As someone with more than a passing interest in 3e game balance, I must ask exactly what feat/prestige class/whatever you're referring to that results in such a manifester level jump from 7th to 21st --- which one is it?
"*Their background isn't based on mysterious, powerful "ancients" who are gone now"
Incorrect; there have been multitudinous hints that Merrix D'Cannith received/recovered the basic blueprint of a warforged from a giant ruin in Xen'drik; Grasp of the Emerald Claw's climax basically confirms this.
Currently, I'm looking for players for a D&D 3.5 Forgotten Realms game(Undermountain), and a sometime-to-be Mage: The Awakening game. The Undermountain game is on Wednesday nights, while the Mage game is currently set to be run on Mondays --- both are online, over IRC, and I attempt to be beginner-friendly. E-mail me for details if interested.
I'd take the cloak of evasion instead; been awhile since I've been item-poking, but it's trivially easy to generate invisibility/concealment effects, while it's quite difficult to get the very useful evasion ability.
What happens to a person like me, then, who as a function of a learning disorder cannot take usable notes using pen and paper at anything resembling a usable pace? I have just as much right to take notes as you do, but I cannot use pen and paper for oral transcription --- it'll either be illegible or I need about 10 seconds per sentence. A laptop allows me to take notes.
The equivalent of the cutscene in a pen-and-paper game is prewritten read-aloud text. Cinematics come up a lot in pen-and-paper roleplaying games-they're just a bit harder to spot as such(hint: Your GM giving you a stop with one hand or completely ignoring you is generally a good idea.)
As a representative member of the Magic playing community, and a member of multiple message boards dealing with the game, I find that this lawsuit could be seen in many ways by a fan base that is as diverse socially as it is in mental capacity. Though it would be low of me to suggest as much, the members of certain popular gaming message boards have been known to function strictly on reactionary levels. They mere seek what they believe is in their best interest and do not seek to find out what is legally binding, or even logical for that matter.
While I can honestly say that, yes, I did repeatedly view the spoilers for the most recent set of trading cards; I do not feel any qualms about it. Much as many members of this community may not experience pangs of guilt from p2p networks or bit torrent file sharing. The theft and proliferation of intellectual property with this day and age is strikingly active. Record sales are dropping, box office numbers dwindle, and all around the entertainment industry, for lack of a better expression, pooches are getting screwed.
What does that have to do with the matter at hand? I wish I knew. Sometimes I just type things up to entertain myself and quit thinking mid-sentence. It's an issue that neither Ritalin nor manual stimulation has solved. To get back to the point though, the release of undisclosed information to an outside source about a product before the release of it could just breach some nondisclosure agreements that many of the persons with leaked information may have signed.
In which case Wizards of the Coast is justified and right in suing for the information provided. The website in question may be taken back by such a claim and rest indolently on journalistic anonymity of source. Not that it matters to me. A thief has to fill out a police report before selling a stolen radio to a pawn shop, and so should the rumor mongers who provided the website in question with the offending information.
No, I do not work for or favor the interests of Wizards of the Coast, or Hasbro Inc., though I would willing accept money from them to support their products and likely would engage in corporate espionage against rival companies for a nominal fee. This is not an offer of services, but if it were, then any pertinent party could easily find my e-mail within my member profile and establish a line of contact from there. I do not wish to cause any malice within the gaming community, but will for price consider many things, much like the mercenary employees and contacts within the Hasbro organization that sold company information to a third party rumor mill. For those that would argue the accuracy of this article, I hardly think it matters. No one involved in the matter is going to sue Slashdot for inaccuracy or libel, at least until a couple of weeks after their current deposition and subsequent trial has ended. Far be it from a site that markets unsettled hearsay on a daily basis to argue over minced words with a truly respectable website. That kind of complaint would be little more than bolstering of voice and being general internet busybodies. I, for one, don't care if Slashdot had mistakenly implicated Santa Claus in this whole debacle, and, really, what does it matter if Santa is? He never gets me anything that I like anyhow.
Rambling on, and on about one's matter on legal opinions, corporate allegiances, and the interminable jabbering of net-savvy jackanapes is hardly what one would like to be doing with his free time. Perhaps one could read a book, work for minimum wage, lie on one's taxes, insist on extra pickles, or just be a productive member of society. Were any of the members of the Magic community are legal council, or have a vested interest in the matter beyond the game itself, I would heartily encourage them to seek the fullest and strongest involvement in the perpetuation of this case, though I very much doubt there are many that fit that bill.
