EnderAndrew

All the current XBL content merely requires an XBL membership. If you pay for that, the content itself is free. I imagine this will stay the same.

Latest headine: The game will feature stuff. Probably lots of stuff. Don't quote us on that!

Grr. I think that's a GREAT idea. I can see the multiple paths that different approaches can take. I can see some good drama here. I'm picturing Corleones and Sullivans. Now someone just needs to make it.

Fair enough. When I was in the Marine Corps, I was trained to handle a variety of weapons for that purpose. Outside of the Corps, I would never touch a gun again.

That's why I mentioned LucasArt's playtesters. If you want to playtest KoTOR:TSL, you'd have to move to Marin County (where it is quite expensive to live) and work for peanuts.

Reviving Ophelia deals a lot with how society "programs" adolescent girls, and creates the issues they deal with. After reading this book, I am more sensitive to how a person can be influenced to certain types of thinking. I know women who are repeat victims, or who believe that abuse is what they deserve in life. I find this unfortunate. When a person is raped or molested, they are forcibly made a victim in that moment. It is up to the victim to decide that they no longer want to remain a victim in the rest of their life however. I am saddened that many people don't see this distinction and continue to live as victims. There was a point in my life, where my parents shaped me quite a bit. My mother divorced and remarried a lot. There was one step-father around more than the others, but mainly it was my mother in my life. Most of my parents were pretty racist. They used terms pretty regularly, that I would never use today. Some day the reason they were racist was because of how they were raised. Yet, I was raised by racists and try very hard to maintain an open mind. I can't say that stereotypes don't come to mind occassionally, but I try very hard not to judge on the basis of race. Does that answer the milk question? Back on the subject of porn addiction, I don't think the problem is with porn, but rather with addictive personalities. Yes, there is a problem there, and I hope these people get help. That's why I didn't partake in making fun of this website. Addiction is a serious matter. Mkreku raises a good point about guns, but guns are a fairly unique case. Guns have no real purpose other than ending life. With so many other things, we blame the tool rather than the person. The tool itself is not good or bad, and can have many purposes. I know couples that use porn together to spice up their relationship and keep things fresh. A gun basically kills, and kills. I wouldn't compare gun control to porn control.

It would be nice. I liked how in Arcanum they had stories to accompany the background feats as it were.

I don't even think the difficulty needs to be made that complex. Take the base D20 rolls. Add +2 for easy difficulty. Subtract 2 from the hard difficulty. There you go.

Caffeine is my vice, and drug of choice.

I do believe the initial roll requires you to hit a 19-20 (or whatever the threat range is on your weapon), but the second roll is just a standard to-hit roll. If you succeed in hitting the target number to-hit on the second roll, your hit became a critical.

If you were implying I was talking about one of those ridiculous scoring systems in the number of drinks it would take for me to sleep with someone, then no. The purity score is a ranking of how pure you are. You go down a list, and check off all the naughty things you've done. For each one, you lose a point on the purity score. The four asterick is a new point on the purity score. Thespark.com used to have a great purity test, but there site is being redone, and most of their tests are being redone.

If I recall, (and I'm not a big D20 fan) a critical hit requires two rolls. There is the initial roll to hit, and if you hit the threat range, you have to roll to hit again to score a critical. Since the dexterity bonus helps your to-hit roll, it also helps you when you go for the critical in the second roll. So the dexterity bonus does give you a small advantage in more criticals as well.

I updated lots of the new information into the original sticky post. I have to go back and reread all the interviews and magazine articles and search for info there as well. But I'm about to head home. I'm tired.

Will Atton Rand develop STD tolerance?

I think I suggested it, but I don't know if Chris suggested it first and if I got it from him.

She's gone from suck to blow!

