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    War of the Burning Sky - Updated 1/18 with discussion of the Player's Guide

    Just wondering if their are plans to have a specific area here on the boards for DM's running WotBS to work together, ask questions, get suggestion and share whats worked for them? When I was running RttToEE, Monte's boards made it much easier. It was great to have a place to talk to DM's that...
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    Ok as promised here are the second half of my pics from my game with the new projector in use. This is in my living room during the afternoon, we normally keep the blinds closed but have all the lights on. I did not adjust the lights for the pictures so these are at our "Playing" brightness...
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    War of the Burning Sky - Updated 1/18 with discussion of the Player's Guide

    Ok, just paid for my subscription and can't wait for more info and the adventures. JD
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    War of the Burning Sky - Updated 1/18 with discussion of the Player's Guide

    Ok, downloaded Player's Guide and forwarded to my perspective player's. I'm looking at running this for a small group 1 - 3 PC's but plan to have them be gestalt chatacters. Any suggestions or possible problems I may run in to doing this? Beyond the normal that come from running a gestalt...
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    Yep. :-( JD
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    UPDATE... My home made wall mount is completed and working. Was able to get some test images on the coffe table today and have run into a problem. Keystone, it looks like my proof of concept test last week was not a complete as I thought. Now that everything is set up i'm getting a bit of a...
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    Laptops at the gaming table

    Well lets see I've used mine in multiple ways. I have Excel sheets that I've designed for character generation, that allow live changes or to print a hard copy in a normal CS format. I've also used Excel to develope sheets for tracking monster/NPC's in game, live. The upside of this is it...
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    Help! Someone's going to play a Frenzied Berserker!

    I played in a Con game a few years back with a FB. Luckly I was playing a Dervish, so here is what we would do.... Once the enemy was gone the rest of the party would move away, as I moved in, shifting everything I could to AC. Which would put me in the high 40's. If he did not make the first...
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    JJ, great pics. I hope to have my projector mounted and running for my game on the 21st of this month with pics up in a few days after. I actually just took a couple "before" pics to have ready. As I have been reading more on my projector and such I have found it can do several ratios (don't...
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    Perfect, thanks for the quick response. JD
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    Well, after going over this thread about 6 times in the last few weeks, I'm starting to make a little progress. I've opted to go with an overhead projection set up. Since I'm setting it up in my living room I have to keep it low profile and removable. I'm actually going to mount the projector...
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    War of the Burning Sky - Updated 1/18 with discussion of the Player's Guide

    This looks like its going to be a great campaign. I was wondering if you may have some previews of the maps that are going to be availble with the adventures? I'm looking for a good campaing that will work with my new projector that I'll be setting up very soon. JD
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    Just wondering why a sheet of plywood thats been filled, sanded and painted would not make a good surface to use? Gotta be something I'm missing here. :-P I understand the issues of it getting dirty and such, but can deal with that. Thanks JD
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    Ok, here's my first real question of what I belive will be many in getting everything set up to use my new projector. We play in the living room and I belive I will using a ceiling mount for the projector. Our current playing surface is a sheet of ply wood that sits on the coffe table with the...
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    Cool, thanks for the info. I'm hoping the resolution will not be a problem as all I plan to use it for it gaming. Yeah I've been having trouble finding info on it online too. I think she said she got it CompUSA. The first challange is mounting it, but one of the guys at work gave me a good...
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    Santa brought me [THIS] Cool Gaming Stuff!

    Well Santa (wife & my parents) got me a DLP Projector to be used for my gaming habit. (As described by Steel Wind in his almost 2 year old thread). As well as a couple HeroScape Sets to be used with Classic Battletech that I have just recently gotten back into. A $40 gift cert for the LFGS. A...
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    Coolest. Gaming Set-up. Evar.

    Ok, well I have joined the ranks at last, only waited for 3 or so years. My great wife & parents got me a Optoma DS303 DLP Projector for X-Mas. So now I'm working on how to mount it in my living room. Anybody heard anything on these? Good / Bad? I'm sure I'll be back soon with lots of...
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    First time buying cell phone...

    Being in the business I'm a bit biased, but I can throw a few things in. As mentioned above figure out what you want a phone for first, then look at the phones. Also as mentioned, check who's got service in your area first, then check out their websites for information. Also most companies...
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    PHB II - Telling Blow Questions

    Thanks for the details, just wanted to double check.
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