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Captain America - The Winter Soldier trailer has been put out - http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/marvel/captainamericathewintersoldier/

Have you eaten hot dogs or fall off bed or chair? If you have, it may have cost you your Nobel USA falling off beds and chairs, getting killed by lawnmowers, nobel laureates and eating hot dogs http://thedoghousediaries.com/maplesyrup Curse my love of hotdogs and personal clumsiness!

I haven't been killed by a lawnmower, so where's my Nobel Laureate?

I remember when I went to college there was one person there who hated me in high school. But they were very friendly once we were in college simply because I was a familiar face (and I suppose the pressure to fit in with their clique was gone).

Reminds me a bit of when our poor literature teacher in high school put in for a video copy of MACBETH and ended up with the Roman Polanski version (which was rated R) instead of the earlier one she was trying for. So a class of 15 year olds confronted with naked old witches and heavy violence and a panicked teacher... Mind you college was no barrier, there was apparently a total break-down in a class showing THE NAME OF THE ROSE when the sex scene came up...

Well I had a cough anytime I talked and I'd lost a good bit of sleep (so was probably a bit of a danger driving to work). To be honest I could have came to work (I had lost the fever during the weekend so shouldn't have been contagious) but my experience is going back on that day would mean I'd have symptoms that linger around longer. I didn't have any projects due and its a lull period in my work cycle. Mind you I don't go into work when I'm contagious full stop. Since I'm the manager of the area - enough people call out and I have to do their jobs and I'm not masochistic enough to want them to get sick.

I agree with you I thought treating Elf and Dwarf as classes in 1e wasn't a great solution. I still think that, ultimately, if the goal is to allow the player to pick and choose skill sets a classless system is better suited than a classes system w/multiclassing. To be honest, when I think "rogue-priest" I think Friar Tuck.

Came down with a cold. Thanks sick co-workers who come to work contagious! Been sick since Saturday.

Puppet Master VII: Retro Puppet Master - revises continuity again and the 'retro' puppet designs are kinda bad for most of the new puppet designs. Story was okay though. Puppet Master VIII: The Legacy - who in their right mind would make a "clips episode" movie? What new material is in the film makes little to no sense with the rest of the series. Rubbish.

Now all I can think about is pizza.

Happy Birthday!

Yup, P&P is really where its at for roleplaying.

I believe you mean "the sake of this tread"...

Right, but in the abstract in the "Roleplay" vs "rollplay" argument, you can only play, role or roll, what the game gives you to play. So multiclassing may add options, but not multiclassing doesn't mean you can't role play, you just role play what the game gives you to play. Anyhow, P&P games are totally fudgeable anyhow.

It was pretty funny; I liked the same artist's What if All the NFL Logos were British work too.

Right, but my point is, that if the game is set up to have no multi-classing, why would anyone expect to play a wizard with martial training. It's like picking up a Mario game and complaining that it doesn't have CALL OF DUTY FPS gameplay or complaining that you can't have Mario romance blue alien ladies like Mass Effect. At some point you have to play the game based on what it gives you not what you might actually want. (And while PE is attempting flexibility, its not really multi-classing either).

Well I could be wrong and you could think you're just posting a normal, harmless 'opinion'. Possibly I'm misinterpreting it as a spiteful expression of entitlement. In that case I would need to apologize. But you followed that up by the obviously trollish 'Fanboi Polizei', so I don't think I'm mistaken. Welcome to my ignore list. Wow, way to overreact I know the word entitlement gets thrown around the internet all the time as some sort of "knockout argument", but really, PE backers are entitled to know what's going on, since they have funded the game. Also it's absolutely legitimate to want to have more updates and information and everything PE-related. Instead of always interpeting everything as "spiteful expression of entitlement" you could just see it as eager fandom. Mind you the first is taken care of with the Kickstarter news (which is reposted here and sent to your email if you want). The thing Monte Carlo is complaining about seems to be that members of the Obsidian Forums don't have MORE news than just the Kickstarter updates and that game news outlets gets information that we don't.

And if the role someone wishes to play is a Wizard with a small amount of martial training, you have just prevented them from playing the role they want to. And if the game is explicitly set up with no multi-classing, who in their right mind would expect to play a wizard with a small amount of martial training in the first place?

Okay, well that makes it slightly less random.

The problem is they have a short deadline. Anyone not insured by February is subject to fines taxes for not enrolling - whether the system was too crap to allow them to register or not.

Why does it defeat the purpose of classes? That is an extremly rigid interpretation of a simple RPG mechanism, in my opinion. Because it is a game. For a class system to work, there has to be some differential, meaning and choice to the classes. What is the purpose of multiclassing? If its to allow the player more flexibility in creating their PC then you're actually going against the point of having a class based system. The advantage of a class based system is to create certain predefined roles that a player can fill and have those roles come with inherent limitations and advantages. An argument for flexibility is an argument for a classless system. BTW, the suggestion of the engineer who becomes a fighter is really more in line with what D&D used to call dual classing as opposed to multiclassing. Multiclassing is when you advance as a fighter, mage and thief at the same time. Weirdly, I'd be more okay with a "dual classing" mechanic since I believe it doesn't violate (as much) the choices that should be part of a class based system than a multi class system but would prefer either a strict single class system or a classless, skill based system, to be honest.

You may well be right, but it's ass-backwards. Backers are treated like anybody else because there are folks who aren't backers. Huh? This should be the primary forum for... everything. On Facebook, for example, PE is just... tumbleweed. If the corollary of this is a site / content / forum for Backers, where the hell is it? I remain baffled by the strategy. Except there isn't one. Monte maybe if you were more supportive in our campaign to get chainmail bikini's and Romance in PE the backer site would be in place...just a thought ? I thought Monte was pro-chainmail bikini already...? Or are you suggesting he be pro romancing a chainmail bikini...?

Wait a minute, you can't do a limit on a boolean. Also 2032 is when 32-bit time_t runs out, so that was a concern as well. Shhhh...nobody knows that here. Also...the whole caveat of "sufficiently true" was already a problem. But never fear, I can assure you that 1 + 1 = 3 for sufficiently large versions of 1.

What's with the ebay link?