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Yes, depending on the laptop and the TV. If it is a recent laptop and TV, the TV will have a HDMI input and possibly a DVI input. It might also have a VGA input. The laptop will have an external video connector, usually VGA, DVI, or HDMI. If the connectors don't match exactly, you can...

I LOVE playing evil. First play I generally do good, but then I go back and see the evil side of the house. In the SW games, evil got all the good toys. Dragon Age is interesting in that good or evil is really just "Who is watching at the moment?"

A couple things have contributed to the death of imagination in the group I play with. The first was a rules layout problem. Page 42 is in the DMG. None of the players knew that it existed for the first six months we played (until I read about it here). If it had been mentioned somewhere in...

One more comment that it works fine on XP with Parallels 4 and Parallels 5. Suspect there's a weird Windows 7 interaction. ISTR needing to install .NET before the installer would work: could there be some dependency along that vein that might not affect the majority of Windows 7 users?

3E had a lot of mods, but they all lasted a long time, so you could precalc a lot of stuff. With 4e, I find myself missing more of them because they all end at someone else's turn.

I use a Mac application called DEVONthink. It allows me to import most document types, including PDF, and indexes them for rapid search. That's a big help for my Dragon Magazine collection, old BECMI D&D PDFs, etc. I can import pages from blogs with a quick bookmarklet. It can split up those...

I took a quick look at HeroLab on Windows. I don't think I'd be too worried about the non-Mac UI. Character generators always have idiosyncratic UIs and I've become resigned to that. If it were ported over, I think it would be a strong contender to PCGen on the Mac. I would probably...

I would not buy Hero Lab for 4e, but would likely buy it for Pathfinder. I haven't tried the demo yet, but I've heard good things about it and the support for Pathfinder.

Even with precalculation, the numbers are a lot bigger than they used to be. I have a 9th level Ranger, and while I roll both attacks and damages at once, it can take a while to tally, esp. with a crit. Add in something like brutal accuracy, and you've got a half dozen dice and double-digit...

We have been gradually increasing our use of rituals. We started out our campaign reagent poor, and that's slowly been improving. We've gotten to the point that we can use a ritual every few sessions without running out, although they're still limited to the most important uses.

I think a big thing we should consider is what the players want in a given game. If I want to play A-Team, where it's understood that nobody dies and we all win somehow in the end, I'm looking to get a certain experience out of it. The entertainment is the stuff that happens in the middle, but...

Our 4e wizard has used Twist of Space more times than I can count specifically intending to hit and hurt party members... but intending that little hurt to teleport them out of the way of a big bad that was going to kill them the next round. The characters involved were very, very thankful. It...

I wrote something like this for my campaign. It implements the Mystara calendar and BECMI turn-based timekeeping. I can add festivals, tax day, etc. It keeps track of phase of the moon and I can put in effects with their duration and it will keep track. The only problem in terms of...

It's not so bad that it costs, but that it doesn't cost money. We had serious problems when we started the campaign because we had hardly any reagents, and when we tried to buy any, it cost 2gp for 1gp of reagents, and could only get about 30gp of reagents total. That priced rituals out of our...

According to Paizo when I asked there, they said they'd need to sell 1 a minute while the dealer hall was open to sell out.

The groups I've been in are currently using wet-erase battlemaps most of the time. We had a projector setup in one DM's old place, but neither his new place nor my place have the right spot to mount it. It was really shiny and cool, since the DM did maps in Dundjinni and then did fog of war...

TroyXavier and I are hanging out here in the Ennies Booth. Come along and visit us! Free wifi if you visit me between 2-4 today! (Yes, this is just so I can tell people I posted to ENWorld from the Ennies Booth.)

Put me down for Thursday, 2-4pm. Should be a great way to start off Gencon.

I'll admit I wouldn't be interested either. I started DMing a couple years ago and found a lot of really good resources out there already, between podcasts, websites, and emails like Roleplaying tips weekly. I didn't have any feeling that I needed more.

Hmmm... I was thinking about putting together a user style sheet to fix it. If I do that and post it, would anyone be interested? (Including Morrus) No guarantees but it might help set things up.