Twin Peeks: Races of Faerun and Arms & Equipment Guide

[thundershot]

It takes a real man to say something when he *KNOWS* he'll be castrated for it.

No, wait... I think it means he DOESN'T want to be a real man.... Hm....



Chris

 

[JPL]

Last month, Savage Species seemed to hit the stores in my area about the Friday after I got it.

Hmm. So maybe next week. That'll do nicely. Thanks.

 

[EricNoah]

3.5 fixes lycanthropes?!?!

I love you WotC!

I once had a PC thief who got infected by a wererat... Once.
What a nightmare... Make you not want to use lyncanthropes
against a party.

I hope getting infected isn't exactly like multiclassing. You shouldn't be able to CHOOSE which levels to get when you level up. You should be forced to pick lycanthrope levels untill the CURSE is removed.

As far as I could tell it was all one big lump gain at one time.

 

[Gez]

I know I'm gonna get castrated for this, but I have one word for you:

Kazaa.

Feh. What I find annoying with programs like that, it's that they get the books loooonnnnnng before any of the LGS around... Here, WotC and SSS stuff may be taken from the stores about 2-3 months after every US gamer has already posted a review of it on the net; and other d20 publisher products may be obtained about 3-4 months after having ordered them.

While making a research on "d20" on kazaa gives immediately an obscenely huge list of answer...

However, frankly, even if I throwed my honesty through the window, I much prefer to own printed paper books. Among the reasons:

• I hate the PDF format;
• Real books are much more readable;
• Pirated books are scanned by a not-so-trained chimp, the pages are always bent in a way or another, frequently too dark, usually half the innermost column is mangled, and sometimes whole pages are missed;
• Frequently whole chapters;
• I hate the acrobat program, who take 99% of the CPU and 85% of memory even when reading a normal, text-based PDF;
• Reading on a screen is really not handy;
• Especially when the characters are all blurry because it has been scanned very badly;
• I curse to the grey waste the adobe programmers who conceived such a clunky beast as acrobat, which is poorly named because it looks more like a drunken dwarf in heavy armor than like a nimble monk;
• Turning a virtual page on a PDF makes the hard disk screech in horror as 75 megabytes are churned to and fro the swap;
• Have I said that I hate PDFs, Acrobat, and Adobe ? If not, I'll say it now, what a horrid piece of software;
• I can't read on my computer in my bed;
• My eyes turn red and drown in tears when I try to read these somewhat-dark grey on somewhat-light grey blurry characters for too long;
• My nerves suffer an even worse fate when I wait 3m45 seconds before the blasted piece of shtware agree to display back the top of the page so that I could proceed to read the second column; and twice as much time when I need to go on the following page;
• It's really not practical;
• I hate PDFs.

Edit: if the damn filter wants gremlins rather than angry swearwords, at least he could put angry gremlins !

 

[Thain]

Would it be too much trouble to ask people to differ between there abbr. for the Arms and Equipment Guide (A&EG) and Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG).

Just thought I'd offer some nonconstructive babblign to the mix.

But, seriously, thanks for the peek Eric. Both books have moved from my "won't touch with a polearm" to "must buy" list. This will make RoF my first FR book since they released the setting in A Certain Other Edition©.

 

[EricNoah]

Folks, pro or con -- we are not having having the piracy discussion in this thread.

 

[Thain]

Nothing to do with piracy, not really, but I feel the urge to defend the PDF format... Gez, with the exception fo qualtiy of the scan almost all your problems witht he format would be rectivified by not using a Windos OS to veiw them.

Now, PC/Mac wars are more annoying and heated than Edition Wars or piracy threads, soI'll shut up before Eric smacks me. But I think RPGnow proves there is some use for PDFs in gaming.

 

[jester47]

and the violating the agreement with Necromancer Games (axebeak, hippocampus and giant dragonfly).

whatever.

Aaron.

 

[jester47]

this will prolly be my first and ONLY FR book i'll ever buy...

Once you pop you can't stop. Bet you can't eat just one. Gotta catchem all! Coke is it!

Aaron.

 

[jester47]

There's a weapon called an Xyz? Cripes, I am not even sure how to pronounce that. This another Thri Kreen weapon?

It is now.

Aaron.