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Cool. I'm just getting access to Clr4 spells, so I'll check this one out. This campaign is magic-and-psionics-are-different, so spell resistance doesn't help much; I'd need power resistance instead. :( Although we're playing that PR=SR-10, so a reaaalllly high SR would be good, too. :) I'll...

Yeah, that's a bit expensive. And not a spell my cleric can handle at our current level anyway. :( Yep, exactly. :) I didn't want to mention that because it occurred to me that this is a general problem and not one specifically focused on squidheads. I'll check to see if our GM will allow...

How can a creature recover more quickly from being stunned? It looks like "dazed" only lasts a single round, but being stunned can last multiple rounds and there doesn't seem to be any counter for it: healing spells don't help, restoration spells don't help, and so on. There are even spells...

Heh, thanks. :) I've used that analogy in my TCP/IP classes for years. It's not a perfect analogy, but in many ways it fits very well. Certainly close enough for what typical users need to know to diagnose firewall/router problems...

If you'll check the RPTools.net forums, you'll find a Networking FAQ that I wrote that takes you step-by-step through the process for debugging a network connection problem. It starts out by describing how networking ports work in general, then has a series of questions and answers (the FAQ...

Heh-heh, yeah. Good idea. Read the EULA and you'll never buy another MS title again. ;)

And the Apple iWork package is $60 for a single license, $80 for a "family pack" of five licenses. My wife got iWork for her MacBook so we went ahead and got the family pack so that I could install it as well. (And it's only $20 to stay legal. :)) She has had MS Office on her Windows-based...

Now here's a question: can you take the -4 penalty for using an improvised weapon, thereby treating the flask as a weapon, and then retrieve it for free from the HHH? (Yeah, a bit facetious but so what?) (I think the answer should be "no", since the HHH dictates the amount of time required to...

I'm a charter subscriber and I've read both of the AP's but haven't played or GMed either one. If/when I'm able to GM again, I will probably do them in order, not because I think RotRL is particularly any better than CotCT, but because it will provide a good introduction to the rule tweaks...

And a rogue with the ability to use ray of frost gets SA damage if the ranged touch required by the spell hits and the attack would other do SA (such as a bow would). Grappling denies the combatants their Dex bonus to opponents who are not engaged in the grapple. So have the mage summon a...

If you talk to the player and they can't control themselves, warn them that if they do it again, the creature will suddenly gain infinite SR against their spells and DR 50/-. Then when it happens, DO IT. And make sure to let the player try once or twice to hit it, then "remind" them of the...

For this environment it depends on your focus. If you're going for lots of glitz on the client side you'll be using a lot of javascript, probably with a framework such as jQuery or Prototype or ..., and you're not going to find tools that will allow you to single-step code or such except for...

I don't mean to derail your thread, so please split this if you don't want the thread bump :) but you sound like you have experience with both KW and FG2 so I was wondering what you liked about them that would cause you to choose them over a free alternative such as MapTool and related tools...

Um, how does making the PDF available for free accomplish that? Just wondering...

I would like to have seen answers for questions that appear in the FAQ incorporated into the new beta. For example, spells whose effect is "Line" have been problematical. (See the large thread on Wall of Fire and the questions regarding which squares are affected.) They had an opportunity to...

Look at the adoption rate for businesses -- most companies I contract for aren't using Vista yet and end-of-life for XP has approached twice (extended by MS, of course!) and is again just around the corner. Why haven't they moved to Vista yet? My wife priced a Dell w/ MS Office and such vs. an...

If true Teydyn, then anyone planning to use invisibility should wear a second, normal cloak (beyond the cloak of protection they probably have :)) so that when glitterdust is cast, they can whip off the normal cloak and reverse it, then put it back on (or drop it). That would eliminate 80%-90%...

I can't play on Sunday evenings (too often I'm getting on a plane that night), but I'm curious about your setup. You mention "AIM-based" in the title ... is it strictly a VoIP game or do you use some kind of mapping software to visual encounters? I'm in two games that both use MapTool (one...

Heh-heh, I understand. :) Thanks. I'll add that to a list of (possible) reasons to upgrade. That's what I thought. I've written a couple of AppleScripts already (for example, one to prompt for a memory size when running MapTool. I was hoping there's something a bit better than that, but I...

Well, I want to say "thank you" to Steve as he attempted to solve one of my Mail issues on OSX (Tiger). I have biases, just like we all do, but I truly would like the Mac to work using the software that comes with it. (I have installed some non-Apple software though, such as Quicksilver.)...