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I can see where you are coming from and your perception is certainly justifiable. But remember that Malhavoc is a relatively small company. I believe Mike Mearls was responsible for Iron Heroes and since Mr Mearls has moved on to WotC, the support for Iron Heroes would be harder to do given...

The more options the better in my opinion. As I mentioned above, I like the Mythic Heroes implementation of Action Points. Emulate a feat, improve your AC, improve a skill roll, improve a save, refresh a limited ability, bypass DR, confirm a crit, all make for some interesting results. If you...

I like them! We are using Bad Axe Games' Mythic Heroes for both the archetypes and the action points. I encourage players to use action points liberally. Toward that end, I refresh AP each session. I knew that if I didn't, AP would just be another resource the players would hoard and were...

Funny, I thought he was spoofing the Six Million Dollar Man. ;)

I think the concerns on HTML are inline cross-linking/cross-scripting issues. It would be possible to practically hijack a board by aggressive cross-linking threads. This would be bad for a board like EN World if somebody inlined a porn site/board in the middle of a thread. Yeah, the mods...

Well, in all fairness, the admins can set default display options and you can set defaults for you in your profile. You could have set it up when you first logged in and forgotten by now. ;) Or they could have changed the default for the forum. Or it could be that you didn't notice there was...

Generally speaking you cannot use HTML on the forum. Take a look at the bbcode reference for the bbcode that replicates many of the functions for HTML. Down toward the bottom of the page is a box titled "Posting Rules". Look there to see if the subforum allows HTML, vB code, smilies and...

It has to do with the Display Options. Since a vast majority of the threads are from December, they don't show with the default options. In the general forum, I think the default is the last week. That will show the last 155 (or so) threads. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the Display...

Geographic diversity and personal budgets stand in your way. My last house couldn't even get DSL and it was in a well-populated area of the city. I could get ISDN or I could get cable internet access. I don't watch much television and just to get hooked up for cable internet was $60+/month...

I am *not* familiar with log restores on mysql. I have done them on DB2 and it worked beautifully. Admittedly, it wasn't a lot of logs; it was a controlled test situation; and the hardware was pretty beefy. I will check around to see if I can find somebody with some real world experience...

Now that's hunky dory! Hmm, can you actually run that without bringing down the boards too? Mostly just wondering if it would be feasible to drop some scripts together on the server. Maybe a perl or python script? Heck, even just a shell script. Schedule it in cron to dump the database to a...

That might be a worthwhile approach. Bring the boards down long enough to backup the database to disk; bring the boards back up; then download the backup on disk. Minimum time for the boards to be down and perhaps some pain with the download competing with traffic. But that might be worth...

Ouch! That could be a messy thing to try to integrate. Good luck with it and if I can help somehow, don't hesitate to ask. *shrug* Not sure I can help, but the offer is out there.

Well sure it would. It would also be great to backup transactional logs throughout the day. Say, every 15 minutes to tape. That way, if you lose a drive, you can still restore from tape. It would be even better to ship those logs to your offsite continuity server. That way, if you lose a...

True20 expands on the Psychic's Handbook in that regard. So if True20 isn't what you are looking for, the Psychic's Handbook probably isn't either. It sounds like you are looking for something akin to Sorcery schticks in Feng Shui. You could use a feat to pick up a new type of blast, or new...

Be absolutely sure that the new PCs have relevance immediately. Remember that the established group is like a clique and if you don't make an extra effort to bring in the new players, they will feel like outsiders.

I don't actually own any of those books. None of them had any appeal to me. :\

Underscores are not usable in PDF file names? I did not know that!

I don't quite agree here. I believe Green Ronin was already planning on releasing True20. They might have bumped up the priority based on fan desires, but I don't think they released it simply because fans were 'threatening' to do it themselves. With all the clamoring for a lighter version of...

OK, fair enough. But on a more pointed question, what about something like an OGC monster? Leaving aside the issues of name, because I believe there are legitimate PI uses for a name. What about the stats and brief description? It seems that it would be better to have that sort of...