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  1. talinthas

    Sovereign Stone

    according to Ken Whitman of Elmore Productions- "There are great things on the horizon, the Sovereign Stone game world will be headed back to Larry Elmore at the end of its contract. Elmore Productions, Inc. has negotiated a deal with a new publisher that plans to re-release Sovereign...
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    Does anyone know how to pronounce Latin?

    wow. i want to read that book =)
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    Does anyone know how to pronounce Latin?

    just a correction, the official liturgical language for buddhism is pali, which is a step or two closer to sanskrit than, say, hindi or the other modern indian languages are (which descended from sanskrit via the prakrit, a language on the same level as pali or so) otherwise, i love this...
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    Do you live in San Francisco? Can you help me help my game?

    Yellowstone is close to san francisco? by what scale? Maybe closer to SF than, say, New York is, but that's really relative. Yellowstone is in Wyoming. Now Yosemite national park is a little closer, and only about 6 hours from the bay area as opposed to 3 days =)
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    Quick question - Ninja Turtles.

    bebop is the boar, rocksteady the rhino.
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    Possible Firefly RPG

    well margaret has stated before that she absolutely adored firefly, so...
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    Noah the Librarian!

    dude. first eric gets the biggest D&D forum in the world named after him, and now he has his own show? showoff =)
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    Anyone speak Japanese, or know of any online resources?

    why would you want japanese, anyway? wu jens are chinese =) but for your question http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa042901a.htm is a link to a page about japanese baby names, which become adult names after leveling a bit.
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    [pet peeve/rant] Grammar, people!!

    Exactly, eric. People like to cite IMs and message boards and chats in computer games as evidence of the decline of language, but they fail to note the context of these messages. when people are talking, they aren't concerned as much with the cleanliness of their conversation, so much as...
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    Dungeon Masters Guide II????

    http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/863170000 what the heck is this? Aside from the obvious, this seems kinda cheesy, don't ya think? /edit- hey, look at me, i don't know how to read posts! If i had, i'd have noticed that this was covered on page 3 of the wotc schedule...
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    [pet peeve/rant] Grammar, people!!

    argh! you're killing the grammarian within me, pkitty! trying to parse this just broke me =)
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    Off to India

    watching the Indian Parliment is like seeing a rainbow of multiculturalism. they go from pale white skinned blue eyed folks from Kashmir to folks you'd swear are Maori from tamil nadu, to folks who would be better suited in Thailand from Arunchal Pradesh. i mean seriously, short of...
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    Happy Diwali!

    heh. thanks. if i had known how damned hard it is to find a job (stupid english degree, what was i thinking?? of course, i really wanted to do linguistics, which would have been equally dumb), i'd have stayed in Davis and kept my old job at the campus library. As it is, i can't find work...
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    Off to India

    Bombay is a lot like NYC, if Jackson Heights covered the entire five burroughs. And they picked up and went to india because they wanted to. Really =) (at least, thats what they said in an earlier thread)
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    Off to India

    whoa there, bro. beyond being overly generalised and nearly offensive, you're crossing over to the far side of the no politics or religion line.
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    Happy Diwali!

    deepavali is the original sanskrit name. deepa = lamp. in the later languages, deepa became diva, and the holiday name changed too =)
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    Happy Diwali!

    yeah, i graduated and moved back to san jose. when you don't have a job, living at home for free beats the alternative =)
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    Happy Diwali!

    To all the hindus on the boards, and to all the spiritually minded folks, i wish a happy Diwali! May the mother of prosperity bless us all in the coming year and keep us well. Remember to leave a lamp out tonight! for a little more info...
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    Off to India

    Glad you guys made it safely, and on such an auspicious day, too =)
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    Do You Use the Core Pantheon?

    use greyhawk gods? in a dragonlance game? sorry =)
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