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You're right. No.

Perhaps the punitive award might have been donated to a charity of her choice, rather than given to her?

That's called growing up. Although there's no accounting for taste.

Well, one or probably both of you were in on it, so it is not really entirely your fault. It is not a nice thing for a sister to do to her sister, though.

You're easily pleased. "

I didn't bother taking a prestige class last time I played, until I got to about level 31. (Seems there are better stats for the non-prestige classes ...)

Well, the numbers are what the DM usually works out. They are nothing more than probability scores multiplied out into the game environment (chance to hit, chance to do critical damage, chance to resist an effect). Otherwise it would just be random, which would mean a Lagreik might kill your level 30 PC. "d20" refers to the twenty-sided dice. Don't get too worried about the weird shape of the die; just remember that it creates random numbers from one to twenty, inclusive. These are blocks of five-percentile statistical groups (since 100 divided by twenty equals five per centum). So if the PC needs a "fifteen to hit", that is fifteen multiplied by five, which equates to exactly 75%. See?

Disciple joins on Dantooine. (Handmaiden on the first planet after Telos, iirc, too.) Canderous only after Onderon (the second time), and Mira on Nar Shadaa, and it would be difficult to get HK-47 before the third planet. Still, the point I was making is that you aren't going to see a companion that hasn't joined yet ...

No copyright on stuff over 50-100 years old. Also, it's anonymous, so I couldn't cite a reference, even if I wanted to ... ^_^

Well, I remember it so well because I was reading about it, blow by blow, in the magazines ... "You should be playing it by the next issue" ... (next issue): "... um, it seems there was a problem ..." sorta thing. It might well have been a gold and release candidate smoke-and-mirrors jig from VU, but the net effect was that it didn't ship when it was advertised (was it due September 30, or something? ). Anyway, I can dig up the articles, as necessary, but I remember having to wait for my copy to arrive in the mail ...

It's eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww! all right. I suppose it's better for anoraks to have a hobby, and at least this doesn't involve hurting other people ...

Just be careful of anyone you meet called Juliet, as foretold by the bard: "... But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. -- Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. -- ... Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene ii, 1-10)

That usually has the same appearance as the "Killer GM", doesn't it? ^_^

Lightweight. "

Yes, but "failure" would encompass the fact that the orignal investment wasn't recouped in the necessary timeframe. Businesses go broke because of that ALL THE TIME. You might have $1M in accounts receivable, but if you pay your wages with a working capital of nought, then your cheques bounce and the employees are less than happy.

They're shooting a sequel to Scarface in NZ!

He really should have thought it through, being a lawyer. The best part is he won't be able to practise law, because he now has a criminal conviction.

I'm trying really hard, but I can't think of a sequel I would LIKE to see made. I much prefer interesting NEW ideas. I mean, what is going to be the point of Great Expectations 2? Pip's inheritance is splurged on gambling, norcotics, corruption, vice and extortion? To be a good sequel invariably needs the central characters to have different roles; at least the characters must be tested in different ways, so that the full bredth of their characteristics are documented under stress, which is the best way to measure them. Most of the films I have enjoyed either cannot have a sequel (even when they try to make it, like 2010). I will admit that the sequels of Asimov's Foundation series were worth a read, but even that got silly when he wrote the prequels ...

Please remember to include the code for this game in the subject line, as I have now got FOUR games going simultaneously! It might also help if you always put your country and the date of the turn, too. SO, for example: Subject: OBS-2 - GERMANY - 1903 S This will make it a lot easier for me to keep all the orders together. Thank you for your assistance.

Do GMs roleplay different types of GM in RP sessions? " That would be meta-GMing? No meta-RPing? No, quasi-RPing, meta-GMing!

I am a policeman.

Is that like finding someone else with a rare brain disease? "

WTF?

Or that they had no idea what the story was, and they were the two "public faces" of the sequel.