I am a gamer. I enjoy playing them, buying them, meeting people to play them with, buying
The core idea of D&D has always been the adventuring group venturing into the dungeon to face the dangers, alone. There's possibly only ever been 1 dungeon in D&D that receives enough traffic to make a non-instanced dungeon feel right, and that's not in Eberron(Undermountain). As Turbine seems to be going to great lengths to make it feel authentic, the instanced quests make perfect sense.
"The lyrics are in the song and a trained ear can get them off the stupid song unless the singing is so bad or trampled by "background noise" that lyrics become the only way to figure out exactly what was said."
I'm listening to Emperor's I Am The Black Wizards right now, and I wouldn't have a clue what Ihsahn was saying if it wasn't for the lyrics I've got open in another Firefox tab. And neither the singing or production is terrible-it's just the style of the music that makes this necessary. The same could be said of music in a language you're not familiar with or music in a different genre from what you're used to-some of the effects in some electronica songs make the vocalists rather hard to understand.
But how many readers read the comments, too? Whenever I read a story anywhere with a comments system, I read the comments too, as there's nearly always added value(whether it's clarification or other information from someone closer to the story, or interesting discussion, or corrections from readers).
What's interesting is that the gene must be different in male and female Time Lords...compare one of the Doctor's regenerations to Romana's, where she was actually able to pick a form(!).
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As someone with more than a passing interest in 3e game balance, I must ask exactly what feat/prestige class/whatever you're referring to that results in such a manifester level jump from 7th to 21st --- which one is it?
"*Their background isn't based on mysterious, powerful "ancients" who are gone now"
Incorrect; there have been multitudinous hints that Merrix D'Cannith received/recovered the basic blueprint of a warforged from a giant ruin in Xen'drik; Grasp of the Emerald Claw's climax basically confirms this.
Currently, I'm looking for players for a D&D 3.5 Forgotten Realms game(Undermountain), and a sometime-to-be Mage: The Awakening game. The Undermountain game is on Wednesday nights, while the Mage game is currently set to be run on Mondays --- both are online, over IRC, and I attempt to be beginner-friendly. E-mail me for details if interested.
I'd take the cloak of evasion instead; been awhile since I've been item-poking, but it's trivially easy to generate invisibility/concealment effects, while it's quite difficult to get the very useful evasion ability.
"What's the point of social networking outside your cell? Bubba's all you need..."
get any worse, Wizards of the Coast introduces the successor to such blockbuster swords as Excalibur, Blackrazor, and Stormbringer: Edgy Eft!
Daggerfall did include naked paperdolls natively.
"an amalgamation of gmail/flickr/myspace/livejournal."
"My pet name for it is Web 2.0 Katamari."
No, the artists are the bakery. The record labels/associations are the groceries that stock and sell the bakery's products.
I've got to wonder what that model on the right is wearing...it looks like a maternity dress that's way too short for her...
What happens to a person like me, then, who as a function of a learning disorder cannot take usable notes using pen and paper at anything resembling a usable pace? I have just as much right to take notes as you do, but I cannot use pen and paper for oral transcription --- it'll either be illegible or I need about 10 seconds per sentence. A laptop allows me to take notes.
Wait. Since when did the RIAA have an alliance with bulettes?
The equivalent of the cutscene in a pen-and-paper game is prewritten read-aloud text. Cinematics come up a lot in pen-and-paper roleplaying games-they're just a bit harder to spot as such(hint: Your GM giving you a stop with one hand or completely ignoring you is generally a good idea.)
As a representative member of the Magic playing community, and a member of multiple message boards dealing with the game, I find that this lawsuit could be seen in many ways by a fan base that is as diverse socially as it is in mental capacity. Though it would be low of me to suggest as much, the members of certain popular gaming message boards have been known to function strictly on reactionary levels. They mere seek what they believe is in their best interest and do not seek to find out what is legally binding, or even logical for that matter.
While I can honestly say that, yes, I did repeatedly view the spoilers for the most recent set of trading cards; I do not feel any qualms about it. Much as many members of this community may not experience pangs of guilt from p2p networks or bit torrent file sharing. The theft and proliferation of intellectual property with this day and age is strikingly active. Record sales are dropping, box office numbers dwindle, and all around the entertainment industry, for lack of a better expression, pooches are getting screwed.
