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Well, I was thinking Skype+dice roller plugin, mainly because I have a ****load of stuff to study, and there's simply no time to familiarize myself with things like the aforementioned roll20, but if anybody has an inexplicably adverse reaction to that, I may even change my mind.

Surprising as it may sound, I was pretty happy with this week's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

That's why I like the 4E approach: certain artifacts get stronger with you, assuming they like you. (This was also present in Earthdawn, by the way.) I doubt PoE will have such items, though.

^^ Pretty much this.

I doubt there will be invisibility spells (and even if I'm wrong, they'll probably be rogue talents), but every class can pump Stealth and be effective at it.

Finally finished with my exams. Whew. Onto the next semester!

Druids, definitely.

Aaaand I've finally passed in anatomy and physiology. Got a B, even (quite a feat, considering that about 40% of students failed the course, despite the weekly exams). Those who wish to play can find me on Skype (name's pretty obvious), and we can discuss themes, expectations, character concepts and other gay storygamey stuff as a group.

We seem to have a Dark Heresy group consisting of the good people you could see in this topic, a Dragon Age group with hungarian players who can speak English quite well (although I haven't asked them whether they want to put this skill to good use, or not), and a nChangeling/nMage crossover group, which is at full capacity atm. You can choose between DH and DA (or both, because there is no way I'm DMing two different games on the same week). Schedule's quite fluid right now, we'll return to the subject after I'm done with finals. That's also the time when I'll be able to look into roll20.

A benefit of still having to spend my time sitting in a library, studying for physiology finals is access to psychiatry textbooks.

It's pretty natural to hallucinate stuff while you're half asleep, I wouldn't worry about it. Edit: yupp, looked it up, hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations are present in about 37 and 12,5 percent of the population, respectively, and while they may be more prevalent in people with narcolepsia, they're nothing to worry about in itself. If it's any reassurance, I also have them occasionally.

That's why I give everyone freebie points equal to (highest stat total in the party-their stat total)/2. Weaker characters definitely remain weaker, but they can specialize better.

That's kind of the shtick of Age of Decadence (only with pseudo-romans instead of high fantasy). Didn't really work that well; then again, I generally lose my interest at "roman".

As a totally unrelated point, I'd actually be willing to pay for a D&D-based CRPG set in Eberron. Arcanepunk pulp-noir for teh win.

It looks fine and functional for very combat-light chronicles. I'd actually DM it, but it looks like the upcoming D&D Next will have everything good about 4E, while retaining the simple elegance of the retroclones I prefer.

Depends, depends Personally, I don't mind corpses, injuries and faeces much (encountered all of them in good measure during my anatomy lessons and summer practice), but human mouths somehow disgust me. Edit: then again, in my country, the state pays for basic dental care, too, so unless you want something fancy, you can get it for free.

I think it's mostly class- and level-dependent. Armors give DR, that's for sure.

On the other hand, being a dentist is one of the most disgusting jobs I can imagine with that level of education. (Also, materials don't come cheaply.)

Just use the links I've provided on the previous page, the majority of them will be either in the articles or the comments.

Dunno, I've always found Erikson to be actually worse than Tolkien. Big T's dialogues are simply boring and wooden, while Erikson's are sometimes so bad, I recall actually flinching while reading it. His positively ridiculous plotlines don't help either (I mean seriously, just by the end of the third book no less than three supposedly extinct ancient races came back to life as a baffling plot twist; this is further aggravated by the fact that the plot of every. single. book. I've read by him was basically "huge powerful supposedly-invincible ancient menace awakens and tries to destroy the world, but then EVEN MORE POWERFUL SUPPOSEDLY-INVINCIBLE MENACE* turns out to be either one of the good guys in disguise/gives its power to one of the good guys/appears as a complete ass-pull, but in the ending, we learn that even the EVEN MORE POWERFUL SUPPOSEDLY-INVINCIBLE MENACE is totally helpless and blindsided by the EVEN-MORE-POWERFUL-AND-INVINCIBLE-THAN-THE-LAST-ONE MENACE that just happened to awake right now.) Still, it's somewhat mitigated by the fact that mages are basically miners in a dead god's veins. That was a nice touch. *caps to show how much more powerful and invincible it is.

I'm kind of on the fence about him. I've read The Silmarillion many times, I loved LotR as a child, and I still think The Hobbit is one of the best books written for children, ever. On the other hand, he's a pretty terrible writer (both his prose and dialogues are rather wooden), and his worldbuilding, while exceedingly detailed, simply lacks both the outlandish flair of, say, Miéville or Moor**** or Wolfe and the effortless wit of Susanna Clarke.

Eh, dunno. My problem with Tolkien isn't really that he was racist or misogynist, but if anyone wants to read about those tendencies of his, I can suggest looking at this and this. The comments also offer some interesting insights.

Learned the absortive functions of the gastrointestinal tract, and the muscular, cerebral, cutaneous, splanchnic, and coronary circulation. Fun day.

...Oby? Is that you?

Wow, that's a pretty clever idea. I doubt they will do it, but clever nonetheless.