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Okay, this actually makes things pretty easy. The angular size of an object ('a') as a function of distance to the object ('d') and the radius of the object ('r') is expressed by: a = 2 tan^-1 (r/d) However, since you have said that you want the angular sizes (i.e., how they appear to the...

Paid $2.67 per gallon (regular unleaded) yesterday evening in So-Cal; saw prices as high as $2.83 within 2 miles of that station. --The Sigil

Just want a couple of points of clarification: 1.) Are you trying to set up a cosmological model of the actual solar system (i.e., with "Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, X" as your planets? 2.) Per your point #1 - is "Jupiter" not REALLY a gas giant but actually...

It wasn't meant as a "sour grapes" post - I really was trying to figure out what the different "feel" was. And I felt that I was right - remember level limits? Class restrictions? "Sorry, your elf can't be a cleric, only a fighter or magic-user or thief." "Sorry, you don't have that...

Countertheory... "Old school" feel is the assumption, "if it isn't explicitly mentioned as something your character can try, you can't try it." "New school" feel is the assumption "if it isn't explicitly mentioned as something your character CAN'T try, you can try it." Basically, old school...

As far as common courtesy, I think a part of it is people being afraid to voice their opinions about other folks' behavior. I was in church about a month ago and my four-year-old son was crawling all over the pews (I was busy with our two-year-old daughter, and my wife was busy with our...

Hey, I'm living my dream. Back when I was in high school, I used to wish I could just wake up, roll over, and see my wife, kiss my kids goodbye, and go to work. All of the "big, important decisions" in my life (who am I going to marry? what will I major in? what will my career be?) would be...

LINK: http://basketball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/nba/6046 LEAGUE ID: 6046 LEAGUE NAME: ENWorld LEAGUE PASSWORD: enworld0506 I'm gonna do this before it slips my mind... since nobody else has yet started a thread, I'll do it, and play "commissioner" again this year. Yahoo Fantasy Basketball...

Dang, Rel... that was the funniest thing I've seen all day. Thanks! --The Sigil

My dwarf usually refers to orcs as "low-grade whetstones" for his axe.

Rather than reposting my thoughts on the whole spirit/body thing with outsiders, I'll link you to one of my old posts: http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=808188#post808188

This is what you want. http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=4037& If the characters want to fight a whole unit "by themselves" use mobs and swarms. Otherwise use the above. --The Sigil

Heh. Ditto. --The Sigil

Congratulations to all the winners. Would have liked to be there myself to congratulate them all, but this will have to do. CONGRATULATIONS!!! --The Sigil

As far as Strength goes, don't forget: 1 - Halflings are the size of (roughly) a 5-year old human child... and they only get a -2. 2 - Square-cube law. Kids are on the "good side" of it. I am six feet tall and about 270 lbs. My son (who is four years old) is about half my height...

I'll try to give my opinions on stuff by pulling a Gandalf - "I am Saruman - or rather, Saruman as he should have been." I'll list the WotC Product that I feel has a much better third-party replacement(s) and then follow it with the third-party products that are what WotC's product should have...

Shameless link: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=134&src=EnWorld - 144 pages of Bardy Goodness. And if money's an issue, look at the free demo (a complete work in and of itself, this is actually the "old, unrevised" version of the above)...

LINK: http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/d20Guidev5.rtf The section you're looking for (on page 10 in my window): Is that what you were looking for? --The Sigil

And Ennie-nominated, at that! :) Myself, I prefer the free-form structure for advanced players, but when I'm DMing with newer players (as seems to often be the case; I'm a 20+ year vet DM who has almost never had a group with more than half non-newbs), I prefer Class & Level. Class & Level is...

Which is one of the reasons I'm refraining from making mention of - or even hinting at where to find - the channel I'm thinking of in my posts. You know, "the knowledge of sin tempteth to commission" and all that. ;) --The Sigil