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    [OT] PDA advice

    I am looking into purchasing a PDA sometime soon. I have never looked into these seriously and would like some advice from people. Basically I want to be able to take word and text files and move them from my PC to be able to read them on the PDA. I would like to spend under $200 (and...
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    LOTR Parodies/Funnies

    When "Fellowship" came out there were all kinds of threads with links to parodies and such of the movie/books. I am looking for that information again. My computer crashed and I lost everything I had, so I lost everything in my computer. Specifically I am looking for the shortened Fellowship...
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    How to figure PC HP's

    I am about to DM for the first time in 3rd edition, and I just had something brought to my attention from one of my players. In the past I have always rolled for HP's when you level...but I have a player who, if he doesn't roll high enough, will get his character killed in order to try again...
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    How DO you play a LG character well?

    Last week we just started a new homebrew fantasy game. We were all given characters that we could customize, and we were given the backgrounds for the characters. The DM wanted a group of characters to have ligit. reasons to do what they do and to have everyone have their own different...
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    [OT] Movies based on book HELP

    I already posted in the non RPG sci-fi and fantasy board, but I need help before Friday evening and I don't know if there's enough traffic there. I apologize in advance if I have acted inappropriately. Onto my request: I need suggestions for movies based on books. I am joining a book club...
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    Movies based on books...HELP

    I need suggestions for movies based on books. I am joining a book club that's a little different. I am going for my first meeting this week <Interview with the vampire> and I got an e-mail that they will be deciding what to do for the next year at the meeting this week. I need suggestions...
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    Playing a Character Smarter than you

    My group will be going back to characters we started (in a Hero:fantasy game). I have bought my character's stats up and now have a character (basically an archer and a scout) with a 23 intelligence (10 is "average" so the scale is similar to D&D). My question becomes how do you roleplay a...
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    [OT] Convention Party advice

    I know this probably isn't the right environment to bring this up in, but I'm getting desperate and nervous. I am throwing a room party at a sci-fi/fantasy convention in a little over a month. It is a Star Wars theme, with Original Triology only (if I can help it). No alcohol will be consumed...
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    Need spell advice

    My group plays a home brew rule set (basically took 3ed & Alternity, and made a classless d20 modern system). Now We're playing in the Dark MAtter setting (think X-files). I am playing a archeologist who is also a spell caster. One of the spells avaliable is an Explosion spell that does 2d4...
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    Help with a character

    I'm not sure where this should go so I"m gonna put it here and see if/where it gets moved to. I have agreed to play in a game (D&D 3e) that is very open as far as character type, and is pretty high-powered (dare I use the term munchkin?). The Dm doesn't care about ECL's, just you can play...
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    OT -- Search 4 LOTR personality tests

    As the subject says, as we were gaming last night we were talking about taking the LOTR character personality test things, and I can't remember what I ended up as, and a few of our gamers havent' seen these. I was wondering of people could remember (or find) the sites that have the different...
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    Mini Question...Transporting without damage

    I was wondering how people get their minatures to the games without damage? I have seen boxes you could buy for $10-30+, but I don't have that kind of cash right now. I was wondering what people use. I spend hours painting each mini and have had several chip in transit to games. :( I know...
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    Weekly game in MPLS

    Looking for players for a weekly Friday night game in the Minneapolis area. CUrrently we're playing a home-brewed Alternity (Dark MAtter)/d20 combination system. {Took the best of Alternity and best of D&D 3e and combined them. IT seems to work pretty well :) } We also play HERO: Fantasy. :p...
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    Playing In Character...Help with an Accent

    We're playing a modern game (our world year 2002 <Alternity Dark Matter to be more specific>) and I'm playing a Scottish character. I want to be able to speak with the accent when I'm speaking for the character, but being an American (Minnesotan to be exact) I only have the vaguest idea what...
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