EnderAndrew

See the background on that picture? It's basically one of those Sears Photomart backdrops. Look, I so wish I was hardcore, but I got my picture taken at Sears!

The main companions in the game seem to automatically join you. There only really seemed to be 3 or 4 optional characters in the game.

Bingo.

I think the map needs work. You have a three empire cluster-fudge up north, where none can expand easily without direct conflict, where as Burgundy has the easiest route to easy expansion.

I'm trying to wrap up my long running Gehenna campaign by September when my first baby is born, and then I'm taking a break from gaming. Then maybe I'll switch to the new system.

But people can also use diplomacy saying "if you take out the dirty Russians in Rumania, then build a fleet at X".

I really disagree with that statement. I really hate D&D in most of it's incarnations, however 3E makes sense. Attribute modifers are the same. You role D20 for most everything, and there are common sense rules of thumb that allow the DM to quick assign modifiers and difficulties to rolls. The system is only cumbersome in the very specific in the class feats, spells, etc. That is even more cumbersome in 2E with countless spells, kits and the like. AoO slow down combat, but the rules can be explained and do make sense. I don't like them, but the rules can be made to work. It does make you consider movement a bit more. I honestly believe 3E was written with minis/figs in mind. I won't play 3E without figs. I'll give you that. Hitting level 20 in a 2E campaign was a feat. Now people start Epic campaigns right off the bat with level 30 characters. I'll take a pass. But that is an optional style of play, not a fault of the base rules. I'm not upset that material is available. There are Elder level powers and characters for powergamers with Vampire, yet overall I think the WoD/Storyteller system isn't ruined simply because the option to have powerful characters is there. I hated how with 2E, the power of your character was directly proportional to the ammount of money you spent on supplements getting kits and the like. A base character couldn't compete with a character given several kits. 2E made no effort whatsoever on balance. Dual-class and multi-classing was an absolute joke. While I can't stand D&D, I think 3E has been the best incarnation of the rules. I do agree that 2E had much better settings. I also maintain that WoD/Storyteller is one of the better all-around systems I've ever run, and I've run plenty of rules systems. The new WoD system is even better than ever.

Seriously, Buddhism suggests that we all come from the same source, and are really pieces of the same entity. We incarnate into forms to learn lessons, but there is no reason to desire for one's self since the self does not really exist.

I will start one instead. I say we worship the winner of the MacGuyver/Hoff thread.

Your vintage Chuck Taylor's? I dunno.

That is why when you meet the Buddha, you must kill the Buddha.

Those shirts were 37 kinds of hot!

Where's Waldo?

It's not just material desires. They believe all suffering comes from desire in general. If you can learn to accept and no longer desire, you will be at peace.

My qualm with Buddhism is the belief that I has an individual don't really exist.

Buddhism is based on four truths (or one truth see in four steps depending on how you see it). Suffering is caused by desire. Yet, the goal is Buddhism is to change. Isn't the desire to change a desire in and of itself? Hmmm.... "I'm questioning my education Rewinding, what does it show? Could be, the truth, it becomes you I'm a seed wondering why i'm grown." -- Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Education

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I submitted my build moves. Monkey Death Ninja Inquisition, here I come!

I am an incorrigible punster. One should not incorrige me.

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IGN should hire this guy.

If the mice are gay do I win the triple crown? My printer also kills mice.

Oddly enough, I prefer to get my porn from porn. I don't need detectives in bikinis. Then again, I don't know that you can have enough bikinis.