If you're looking for good, general moral rules, it might be better to look at the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount, rather than the legal sections of Exodus, Leviticus, or Deuteronomy. Parts of those books do not describe the way we should live, but the way an ancient theocracy (or semi-theocratic monarchy) was to have operated.
Just to prove your point for you: I'm someone who uses CC licenses on his written work (all of it in progress and none of it widely published) and I'd like to what know model release is.
That explains a great deal. I still don't understand the need for the change away from the Planescape cosmology, but if there's a history of re-arranging the Great Wheel - or breaking it entirely - between major editions, I'll just give up on new Planescape material. Planewalkers.com is plenty good for reference. Beside that, a sufficiently creative DM can make up his own adventures.
I've gotten a lot of use out of that site. Those are the efforts I'm afraid will go to waste. If I were in their shoes and had just put in all the effort to adapt the setting to 3.0 (or was someone who had used their work and then adapted it to 3.5) only to find it rendered futile by significant changes between 3.x and 4.0, I think I might be demoralized and tempted to throw in the towel. At the same time, however, I understand that a lot of 3.0 devotees feel the same way about 3.5 that I feel about 4.0. I doubt the uptake will be immediate and unanimous, particularly for people with lots of money invested in 3.0 or 3.5 core and splat books, so perhaps the effort will not go entirely to waste.
You're right. That is a major tweaking and one I can't understand, exactly. But, how is evil elemental? Aren't the elemental planes morally neutral?
I can see how it would need some major overhauls, both to tie in Eberron (because they wouldn't not tie in Eberron) and to deal with any other changes that have been made - which factions exist per the latest manual of the planes, which don't, and which are merely sects of other factions. I like Planescape - it's the weirdest and most philosophically deep of the settings, but you're right in saying that it's probably not coming back. But, I could either ask: "Planescape?" or the question so many others have also asked: "Why?"
I know that some of the old settings (Ravenloft, Spelljammers, Dark Sun, Planescape) have been transitioned to other companies or have been quietly kept alive by their fans with knowledge bases and efforts at rules translations between old rulesets and 3.5. Will any of these old, orphaned settings being making a comeback in 4.0? (Planescape. Please, Planescape!) If not, are the 4.0 rules being written to make these on-going translation efforts easier?
I can see it now. Gil Grissom and that Assistant ME David are looking down at my corpse. Gil looks at the box, unopened, and the DVD player, which isn't turned on. Gil says: "Well, this is new." David says: "Preliminary cause of death: exsanguination from these explosive contusions on the face, neck, and chest. No other signs of trauma." That new chick who replaced Sara: "This is so weird. What's your theory, Grissom?" Gil: "I don't have theories, just evidence." and then, in voice over: "Go away, new chick, and don't come back without Sara. I want my Sara back you dumb, overly perky evidence-bunny."
Nick discovers that I didn't order the DVD and don't even own a PAL compatible DVD player. Greg comments on the eclectic but basically porn-free movie collection. "Lots of anime, sci-fi, and fantasy, but no pr0n, unless Ghost in the Shell is pr0n." Greg then tells an unrelated story about being severely embarassed. Nick speculates on the incidence of murder by pr0n and Greg goes off on another Las Vegas underworld history lesson.
Later, Hodges, in another fit of self-importance, concludes: "He died of embarassment." Gil looks at him with that signature "Thank you, Hodges, for telling me what we already knew" look on his face and then, in voice over: "Go away Hodges, and don't come back, ever. I want Lab Greg back, even if it means having to deal with two Gregs"
If by "writes" you mean "ties bedroom scenes together with something resembling plot (in the same way that the heroine of the story wears something resembling clothing)", then yes, it does write itself. But I wouldn't want to be caught dead in the same room with the DVD of it.
My wife and I buy books and maintain a private library, though it is profoundly disorganized. I do it because I grew up in a library (my parent's home has a cache of books in nearly every room). She does it because she really does read some books time and time again. As a whole, we do it, I think, because there is some personal pride to be had in maintaining one's own library and in being part of an extended family which really could stock a library from its personal holdings, because we're all informational packrats, and because we're typically American - what we want (to read), we want in our own time and on our own terms.
As with anything else, according to Sturgeon's Law, most of what is written for TV, Movies, and internet-direct distribution is crap. We mostly notice the 90%, and wonder why writers deserve more money. However, the current deal seems to give the short end of the stick to the 10% of writers who do their jobs well. Note also, that your 10% of quality and my 10% of quality may be entirely different.
The best way to make sure the good stay in the market is for the Studioes to give them their fair share of the people's opinion of them and then let them sink or swim on their own merits. Bad series and bad writers will fall by the way while the good series and good writers will be able to thrive more easily and produce better quality material.
