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  gnunn

  in Show and Tell April 2010

  Okay... so after being mildly chastised for my previous post... can't say I blame the mods, I figure it's time to get back to more productive showing off... A while back, I created a calendar in Google Docs to track in-game time, since OP does no…
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  gnunn

  in Show and Tell April 2010

  I think this show and tell thread may have a little too much showing...
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  gnunn

  in Show and Tell April 2010 edited April 2010

  I'll show you how you compete!... with [REDACTED]! **ModEDIT: Let's keep things slightly more work safe, please.
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  gnunn

  in 4E Magic Item Record Sheet April 2010

  So, I was once again inspired by Sandman's item sheet to create something similar. I am playing 3.5, so the item slots are slightly different... I also wanted something I could include directly on the PC's character page in a more compact format,…
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  gnunn

  in Revised Maps Feature April 2010 edited April 2010

  There are a lot of duplicate conversations on this topic floating around out on the boards, and I just want to make sure everyone has the full picture... no pun intended... okay, yes the pun is intended :) Also, I agree that OP would be better l…
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  gnunn

  in Revised Maps Feature April 2010

  I want to make sure to include this in the discussion... Micah went over how the map system works in detail in "this thread":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1137&page=1#Item_8 I agree that the current limitations on th…
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  gnunn

  in Grats to Gnunn! April 2010

  Hey thanks everybody! I'm really honored and flattered to have been nominated, much less selected! You guys are awesome!
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  gnunn

  in Map Zoom Issues... April 2010

  Micah gives a very good explanation in "this thread":http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=1137&page=1#Item_14 it's unfortunate, but understandable.
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  gnunn

  in More Die Roller functionality? April 2010

  The online dice roller offered by WOTC totals everything, but also offers a dice by dice breakdown in the window to the right. It also has other nifty features like allowing you to enter cusom dice numbers like a d3, d27 or whatever. That's the one …
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  gnunn

  in Quick formatting question. April 2010

  Oh, also... if you ever want to leave a blank cell, rather than an n/a or some other placeholder, simply enclose a space in double = signs, like so: | == == |
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  gnunn

  in Quick formatting question. April 2010

  If you want to center the stats in the second row under their respective header, just add "=." after the opening bar in each cell like in the header row. Looks good! Glad I could help.
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  gnunn

  in Show and Tell April 2010

  DiceMasterNick: I totally do the dialogue thing too! I give each of my NPC's a sort of catchphrase that is an epithet or something else they often utter to help me get into character and distinguish between different characters' voices. e.g. I…
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  gnunn

  in Quick formatting question. April 2010

  You can display a border using textile rather than html, it is fairly simple to put one around the whole table, but making individual cell borders can be a pain. I tend to use the D&D-esque row striping style to provide some visual separation wi…
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  gnunn

  in Show and Tell March 2010

  It's very true. The descriptive setup adds a lot to the game. I also try to make sure and incorporate more than just what the players see. I try to include descriptions of what they hear or even smell. re smells: One trick I've used a couple tim…
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  gnunn

  in Show and Tell March 2010 edited March 2010

  My campaign has only had a couple actual dungeon crawls, but has had a lot of traveling sequences, as such I generally write up brief descriptive blocks for each type of terrain transition (swamp to hillside forest to mountains etc.) I don't think i…
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  gnunn

  in Request: Adventure/Encounter Tool March 2010

  I think a lot of these things can already be achieved in OP with a little creative application Regarding selectively visible items, hand outs, etc... unfortunately, I don't think such things are going to happen anytime soon as Micah explains on t…
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010

  I just want to chime in that I LOVE how this thread has rambled and hopped from topic to topic. Anyway, I agree that it is important to keep one player from becoming overpowered. I try my hardest to throw out magic items that will be useful or ap…
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  gnunn

  in Creating Interactive Maps March 2010

  Drokles: I don't know if MS paint will allow you to preserve transparency when you save the icons. I would recommend you make the adjustments and re-save things using Gimp. Judging by the map style you used, I'm guessing you created it using the "Ar…
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  gnunn

  in Creating Interactive Maps March 2010

  I would recommend saving the image as a png or perhaps a gif. The other thing you need to make sure to do is to make sure you have the image file's settings set to preserve transparency when you save it on your computer before uploading. The process…
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  gnunn

  in How-to: Custom Wiki Sidebar March 2010

  Hey all, I'm really happy that so many people have found this little sidebar so useful. I wanted to post some slightly updated code that Creates a cleaner look in my opinion. What's changed. I have switched the "float:left" attribute for "display…
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  gnunn

  in 4E Magic Item Record Sheet March 2010

  Hey all, I set up a separate thread specifically for discussing interactive maps so others who want to do something similar can find it more easily. I made sure to throw shout-outs to everyone who worked on this thread.
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  gnunn

  in 4E Magic Item Record Sheet March 2010

  Yeah... I figured it was probably something funky with the OP setup.
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  gnunn

  in 4E Magic Item Record Sheet March 2010

  I tried it in both IE8 and Firefox3 and I started by copying and pasting the exact code you posted, so I'm not sure what the issue was. switching the order of operations seemed to work though. Here's the "rough draft interactive map":http://www.o…
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  gnunn

  in 4E Magic Item Record Sheet March 2010

  Aha! I think I fixed it with a simple fliparoo! The "absolute" attribute needs to come after the alignments, not before! You should also specify a width for your div, otherwise it will still spread across the whole page and cause the horizontal a…
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  gnunn

  in 4E Magic Item Record Sheet March 2010

  Chain - I copied and pasted your code, because I'm interested in doing something similar, but using a map. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work. All of the text is still lining up along the left side of the page.
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  gnunn

  in Help with ChainsawXIV's WotC Style Table Template March 2010

  Yeah, textile footnotes are really picky about being placed only next to alphanumeric characters. This workaround should suffice though... [[slug here]]1 fn1. footnote down here
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010

  I totally agree that combat was taking way longer than it should, but like I said, I was a player that night, not the GM. Also, based on the timers I was running, much of the delay came as the GM moved minis and resolved NPC on NPC combat, or narrat…
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010

  *re: Distraction / game flow at the table* Okay, so last night was game-night for the campaign in which I am a player. After reading "this article":http://newbiedm.com/2009/08/24/imposing-a-30-time-limit-on-4th-ed-players/ on Newbie DM, I decided…
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  gnunn

  in How to get your players more involved March 2010

  I faced the starting level challenge in my current campaign, because when we began a little over a year ago, I hadn't GM'd a game since experimenting with 2nd edition in High School and the only one of my players who had ever played was my girlfrien…
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  gnunn

  in Show Off March 2010

  Arsheesh, thanks a bunch for those links! After perusing some of the ready-made adventures, I have decided to modify one for my next session, because it will make for a far more interesting session than what I originally had planned. Traveling sessi…