Reveilled

Well, call me crazy, but when an organisation allows the worst human rights offenders to join its club, I don't tend to take its views on human rights quite so seriously as I might otherwise.

One thing I'm a little bit worried about is that my players still haven't quite mastered the art of not using out-of-character knowledge. If they read too much of Lovecraft's work, they'd use that knowledge in-game. I'd have to find a balance between telling them enough and telling them too much.

What a lousy list. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How come that is lousy? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> probably because many would feel that those "rights" listed there aren't rights, but things people should take responsibility for and find themselves. To just take one example, "The right of every family to a decent home", many would say that that is not the government's job, that is the job of the wage earners in the family. If you cannot do that, such people would say, that is no one's problem but your own.

Ah, but that only helps me, because it means I have a cunning plan!

Well, at least I'm not the only one. I never understood why the hell anyone would like the Sims. If I wanted to see someone get up, go to work, take out the rubbish, and so on, I'd just pay attention when I do it.

Bah. Your royalty and army are no match for the Continental Cavalry! Especially because I'm playing the game on easy!

Marshall Grey - Critical Hit on my Heart

Roger the Sith regularly kisses the royal pinky ring.

If you continue to be an arsehole to people, you are likely to get banned. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> shut up <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You appear to have some deep-seated emotional problems. Are you being sexually abused? Did your father leave you? How has your harbouring of sexual feelings for your mother affected your family life?

READ THE MANUAL!!?? Nhevarrh!! I did try to read it yesterday to find out what "keen" was and why its worth 50000 gold to have it on me sword but the manual didnt say diddley squat What would be a good prestige class for a barbarian? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Keen doubles the critical threat range. It is rather important in HotU, as with a keen weapon with a 19-20 threat range combines with improved critical and the epic critical feats and the Weapon Master abilities, you can critical hit on every second attack or so, and have a very high critical multiplier.

Vin Diesel was a D&D player in his youth.

Though if Bolton is going to clean up the UN, it might be better to see these allegations out in the open first. If they shown to be unfounded, then it will be harder to attack his character and people who disagree would have to attack the arguments. Similarly, if they are based on truth, it is better to know for certain before his appointment so that can be stopped (and someone with simlar views but a nicer past can be appointed), because with all the bad press your President gets both at home and abroad, the last thing he needs is his views on the UN being forever associated with an abuser and serial bully. It may hurt him in the short term, but the fact that the political process is working will only strengthen the country in the long term.

If you continue to be an arsehole to people, you are likely to get banned.

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven (Backwards)

They may be assuming you read the section on "feats" in the manual. But it is the case that good knowledge of the rules is important in some cases. For instance, in making a Fighter (or indeed, a Barbarian, but to a lesser degree), it doesn't occur to many people that an INT of 13+ is vital if you want any of the cool feats, or the Weapon Master Prestige Class. Well, my advice would be to try some of the modules on this list that don't require SoU. I believe the first on the list is one of those, but you'll have to check their download pages yourself. I can't vouch for all on that list (or even most), but they are the ones considered to be the best by the community. If you like the ones without the requirement enough, consider getting SoU to play the others.

I agree. That seriously astounds me. Even if these allegations turn out to be untrue, the fact that some politicians actually seem to be reasonable people is welcome news, whether I agree with their positions or not. To be honest, I don't really care who is the US ambassador to the UN, since I'm not American (yet, and when I am one, I'll probably be relatively isolationist anyway) and don't particularly like the UN.

Strawberry Jam>Pearl Jam

Not that I know of. Sorry.

And look at his level of reasoning... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You reason like a cow!

*rummages through working desk to find NWN* I knew there was a good reason for keeping NWN even after getting bored. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You'll need the CEP and both Expansions, BTW. If you don't have the CEP, it is worth the length of the download. Also, it is worth mentioning that the writer's spell checker wasn't as good as Bioware's, so you'll have to live with some poor apostrophe use.

Well, hopefully that won't be too much of a problem, since I'll be setting the game here in Glasgow, with them playing simple University Students. That should mean they will never have a weapon more dangerous than a kitchen knife or a half-brick in a sock, and for all or most of the adventure, they should be completely unarmed. With any luck, they'd stand a poor chance against a small group of Glasgow's real world problem inhabitants. I think that by setting it close to home, I'll be able to encourage them to think like themselves, as opposed to like D&D characters. Luckily, the adventure which I'm now planning on running ("The End of Paradise", taken, as Kaftan suggested, from the rulebook) is very low on combat, and heavy on things like research and interviewing people. As to getting them to read Lovecraft to find out whether it will appeal to them or not, well, this one off adventure is what I'm doing instead. Perhaps I didn't make my meaning clear in my first post. My players are currently playing through a D&D campaign that will come to a close three adventures from now. At the conclusion of that campaign, I'm going to give them a choice between continuing with their charactrers into a new campaign, or abandoning D&D for a while to play CoC. At some point during this campaign I'm running, I'm going to take a week out to run one (long) session of Call of Cthulhu, with a single adventure. If they enjoy it and want to keep it up, that's what we'll do at the end of the campaign. If not, then we just keep going with D&D. And if they like it, I'll give them my Lovecraft stuff to read before we properly start at the end of D&D. EDIT: Wow. CoC d20 was published just three years ago, but according to its price list in the equipment section, T1 lines are $1000 a month. Three years later, they're not far off a fiftyth of that price. Weird.

Guybrush Threepwood can hold his breath for ten minutes.

At a guess without using the program, I would imagine that it would be possible only at chapter intervals. So when you finish Undermountain, insert your character into chapter 2. I warn you about your romance, though. The guy you end up romancing is very...horny. *winks to everyone else*

Wizard Chess - Harry and the Potters Possibly the greatest worst band ever.

The Scottish colonists who died at Darien, Panama believed they were going to a carribean paradise, and packed only luxury items. When they arrived in Darien to find an inhospitable jungle, the fact that they had not packed food because they believed food would be abundant meant that they either starved or died of jungle illnesses. A second wave of colonists suffered the same fate. The offer by the English parliament of union with England in exchange for England covering the debts that had bankrupted Scotland because of the failure of the Darien venture contributed to the Act of Union in 1707.