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Not in my circle of friends. A whole bunch of split off from the 4e game and went pathfinder. Right now, neither the 4e players nor the PF players are playing in the others' games.

I'd rather make it easy for people to contact me, which is why I've had the address atsACm.org for fifteen years and I spell it in the clear. I'm always a bit annoyed when I have to unobfuscate an email address... Maybe I should make a browser extension that does it for me. I do get spam on...

Run, do not walk, to Baen! Baen Ebooks Baen has both an extensive free library of books (often intro books for series) and books you can buy. You get them in lots of formats, without DRM. It includes a lot of classic SF as well: Heinlein, Laumer, and more.

I'd agree with that even for wired headphones. Wireless ones have an additional wrinkle to take care of. One question I have is how much noise isolation do you really want? There's a difference between good over-the-ear cans and in-ear monitors. With my in-ears, someone can be talking to me...

The thing I miss most from BECMI is the progression in the types of adventures you do. AD&D 1-4e all just handled "You go out, adventure, and earn levels, then you do it again." BECMI D&D, by default, assumes more of a life of growth. Start as young scrabbling adventurer, then gain fame and...

We've begun deploying android and iOS devices in our large and rather regulated Fortune 100 corporation. Here's some comments from our experience. We mostly use Good and Citrix rather than the built-in apps so that we can both add additional control and sandbox corporate data. This allows...

I must say, I'd definitely buy poop-scented Mother's Day cards. But onto the real topic, this is why I don't actually frequent any FLGSes. I've got LGSes, but I haven't found any friendly ones. I can see certain situations where it makes sense for a store to ask you if you're sure about a...

Quest NPCs are marked essential for the duration of the quest, so they can't die. The only exception is if keeping the NPC alive is part of the quest. You can get more horses, war dogs, and retainers. You can't get specific ones back. (Well, except for one particular horse obtained via a...

The American carriers almost universally refuse to blacklist a device. There's nothing in it for them. After all, the thief will probably activate it and pay for a plan! And you'll be buying a new phone, so that's more sales.

When I run in Mystara, I keep track of the calendar. All of the Gazetteers had a great discussion of the calendar of each nation, with holidays, tax days, festivals, etc. I keep track of it with an app I wrote in Emacs Lisp that keeps track of the calendar, loads in the holidays and lets me...

My feeling is, figure out which version of D&D you like most and keep that stuff, and sell or toss the rest. I keep the PHB and DMG for each edition, and deep sixed the rest. I'm keeping everything from BECMI and RCD&D because I'll run it and play it again, but I'm never going to run a 2e, 3e...

Nowadays we only use minis when we feel like it, because most of us have painted our own minis and it's fun. Maybe a combat a night we'll use the minis.

That's because it's more fun to develop for iOS. I credit the relative scarcity of XML for that fun.

Bad double post alan.

It seems every big game releases a GOTY edition. I thought that there were just so many awards that everything managed to win it?

I had an encounter once with a random encounter dragon, and one of the dragons near a word wall at the same time. Killed them both, and the word wall dragon burned up and gave me the soul, but the random encounter dragon just sat on the ground flapping in the wind. I'm guessing that's this bug.

Skyrim is set several hundred years after Oblivion. There are some references to help tickle the fancy if you've played previous games (including Morrowind, and the older ones) but it's certainly not necessary to play. I never finished the main quest in Oblivion because it got grindy but the...

I'd say that the formative years are crucial. A baby learns so much in the first years, but the rate and ability to learn slow down as he ages. I could easily see that someone who was basically rebuilt completely would have a permanent penalty.

One of the perks on the Speech tree will let you sell stolen goods to any merchant you've invested in (a previous Speech perk).

I'd guess that you accidentally hit her while taking out the dragon.