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« Reply #160 on: April 01, 2012, 02:53:54 PM »
Make sure your keyboard settings are correct. If you're set to a French or French Canadian setting, for instance, instead of English (US or Canada), your computer will assume you're using a French keyboard instead of an English one, which means certain keys are different.

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« Reply #161 on: April 01, 2012, 05:18:54 PM »
Thanks team, problem fixed.  Anyway, the reason I was trying to post in the fist place was to ask for some opinions on a D&D character.  Now, to be fair, because it's as adaptation of the Bard, I should offer this in song, or at least poetry.  Anyhoo, in lieu of posting the two-page stat sheet here, I'll just ask that anyone willing to give it a look-see e-mail me and I'll send it to you.  It's called "The Charlatan" and I saw on one of your old sites where you had a version of such a thing, but it's more a play-thing character than a useful class.  It just happens that I built one several years ago, intended to be an interesting alternative to the Bard, and actually playable as a legitimate character.  I'd like feedback because any DM I've ever shown it to had a knee-jerk rejection of it just because it was created by a player, and the immediate assumption is that it will be over-powered, but I've gone to great pains to make sure it isn't any more powerful than a Bard would be at each level.  Seems any DM I've tried to show it to is terrified of thinking outside the book.  Or, maybe it really is unusable and I'm full of huraka (Watership Downs), but that seems odd in my thinking since we're talking about a world of magic and dragons here, not reality.
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I saw where someone posted here ( http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=6543.0 ) about The Charla-tan.
I once was with a group of guys where every game began

with standard stuff and character that came right from the book.
Constructive inventation though,  the DM would not brook.

Reacting with a knee-jerk and implying it’s invasive,
and instantly rejected all attempts to be creative.

Myself, I love to take apart and monkey with the works
And try things out and re-arrange and fiddle with the quirks.

And so I took the lowly Bard, a class I find defective,
Or only useful in a game if playing a detective.

I made him disreputable and prone to speculation,
The gambling type, and terribly prone to equivocation.

One who lives by “Lady Luck” and lives by slinging bull,
And gets so very good at it, his pocket’s always full.

He’ll make you think he’s anything.  A thief, a mage, a healer,
But once he’s used his luck up, he’s a runner and a squealer.

I tried real hard to build him so he isn’t uber-powered
Nor underdone and simpering, like maiden just deflowered.

If you will, I'll send him you.  You tell me what you thinks
Isn’t he just wonderful?  Or do you think he stinks?

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« Reply #162 on: April 02, 2012, 04:18:23 PM »
Make sure your keyboard settings are correct. If you're set to a French or French Canadian setting, for instance, instead of English (US or Canada), your computer will assume you're using a French keyboard instead of an English one, which means certain keys are different.
French keyboard setting is probably the second wonkiest one I have ever used.
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« Reply #163 on: April 02, 2012, 04:23:02 PM »
hee, yeah.  Froggy bastids have a different word for EVERthing.  I don't know why everyone doesn't just speak English.  It's so much easier. :smirk
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« Reply #164 on: April 02, 2012, 04:36:50 PM »
hee, yeah.  Froggy bastids have a different word for EVERthing.  I don't know why everyone doesn't just speak English.  It's so much easier. :smirk
I think I have an even better idea for a universal language.
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« Reply #165 on: April 02, 2012, 04:53:20 PM »
hee, yeah.  Froggy bastids have a different word for EVERthing.  I don't know why everyone doesn't just speak English.  It's so much easier. :smirk
I think I have an even better idea for a universal language.

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« Reply #166 on: April 02, 2012, 05:06:51 PM »
hee, yeah.  Froggy bastids have a different word for EVERthing.  I don't know why everyone doesn't just speak English.  It's so much easier. :smirk
I think I have an even better idea for a universal language.

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« Reply #167 on: April 03, 2012, 06:43:58 AM »
Make sure your keyboard settings are correct. If you're set to a French or French Canadian setting, for instance, instead of English (US or Canada), your computer will assume you're using a French keyboard instead of an English one, which means certain keys are different.
French keyboard setting is probably the second wonkiest one I have ever used.
I've had to use a keyboard where all the keys were sorted in alphabetical order (left to right, top to bottom). That was hell.
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« Reply #168 on: April 05, 2012, 05:13:26 AM »
hee, yeah.  Froggy bastids have a different word for EVERthing.  I don't know why everyone doesn't just speak English.  It's so much easier. :smirk
I think I have an even better idea for a universal language.

Binary!

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Yeah, use  Hex at least.
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« Reply #169 on: April 10, 2012, 08:12:39 PM »
hee, yeah.  Froggy bastids have a different word for EVERthing.  I don't know why everyone doesn't just speak English.  It's so much easier. :smirk
I think I have an even better idea for a universal language.

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« Reply #170 on: April 12, 2012, 08:48:30 AM »
You can modify the name of a thread from the forum itself (without going into the thread) by double clicking on thread's section (not the name or any other linking part, but that whole block around it). How cool is that?

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« Reply #171 on: April 19, 2012, 07:38:58 AM »
Is it possible to make a thread that's only viewable by yourself?  How about only by a certain group of people?

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« Reply #172 on: April 19, 2012, 07:51:12 AM »
Is it possible to make a thread that's only viewable by yourself?  How about only by a certain group of people?

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Not possible, as far as I know. Prime can make sub-boards or entire boards visible only to certain membergroups, but I don't know if he can make individual threads invisible (if he can't, there's probably an addon for it). In any case, regular mortal users can't (nor can regular mods, for that matter).
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« Reply #173 on: April 19, 2012, 08:23:30 AM »
I've looked for addons that can do that, haven't found any. If you need that functionality for a PbP, try Myth-Weavers.

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« Reply #174 on: April 19, 2012, 08:27:51 AM »
Oh it's not necessary, just would have made collecting some NPC stats into a single thread for my eyes only a little easier.  But I can always save them offline.
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« Reply #175 on: April 19, 2012, 04:22:25 PM »
CCould always put them up on Obsidian Portal and link them in where necessary.

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« Reply #176 on: April 23, 2012, 08:09:04 PM »
Oh it's not necessary, just would have made collecting some NPC stats into a single thread for my eyes only a little easier.  But I can always save them offline.
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« Reply #177 on: May 04, 2012, 11:23:47 AM »
Is it possible to change the order of posts in a thread?  I needed one more post than I reserved in a homebrew thread, so I'd love to be able to move one of my replies up to join the rest of the material at the beginning.
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« Reply #178 on: May 04, 2012, 11:53:39 AM »
No, unless you have a time machine. And that is why I once reserved an entire page. :p

I'll look into it though.
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« Reply #179 on: May 04, 2012, 11:57:03 AM »
Can you reorder things when you split off a thread?  I could just split all the posts into a separate thread and reorder them that way.
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