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This thread has quite a few comments regarding memory layout on Windows. Some of them have stated, "Windows does this" when it would be more appropriate to say, "Windows Server 2003 does this" or "Windows XP does this." Because not all Windows are created equal in the area of 64-bit support...

I allowed a cleric of St. Cuthbert to kill the party paladin while he was insane. The body then became an "object" and the cleric was able to leave a rather dangerous place without having to keep the paladin restrained. (The campaign is RttToEE, for anyone interested.) I ruled that when the...

I've been holding off on posting because you've got quite a list there. But... For #3 (campaign management) you could consider DM Genie, since it has a comprehensive Campaign Manager screen. It can run combats, too, but you didn't mention that in your list. It has the ability to import a...

Search the Yahoo! groups. You're looking for "Genies Bottle", "Genies Lamp", and a few others. Most use the words "DM Genie" or "DMGenie" in their descriptions, so search on those phrases. Each Yahoo! group has a "Files" section and many of them have additional classes. Most will require...

I don't agree. The DMG (pages 24 and 25) deal with simultaneous actions in combat. I believe that the trigger action occurs simultaneously with the readied action. So the triggering action has already occurred: the club has been swung, the javelin released, etc. For game purposes, the person...

And something like magic circle would be pretty beneficial. On the side of the ghosts, I always smirk when my players think in two dimensions -- I have my earth elementals drop on top of them by falling through the ceiling, or I put the elementals below the players and strike from underneath...

The big issue with a second drive is that it takes up an IDE slot. Unless you're going SATA and have a lot of SATA ports available... My fileserver currently has two IDE HDs and two IDE optical drives. :( No more for me unless I get a SATA card for it and I hate to spend money on it given...

Sorry for jumping in so late in the game, but I have a couple questions about your setup. First, are you using the Windows wireless manager or a third-party manager? For example, when I got my PC Card wireless adapter (D-Link) I installed the drivers and wireless manager that came on the CD...

(First of all, how did she get a +2 spiked chain? I don't think that has ever come up as random treasure in one of my games... Oops, of course hasn't! I don't use random treasure! :eek: ) So you don't like the fact that this character can take out so many mooks so quickly? Well, what can...

You've gotten some (obvious?) advice to upgrade your bad guys. Instead of lots of 1HD mooks, build them up a bit so that they don't die on their first hit. Another possibility is some simple tactics. A bunch of mooks approach and are wiped out. So others run away and the fighter follows...

I don't know. But if you haven't given it a look-see yet, you should check out MapTool. Bleeding edge is v1.3 (it truly is bleeding edge, since the save file format changes sometimes and without a conversion utility) so you might want to use the more stable but less "feature-heavy" release...

Heh-heh, nice try. But that doesn't work in an underground area, which is where the EE is most likely to be encountered. :) Have you read the griffon's MM entry? They have a 25-foot wingspan! The hippogriff -- which is better in many ways -- has a 20-foot wingspan. So underground, a fly...

Okay, my last *bump*. :\ But what do you other DMs do when handling earth elementals? Maybe you just never use them so it's not a problem for you? (sigh)

There's really no reason that any app can't be platform-neutral. Most people will claim that there are performance issues. Bah. For example, take a look at MapTool. The author keeps adding features and the thing becomes faster! There's a new light/vision system coming that the author is...

So no one else wants to take a shot at answering some of the questions I posed about how to run an EE? :( I was hoping to hear from some of the "experts" (you know who you are!). Once again, I'll say "thanks in advance" for any and all help!

And there are others. QEMU, VirtualBox, and Xen all have the ability to boot multiple operating systems. Xen is the most intrusive since the machine must boot into a hypervisor initially and from there multiple OSes can be executed (this is not virtualization, per se, but partitioning). Plus...

Thanks, Drunk. ;) The part about requiring a miss chance roll was based on the EE using its darkvision 60' ability. If it has that ability (and I'm not sure it should), then it should be able to visually see creatures as well as sensing them via tremorsense. Would darkvision work through...

Heh-heh, have fun! I have a CD with 9 of the old AD&D games on them (Pool of Radiance and all that). But running it on a new machine ("new" meaning anything after 1990) causes the delay loops to be waaaaaay too fast. I finally hacked the games and changed the delay loops to have much longer...

Okay, so for question 1A you're saying that being 100% inside the rock -- except for an appendage appearing during an attack -- is worth the standard +4 AC for cover when attacked. But if it's completely obscured, shouldn't it be like attacking an invisible creature? (Pick a square and hope...

Combat with an Elder Earth Elemental (I apologize for resurrecting such an old thread, but it seemed appropriate because this thread provides some context for my questions.) In my campaign tonight I put an EEE up against a party of (mostly) 10th level characters (and about 6 of them, too!). I...