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    Book Shelf Recommendations?

    Sauder makes cheap shelves that look fine enough and can be had when on sale for nextr to nothing from Meiers, Lowes or Menards. Once every couple of months it pays to pull the books, dust the shelf, and flip it over to prevent long term warping. When I have found them on sale, they've cost no...
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    Announcing a Vintage/Old School RPG Gaming Convention in Connecticut!!

    If someone wanted to split a room and could pick me up at an airport, I might be able to swing such a trip. Perhaps getting in (kinda) early on Saturday, staying over, then flying out sometime on Sunday. CreativeMountain (at) gmail (dot) com if someone can help make that happen. TIA. :)
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    LOST: The Final Season (Spoilers)

    I think it will be
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    An Unsung Doctor Who

    That's it exactly. I can only imagine that when they found money for the movies, they thought adjusting the character by making him actually human from Earth might draw a wider audience. In retrospect, it was a bad decision.
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    Something that 4e's designers overlooked? -aka is KM correct?

    You must be posting about store bought modules/adventures because it not only happens regularly in campaign games I run, it isn't fudged so the PCs can nick-of-time it yet they usually manage to beat the clock because they know how important it is and that it won't be fudged. Time is always a...
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    Where to buy UN-painted minis

    Never had a problem but thanks for the warning.
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    Game Fundamentals - The Illusion of Accomplishment

    You're purposefully ignoring that AllisterH chalks it up to "DM whim and experience" and that my post expresses having found that lack of experience (and talent) more rare than he. Please try to keep my posts in context since I am disallowed by PC to request you refrain from quoting me.
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    Game Fundamentals - The Illusion of Accomplishment

    Your experiences might well be echoed by any number of players with DMs who lacked the ability to handle such examples as you might hold up as typical but I hasten to mention that I found little support for your position in my thirty-five plus years of playing and DMing. Granted there are such...
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    An Unsung Doctor Who

    The first Cushing Dr Who movie was made in 1965 - Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) For a good read on earlier Dr Who stuff, pick up this large coffee table book - Amazon.com: Doctor Who: A Celebration; Two Decades Through Time and Space (9780491033510): Peter Haining: Books
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    Is it against copyright laws to echange an opened DVD

    Paging Dannyalcatraz . . .
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    Where to buy UN-painted minis

    Looks like the Viking Sampler Set is still on sale, too. Vikings! 8-Figure Sample Set Wargames Factory Hard Plastic 28mm Hammer of the Gods The number of weapons and heads and arms and options you have with this set at this price makes buying three of them more than worthwhile.
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    Where to buy UN-painted minis

    Join - CoolMiniOrNot - The Internet's largest gallery of Painted Miniatures and Miniature Painting art Keep an eye on their forums for good deals on particularly fine minis and whatnot. If you're looking unpainted grunts, soldiers, factions of fighters (even zombies) and such, keep an eye on...
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    Game Fundamentals - The Illusion of Accomplishment

    One, knock off the need to get everyone into a better or worse conversation. Two, if you read my post above regarding the young player, he came from a CCG background and was getting into wargaming. If you can't chill on needing everything to be ranked or qualified as fun or unfun, then you're...
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    [May] What are you reading?

    That King James was a very prolific writer. :)
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    Players: Does anyone else not mind railroading?

    While DMing conventions or gamedays my style does come closer to being similar to railroads, though I don't care for running them as much and prefer open-ended campaigns where players set their own goals and pursue them in their own manner. As a player, it is only at gamedays and conventions...
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    Game Fundamentals - The Illusion of Accomplishment

    DBA, DBM, HotTs, etc. have been on my lists for years and add to that many others including the relatively new Field of Glory (played about a week ago at the Little Wars convention). You've echoed my point about it being less tactically restrictive to play one of these games. Granted, all...
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    [May] What are you reading?

    You might try to slog through this while on the subject - THE DAEMONOLOGIE BY KING JAMES Here's some addtional info - Daemonologie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Game Fundamentals - The Illusion of Accomplishment

    I was discussing tactics with a young gamer of about fourteen (he had a CCG background and was trying out a miniatures wargame, 25mm figs on an open tabletop) at a convention recently who had the same problem, in that if a game didn't have the tactics spelled out as a mechanical option he was...
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    Any reason why...

    The Forum Jump drop-down menu at the bottom of most pages has "Meta" and it works great. (Thanks!)
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    I need a 9th level adventure!

    You might find something here - http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/154448-free-adventure-path.html Like this - http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article1.asp?x=dnd/oa/oa20010525a,3 or this - http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20050225a
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