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| bio | website | vyznev.net |
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| location | Helsinki, Finland | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | 20 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 11 |
I like programming in Perl and C. I know Java and PHP too (I'm a MediaWiki developer), but I can't really say I like them. I keep meaning to learn Python some day, but never seem to get around to it.
I'm working on a Ph.D. in biomathematics. I also like programming puzzles and cryptography.
Please consider any (original) code I post to Stack Overflow (and other Stack Exchange sites) to be released under CC-Zero unless stated otherwise. You may do whatever you want with it and don't have to credit me in any way, although of course that would be nice.
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May 20 |
answered | How can I run games in Shadowrun, without going overboard? |
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Apr 26 |
comment |
Any free and private wiki-like services for campaign tracking? @pblock: It depends on the sharing options you set for the document. If you choose "anyone with the link may view/edit", then it does exactly what it says on the tin. If you allow only certain people to view/edit, then those people will indeed have to log in. That said, unless your documents contain something actually sensitive, letting anyone with the link access them and just keeping the link private generally works just fine. |
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Apr 24 |
answered | How do I deal with these crazy PCs? |
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Apr 22 |
awarded | Organizer |
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Apr 1 |
comment |
Can psychic damage affect mindless creatures? Can radiant damage sterilise water? Note that, in reality, a sufficiently bright flashlight could be used to sterilize water, at least as long as it puts out enough ultraviolet light. That's basically how UV sterilizers work. |
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Mar 27 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Mar 27 |
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How can I introduce twists to the setting without asking the players Ps. One way in which this could backfire is that, when you eventually introduce your clockwork soldiers, the players might say: "That's the twist? I expected something a lot stranger." So, you know... just be prepared to come up with more twists if needed. |
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Mar 27 |
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How can I introduce twists to the setting without asking the players +1, was going to post exactly this answer myself. |
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Feb 26 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Feb 25 |
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Is Coup de Grace on sleeping and bound opponents an evil act? +1 for pointing out that the traditional punishment for piracy was death, so the choice (assuming that your setting follows this tradition) is not between "kill them" and "just lock them up", but between "kill them now" vs. "let someone else kill them later". Yes, killing the pirates without a trial might be unlawful (although even that point could be argued under the given circumstances, especially if the captain decides to hold a summary trial and find them all guilty), but (at least if they were caught in the act, and thus clearly guilty) it's not necessarily evil. |
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Jan 30 |
awarded | Informed |
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Jan 13 |
suggested | suggested edit on What do you do when there's nothing to do in combat? |
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Jan 11 |
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What's the simplest way of representing a “savage” warrior with an tiger animal companion? Admittedly I'm not too familiar with 3.5e, but do tigers really count as burrowing animals? O_o |
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Jan 11 |
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What's the simplest way of representing a “savage” warrior with an tiger animal companion? +1. I think the key point to realize here is that, while simply buying the tiger sounds just wrong for the suggested background, one should really not think of it as the character having actually bought the tiger, but simply as a game-mechanical accounting trick to achieve the desired outcome: a poor character from a jungle village who doesn't really have much in the way of money or equipment, but doesn't really need it anyway, since he's got a *bleep*ing tiger. |
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Jan 11 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jan 10 |
answered | When GMing in a high-tech game world how do you handle potentially disruptive tech? |
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Jan 6 |
revised |
What simplified house rule grappling systems exist for AD&D 2nd edition? fix broken link; change a hyphen into an em dash to pass the 6 char minimum edit limit |
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Jan 6 |
suggested | suggested edit on What simplified house rule grappling systems exist for AD&D 2nd edition? |
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Dec 26 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Dec 26 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
