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Well, the Dolphins are out so I'm pulling for the Cardinals now. But really I just want to see the Panthers lose. I hates them...haaatteess them. And the $^@*! Eagles too.

I read this a few months ago. I really enjoyed it. I haven't picked up the next book in the series yet but I definitely will. The Name of the Wind

Peace by Richard Bausch. If you are a fan of WW2 history or just great writing, buy this book.

I've spent the last two days working with the Overland Map. I'm trying to edit the nEncounterTable for custom encounters. Obviously I'm doing something wrong because when I cross the trigger with a PC, no monster. It really is very irritating trying to learn something new with little documentation. However, the area does look nice.

The correct answer. I don't like a challenge.

I sat at my desk today and stared at the monitor for about four hours. I have absolutely nothing to do. I have no projects, no funding, nothing left but nineteen days and a pink slip. I was utterly depressed all morning. Then at lunch I found a two month old Sports Illustrated in the bathroom. I figured at least the afternoon will go better. Then I read an article about how the Tampa Bay Bucs were poised to not just make the playoffs but possibly even be the 1st Seed. That actually depressed me even more now that we know how that turned out. Tomorrow I'm driving out to Murfesboro for a tower light audit. The tower does not need one but I just can't face that office again. Next time I go in there I'm fill my coffee cup with Knob Creek. I don't know if that will make me feel better but it will certainly dull the ache.

Just wait until your cats see him! He'll show up one day wanting a peanunt and become cat food.

A two minute history of the whole Israel Palestine mess:

From the ground level it looks really nice. As for the sunken wagon wheel, if you cannot adjust it by moving the placable or adjusting the terrain height (which can throw somethng off elsewhere) little things like that can be hidden with a grass placable. Are you using any plug ins for area design?

I haven't seen the Cards play this year yet but they surely came ready today. I thought Atlanta would have an easy time with them. IIRC the Cardinals only won one non division game this year. I would love to see them go all the way at this point just for the conversational value.

Kelverin, I guess you are flying high right about now. Amazing, without LT at 100% I was sure the Colts would have cleaned your clocks. The bolts were peaking at just the right time in the season.

Babas Chess. I've got my rating up to 2050. I don't know if that means I'm that good or the competitions is that bad because I still get my tail whipped on chess.net somewhat regularly.

Ooh... Flying Dog. I love their Porter, and I'm not normally a big porter fan. One of these days, I'm going to have to drive out to Frederick for the tour of their brewery. Road Dog Scottish Style Porter. That is exceptionally good stuff. My favorite of theirs is In Heat Wheat, but I also love Old Scratch. The IPA is their signature brew but to tell the truth I just do not like it. Too bitter and flat. The rest of their brews I can take or leave but I've got to give this new one a try.

This truly sucks Wals, you have my deepest sympathies.

Wait what? A game or a movie? Ah this has been done before: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Modul...ail&id=3396

When Empires Total War comes out I'm going to be out of it for at least a month.

Has anyone ever used this software? Or even heard of it? I thought this might be just the thing for creating World Maps. http://www.profantasy.com/

Check this out!!! I have my own beer now! How cool is this: http://www.flyingdogales.com/beer-gardedog.asp

So I joined a modding group two days ago. We are calling ourselves Southern Adventures ( I kinda like that, like a travel agency or something). Anyway, the plan is a series of short but tight standalone mods that utilize the new features from SoZ; the Overland Map and full party creation. The setting will be the Shining South of Faerun. There is a definite advantage to using full party I've found, there is no need to write hundreds to thousands of words of party banter and dialog. That is a plus. Anyway, my job in this group will be scripting and the overland map. No offense Obsidian guys, but I actually don't care for it. That said I do have a fairly good grip on using it now. Children of Winter is still a solo project and will remain my primary focus since the group will only be working two mornings a week. Hopefully there will be some news on the vault concerning the first mod within a month or so.

I honestly don't know. The best way to find out would probably be to load MotB and SoZ modules in the toolset and check their values. Thanks Josh. I tried that last night. I created a mod with one area and a dinosaur (SoZ content), another with one area and a Fell Troll (MotB content) and a third mod with one area and both. All three have Expansion Flag = 0. Maybe it dosen't do anything?

Save your breath Dagon. Rostere and Gorgon are just displaying the typical condescending arrogance you find in people who are incapable of seeing beyond politically correct group think. The truth is you hit the nail on the head when you pointed out that they sleep every night without fear of rocket attacks on their homes. I am sure if there was a legitimate chance they could die from the cowardly attack of an implacable enemy they would be a little more sympathetic towards people who have an actual need to defend themselves.

Thanks Tig, it may come to that. I was hoping that Josh, Joseph, or one of the others might answer this. It is their board after all.

I have a question which has been asked over on the NWN2 boards several times and never answered. Hopefully I will have better luck here. In the Module Properties window there is an Expansion Flag variable. What should the number be for just MotB? Just SoZ? Both? Neither? An answer would be greatly appreciated.

This is a good point. Hamas rockets killing Israeli civilians barely makes the news. Israel responds and the world laments.