You could always restate dully what they say. "This call is being recorded" If it sounds to them like you're confirming their statement instead of making one of your own, that's their fault. You notified them...
Pretty true, except for the six squad member limit and the reduced map size. I liked the alien hunt where nothing happened for multiple rounds then suddenly your squaddies start dying because you got sloppy.
Obviously crossbows wouldn't be affected by strength.
But they should be ranked by strength. If a bow gets damage bonuses for being made for a high strength user, but that same high strength user can't pull a crossbow without using a crank or lever, why does the crossbow only do 1d4 damage? Crossbows in AD&D should be considered strength 19 specialty bows. Keep the 1d4, but add the strength bonus. The rate of fire should compensate for everyone and his mother getting the damage bonus (and explain why such a weak weapon costs so much).
Sorry, but nothing there is a problem in any way what so ever.
Every single one of those can be dealt with with better fight balance, and role playing.
Not #3; The only way to prevent #3 is to nix multiple attacks for specializing in hurled weapons or limit strength bonuses to the minimum strength needed to wield the weapon in question. Or by ordering your players what they can and can't specialize in.
oh, and forget 50 daggers; use 50 darts (or if in Kara-Tur, shuriken): http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2611860&cid=38641738 A high level dart specialist with high (human) strength can do more damage than a high level backstabbing thief with a girdle of giant strength, that damage can be spread between five targets, at a distance, and surprise and positioning aren't a factor.
FYI, if anyone's looking for the new location of the old (A)D&D game world forums (Mystara/Planescape/DarkSun/SpellJammer/etc): http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php
Oh, I agree. Worst case scenario, it should be treated as a non-proficient weapon maybe with extra penalties for being unbalanced, but in OD&D, there is no such thing (fighters are proficient in all weapons). If your DM is a rules-lawyer, you're SOL.
If I want to do X, and it isn't coded into the game, then I can't even attempt to do X. Not so in PnP games.
That depends on how flexible your DM is. "No, you can't throw your sword. It's not listed as a hurled missile weapon. If you forgot to buy a dagger or throwing axe, that's your fault."
only 49.99
yup the borked the whole game allowing a lot a crap and it jsut keeps dumming it down more and more , until your dog also can buy a copy and play......
Quite the reverse. OD&D was nice because the game was easy to learn and allowed for quick resolution of most things (except wars; I ended up writing my first big program to handle War Machine rules and edited War Machine rules for use with 2nd Ed AD&D).
D&D 3, 3.5, 4, have been increasingly rules heavy, focusing on crunch with pictures instead of letting DMs rule minor stuff on the fly.
Convicted felons aren't allowed to vote, nor are non-citizens or dead or fake people. Unfortunately, the registration process doesn't exclude any of them.
You've heard about that herd of cattle that died of poisoning from eating drought-strained GM grass, right? The grass was fine until the drought hit. Also GM induced corn allergies? It's a lot more than "fear of radio waves". Something involved with food that does match that fear: irradiated food. People think it's radioactive instead of being benign (and barteria free).
Congress seems to be largely failing to serve it's purpose these days. They mainly seem to think their job is to pass new laws (it's not), and are willing to let other things like the federal budget be used as bargaining chips in the game of who writes the most laws. When in reality, the only duty congress actually has is to determine the federal budget, and passing new laws is an optional power the body can choose to exercise (not one they actually have to use).
The Executive and Judicial branches are still mostly doing what they're supposed to. Though the general increase in power of the executive branch is a bit worrying. Time was you had to get congress to declare war for you rather than being allowed to just invade like the recent presidents have. All and all I think the real problem is that Congress is no longer being held accountable by the people. [...]
Congress is a mob, and mobs are hard to hold accountable.
I assume RMS and his supporters missed the part where this is a democracy, and breaking laws that were passed in a democracy is generally anti-society. Exceptions of course when the law seems unconscionable, but in this case we're discussing whether an author has control over their works-- clearly not on the level of civil rights or suffrage.
...yet. Computing in the closed source world is inching ever closer to the locked-down e-books of RMS's story (once seemingly paranoid and delusional, now quite prophetic). Already so many of the things I do are electronic, including communications, paying bills, and taxes. It's nice to know that I have free (as in speech) options for those things right now, since dropping back to snail mail would be cumbersome.
GPL is the idea of share and share alike encoded in copyright law. If share and share alike was encoded into society, we would not need any law. Its like laws that protect peoples freedom. If everyone had freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom to expression, freedom to live in peace, we would not need laws that protect human freedom.
Not exactly. People already have those freedoms, just like sharing or TiVo-ization is a natural freedom. The GPL was written to enforce sharing of source code because RMS believes the freedom of openness to be more important to the freedom of secrecy. Speech, thought, expression, etc. are not granted by the bill of rights but are instead recognized and protected because it is within the power of men to restrict those rights, thus the protection is needed.
"Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly?" presupposes that Wikipedia is ugly, and forces that notion on listener/reader. You can get away with posing a question in an article title, but not loading a question.
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But I thought male Englishmen were so womanly that they have periods too.
Those rules were enforced by armed bartenders and guards. Do you want to give a weapon to the projector guy or the flashlight kid?
Then the Colorado theater should have such a sign. That would have prevented crazy man from going in with a gun.
Wait, isn't that what the Special Olympics are for? I know a lot of those athletes are enhanced with an extra chromosome, and others are bionic.
The franchise doesn't care what happens to store employees. The franchise sells a brand to the individual stores.
You could always restate dully what they say. "This call is being recorded" If it sounds to them like you're confirming their statement instead of making one of your own, that's their fault. You notified them...
how often do you really use, say, "Eurasian"?
