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  3. Posted

    12 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    There's further evidence that Lord Tedd's universe is at least a couple years ahead of the main one by the fact we're told that Nioi made herself "a few years younger" prior to touching the diamond, so Kaoli might have been physically 17-18 years old compared to Nioi being 20-22 maybe. Also, the Second Life universe must have been a couple years ahead as well since Ellen's dreams ended with Second Life Ellen saying bye to everyone before going off to college. The main group hadn't even finished Junior year highschool yet.

    Point of information, it's their Senior year, last half.

  4. Posted

    32 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    Nonetheless it is a good thing you are doing. I hope your sister appreciates the effort. Keeping kitties happy is a demanding task, if one I personally find very worthwhile. :)

    It's sister in law and it looks like I am keeping Black Susan for a while, as, this morning aside, she is much better behaved here than at David and April's house.  Plus I like a cat that sits at your feet when on the computer.  April, not so much with the liking.

     

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    20 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Home made kettle corn, or popcorn with caramelized sugar all over it.

    Problem with this is that the time to pop all the corn is slightly longer than the time it takes to caramelize the sugar.  Which means burnt sugar or about 5% unpopped corn,   Working on the timing.

     

  10. Posted

    Just now, Tom Sewell said:

    Then you should beware of creeping Britishness. Have you started calling gasoline "petrol"? Have you lost any teeth recently? Do you actually care about soccer? Britishness can develop into Scottishness; before you know it, you will find yourself eating oatmeal boiled in a sheep's stomach!

    No, yes, no and God no

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    1 hour ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Hey, I just noticed the context of the "bloody" in the "bloody list" of Magus' in the second panel: Magus is a Brit! Even if he could drive a car, he'd instinctively drive on the wrong side of the road for the States.

    I'm American and I use "bloody" at times.  Doesn't autocratically mean a brit.

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    4 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I learned on AD&D, but as I recall, Magic-User spell didn't hang around until they were used, they had to be re-learned every night.  I never heard a DM tell a magic-user "Okay, you didn't use your Fireball or Magic Missile today, so you get to keep them for tomorrow, and you only have to spend half the time you would otherwise studying spells to replace the ones you did use."

    Page 40 if the 1st AD&D Player's Handbook is confusing as to that.  It says they must be memorized "before the adventure"  and that it takes 15 minutes per spell level to memorize them.  I can see where a select type of DM would make you spend a lot of time every day to have spells, but it doesn't say, explicitly, that they go away.  It does say they go away on casting.  Page 100 strongly implies that they stick around.

     

  15. Posted

    10 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

    I'm up to book four of Gail Carriger's Finishing School series, a sort of prequel companion series to the Parasol Protectorate, one of my favorites.  This is in "Listening" instead of "Reading" because I've been listening to them via Audible.  Both series have excellent readers and they're a real hoot, with surprising depths developing as the series proceed.  I highly recommend both.  There are a few things which make it better to read the other series first -- the first one is titled Soulless.  They're steampunk fantasy, if you care about genre.

    I loved those books.  Finishing school indeed.

     

  16. Posted

    15 hours ago, hkmaly said:
    18 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Maybe Magus uses a version of Vancian Magic and his "Sleep" and "Calm" hadn't been cast yet.  If that is the case, he might have problems getting "new" spells to cast.

    ... he didn't really had any opportunity to TEST his magic did he?

    Wait. How would the prepared spells survive all those years on astral plane and change of body?

    Well, Rules As Written, they hang around until you cast them.  (0D&D, AD&D and D&D 3.x/Pathfinder).  4th didn't use VM and 5th uses a weird version, but they hang around until you replace them.

  17. Posted

    1 minute ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Since I have  yet to get a single response to the tabletop RPG thread I started called imaginatively "RPG for EGS", I'd say there aren't that many people on the EGS forums who know or care about tabletop RPGs.

    I'm only a freelance Table Top RPG writer who been into RPG from the very first.

    I'm on record as saying that EGS makes me think in Hero System rules, which is odd because I don't normally use Hero.

    If I was to suggest a rule set to use for EGS I would say Hero Sidekick or PS238, which is HS optimized for school children with super powers.