I normally avoid throwing around IQ scores. The last time IQ tests were mentioned on this forum, I avoided posting any of my scores. There seems to be an undercurrent of geek culture who like to have pissing contests with IQ scores and feel to inflate them just as much as they inflate the size of their manhood. I've always tested extremely high on most any test. I got a 35 out of 36 when I took the ACT's. I think 99 percentile on that test starts around 31. From there it's gravy. Despite all of that, I've met a few people in my life who I believe are truly brilliant, and I am humbled by them. My buddy who just finished his masters is a genius. His whole family all have PhD's. Steve survived Hodgkin's disease and lymphatic cancel during high school while doing physics club and DECA alongside me. He goes out with his friends everynight, and never studies. He is the most giving person I've ever met, and despite that aces every test he takes. He's one of the only people I've ever seen finish a test faster than me. (I speed-read) When we were at DECA nationals, he finished the placement test for QuizBowl before me. Sadly, when he went off to college, I worked and tried supporting my girlfriend. I've been on my own since the age of 14, and couldn't afford to go to college. Despite being estranged from my parents, they were fairly wealthy and still claimed me on their taxes. And being a white male hurt me too. A buddy of mine from the QuizBowl team got a full ride to the best college in the state because he was black and got a 29 on his ACT's (the highest score in the state that year for a black student). Steve went off to Creighton and tested out of every undergraduate math class they offered by the end of his freshman year. The following three years of college consisted mainly of being a teacher's aide and giving lectures on physics. Grad school consisted of a two year internship in New York working on the S.T.A.R.S. project, trying to recreate the big bang on a small level. (I find it funny that Catholic Jesuits are trying to prove the Big Bang). He never really attended a class in grad school. He never had to apply himself, nor study and breezed through arguably the toughest college in the midwest. Not only does Creighton have tough standards, but being a Jesuit college, you have to take on an extra 30 credit hours in theology. Steve is a genius.

The Jedi Order made a few mistakes. One, they never should have trained Anakin. Yoda sensed in him what he might bring. And there was the lost 20 debaucle. Then they forbid love, ignore the threat of Palpatine when they're told about him, and get too involved in galactic affairs. Yoda can see many things. I have my own theory that Yoda knew everything all along. At the end of Episode 1, when Mace asks "yes, but was he the master or apprentice?", Yoda looks over to Palpatine. And when they debate over training Anakin, Yoda gets this look on his face like he knows he's opening Pandora's box. Yoda is watching Anakin as Anakin slaughters the Tusken Raiders. Does Yoda chastise Anakin? Surely Anakin must know the path Anakin started down, but he lets Anakin remain a Jedi. I think Yoda believed in the prophecy, and felt it was necessarily to restore balance, even though it meant the destruction of the current Jedi Council. And after watching all of that destruction, knowing he could have prevented it, it makes it that much more meaningful when Yoda objects to training Luke many years later. Would you want to deal with Anakin's kid?

I think the new season is twelve 5 minute episodes. It ends up as 60 minutes. And they're calling it a micro-series. I think the short episodes were to cater to the fact they're shown online, and easily downloadable. The first two seasons were twenty 3 minute episodes.

She killed her last master, and you beat her down. I don't imagine she's be too trusting.

Atton: "Of course we should trust her! A face that beautiful would never lead us into a trap!"

We just need a start time my friends. I'll download OpenRPG and try it out tonight, but it looks like a good free program that emulates the feature set of WebRPG. We'll likely use that. Also, I want to reiterate that your background and objectives is just as important in character creation as skills and force powers. If you're not a writer, and don't want to do some complex background, that's fine. But I need to know something about your character, where they came from, what their values are, and what their goals in life are so I can create the hook that throws the characters together. If you'd prefer, you can do it in a 20 questions format rather than a written background. I saw one other player took a piloting skill, but it looks like Ivan's character is pretty much a dedicated pilot and I'm planning on handing him a ship and making him the primary freighter pilot of the group. There's a plot hook involved with him, and the ship.

I just retook it last night because the site has been revamped, and it's a new test. I admit the score is a bit higher than I normally score, but under most tests I score in the genius range. That doesn't mean I classify myself as a genius, because I believe that IQ is not the best indicator of intelligence in the world. However, if you doubt the credibility of the test, I recommend you take the new test. It is not based upon one school of logic like many tests (pattern recognition, etc.) Some of the test plays upon common sense, number problems, math, word problems, patter recognition, the whole gamut. And I'm extremely dyslexic, and one phase of the test involves rearranging letters. That part of the test threw me for a loop.

Well, I just took an IQ test last night and got a 173. I can't be that stupid. Don't believe me? Check out my results. Go over to the site, Compare Scores and put in my email address, enderandrew@sluggy.net I rarely find it necessary to throw around IQ scores in pissing contests, but I'm not a big fan of your continued anti-male statements. Overall, Alexia, you're a decent person, and I enjoy discourse with you. You've expressed yourself being a victim of sexist comments and attacks on the forum. My advice is to avoid making sexist comments yourself if you wish to avoid such arguements.