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  1. cougent

    Official Introduction Thread

    Re-introduction I live in Irving and have been a gamer since 1981. Yes I am an old fart.:) I have played BECMI, AD&D, and 3E/3.5. During the 90's I left the 2E era and played EarthDawn instead. I really have little interest in 4E other than the new EarthDawn 4E that I do want to check out...
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    Cheating cheaters

    In a more direct response to the OP, I have had players who for whatever reasons decided to do exactly what the OP is proposing. To my knowledge there was no cheating going on, but I just have nosy players who want to see and blab every detail they can get. In a cross thread moment here, there...
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    DMs: Do you tell players the DC before they roll?

    I find that I am probably inconsistent on this issue. I know there have been times when I heard myself say "You need to beat a 12" and then other times when it was "This is going to be pretty tough for some of you" if they needed a 17 or so. I try NOT to use numbers for the very reasons...
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    Cheating cheaters

    jmucchiello and Fifth Element, you guys may just be better people than I am, but for a whole long laundry list of RL events (aka getting screwed over) I have ZERO tolerance for liars, and at the root that is what cheaters are is liars. I have seen the escalation happen far too many times to...
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    Cheating cheaters

    Although I completely disagree with your assessment up until this point it seemed to at least be consistent. "Why make a big deal over something one player does that bothers almost no one" (my paraphrase of all your posts). But now you seem to be crossing your own boundaries and going out of...
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    Volunteer help needed importing reviews by hand

    Morrus - I just did another review move from old to new and I still don't have the "physically remove" option to delete the old one, just the "soft delete" option is all it allows me. I should be able to move several of these over the next few days, but I can't really clean up the old section...
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    Fantasy Communities - Melting pots or racially pure (ish)?

    In my own home brew CS world there are both, and what I consider a unique twist. My world started with 9 unique races on 9 separate continents. Everything progresses from there... and not one of those unique races was human. Humans are the "mutt" race of my world and while they have carved...
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    Gaming Pride / Gaming Shame

    I have never hidden it, but neither have I made it public knowledge either. Most of my family and friends know that I play D&D because they have either heard about it, played it with me, or at least been asked if they wanted to join a game. However there are professional people and...
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    What happened to the Quick Links menu?

    Russ, maybe this will help in the troubleshooting, or maybe not... Yesterday I was on the site off and on from 12:00 PM Central time until about 12:00 AM this morning working on review updates. The site was extremely slow all during that time and something changed sometime between 6:00 - 8:00...
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    Volunteer help needed importing reviews by hand

    I am only getting the "soft delete" option. This is the case from both the review tools menu and the moderator tools menu (tried both just to see if there was any difference) EDIT: The site has been (almost) intolerably slow all day today, but it has been working. It may take 3 minutes to...
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    Volunteer help needed importing reviews by hand

    Here is my first attempt, feel free to critique as needed. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?t=240040 The original is here, which I will delete as soon as you OK the new one. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?t=206886 Am I correct in understanding that you DO NOT want the...
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    Volunteer help needed importing reviews by hand

    I sent a PM with contact info if you still need / want more volunteers.
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    Confessions of a 4E Detractor

    I definitely think WotC mishandled the whole marketing presentation spin on the "4dventure"; and I don't have a better way they should have done it in mind; but I am not a marketing guru either... and neither were they obviously (nor did they hire any). I can't fault them from a purely business...
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    Confessions of a 4E Detractor

    I started in 1981 also and remember the 2 games also, but as the ignorant 18 year old that I was back then it really didn't matter. We played everything we could get our hands on and in any order (B2, A1, C4, X1) and just "made it work". We theoretically knew it was 2 different games, but...
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    Confessions of a 4E Detractor

    From Hater to Fence Sitter to Well... I confess I was originally one of those 4E haters just because... because I had lots of money in 3E, because I was in the middle of my own homeworld campaign setting for 3E, because it was Tuesday, just because. After the initial shock and anger withered...
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    Massive EN publishing $1 sale new server fundraiser! AKA "let's buy a new server!"

    Well... I made it in just in time for RPG Nows databse crash, and for the first time ever did a paypal direct transfer so no (easy) way to reclaim the transactions. Fortunately for me though I only bought 6 items yesterday, still debating about 15 more (the last 15 I have not already purchased...
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    White-on-black forum is hard on the eyes

    As someone who has dealt with severe eye problems all my life (technically born blind) and now through the marvels of science and medicine see pretty well after 9 surgeries on each eye over 30+ years... I really find it difficult to comprehend the position that a muted background with...
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    PDF - Portrait or Landscape

    I greatly prefer the landscape format for both onscreen AND printed out versions. I know that sounds weird, but it arose from a situation where we were playing on a barely big enough table, and it was the biggest we could get and still fit in my spare bedroom / game room. After several...
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    Temporary front page

    And then again maybe not... While in the forums I got a Network Tiemout screen twice while trying to move to another thread. Closed browser completely and started over [Firefox 3 opens 4 tabs, 1 of which is ENW] It took over 5 minutes just to load the temp text page. [2:05 pm CDT - 2:11 pm...
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    Temporary front page

    I have been here about 6 different times today and no lag even switching to forums on the first 5, did have some lag between posts in the forums but only about 10 seconds or so. This time however following the link from the temp front page to this thread took about 45 seconds. No idea why...
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