I'll agree with you Slepnir on ToEE. The game's story could use a lot of work. I've played the original ToEE PnP module and it is one of the best ever written. The game really needs a real DM to be great. However the engine of the game is really good. Basicly you can do anything you can do in a reall PnP game, including 5 foot step and charge attack. Now if someone combines that with NWN....
-Kimpak
Size was taken into account in all editions of DnD. A creature is easier to hit (touch attack) if its bigger, but also figured into armor class is the creatures physical armor (natural or worn). Big huge things tend to have a thick hide, so true, you can hit 'em with the daggar quite easilly but it would bounce harmlessly off the big 'uns armor unless you rolled a good solid hit.
DnD 2nd ed did have a ton of books to it, but they weren't required. The idea behind them was they were there if you want/need them. If your a DM and wanted some better ideas about critical hits or fighting in general buy the Players Option: Combat and Tactics, or not. Really the only book you ever needed was a player's Handbook. The Dungeon Master's guide wasn't even necesisary if you had an ounce of immagination. Anyway, secondly TSR needed a way to make money and you can only make money by producing a product. If all a person needed was to buy a single book to play a game, TSR wouldn't have made much money.
You can make a device to pull electricity through the air from an existing powerline. I belive its called an inductor or something like that. Unfortunately, power companys can detect this and hit you with a nasty lawsuit if they can nail it to you.
People buy display sword for the same reasons others buy a painting, or a sculpture. Swords are very artfull, if you don't buy crappy cheap over mass produced ones.
Anybody play Rifts lately? Throw a nice anti-shock system on there and develop a Rail gun arm and use these babys just like a Glitter Boy armor. Ok maybe thats a few years away yet... (hears the sound of D20's rolling in the background)
This Dell can't compete with the Alienware laptops, I'm a gamer and if you look at both laptops the Alienware is way cooler. And, if you were a gamer that hangs out with other gamers they would laugh at you for owning a Dell. You wouldn't get laughed at for an Alienware.
Just my to bits
-Kimpak
I feel sorry for anyone who bought this system. I was recently at a Game Stop that is "shifting" its hardware, and was talking with some employees there. They said they diddn't sell one unit, they diddn't even sell any games. As a game console it would be ok, but you'd look pretty funny holding that thing up to your ear to talk to anyone on it. I think this thing is going the way of Game.com. Nokia could make this system better by makeing it smaller, perhaps with a flip up screen, makeing the games easier to swap, and perhaps modem functionality so you can play multiplayer (only good if you have free nights and weekends though).
-Kimpak
The end of film had definately not come, nor will it for a very long time. I know several photographers who take pictures and develop them in their own dark rooms, as a hobby and art form. Artistic photographers will always like developing their own pics, and tweaking the chem, mix to produce that unique look. You could do this with a program/digicam, and there is also a place for that in the art world, but I think there are enough film buffs to keep the film industry alive for just a bit longer.
-Kimpak
Yeah, try getting an IT job in Iowa. I graduated in I.T. This year and ended up in a mortgage company taking calls. I think it would have been more worthwile to have spent my college years playing pinball. It certinally would have been cheaper.
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I'll agree with you Slepnir on ToEE. The game's story could use a lot of work. I've played the original ToEE PnP module and it is one of the best ever written. The game really needs a real DM to be great. However the engine of the game is really good. Basicly you can do anything you can do in a reall PnP game, including 5 foot step and charge attack. Now if someone combines that with NWN.... -Kimpak
Size was taken into account in all editions of DnD. A creature is easier to hit (touch attack) if its bigger, but also figured into armor class is the creatures physical armor (natural or worn). Big huge things tend to have a thick hide, so true, you can hit 'em with the daggar quite easilly but it would bounce harmlessly off the big 'uns armor unless you rolled a good solid hit.
DnD 2nd ed did have a ton of books to it, but they weren't required. The idea behind them was they were there if you want/need them. If your a DM and wanted some better ideas about critical hits or fighting in general buy the Players Option: Combat and Tactics, or not. Really the only book you ever needed was a player's Handbook. The Dungeon Master's guide wasn't even necesisary if you had an ounce of immagination. Anyway, secondly TSR needed a way to make money and you can only make money by producing a product. If all a person needed was to buy a single book to play a game, TSR wouldn't have made much money.
You can make a device to pull electricity through the air from an existing powerline. I belive its called an inductor or something like that. Unfortunately, power companys can detect this and hit you with a nasty lawsuit if they can nail it to you.
Sorry, but the princess is in another castle.... *doh!*
People buy display sword for the same reasons others buy a painting, or a sculpture. Swords are very artfull, if you don't buy crappy cheap over mass produced ones.
Anybody play Rifts lately? Throw a nice anti-shock system on there and develop a Rail gun arm and use these babys just like a Glitter Boy armor. Ok maybe thats a few years away yet... (hears the sound of D20's rolling in the background)
This Dell can't compete with the Alienware laptops, I'm a gamer and if you look at both laptops the Alienware is way cooler. And, if you were a gamer that hangs out with other gamers they would laugh at you for owning a Dell. You wouldn't get laughed at for an Alienware. Just my to bits -Kimpak
I feel sorry for anyone who bought this system. I was recently at a Game Stop that is "shifting" its hardware, and was talking with some employees there. They said they diddn't sell one unit, they diddn't even sell any games. As a game console it would be ok, but you'd look pretty funny holding that thing up to your ear to talk to anyone on it. I think this thing is going the way of Game.com. Nokia could make this system better by makeing it smaller, perhaps with a flip up screen, makeing the games easier to swap, and perhaps modem functionality so you can play multiplayer (only good if you have free nights and weekends though). -Kimpak
The end of film had definately not come, nor will it for a very long time. I know several photographers who take pictures and develop them in their own dark rooms, as a hobby and art form. Artistic photographers will always like developing their own pics, and tweaking the chem, mix to produce that unique look. You could do this with a program/digicam, and there is also a place for that in the art world, but I think there are enough film buffs to keep the film industry alive for just a bit longer. -Kimpak
Yeah, try getting an IT job in Iowa. I graduated in I.T. This year and ended up in a mortgage company taking calls. I think it would have been more worthwile to have spent my college years playing pinball. It certinally would have been cheaper.