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It is not a difficult task if you have low standards on the quality of the output on each. It is a very difficult task if you want a good-looking, graphic-rich PDF layout suitable for printing, or for a book, and want a well-hyperlinked HTML version with a layout just as attractive, with the...

I can't think of anything designed for home IM like this (ie, do this and do it cheap). The options I can think of for messaging are cell phones (cheap, since everyone has one but might have bad keyboards), laptops (cheap only if you happen to have one, but take a lot of space on the table), or...

I had a big one on my d20. If it were the d6 I don't think it would make a difference, but it stuck out so far on my d20 that it was noticeably unstable ju balancing it there by hand, let alone rolling it. :( Still, it's way better than my Dwarven Stones, which are beautiful, but sometimes...

What does everyone else do about the pieces of the sprue left on gamescience dice? Mine had some pretty big pieces that definitely affected rolling, so I had to shave them off... which probably also affected rolling. At least tumbled dice look regular.

As far as I know, you cannot surf the web on an XBox 360. If you have Windows Media Center, you can theoretically use the XBox to remote into your PC and surf from there, but that's it. It would be nice if it could, but I think that's an advantage the PS3 and Wii have.

Hmmm... right now, we've only once found ritual components as loot, and the only places to buy components have been at a 50% markup (blame an interpretation of Points of Light, in that nothing is ever the cost as listed) and limited in quantity to about one ritual. Could be that much of my...

A good point that's been brought up here that I echo is that players have knowledge of their own capabilities, and should have better understanding of DCs. They won't necessarily know about other creature's capabilities or things which aren't immediately apparent. An example that keeps coming...

My first game with my current 4e character started with rolling two 1s on two dice. The rest of the session was equally futile. I no longer use those dice....

Our DM has already declared all new books off limits, and will be limiting new use of things in the Adventurer's Vault. If WotC improves things in later books, we won't see the benefits. FWIW, the 4e game is going, but we're giving up on the parts that are causing us problems. Nobody is...

In one encounter... I think it was with Irontooth, we had THREE CHARACTERS pop back up with natural 20s. Five characters, two down and stabilized. Two more went down, with just the wizard back up. Two of us pop back up, with the fighter suddenly going into overdrive and rolling like a god...

We were gamely making characters until we realized that the character sheet was serious about the formulae at the bottom! I'm surprised we didn't program them all into our calculators.

Have you gotten a chance to play that yet?

Too often, DMs punish that behavior by rewarding little or no XP for an encounter, because it was "too easy". The encounters are supposed to be close calls. And since they are, it's not until a party member falls that it starts to look like a losing proposition. The rest of the party could...

A problem I have with this is that you run the risk of making it less appealing to have your character come back to life than to just roll up a new one that isn't crippled by whatever ideas you come up with. How often does death really come up, anyway? If it's really rarely, then almost...

I think the main problem with thrown items is, how do you draw them? Unless you have quickdraw, can you draw an extra dagger? My DM has ruled no.

Glantri was my first RPG possession ever. I was playing in a a 1e game, my folks picked me up Glantri for Christmas. I was completely absorbed, eventually buying as much D&D stuff as possible while I was playing nothing but AD&D. The presentation of Glantri as a travelogue, with in-character...

My group seems to be the exception. Right now, in KoS we're getting slammed hard enough in each encounter that we have party members calling to end the day before we hit the first milestone. We've had 9 PC deaths so far (with one TPK). We've only gone through one encounter with the new party...

Could you please supply a quote from their Member Agreement to that effect? According to http://www.lulu.com/about/member_agreement.php : It would seem that if you have permission to print a copy of a PDF you've purchased (pursuant to whatever terms you agreed with the seller) that you may...

ISTR that WotC has announced you'll be able to buy PDF versions of the books. They won't be priced at full retail of the books as they are today, but will have some minor discount. However, they'll still be pretty expensive compared to other PDFs.

That's old news. http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=15657654&postcount=5 If you want a PDF, you'll have to pay for it. ISTR hearing the PDFs will be slightly cheaper than the hardcovers, but still in the realm of $20 a PDF.