I mostly side with the writers, though the plight of the New York / Hollywood IATSE motion picture techies is worrisome and an unfortunate consequence of the Writers' attempt to get their fair share.
Everything of any significance was invented by Chairman Mao Ze Dong and also by President for Life Kim Il Sung and also by the great working people of [insert socialist dictatorship here]. In a few years, we might be able to add would-be President for Life Hugo "No, Really, I'm just like Simon Bolivar" Chavez to this list of pioneering inventor-liberators.
Actually, they seem to base their conclusion on the fact that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 don't seem to have entered the termination shock at the same distance from the earth.
FTA:
"Voyager 2 entered the termination shock almost 1 billion miles closer within the southern hemisphere of the heliosphere of the solar system than Voyager 1 previously had," said Voyager Project scientist Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology.
Thanks. That makes sense. Most teachers do think of beginning reading as an exercise in phonics and then comprehension. It would be interesting to note, however, when a given child turns over from sounding words out to acquiring them by direct memorization.
What do you mean by "the right way"? Is that the right way as proposed by educators? I'm asking for the sake of information, not because I think you're wrong.
Step One: Get in Taxi Step Two: Do not bite driver Step Three: Tell Final Destination to Driver Step Four: Do not nibble on driver Step Four 1/2: Go to Bookstore Step Five: Exit Vehicle after biting driver (Zombies don't pay) Step Six: Find book in bookstore Step Six 4/5: Take book without paying. See Step Five. Step Seven: Bite other patrons as desired, being careful to avoid anyone with a knife or anyone standing in the Military History section. Such patrons may already know how to kill Zombies and should be avoided. Step Eight: Shamble home, avoiding law enforcement officers and other armed humans.
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If you're looking for good, general moral rules, it might be better to look at the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount, rather than the legal sections of Exodus, Leviticus, or Deuteronomy. Parts of those books do not describe the way we should live, but the way an ancient theocracy (or semi-theocratic monarchy) was to have operated.
But what is Open Source doing in same room with Steve Ballmer?
Just what we all need: another tricked out, driftable, glass-packed, one cylinder rice burner . . .
Coming soon to a theater near you:
2 Fast 4 Furious: Don't be a Menace to Elephants While Drifting through Mumbai and Drinking Your Juice off the Hood.
Just to prove your point for you: I'm someone who uses CC licenses on his written work (all of it in progress and none of it widely published) and I'd like to what know model release is.
That explains a great deal. I still don't understand the need for the change away from the Planescape cosmology, but if there's a history of re-arranging the Great Wheel - or breaking it entirely - between major editions, I'll just give up on new Planescape material. Planewalkers.com is plenty good for reference. Beside that, a sufficiently creative DM can make up his own adventures.
I've gotten a lot of use out of that site. Those are the efforts I'm afraid will go to waste. If I were in their shoes and had just put in all the effort to adapt the setting to 3.0 (or was someone who had used their work and then adapted it to 3.5) only to find it rendered futile by significant changes between 3.x and 4.0, I think I might be demoralized and tempted to throw in the towel. At the same time, however, I understand that a lot of 3.0 devotees feel the same way about 3.5 that I feel about 4.0. I doubt the uptake will be immediate and unanimous, particularly for people with lots of money invested in 3.0 or 3.5 core and splat books, so perhaps the effort will not go entirely to waste.
So they're taking all the good, interesting stuff out? Maybe it really /is/ World of Dungeons of Warcraft.
> I don't see Sigil returning for 4e as anything except a token city for adventurers to visit, very similar to how it was treated in 3/3.5 > edition.
Well, crap. Sigil was the single coolest place in the D&D multiverse.
Sadly, I can see your point.
You're right. That is a major tweaking and one I can't understand, exactly. But, how is evil elemental? Aren't the elemental planes morally neutral?
I can see how it would need some major overhauls, both to tie in Eberron (because they wouldn't not tie in Eberron) and to deal with any other changes that have been made - which factions exist per the latest manual of the planes, which don't, and which are merely sects of other factions. I like Planescape - it's the weirdest and most philosophically deep of the settings, but you're right in saying that it's probably not coming back. But, I could either ask: "Planescape?" or the question so many others have also asked: "Why?"
I know that some of the old settings (Ravenloft, Spelljammers, Dark Sun, Planescape) have been transitioned to other companies or have been quietly kept alive by their fans with knowledge bases and efforts at rules translations between old rulesets and 3.5. Will any of these old, orphaned settings being making a comeback in 4.0? (Planescape. Please, Planescape!) If not, are the 4.0 rules being written to make these on-going translation efforts easier?
Somehow, I'm reminded of Prince Charming trying to get information out of Pinnochio in Shrek 3.
