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    [OT]Which is more Evil?[/OT]

    Huh????? what are you looking for? I guess this would be drugs - but it would not matter whether I was a zealot or overreacting.....
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    Help Me Convice Someone D&D Isn't Evil

    Tevalon, Take a look at Mercule's advice - he very eloquently stated what I was attempting to. There are good ways to win arguments and there are bad ways. When I was in High School I too had a very much an us versus them attitude - after all the man is trying to keep all of us down...
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    Help Me Convice Someone D&D Isn't Evil

    Having just read through the entire thread, I am not entirely sure whether the AP is wrong or right - of if that even matters and I am going to disagree with the majority of my fellow posters (who are getting a little to reactionary for your good) The facts as I understand them right now are...
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    help, the pc's are unstoppable [Thread necromancy]

    Also, play to thier weaknesses. The Barbarian, fighter and rogue have abysmall Will Saves - they are screaming for a domionation (or heck even a sleep spell) imagine that 90 hit points per round agains the enchanter...... Have the enchantor make Fort Saves - incorporal undead popping up...
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    New World Order articles?

    I beleive that New World Order is the tag line to Steve Jacksons Illuminati Collectible Card Game. As far as the site - I can't really help you unless you give some more information..... or I would suggest the brute force yahoo search method.
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    Advice sought: you have two +'s to spend on a rapier. What do you choose?

    Another Vote for +2 (given that surestrikign is not an option) Having played a monk for a while - nothing is more frustrating than being "able" to hit something and then do no damage.....
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    [OT] Amazon just offered me $30 of!

    The only other potential issue that you need to consider is the impact that another credit card has on your credit rating. While it has been a couple of years since I have dealt with this, I do know that the greater the amount of outstanding credit you have vs. your earning can degrade your...
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    (OT) It Snowed!!

    Not to take this to terribly off topic, but actually Nebraska is pretty hilly as well - for flat, you need to head south to Kansas. Prettty much everything between Manhatten and the Colorado border is flat. West Oklahoma and Texas are pretty flat as well.
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    (OT) It Snowed!!

    Actually what I hate the most is the first snow storm of the season. Apparently, there is some sort of mind-control laser that warms up about May and proceeds to eliminate every last bit of skill that drivers acquired about driving in snow - so when early October hits and the inevitable...
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    'Origin' of Your User Name

    Utrecht - I am of Dutch decent and it is where most of my family is from (that and Soest) - so back in 1989, when I was first introduced to the internet, I needed something unique sounding (at least to Americans) and thus I logged on as Utrecht. I am sure there is records of Utrechts for the...
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    "Natural" Disasters on a Massive Scale

    There are two phases assosciated with the any disaster of a "historical" magnitude. First are the immediate short term - The phsyical effects of them are generally limited to the area of the disaster and typically are over within a week. More devistating are the long term effects, both...
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    Learning How To Roleplay Non-Hack

    In my mind, the biggest motivation to move away from Hack & Slash is the reward system - after all people will respond to what rewards them and the default system HEAVILY favors combat as the reward mechanism. I think that modifying the existing experience reward system is paramount here. an...
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    Using real world maps in your games

    got me - I actually did not quite mean that. I guess what I was trying to say is that smaller cities reduce the diversity of a role-playing experience. After all look at the various city books that are out there = Bluffside, Geneveu and Freeport - all three are big - over 10,000 peopel -...
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    spell casting for real - which one?

    Anything that can used to bring the thief Greenleaf back to life :D
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    Using real world maps in your games

    I think that one of the reasons is that the majority of mid-evil cities are fairly small - reducing the role-playing aspects. After all - look at the map of Utrecht in the above link. Having been there the area surrounded by the moat (now the old gracht) - is about 4 square miles - not...
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    The Wrath of Mallenar!

    I still think that the best thing is absolutely not to attack the actual forces of Mallenar - Wars are won and lost based off of logistics. The best way of reducing the morale of the living troops is to force them to go without food for a couple of days. In fact, it is stunning how quickly an...
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    [OT] Historical facts about Nicotine.

    Interesting that this came up - two weeks ago on CSI: Miami, they investigated a murder that ultimately was committed with a Nicotine based pesticide. Until the show (see TV can educate!!!) , I had no idea of its toxicicity - with most people focusing on its carcinogenic aspects.
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    The Ultimate Self-Reliant Character?

    In my mind for a character to be "complete" it needs to fill all 4 of the roles: 1) Rogue (Trap Detection, elimination) 2) Cleric (Healing) 3) Mage (Big Bang Spells) 4) Fighter (Tank and Combat) I would propose that the Bard comes the closest to fulfilling this "ideal" - Although Clerics and...
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    The Wrath of Mallenar!

    I would think that the best use for the PCs would be to attack the logistics of Mallenars army. The amount of fodder, food, supplies that his army will need would be unfathomable. These supply chains should be as thick as flies leading back to ther home base and should be fairly lightly...
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    Gamma World for D20 Modern

    Yes it was, 2 issues ago - 93?
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