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Used to use AVG was using 7.x or thereabout and it seemed okay. I've switched to ClamWin now and it seems to be a better Anti-Virus picks up thing AVG missed. Far as him installing it, if your problem was virus related and the old Anti-Vir was out of date and no longer supported it might not...

My guess was based on how many stuck with 1e and 2e. But this time it could be higher. I'm not sure 50/50 split is a long term answer but I could be surprised. Probably you'll see about 50% initially switch, but then over the next several months most of the remaining group will switch leaving...

4e will succeed, just being a new edition of D&D is a guarantee of major sales. Most current players will switch over to the new edition, 80-90% I'm guessing. It will probably bring in some people who'd stopped playing during previous editions & the general influx any new edition brings in. On...

I've picked up considerable amounts of stuff at a discount since the announcement. I've focused on 3rd party materials that will probably become rare in the near future before the price spikes.

I'm sticking with 3e, won't touch 4e with a pole. The design philosophy, the magic system, the changes in power curve, the shift away from even medium simulationism. For me there is no 4e, 3.5 was the last edition of D&D and Pathfinder is it's successor. I'll definitely get pathfinder to...

No I won't tell you where it is. Unless you ask really nicely maybe, and even then it's a toss-up. Because if too many people start frequenting the place it could lose what makes it so great. And I found it by accident looking for a place to eat that wasn't a fast-food joint. I'd thought the...

About the one I know of yes. Might not have been I never really kept up with Eberron beyond adopting the artificer and porting a couple of cultures from the CS, oh and Sharn. I was talking about the "White Sands" build. It only started working once you hit lvl20 because it relied on a 9th...

I didn't mind sharks either once, would fish on the flats in conditions where there were smallish sharks all around because I knew they didn't really see me as prey. Then a great hammerhead more than 12 feet long made an appearance and I barely got into the boat before it decided to turn around...

Yep, there's even an infinite spell loop, but it only works at level 20 with a specific build.

I've never had problems and I've run games well into the epic levels. I could be wrong but it seems like many of the problems people tend to have are trying to DM a high level game like it was a mid-level game. Then getting upset when the playstyle at those levels (15+) doesn't mesh with the...

Funny thing is we play D&D for exactly the same reason. Because it supports a mythic feel where level is king. That's exactly the reason I have a problem with minions. They completely short circuit the level-based design scheme. The whole point of level is that a level three monster is of...

The problem isn't understanding it's that D&D has never in previous editions really been modeling an action movie. Other more narrativist games like Feng Shui and Exalted have, and have had rules for minions. But moving the design space of the game so far from where it's always been is kind of...

Good to know I wasn't totally off-base, I haven't really been able to get much good material on anything beyond the Vanir, Aesir, and common Eddas. It can be hard to find mythology materials beyond the standard undergrad curriculum level. Nobody really does, education systems in Europe & NA are...

Maybe I'm very wrong but I'd always associated Turisas with squid. He was a thing of the sea and had a "great head" with "broad ears" and a squid has fins that often look like ears upon a head. It reaches forth and drags people down into the depths. All characteristics that fit a squid as...

I have to say X-Files was one of the best TV series ever. Maybe third behind B5 and the first five or six seasons of SG-1. Course past about season 5 or 6 it started to go south too. But even so it was an icon of the 90s.

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Sharks scare me too, and your Dajobas work is really great. The adventures, the cult, it's all good. Now all I need to do is find an excuse to get the PCs near a coast.

Not only did we not retire characters we extended the HD and level progressions from 1-9 out past name level.

Which is kind of the point, the 4e design philosophy in moving toward the narrativist corner has abandoned the region of the chart D&D previously existed in through several editions. In which case how can it still be D&D and what about all the people who preferred the territory it previously...

I have it from David Weber who I spoke with at a book signing when Off Armageddon Reef came out that Tor is taking Baen's example to heart that making books available to download drives sales up and is trying to figure out their own version of the Baen Free Library. And Shadow Gate is out now...