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  cgregory

  in [Blog] Thursday Features Thread July 2016 edited July 2016

  Jim just admit it! You are the murderer!  Age of Serpents sounds suspiciously like you'd have access to plenty of poison. edit.. Also as Kallak said what isn't said is equally important, and I don't remember you saying you didn't do it!
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  cgregory

  in Your Gaming Group July 2016

  i'll be sure to tell my wife that she is a specimen next time she refers to herself as female. As for telling me that i shouldnt be using female or male, you should perhaps look up the survey best practices, it suggests male and female rather than m…
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  cgregory

  in Your Gaming Group July 2016

  Might this poll be reworded to remove the gender-bias? Jim, polls can't be edited. As for gender bias, i assume you mean the bit about the mythical female gamer? It was added as a joke, since it was what one of our female players said when finding…
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  cgregory

  in Your Gaming Group July 2016

  Wow Keryth, haven't run into a group that big where everyone GMs. Assumng those two who cant make every week are interested in GMing have you thought about having one of your more regular GMs running a campaign's main story arc and the other two run…
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  cgregory

  in How do I delete a Wiki page? July 2016 edited July 2016

  Click edit page, then look at the bottom of the wiki page, you'll see a delete wiki page. It is to the right of the email notification area
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  cgregory

  in Community Forum Software Update July 2016

  Nice I'll test it out.
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  cgregory

  in Community Forum Software Update July 2016

  Where is the button, on this modern forum, to quote your post so I can respond? The new forum software vanilla does allow quotes, can't but I can't remember if the quote functionality you are likely looking for is in version 2.2 (which I'm guessin…
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  cgregory

  in Feature & Improvement Ideas July 2016

  One thing that I really miss from the old site was that when I visited the All Campaigns page, by default it showed the most recently updated campaigns. The current setup always shows the same campaigns. Nine of the 12 campaigns on the first page th…
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  cgregory

  in Favorite Combat System March 2016

  Shadowrun is one of my favorite combat systems. Unlike Keryth, I find the combats are fairly quick, mostly because they are quite deadly. I do think using a turn tracking app has helped in some of the more complex combats. Rolemaster I found…
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  cgregory

  in [Blog] Thursday Features Thread February 2016

  In those cases of where you want a red herring due to strong dice mechanics, I'd likely put the fail as providing conflicting results. Provide the real clue and the red herring due to "contamination of the scene". This way the players can chase dow…
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  cgregory

  in [Blog] Thursday Features Thread February 2016

  One of the main guidelines I learned from Night's Dark Agents (which uses the Gumshoe System) is when running a Mystery type adventure never let a die roll determine success or failure in finding a clue. If they have a relevant skill they succeed. I…
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  cgregory

  in Letting down a potential player gently January 2016

  Whenever we have a new player I always run a one off adventure, that way nobody has to worry any new player souring the current campaign. Either the player fits in, or doesn't. I let all potential players know it needs to be a unanimous decision to…
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  cgregory

  in Pages not linking correctly January 2016 edited January 2016

  Yes, probably because the quotation marks are being parsed as a possible beginning of a link. If you want a link inside of a quote you can do the following "The "Village of Hommlet":http://abc.com the rest of my text" where http://abc.com is …
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  cgregory

  in Levels of Magic vs Technology January 2016

  Lxcharon a god dealing with science and technology is actually a fairly common. Forgotten Realms has Gond ,the God of Invention, who introduced gunpowder. TORG (That Other Roleplaying Game) mixed magic and technology by having different realms fo…
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  cgregory

  in Stellar Cartography January 2016

  It is believed it would cost $2.6 billion to mine near space asteroids according to the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. According to the KISS study, the cost for a future mission to i…
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  cgregory

  in Levels of Magic vs Technology January 2016

  Generally my players don't like guns to touch their magic. The exception is in Shadowrun where they are perfectly happy that high tech meets magic. But that's not always the case. How I treat technology depends on how I treat wizards. But I usual…
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  cgregory

  in Stellar Cartography December 2015

  You might find this of interest for science fiction worlds and systems when you need to generate on the go "Donjon website Science Fiction":http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/swsg/
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  cgregory

  in religion and player interaction December 2015 edited December 2015

  Depends on the campaign, for Pathfinder, I tend to focus more on the regional differences in those religions and I find domains are a great way of doing that. Different geographic regions might focus on different domains of a god. In my Throne o…
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  cgregory

  in fantasy races December 2015

  It is possible for breeding to occur in the case of Mules, it is just really rare. The Roman's had a saying "cum mula peperit," meaning "when a mule foals", it is the equivalent of "when hell freezes over." Even though Mules have an odd number …
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  cgregory

  in Contingency Planning December 2015

  Killervp, with OneNote the limit you might be running into is each section is limited to 2 GB (this is because OneNote saves by the section and OneDrive has a 2 GB file limit). The solution might be as simple as splitting big sections up by year or …
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  cgregory

  in fantasy races December 2015

  Our historical multicultural integration is a recent phenomena mostly because it is only recently that travel became so quick, easy and affordable to the general population. In a fantasy campaign that has free mixing of species you would likely…
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  cgregory

  in Contingency Planning December 2015 edited December 2015

  Pretty seamless as well, I'm currently sharing it with 6 people and I've seen one conflict when two people edited the same part of the same page at the same time. It lets me the owner decide what stays and what goes or if I want to combine the two i…
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  cgregory

  in Contingency Planning December 2015

  If I remember correctly Evernote has a 1 GB monthly bandwidth limit but no storage limit, whereas OneNote has no bandwidth limit, but has a 30 GB storage limit when combined with OneDrive. Granted that storage limit is drastically decreasing to jus…
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  cgregory

  in Contingency Planning December 2015

  Hi Tau I simply transferred my stuff to OneNote and granted my players access to edit the document. They work on it online (or offline if they add OneDrive) on their PCs, their tablets, or their phones and it syncs up all the changes. OneNote a…
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  cgregory

  in Inner Council Details and Members December 2015

  No, I don't know him. It was just an easy matter of following the links on his Obsidian portal account. That lead to a webpage with a link to his facebook account. Apparently he has logged on the forums in the last 16 hours, but just hasn't…
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  cgregory

  in Inner Council Details and Members December 2015

  Noticed that Alex hasn't even updated any campaigns since Dec 1st. But he does seem to be posting on his facebook page
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  cgregory

  in Obsidian Portal Launch Feedback December 2015

  I have one document that is accessible to everyone, one that only I can access, and one document per player that only has that player and me having access. You can link across documents, so you don't need to have players open up different files. …
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  cgregory

  in Obsidian Portal Launch Feedback December 2015

  Not really seeing why you are saying it can't be shared with the players, since it can be shared with players as much as OP can. My players and I have OneNote on our tablets, phones, laptops and PCs. So pretty much all the same devices that can ac…
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  cgregory

  in Obsidian Portal Launch Feedback December 2015

  I've decided to try using OneNote for my most recent Shadowrun campaign. It was free, easy enough to set it up to mimic almost everything that Obsidian Portal does, plus a bunch more things that OP doesn't do. It is available on every device p…
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  cgregory

  in Weird Bug October 2015

  killervp that is definitely NOT a email fix issue. This has been a feature of Obsidian Portal for years and certainly helped my Throne of Thorns campaign get over 300 adventure logs.