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| bio | website | madeoffail.net |
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| location | Mt Prospect, IL | |
| age | 28 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | Sep 21 '10 at 19:37 | |
| stats | profile views | 44 |
Kevin O’Shea is an aspiring writer and shameless fanboy. He is the creator and co-host of the Made of Fail podcast. Current obsessions include Warcraft, 90s Bipolar Rock, and classic Space Operas. He’d love to talk more, but he parked his TARDIS on a meter.
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Apr 25 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Dec 8 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Aug 19 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jun 28 |
awarded | Good Question |
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Jan 22 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Aug 20 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 8 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 14 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Dec 11 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Oct 19 |
awarded | Suffrage |
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Sep 9 |
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To document house rules, or no? I'd disagree with this approach for an established setting. If players aren't aware of house rules already in effect, not telling them will only serve to harm the group experience. If you roll a character with the express purpose of being able to, say, be a pole-arm fighter, and there's a secret house rule about pole-arms being nonexistant in the world, you need to know this. Unless the system depends on the players not knowing the rules, they should always be available for perusal. |
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Sep 9 |
accepted | Custom Race Creation for D&D 4e |
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Sep 8 |
asked | Custom Race Creation for D&D 4e |
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Sep 7 |
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What is a macguffin? "It might be a Scottish name, taken from a story about two men in a train. One man says 'What's that package up there in the baggage rack?', and the other answers 'Oh that's a McGuffin'. The first one asks 'What's a McGuffin?'. 'Well', the other man says, 'It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands'. The first man says 'But there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands', and the other one answers 'Well, then that's no McGuffin!'." - Alfred Hitchcock |
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Aug 28 |
answered | Using the iPad as a GM-tool |
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Aug 27 |
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How do you deal with missing players? Explanations for days off, blinding thugs; that cigar is probably the hardest-working item on your character sheet! |
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Aug 27 |
answered | Effective Light Armor Fighter? |
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Aug 27 |
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How do I use the same type of creature as characters level up without using more of them? When you Edit (or Duplicate and Edit), it'll let you change the monster level, as well as type (from Minion to Standard to Elite to Solo), and the program automates the conversion of all the default information, such as damage, HP, and XP gained. Any custom-created powers will have to be changed manually. Without the Monster Builder program, there is a bit in the Monster Manual about changing levels and types of monsters. |
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Aug 27 |
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Best answer for people concerned about RPG activities being occult or dangerous? @Stefano They're the same people who burn Harry Potter. |
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Aug 27 |
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Best answer for people concerned about RPG activities being occult or dangerous? I wish I could give more than a single upvote for you. This is the single most intelligent and civilized response to this behavior that I have ever seen, and I applaud you. I can only hope, if I was to ever encounter similarly closed-minded people in the future, that I would respond as maturely as you and your group did. |
