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    Who has the most compelling vision?

    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/vision/visionaries.html
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    New Monster Stat Format - Any Good?

    I'm not sure that I will be using it. I like having all of the encounters on 5x8 index cards and this format does not seem to lend itself well to being printed on a card that size. I don't love the old format but I will often will use color coding in my print outs to make important aspects...
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    Serenity Film Question (not looking for spoilers please)

    I'm excited by this. I've been watching the series on DVD and have been enjoying it. Amazing what seeing the pilot first does for explaining just what the heck is going on. Anways, is this going to be Sci Fi channel release or a theatre release? later, Ysgarran.
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    Why are these minis so hard to get off of eBay?

    Exactly. I think you have to realize that are a large number of people who have no interest in the skirmish side of the minis (like myself) who are willing to bid on things just because they are cool and not because they will fit well into a warband. Lareth does happen to be one of those...
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    Halberd, Longbow and Spiked Armor.

    Yes, it is a pretty neat trick. I'm not all that bothered by that part of it. I'm just not sure why the same rules would not apply to the guy with a bow and armor spikes. I could go back through the old sage advice columns and see what the reasoning was (if in fact, that is where I read that...
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    Halberd, Longbow and Spiked Armor.

    I was reading in the dragon (Sage's Corner) that if a warrior has a reach weapon (such as halbard) and also has spiked armor that he threatens every square within 10'. In other words if someone did something to provoke an AoO 5' away, then that warrior could attack with his spiked armor. What...
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    What is your most trivial house rule?

    The host buys the Captain Morgan's... later, Ysgarran.
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    How do you use published adventures?

    Most of them I use with significant modifications. The latest Eberron ones I've only used as 'locations' while changing almost everything else about them. I find that using modules 'as is' moves my games farther away from story telling and more towards sheer dungeon crawls. It might be...
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    History - Tell me about the GDQ series (Giants, Drow, Queen?)

    It took a few years for Q1 to be published. It seemed like a really long time between when D3 was published and the time the conclusion was finally published. This is was also the time of the first edition ranger, which was a lot fun to use in the giant series. later, Ysgarran.
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    Equiment vs. Skill in D&D

    The problem I have is that the players *LIKE* their toys. They feel something is missing from the game when they don't get new toys to play with. It is a frustration I have because it isn't in the direction I prefer to have the games. Since the goal is to have fun, I've never pushed too hard...
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    Anyone got the Dummies book?

    The fact that enworld isn't listed as one of the ten best resources is enough for me to say the book is...well, lacking. I would like to use some stronger termonology... Ysgarran.
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    Spamalot -> King Arthur -> Paragon Rabbit.

    My chain of thought went along these lines. Getting tickets to Spamalot King Arthur and the Holy Grail The killer rabbit with the big teeth. I never did write up that Paragon rabbit that I thought about, well, someone must of come up with besides me. One google search later...
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    Because I couldn't resist a good flame war - the programming language debate

    I do like 'C' as a first language. It isn't that you will find that many jobs out there that are still using it (outside of the embedded world at least). It is that it gives you a very good foundation for just about any language you want to learn after that. I've come across a number of...
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    Event Registration Is. . . .

    It seems that the people supporting the site don't really have much experience in 'high availabilty' requirements. They KNOW the site is going to be hit hard when registration opens yet they still fail to get things correct. oh well, Ysgarran. As far as I could get: Check Out Cart contents...
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    Warhammer RPG, Gotta love it

    This thread inspired me to go look at the 'Black Industries' website and see if I remember anything from the one Warhammer RP game I was involved in a few years back. (Everybody was dead by the second game, the gaming group just couldn't make the transition from a more forgiving combat system...
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    morally ambiguous antiheroes?

    I was reading the 'Champions of Ruin' blurb on the WotC and read this: 'you will discover everything players and Dungeon Masters need to create the most evil organizations, treacherous villains, and morally ambiguous antiheroes.' My first thought that WotC has not displayed much talent in...
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    Generation: rolling vs. point buy

    This is what we do. We roll 4d6 drop the lowest, 6 times, arranged in any order. The only difference is that we have a different floor. later, Ysgarran.
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    Rangers and 'Shapechanger' favored enemy.

    I thought that rangers could take shapechangers as a favored enemy but I couldn't find it in the books. Is this a 3.0 leftover that I have in my brain? I was surprised to see that lyncanthropes and/or shapechangers were not listed as a possible ranger favored enemy. Ysgarran. p.s. Nothing...
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    Is your group "High Maintenence"?

    Wasn't sure how to vote. Those who don't play well with others are very quickly asked to leave. That means that we have had problems in the group dynamics in the past but those disruptive players are not invited back. Hence the current group of players get along famously. We had one player...
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    Why are Warforged so bad?

    In my new campaign, roughly based on Eberron, all the players were scared away by the healing requirement of the warforged. They all thought it was a pretty cool idea but none of them wanted to deal with the reduced healing prospects. OTOH, we do have a changling and a shifter in the party...
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