Maine biggerts use it a lot when they see the mail ohdah brides they wah shipped.
Pretty true, except for the six squad member limit and the reduced map size. I liked the alien hunt where nothing happened for multiple rounds then suddenly your squaddies start dying because you got sloppy.
Obviously crossbows wouldn't be affected by strength.
But they should be ranked by strength. If a bow gets damage bonuses for being made for a high strength user, but that same high strength user can't pull a crossbow without using a crank or lever, why does the crossbow only do 1d4 damage? Crossbows in AD&D should be considered strength 19 specialty bows. Keep the 1d4, but add the strength bonus. The rate of fire should compensate for everyone and his mother getting the damage bonus (and explain why such a weak weapon costs so much).
The OD&D rule of "if you retreat, the enemy gets to attack you", while not the full "attacks of opportunity", prevents the disengaging problem.
Sorry, but nothing there is a problem in any way what so ever.
Every single one of those can be dealt with with better fight balance, and role playing.
Not #3; The only way to prevent #3 is to nix multiple attacks for specializing in hurled weapons or limit strength bonuses to the minimum strength needed to wield the weapon in question. Or by ordering your players what they can and can't specialize in.
oh, and forget 50 daggers; use 50 darts (or if in Kara-Tur, shuriken): http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2611860&cid=38641738 A high level dart specialist with high (human) strength can do more damage than a high level backstabbing thief with a girdle of giant strength, that damage can be spread between five targets, at a distance, and surprise and positioning aren't a factor.
FYI, if anyone's looking for the new location of the old (A)D&D game world forums (Mystara/Planescape/DarkSun/SpellJammer/etc): http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php
Oh, I agree. Worst case scenario, it should be treated as a non-proficient weapon maybe with extra penalties for being unbalanced, but in OD&D, there is no such thing (fighters are proficient in all weapons). If your DM is a rules-lawyer, you're SOL.
If I want to do X, and it isn't coded into the game, then I can't even attempt to do X. Not so in PnP games.
That depends on how flexible your DM is. "No, you can't throw your sword. It's not listed as a hurled missile weapon. If you forgot to buy a dagger or throwing axe, that's your fault."
only 49.99 yup the borked the whole game allowing a lot a crap and it jsut keeps dumming it down more and more , until your dog also can buy a copy and play......
Quite the reverse. OD&D was nice because the game was easy to learn and allowed for quick resolution of most things (except wars; I ended up writing my first big program to handle War Machine rules and edited War Machine rules for use with 2nd Ed AD&D).
D&D 3, 3.5, 4, have been increasingly rules heavy, focusing on crunch with pictures instead of letting DMs rule minor stuff on the fly.
Convicted felons aren't allowed to vote, nor are non-citizens or dead or fake people. Unfortunately, the registration process doesn't exclude any of them.
You've heard about that herd of cattle that died of poisoning from eating drought-strained GM grass, right? The grass was fine until the drought hit. Also GM induced corn allergies? It's a lot more than "fear of radio waves". Something involved with food that does match that fear: irradiated food. People think it's radioactive instead of being benign (and barteria free).
?IEye? !Ay ay ay!
Congress seems to be largely failing to serve it's purpose these days. They mainly seem to think their job is to pass new laws (it's not), and are willing to let other things like the federal budget be used as bargaining chips in the game of who writes the most laws. When in reality, the only duty congress actually has is to determine the federal budget, and passing new laws is an optional power the body can choose to exercise (not one they actually have to use).
The Executive and Judicial branches are still mostly doing what they're supposed to. Though the general increase in power of the executive branch is a bit worrying. Time was you had to get congress to declare war for you rather than being allowed to just invade like the recent presidents have. All and all I think the real problem is that Congress is no longer being held accountable by the people. [...]
Congress is a mob, and mobs are hard to hold accountable.
But what if the banks combine to form Voltron?
Lion Voltron or Vehicle Voltron? I would also suggest Captain Planet, but I doubt there's one with heart.
I assume RMS and his supporters missed the part where this is a democracy, and breaking laws that were passed in a democracy is generally anti-society. Exceptions of course when the law seems unconscionable, but in this case we're discussing whether an author has control over their works-- clearly not on the level of civil rights or suffrage.
...yet. Computing in the closed source world is inching ever closer to the locked-down e-books of RMS's story (once seemingly paranoid and delusional, now quite prophetic). Already so many of the things I do are electronic, including communications, paying bills, and taxes. It's nice to know that I have free (as in speech) options for those things right now, since dropping back to snail mail would be cumbersome.
GPL is the idea of share and share alike encoded in copyright law. If share and share alike was encoded into society, we would not need any law. Its like laws that protect peoples freedom. If everyone had freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom to expression, freedom to live in peace, we would not need laws that protect human freedom.
Not exactly. People already have those freedoms, just like sharing or TiVo-ization is a natural freedom. The GPL was written to enforce sharing of source code because RMS believes the freedom of openness to be more important to the freedom of secrecy. Speech, thought, expression, etc. are not granted by the bill of rights but are instead recognized and protected because it is within the power of men to restrict those rights, thus the protection is needed.
"Why Is Wikipedia So Ugly?" presupposes that Wikipedia is ugly, and forces that notion on listener/reader. You can get away with posing a question in an article title, but not loading a question.
Well a corporations job is to make money. Its moral and ethical guidelines is to increase shareholder wealth
Full Stop. You can increase shareholder wealth many ways. Dividends work well even when stock prices are steady or even dip a little. Carry on...
on a quarterly basis by constantly raising the share price.
a wheelbarrow of smurfberries!