I probably would be. However, this premise doesn't seem to lend itself to that kind of hentai.
I can see it now. Gil Grissom and that Assistant ME David are looking down at my corpse. Gil looks at the box, unopened, and the DVD player, which isn't turned on. Gil says: "Well, this is new." David says: "Preliminary cause of death: exsanguination from these explosive contusions on the face, neck, and chest. No other signs of trauma." That new chick who replaced Sara: "This is so weird. What's your theory, Grissom?" Gil: "I don't have theories, just evidence." and then, in voice over: "Go away, new chick, and don't come back without Sara. I want my Sara back you dumb, overly perky evidence-bunny."
Nick discovers that I didn't order the DVD and don't even own a PAL compatible DVD player. Greg comments on the eclectic but basically porn-free movie collection. "Lots of anime, sci-fi, and fantasy, but no pr0n, unless Ghost in the Shell is pr0n." Greg then tells an unrelated story about being severely embarassed. Nick speculates on the incidence of murder by pr0n and Greg goes off on another Las Vegas underworld history lesson.
Later, Hodges, in another fit of self-importance, concludes: "He died of embarassment." Gil looks at him with that signature "Thank you, Hodges, for telling me what we already knew" look on his face and then, in voice over: "Go away Hodges, and don't come back, ever. I want Lab Greg back, even if it means having to deal with two Gregs"
If by "writes" you mean "ties bedroom scenes together with something resembling plot (in the same way that the heroine of the story wears something resembling clothing)", then yes, it does write itself. But I wouldn't want to be caught dead in the same room with the DVD of it.
My wife and I buy books and maintain a private library, though it is profoundly disorganized. I do it because I grew up in a library (my parent's home has a cache of books in nearly every room). She does it because she really does read some books time and time again. As a whole, we do it, I think, because there is some personal pride to be had in maintaining one's own library and in being part of an extended family which really could stock a library from its personal holdings, because we're all informational packrats, and because we're typically American - what we want (to read), we want in our own time and on our own terms.
As with anything else, according to Sturgeon's Law, most of what is written for TV, Movies, and internet-direct distribution is crap. We mostly notice the 90%, and wonder why writers deserve more money. However, the current deal seems to give the short end of the stick to the 10% of writers who do their jobs well. Note also, that your 10% of quality and my 10% of quality may be entirely different.
The best way to make sure the good stay in the market is for the Studioes to give them their fair share of the people's opinion of them and then let them sink or swim on their own merits. Bad series and bad writers will fall by the way while the good series and good writers will be able to thrive more easily and produce better quality material.
I mostly side with the writers, though the plight of the New York / Hollywood IATSE motion picture techies is worrisome and an unfortunate consequence of the Writers' attempt to get their fair share.
No, no, no. You have it all wrong.
Everything of any significance was invented by Chairman Mao Ze Dong and also by President for Life Kim Il Sung and also by the great working people of [insert socialist dictatorship here]. In a few years, we might be able to add would-be President for Life Hugo "No, Really, I'm just like Simon Bolivar" Chavez to this list of pioneering inventor-liberators.
A middle school Boys' locker room?
Actually, they seem to base their conclusion on the fact that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 don't seem to have entered the termination shock at the same distance from the earth.
FTA:
"Voyager 2 entered the termination shock almost 1 billion miles closer within the southern hemisphere of the heliosphere of the solar system than Voyager 1 previously had," said Voyager Project scientist Edward Stone of the California Institute of Technology.
The Enemy's Gate is Down.
Thanks. That makes sense. Most teachers do think of beginning reading as an exercise in phonics and then comprehension. It would be interesting to note, however, when a given child turns over from sounding words out to acquiring them by direct memorization.
What do you mean by "the right way"? Is that the right way as proposed by educators? I'm asking for the sake of information, not because I think you're wrong.
Step One: Get in Taxi
Step Two: Do not bite driver
Step Three: Tell Final Destination to Driver
Step Four: Do not nibble on driver
Step Four 1/2: Go to Bookstore
Step Five: Exit Vehicle after biting driver (Zombies don't pay)
Step Six: Find book in bookstore
Step Six 4/5: Take book without paying. See Step Five.
Step Seven: Bite other patrons as desired, being careful to avoid anyone with a knife or anyone standing in the Military History section. Such patrons may already know how to kill Zombies and should be avoided.
Step Eight: Shamble home, avoiding law enforcement officers and other armed humans.
Actually, they did have zombie lawyers. The Beast killed everyone at Wolfram & Hart and they all came back as zombies.
If first dying and then waiting 70 years won't do it, will silver stakes or holy water?
Or should we just start making Xerox copies of the zombie survival guide?