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Hang on, meta. So how DID he advance the plot so cleverly? Can we distill some rules? [/Russian]

Size nine also. Coudl this be a hidden tertium quid underlying ALL Obsidian/Black Isle fans? I used to enjoy boots, for similar reasons to you gentlemen. However I gave up on DMs after they started making them in sweatshops. The quality is just lousy. The soles keep falling away from from the uppers. However, since I graduated to formal and informal wear I've gone for Loakes (hand made in the UK and fething indestructible), and those odd solid-soled hiking shoes. The grip is incredible, and you can run like a bastard in them if you have to. I love my shoes, so I treat them well.

Do you mean dress shoes, or boots? And what kind of boots are they?

I'd like to ask what your favourite shoes are. And as a bonus question, how you treat them.

Ahh... I had a girlfriend with eyes that colour, once upon a time. Beautiful, as you say.

Something's been bugging me about the Leeroy incident, and after watching it again I se the issue. The dragons or whatever (inferred from Leeroy's "Mmmmmnnnnaah DRAGONS!" shout) are on one side of a door, with the eggs. The party is on the near side of the door. The door looks about one or two dragons wide. You don't have to be Alexander the Great to spot a bushwhacking opportunity. Yet for all their maths geekiness the party choose to intrude into the dragon lair, get surrounded and almost certainly cut to pieces. I reckon they'd have died even without Leeroy. At least he had style.

I stand corrected. Sound reasoning, not on moral but cognitive grounds. I apologise for any offence.

The only rational answer is that we form a crack commando unit and hunt the pigs down, using wolverines and pepper foggers.

*considers* I think I'd rather spend such free time as this would take eitehr blowing off steam on simpler games, or working. That way I can get cash to go spend proper social time with rolepayer friends and we can have roast animal and beer to go with the gaming.

Good lord! Did he have a blood phobia or something? Maybe just very sensitive to hormones. Interesting, anyway, and reminds us how large a part to play hormones have. Hence preconscious urges. Sooo...

I should repeat that not knowing some of the details is one of the keys of good counter-terrorism. If we know what when wrong, then the terrorists know, and they WILL fix it for next time.

I think both those options are far too civilised and uptight. You should either go for an Arabian Nights theme, or straight out barbarian. That will get the home fires burning. *waggles eyebrows*

The quick answer is that you'd have to see. As Hildegarde pointed out (diff thread) you often don't really know what is happening. When you think about it, a suicide bomber is so far from your normal experience that you might not realise until the whole thing was over. Most people just stand there not because they're scared but because they don't know what to do. I tend to enjoy running after people, so I probably would. But I certainly wouldn't realise there was any real danger until it was too late. However, on principle would I jeopardize my own life to stop other people getting whacked? Certainly. And I don't care if they're kindergarteners or prostitutes or the PM. Steve I'm surprised to hear you of all people suggest that only sweet angelic children are more valid than you. If you realise something has to be done, and you can do it, then it's your responsibility to step up.

Stabbing may not always be the answer. http://www.elfonlyinn.net/d/20040505.html

Mate, I stab them in the morning, stab them in the evening, stab them when the sun goes down. Silence, mage-slayer, champion of the amusing, and latterly

Speaking as someone who hadn't the patience to ever complete an RPG as a spellslinger, because of the tediousness at low levels, AND the useless HP issue, I say let them. I enjoy stabbing wordjockeys at low level, and it only makes it better when they get to high level and think they're invulnerable.

It's the fact that i miss simple subtleties of social interaction that tell you I am either very straight or very geeky or both.

Londo: "Did I ever tell you [Delenn] that you are very cute for a Minbari? Even you [Garibaldi] are cute, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody's cute! Everybody's cute! Even me. But in purple... I'm stunning!" *THUD*

I call 'em like I see 'em. If you said "All swans are green" I don't have to be a swan to point out you may be wrong. Oh. Wait. You were winking. :">

Run for your wallets! It's Montaron, back from the dead! Seriously. Your man has a point. All character types get cheesy at high levels.

Well, if you can call a major world religion and all its adherents a 'spot'.... But yeah, in a broader sense you are probably right. I can't remember mine right now. Oh yeah, really selfish people. Anyhoo... back to sexuality.....

Sure enough. I wasn't saying they had to be Christian. Or that all Christians were good. But I think you'd be hard pushed if you tried to claim Christianity hadn't produced any great thinkers or good men. More importantly, I don't recall you normally being so partisan. Is something up? Still more importantly let's get back to sexuality. Or we'll be locked. ~~ I have no idea why adult babies. Is it even a sexual kick, or just a desire to ditch all responsibility?

When I was associated with a training centre for clerics (CofE, not ones with hammers) I treid to get the walls painted gloss red. Muahahahha Didn't work, though. The Bursar was wise to my scheme.

I'm happy to let the camping issue drop. I only mentioned it because I was feeling too virtuous after being nice earlier on. I could just as easily have gone on about people who litter with greater feeling. Lucius, you seem to have a big beef with religion, and you're not phrasing it very objectively. You are forgetting, perhaps, that many of our greatest thinkers, and doers of good have been religious. Religion, and a notion of service to a higher authority can be used to drive generosity, discipline, and kindness as well as mean-ness and censorship. Moreover the Church (by which I mean organised religion) has proved a great stabilising and cementing factor in many civilisations, without whom we would not be at our present level of organisation and opportunity.

Will you relaaaaaax? Al these negative waves. Give the poor beardy mages a break. Anyone who tries to get to really high level is essentially going to be on about how many enemies they can kill. After all, that's how they got to a high level. The system obliges them to care about stuff like that.