The Marches Campaign

John Thompson · (Ymmas Ragah) Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 116

We're orphans, raised by the charity of the parish.

After a childhood of scullery labors and heartwarming pranks like adders coiled in chamberpots, we diverged professionally in early adolescence.

Sinlocah and Divad learned the Holy Writ. Lars and Bhartec did heavier manual labor, and killed things in the forest to furnish the floors and stock the larders. But we're grown up now, and the parish priest has other, less physically able mouths to feed.

All of that is fine with us, because this is D&D and even those of Lawful and Neutral alignments wanna kill things and take their shit.

Nick · (Sinlocah) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 121

Scott · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:46 am Post subject:

Does anyone care if I drop Halflings from the rulebook and setting? No one's going to play one, and I'm never going to place NPC Halflings anywhere.
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Bhartec Redhands · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:52 am Post subject:

Scott · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:07 am Post subject:

I'll probably be ready to play before Sunday. I'm just hammering out the last of the house rules and significant setting tweaks.

If I remove the Halflings, the only accessible, "above-ground" non-human PC race will be gone, making the remaining non-human PC races the secretive Dwarves, who live so far underground as to not interact on any mass-cultural level with Humanity, and the creepy Elves, who pop out every now and then to give you a fortune in gold and gems, or take you off to rape you under a giant mushroom.

So as before, PC Dwarves or Half-Elves are fine with me, but they're pretty weird by human standards, and don't expect to meet many NPCs of the same race.
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WyzardWhately · (Lars) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 260

Scott · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:19 am Post subject:

OK. 3 out of the 5 of us are down with Halfling genocide, and I suspect neither John nor Nick will give a shit, so I'm removing Halflings from the rulebook.

A new copy of the rulebook will go out on Sunday, or right before we start playing, whichever comes first.
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Scott · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject:

At least one player is going out of town this weekend, so I'm going to stick with the original start date of Sunday evening.

As a matter of normal policy, we'll assume that post rates will decline on the weekends. The default "one post a day" baseline applies to weekdays. If, for some reason, it turns out you're not going to be able to contribute on a regular basis, let me know.
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WyzardWhately · (Lars) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 260

I'm getting ready to send my laptop in for repairs. I'll still have to spend an unreasonable amount of time on a computer SOMEHOW, so I'll continue to post. However, I may be less prompt than usual, and you won't see me on IM so much after tonight.

Bhartec Redhands · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject:

Whats wrong with the laptop out of curosity (3 of us at least are IT or former IT folks)

WyzardWhately · (Lars) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 260

Bhartec Redhands · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a video error. In particular pay attention if the crashes occur upon boot up, or only after the computer has been on a while since this indicates overheating and it may simply be bad fan. Unfortunately overheating can cause irreparable damage if it has been over looked for a long time. If it is not overheating it could be bios related or peripheral related (internal connector from card to screen). The actual video card has no moving parts so they seldomly go bad; when they do usually because of over heating or a power surge.

First thing I would do is simply connect an external screen to the external video port and see what it does for you. This will eliminate a lot of possibilities either way. If it external screen operates correctly then the issue is not the video card but somewhere between the card and the internal screen, probably fixable yourself.

If the external display does the same thing as the internal screen, reset the defaults on the bios and see if that helps (small chance but worth trying). If that fails you can flash the bios to take that possibility out of the picture completely (your manufacturer will have those instructions). If it is errors still occur then it is probably the video card itself and honestly it may just be better off buying a new laptop since they are integrated for the most part. My two cents.

WyzardWhately · (Lars) Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 260

Well, we actually already re-flashed the bios.

I don't have an external monitor handy, unfortunately, or I would have done that as well.

It's possible that it overheated at some point, but that's not the problem now because it's had the same errors when it was running cold. Could well have been a power surge, though...

I'm not buying a new laptop, though, because I purchased a service contract that covers everything up to me dumping coke in the keyboard until the magic smoke comes out. So, I intend to get the benefit of that deal by having them fix it. It's no skin off my ass what it takes to accomplish that.

Bhartec Redhands · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject:

Thats good, push for a new one if you can.

Scott · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject:

I've started posting little historical vignettes in the setting forum.
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