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Pemerton: This is why posting in the wee hours of the morning leads to misunderstandings. I'll try to explain my positions on the matter more fully. We aren't so much disagreeing here on terminology. You are drawing a hard line between Maxim and act whereas my readings of Kant always tended...

That's only a 15% difference on a d20 roll. I think 20-25% would be a better disparity. Large enough to really make a showing but not enough to totally break the math.

What's odd is the way they're splitting the factors to Attack Bonus between the character and his weapons and that may create unexpected interactions or synergies. But without the core book to get a solid look at the final mechanics affecting attack bonus in total you don't have a full grasp of...

QFT I don't remember seeing any 2e art re-used in the 3e core books. I might be wrong as I didn't see every single piece of 2e artwork, but what was in there didn't look like the 2e material I'd seen, even the base style was a change.

but not much better, they're using a difference range of 2 from what I've seen. Which is essentially a base difference of 10% when you consider d20 rolling mechanics. And They're doing something odd with weapons affecting attack bonus that probably will take the full book to fully clarify.

I've been looking at this same phenomena as I built my reworked d20 variant. I've come to roughly the same conclusions, instead of a purely linear base it needs to be a level derived "base +x" formula to regularize the range of difference possible at any one level. Like you I decided that a...

As said above while every edition has had flavor text stating the OPs point as the Gygax quote shows they never really meshed with the mechanical functions of HP. 4e is the first time HP are mechanically as well as narratively abstract and that is a change. Funny thing about abstraction is...

I Raise. I remember the first year of Discovery Channel before any of the others came about when it's line-up was still almost entirely those great classic National Geographic programs and the old BBC documentaries from back when they actually did a documentary instead of a drama.

Immanuel Kant would be highly disappointed in your shortsightedness. Considering it's a major school of philosophy dedicated to the idea that Good and Evil are objective and intention independent yet can be ascertained through rational thought I would say your philosophical horizon is rather...

This is why they should have called it Order not Law. You're get Law in the cosmic sense mixed up with legality, which is an entirely different thing. As to how can changing the laws be lawful? This isn't about legality, the evil tyrant is a font of Order. But so can be anyone else who takes...

You'd be hard-pressed to FIND a pci video card anymore. For a few years now AGP and PCI-E have been the standard. Do you have any brown ports? A brown bus will be either an AGP or PCI-E and those are easy to find a card for. If you've got it open check your wiring, if that all seems good...

I still enjoy 3e and don't anticipate any change.

before you do anything else check your wiring. If the wiring looks good then try pulling your graphics card and shifting to the OE monitor bus. You can always revert from an aftermarket card to the original onboard graphics. If it still doesn't work the issue is deeper than just a bad wire or...

The invisible minion idea kind of reminds me of the invisible assailant from that Poe piece.

Does anyone in Australia have an industrial robot arm that can strangle Hong? Cause I think I'd pay to see that. ;) @$#%^ed weak dollar, uh it'll have to be cheap.

Problem is most anti-viruses I've used interfere with each other if running multiple programs. Though it may be more pronounced with the big names like McAffee and Norton where I'm sure they intentionally make their product interfere with other anti-virus programs.

Excerpted from the WorldForge d20 Wiki (still under construction, as is the system) Alignment Alignment is a tool for developing your character’s identity. It is neither prescriptive nor a straitjacket for restricting the acts your character. A character does not act their alignment, rather...

Other than the Character Optimization Boards and link-backs from here I haven't been to the WoTC boards in at least a year. And even then I maybe visit the CO board like once a month or less. When it switches to 4e I won't be visiting it at all.

I'm here to Godwin this hyar thread.... Everyone's Nazis and they just don't realize it yet. Now that you've been Godwinned let's at least be reasonable. 4e alignment is different, given that everything in 4e is different this isn't unexpected. Some of us like it, some don't. Toss the coin...

Nope, from the top down it goes like this Artificer, Wizard, Druid, Cleric, Archivist. They're a solid 5 but they're still an honorable mention in the race to broken. Before you switch editions PLAY AN ARTIFICER! I mean it read the class description and go to town, just reading the entry...