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  1. tarchon

    Kobold nicknames for Lizardfolk?

    Swamp giants
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    Name Five Things You've Done That Others Probably Have Not

    Some Korean friends of mine brought some to a party once, in the little drink boxes that they use to sell it at soccer games. I figured it was like Hi-C or something since I couldn't read the label. It's a bit more like whiskey.
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    Started working out and...

    That's only a 23 or 24 BMI.
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    Name Five Things You've Done That Others Probably Have Not

    I watched the Longest Day on German TV on the 50th anniversary of D-Day. It's a little surreal to experience John Wayne killing Germans in German on German TV. I think they preempted Auf Achse for it too.
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    Selene

    Shouldn't that be "minour"?
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    What kind of things would one encounter inside a tree?

    cork golems, phloem elementals
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    Least popular template options

    third-halfling
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    5s

    Hard to tell...
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    5s

    An impala in Djibouti eating a puce?
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    So what do/did you study in college? Did you bother with college?

    Mostly a merit scholarship for undergrad (BS Physics & Mathematics, minor Chemistry) and I paid for grad school myself (MS Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering). The folks chipped in incidentals here and there; no loans, though now that I know what the rates are like, I'm thinking...
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    So what do/did you study in college? Did you bother with college?

    Study in college? I don't get it.
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    Defeated by puzzle - campaign over: Here is the offending puzzle!

    It could possibly be a Hadamard matrix - how that would help solve it, I couldn't say. Perhaps the idea is to fill in the proper elements to make its product with its transpose equal to the identity times the order. Dang - now, why didn't I think of that to begin with? Oh wait - it has three...
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    Defeated by puzzle - campaign over: Here is the offending puzzle!

    I'd say your main tactical fault was in not clearing the escape route. I would have done whatever it took to reduce the earlier rooms to functionless rubble. If it takes everything you've got to do it, obliterate one room a day. I don't think you need potions to shut down portals too. Walls of...
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    Defeated by puzzle - campaign over: Here is the offending puzzle!

    Wait - that demon - what was his shoe size?
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    Heliopolis

    You really need Cooperative Dungeon 4 when it comes out.
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    Define and distinquish: Geeks, Nerds, Dorks

    Ask a dork wonk.
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    Defeated by puzzle - campaign over: Here is the offending puzzle!

    Several large subblocks exist that almost fit various symmetries, in some cases if you interchange symbols. Most sets of symbols are highly compact and connected, which is probably significant.
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    Defeated by puzzle - campaign over: Here is the offending puzzle!

    "I cast Prestidigitation and use it to make all 50 quadrillion combinations of symbols appear on the grid, leaving each one a couple femtoseconds."
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    So, you like puzzles? Here's one...

    Ah, so that's what the Phaistos disk says.
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