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Thanks Nifft and Starbuck. I had somehow missed that line on pg 7 of CP. :) Concerning the "psionics is different", the XPH has a description of it on pg 65 that overflows to pg 66. One of the challenges with the Ardent seems to be choosing mantles that allow for a good progression of powers...

Heh-heh, that's high praise! Okay, I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to start looking into the astral constructs and how they can be modified with other attributes (flying, burrowing, etc) so I'll keep your comment in mind. :) Okay. I haven't looked at my chosen mantles in much detail yet...

I'm confused. :) I'm playing an Ardent (from Complete Psionics) and I've taken the Elements Mantle and the Energy Mantle. The elemental steward power lists the power points required as "3", but I can choose that power at level 1. Which means I can take it but not use it (because it's higher...

+1 to this. We are in a long-running campaign (see my signature) and no one from the original game is still playing in it except me! And I'm not playing! ;) I do the beer/pizza/soda thing before the first game session. I lay out in advance that either party can walk away within the first few...

Just a note that we are once again trolling the waters around Tampa Bay (Land O Lakes, to be precise) looking for fish. Err, that wasn't a very good analogy. So let's just say that we are short a few players and looking for any and all who would like to check us out. And we'll check you out...

This doesn't apply to the OPs original question, but just to be complete... It can also be cast by someone with enough ranks in Use Magic Device that they can emulate the spellcasting class ability.

If you get VMPlayer, be sure to check out their "Virtual Appliances" portion of the site. There you can find pre-loaded operating systems that you can download virtual images for and use as-is. Obviously, they don't have Windows pre-loaded, but FreeDOS and every kind of Linux and *BSD that you...

That /MBR option is gone in some of the latest Windows releases because there is no FDISK any more! It's easier to just boot a Linux LiveCD and copy your data off using that. When my wife's WinXP blew up (well, not literally) it couldn't access the NTFS partition data. Apparently there's some...

I'm going to take the opposite approach. If he had to ask the question, then he obviously doesn't understand the interactions between various effects. So I would tell him to go ahead and try it! If he doesn't sit down and think about the issues -- like he would have to do in a game -- he'll...

His graphics always remind me of the quote from Jack Nicholson in the Batman movie, "Where does he get those toys?!" ;)

I'm sorry but I can't abide by this ruling. I do agree, Hyp, that your logic is quite solid. But somehow I don't think that logic should apply in this situation. Its magic, after all. :) I prefer to believe that the designers just didn't think through all of the possible combinations of...

Agreed about the Fort save. Yes, spectral hand and familiars are good. The DC can be bumped with the Heighten Spell feat. I never considered this a particularly good use of a feat, but if you're playing core-only (or mostly core) then in combination with a few other spells, Heighten Spell can...

This is the key. If the players are expecting a constant source of income the GM should just lay down the law. First, running a tavern isn't heroic and isn't why they're playing the game. (At least, I hope not.) Second, while the tavern may be a great source of information and such, a PC is...

This is an amusing thread. :) I just looked through a bunch of spells that grant special abilities (blindsight, body of the sun, stoneskin, others) and none of them are Conjuration [Healing]. Most are transmutation, or in the case of stoneskin, abjuration. To me, the wording of the feat is...

I've never owned a Mac before, but I bought a MacBook Pro (17" display, 2GB RAM, 160GB 7200rpm drive) last August as a replacement from my Compaq. I got it mostly because I've noticed that the students in my Linux classes (primarily technical courses: Internals, Sys Admin, Device Driver...

If you're interested in that stuff, then you may already have the book, "GUI Design Bloopers" (or something like that; I know "bloopers" is in the title). It's a funky looking book -- deep purple with weird graphics on the cover IIRC. But it covers the major areas of UI design pretty well and...

Actually, it's just model-view, as there's no UI component to act as controller. :) The DieRoller is the model, providing storage for the data (although it doesn't actually store the data, it generates it on-the-fly) and the DieObserver provides an implementation for the view. The MVC pattern...

+1 LOL!

Perhaps. But what about font size changes? If the design were not statically sized, when I increase the font size so that these tired, old eyes can see the text clearly everything should flow properly. But it doesn't. Because designers use "width: 400px" in their CSS, so when the font goes...

I would like to see "em" used for sizing text boxes instead of "px". For me, that would solve many of the issues I have with fixed-width sites. As you pointed out, there are some things that can't be easily resized and still look good. Flash and some Java applets are examples. But flash is...