How about not hiding file extensions of known file types, not hiding system files, not warning you when you navigate to c:\Windows... This is the first piece of babysitting I have to turn off whenever I log onto a Windows PC for the first time.
My concern is that they keep focusing on the "roles" of the classes they're keeping.
From Enworld: "We simply assumed that a typical group of players would know enough to make sure their party included a front-line fighter-type character, a cleric or other healer-type character, a wizard or other artillery-type character, and so forth."
This is to say that if you don't have a cleric (healer) nobody will be there to cast Cure Light Wounds, if you don't have a rogue (striker) then that "role" won't be fulfilled... What if it's just a bunch of fighters? What if you're in a low/no-magic setting and there are no clerics/wizards? Do the rules break down? It sounds like they're pigeonholing the game into some generic nerdy style of roleplaying with not much imagination.
I'm currently running a Stormbringer game. I like the fact that combat is very dangerous, people die often, and none of them so far can use magic (which constitutes summoning demons/elementals in Stormbringer v4), but the rules are really lacking and unbalanced in a lot of ways. A lot of times we'll consult the book and go "...hmmm, no rule for that either..."
How stupid. Wal-Mart sells movies, right? Can I buy Eddie Murphy's Raw at Wal-Mart? Is it all bleeped out too? I don't think so. Music is just under fire because of bible-thumping hillbillies in, oh, places like Arkansas.
That's not going to happen as long as XPe only runs on x86-based platforms. Any phone running on an OMAP or Qualcomm chipset needs an OS that runs on ARM. XP was designed as a series of components and XPe is one product of that.
Ooh... you beat me to it. There's a scenario for the Call of Cthulhu RPG based on this theory called "Music of the Spheres." It posits that this hypothetical star is actually malevolent comet-god Ghroth.
What's the consensus on games based on movies (Spider-Man, LOTR, etc)? I don't play video games personally, but I've seen people play them and it looks like they often just chop the movie plot into game levels and intersperse them with boring cut-scenes.
"...and their perspective on gaming was forever changed. Here was a huge world, a massive quest, an open-ended odyssey that demanded exploration..."
Let's not hype Zelda too much. By 1986 I was already playing Ultima IV on my Apple IIc. Maybe it was the first console game like this, but big deal.
I've read some of the IH book, and another good D20 book is the Game of Thrones RPG, based on George R. R. Martin's series. It has some similar changes in combat mechanics - damage reduction instead of armor class, for instance, and characters only gain 1 hp per level rather than another whole hit die. That's the way it should be to keep the tension going at higher levels.
I actually worked on the Windows CE port for the Diebold voting machines (I don't work for Diebold however). I think the line between "disclosed" and "undisclosed" is not really that fuzzy. Their entire application is fair game, as is the Board Support Package, the hardware-specific kernel code and the drivers that run on the board. It's true that Microsoft ships a lot of their Windows CE code as libraries, but it is actually available to developers for reference.
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How about not hiding file extensions of known file types, not hiding system files, not warning you when you navigate to c:\Windows... This is the first piece of babysitting I have to turn off whenever I log onto a Windows PC for the first time.
Sorry to see him go, and sorry I never got to meet him. I bet he had a pretty fun life though.
My concern is that they keep focusing on the "roles" of the classes they're keeping. From Enworld: "We simply assumed that a typical group of players would know enough to make sure their party included a front-line fighter-type character, a cleric or other healer-type character, a wizard or other artillery-type character, and so forth." This is to say that if you don't have a cleric (healer) nobody will be there to cast Cure Light Wounds, if you don't have a rogue (striker) then that "role" won't be fulfilled... What if it's just a bunch of fighters? What if you're in a low/no-magic setting and there are no clerics/wizards? Do the rules break down? It sounds like they're pigeonholing the game into some generic nerdy style of roleplaying with not much imagination. I'm currently running a Stormbringer game. I like the fact that combat is very dangerous, people die often, and none of them so far can use magic (which constitutes summoning demons/elementals in Stormbringer v4), but the rules are really lacking and unbalanced in a lot of ways. A lot of times we'll consult the book and go "...hmmm, no rule for that either..."
If you're old enough to have had all three of those platforms, you're also too old to be inflecting your writing with "leetspeak".
How stupid. Wal-Mart sells movies, right? Can I buy Eddie Murphy's Raw at Wal-Mart? Is it all bleeped out too? I don't think so. Music is just under fire because of bible-thumping hillbillies in, oh, places like Arkansas.
Buffalo IS one hour or so away from NYC if you're going at 350 mph. What does your aunt drive?
That's not going to happen as long as XPe only runs on x86-based platforms. Any phone running on an OMAP or Qualcomm chipset needs an OS that runs on ARM. XP was designed as a series of components and XPe is one product of that.
Ooh... you beat me to it. There's a scenario for the Call of Cthulhu RPG based on this theory called "Music of the Spheres." It posits that this hypothetical star is actually malevolent comet-god Ghroth.
Ogg, Flac... These are formats that nerds prefer so that they can complain their Oingo Boingo songs won't play on any commercial player.
What's the consensus on games based on movies (Spider-Man, LOTR, etc)? I don't play video games personally, but I've seen people play them and it looks like they often just chop the movie plot into game levels and intersperse them with boring cut-scenes.
Stop playing video games and go outside for a walk.
"...and their perspective on gaming was forever changed. Here was a huge world, a massive quest, an open-ended odyssey that demanded exploration..." Let's not hype Zelda too much. By 1986 I was already playing Ultima IV on my Apple IIc. Maybe it was the first console game like this, but big deal.
I've read some of the IH book, and another good D20 book is the Game of Thrones RPG, based on George R. R. Martin's series. It has some similar changes in combat mechanics - damage reduction instead of armor class, for instance, and characters only gain 1 hp per level rather than another whole hit die. That's the way it should be to keep the tension going at higher levels.
...except the guy that stole mine.
I actually worked on the Windows CE port for the Diebold voting machines (I don't work for Diebold however). I think the line between "disclosed" and "undisclosed" is not really that fuzzy. Their entire application is fair game, as is the Board Support Package, the hardware-specific kernel code and the drivers that run on the board. It's true that Microsoft ships a lot of their Windows CE code as libraries, but it is actually available to developers for reference.