look a gift antivirus suite in the mouth? :)

Win 7 seems to work fine. I don't have the machine in front of me (left it at work this weekend - I also use it as a backup machine in the office because I was tired of them giving me crappy laptops or giving me nice laptops and then taking them away because someone else needed it), but I'm...

I just thought of another one... vaccines that cure diseases.

I would say it entirely depends on the nature and training of the creature. A fairly docile creature (most herbivores) with basic rider training will probably respond like your average riding horse. As long as they know the right commands anyone will be able to ride off with it. No checks...

I admit to being one of those jaded players in whom a DM might find a hard time evoking a sense of wonder. I want to experience it, but I've just seen too much. I've read fantasy books out the wazoo and have been playing D&D for years. Very little is new to me. The trick in getting me to...

You can use just about anything to represent monsters. Coins work fine. If you want to add a little more "personality" to them you can print out tiny portraits of the monsters and tape them to the coins. I've seen some people use Leggos or other toys. Really anything works as long as it...

Didn't I just post that? :p

Is this the same game? If so, you can buy it for $6 and get it to run on XP, Vista, or Win7 with no effort. Master of Magic - GOG.com

Hmm, looks like this won't help me with Icewind Dale, but it might with Dungeon Keeper. I use this laptop so rarely that buying games for it just doesn't seem worth it, even if they're $5-$15 games. :) But I have seen GOG before. Maybe I'll pick up something that'll run on both my main...