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A voice from the doorway answers: "I cannot say I linger, having just arrived. I am, however, here. I am Max Kaladin, Paladin* of Torm and member of the Order of the Golden Lion. It would appear I have arrived too late for my services to be needed." A tall, handsome man walks toward...

Yeah, and they only found that out in the last few minutes of the episode as I recall. Most of the time Caine was trying to nail him, he had no evidence and -- as far as I could tell -- no suspicion that she was underage. In any case, I'm not trying to defend the distributor or say that he...

For me, the thing that made this speech so great was the presentation. You didn't see Ivanova deliver most of it. You experienced it from the bridge of one of the opposing ships where they heard it as audio only. This gave it a vaguely sinister "voice from the ether" quality that gave it much...

-- AND -- I am in total agreement here. This sums up exactly how I feel about the show. (Though I admit I no longer watch regularly.) Lex keeps trying and trying but its as if everyone is determined to always assume the worst about him and see anything he does in the worst possible light...

Agreed! I do watch CSI:M, but find Caine to be too arrogant and self-righteous and he gets too emotionally involved in the cases. I much prefer Grissom. He does his level best to remain objective and uninvolved. While Caine might be more comforting to a victim of a crime, if I were an...

In addition to all the history books mentioned here, I've come up with another interesting source of historical flavor. Historical mysteries. I've found that mystery novels set in places like ancient Rome, Byzantium and places like that are good places to get a feel for various societies...

What's the replay value like on that. I looked at it in the store today, but noticed it only had something like 7 missions. I'm worried I'll finish the seven missions and that's all the value I'll get out of the game. Is there any sort of "battle mode" outside of the regular "Campaign"...

I don't remember what server it was. This was last summer with BF1942 and I got so disgusted that I haven't bothered online since. I guess I'll have to see what happens with an engineer in game, but I didn't see any spawn point for the "VC", just dropping out of midair. It's very annoying.

Well, I actually liked both the President's speech in Independance Day and Conan's prayer to Crom.

I only just got a video card that can handle Hardware T&L to play the newest games that require it. I bought Battlefield Vietnam to try it out and I'm a bit disappointed. Mostly, I suspect the computer cheats and I hate that. My complaint relates to spawn points. In BF1942, I remember...

Yeah, I was going to mention that. It's the thing that really turned me off about Frontier House. Hunting was really important for the pioneers. My G-G-Grandfather was a professional hunter for the first 6 years he was in Texas -- and not the kind that went after buffalo or guided "sport"...

I'd love to see any of these. I keep hoping they'll do pretty much anything set more than five centuries back, but I really want to see any of these three specifically. Add "Anglo-Saxon House" to the mix while you're at it.

Isn't Venus sometimes said to be the sister of Jupiter? I'm wondering if there's a connection to astronomy and the movements of the planets. The other recognized sisters of Jupiter have had their names given to asteroids, so I doubt the Romans knew of them, but Venus could fit.

I find that it's almost always combat that the power gamer concentrates on. The net effect of this in a group of people who are not power gamers is that the power gamer dominates combat, often to the extent that anything that is a challenge to the power gamer is going to wipe out everyone else...

How about this: The kingdoms on the other side of the mountain range are having a big war and simply cannot spare the resources to conquer or settle here. They can spare agents to try to convince the various strongmen here to align with them and oppose enemy agents trying to do the same. You...

Technically, yes, but there are a couple of issues with that. 1. A scanned image won't scale as well as vector graphics will no matter what software you use, so it will probably look really terrible when you blow it up to be a few feet on a side. 2. Sizing the image within CC2 to match the...

Something similar was advanced on the Forgotten Realms mailing list years ago. It was called something like "Dark Realms" or "Realms 2000" or something like that. It didn't have the loss of magic element as I recall, but did the "advance the realms to the current day" thing. It might be on...

He didn't actually give anything away. He just poked and prodded the author a bit. {Poke, Poke} I won't give anything away either. I'll just sit back and watch things go horribly awry in ways nobody -- not even the DM -- expected. Consider that a teaser to get folks curious. ;)

Your understanding is correct.

In CC2? You don't even have to do this in CC2. It's as simple as setting the scale when you print. The print command you access from the file menu has a section down near the bottom where you can specify that X units on the map equals Y actual units on paper. Thus, you could print your...