What does that have to do with the matter at hand? I wish I knew. Sometimes I just type things up to entertain myself and quit thinking mid-sentence. It's an issue that neither Ritalin nor manual stimulation has solved. To get back to the point though, the release of undisclosed information to an outside source about a product before the release of it could just breach some nondisclosure agreements that many of the persons with leaked information may have signed.
In which case Wizards of the Coast is justified and right in suing for the information provided. The website in question may be taken back by such a claim and rest indolently on journalistic anonymity of source. Not that it matters to me. A thief has to fill out a police report before selling a stolen radio to a pawn shop, and so should the rumor mongers who provided the website in question with the offending information.
No, I do not work for or favor the interests of Wizards of the Coast, or Hasbro Inc., though I would willing accept money from them to support their products and likely would engage in corporate espionage against rival companies for a nominal fee. This is not an offer of services, but if it were, then any pertinent party could easily find my e-mail within my member profile and establish a line of contact from there. I do not wish to cause any malice within the gaming community, but will for price consider many things, much like the mercenary employees and contacts within the Hasbro organization that sold company information to a third party rumor mill.
For those that would argue the accuracy of this article, I hardly think it matters. No one involved in the matter is going to sue Slashdot for inaccuracy or libel, at least until a couple of weeks after their current deposition and subsequent trial has ended. Far be it from a site that markets unsettled hearsay on a daily basis to argue over minced words with a truly respectable website. That kind of complaint would be little more than bolstering of voice and being general internet busybodies. I, for one, don't care if Slashdot had mistakenly implicated Santa Claus in this whole debacle, and, really, what does it matter if Santa is? He never gets me anything that I like anyhow.
Rambling on, and on about one's matter on legal opinions, corporate allegiances, and the interminable jabbering of net-savvy jackanapes is hardly what one would like to be doing with his free time. Perhaps one could read a book, work for minimum wage, lie on one's taxes, insist on extra pickles, or just be a productive member of society. Were any of the members of the Magic community are legal council, or have a vested interest in the matter beyond the game itself, I would heartily encourage them to seek the fullest and strongest involvement in the perpetuation of this case, though I very much doubt there are many that fit that bill.
I am a gamer. I enjoy playing them, buying them, meeting people to play them with, buying
The core idea of D&D has always been the adventuring group venturing into the dungeon to face the dangers, alone. There's possibly only ever been 1 dungeon in D&D that receives enough traffic to make a non-instanced dungeon feel right, and that's not in Eberron(Undermountain). As Turbine seems to be going to great lengths to make it feel authentic, the instanced quests make perfect sense.
She herself might not have used it-she might have dictated her email to a secretary, scribe, or other servant as appropriate.
My Paranoia game thanks you, although the Troubleshooters in it hate you. 8)
this is why the last rule of adventuring is "never forget your 10-foot pole".
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"The lyrics are in the song and a trained ear can get them off the stupid song unless the singing is so bad or trampled by "background noise" that lyrics become the only way to figure out exactly what was said."
I'm listening to Emperor's I Am The Black Wizards right now, and I wouldn't have a clue what Ihsahn was saying if it wasn't for the lyrics I've got open in another Firefox tab. And neither the singing or production is terrible-it's just the style of the music that makes this necessary. The same could be said of music in a language you're not familiar with or music in a different genre from what you're used to-some of the effects in some electronica songs make the vocalists rather hard to understand.
If you don't like that, how about the original Baldur's Gate, which was 5 discs long?
I know the answer to that one, GeminiDomino, and I'm not old enough...;)
Otto Z. Stern's articles appear in the Register's humor section as just that-humor articles. Does no one check these things anymore?
But how many readers read the comments, too? Whenever I read a story anywhere with a comments system, I read the comments too, as there's nearly always added value(whether it's clarification or other information from someone closer to the story, or interesting discussion, or corrections from readers).
What's interesting is that the gene must be different in male and female Time Lords...compare one of the Doctor's regenerations to Romana's, where she was actually able to pick a form(!).
I believe you mean totalitarian's dream, not leftist's dream. Most of us on the left wing are as frightened as you are of such a thing.