Comments on: Closed for audit purposes…

By: greywulf

greywulf — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:56:00 +0000

Heh. It’s good to see all this rat love. And I mean that in the best possible taste.

Boy, are you guys going to enjoy the next issue of Save Or Die. It’s rattalicious

Open Office is great, mainly for it’s pdf creation abilities. The OOCalc, the spreadsheet, is pretty good too. Normally I don’t like word processors, etc, but I’m willing to make an exception

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:27:00 +0000

Thanks for the tips!

By: ve4grm

ve4grm — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:09:00 +0000

For making .pdfs, I find OpenOffice to be quite good as well. The built-in “export to pdf” function retains all the formatting. And since the free, open-source OpenOffice can open MSWord docs as well, you can even convert those straight to pdf.

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:48:00 +0000

I’m a big fan of rats, too (need some scifi Skaven real, real bad); ratling sounds like it might be fun.

‘Amorphous Were-Rat’ however…that’s messed up, right there.

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:21:00 +0000

Seems rat-a-licious…

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:38:00 +0000

I love me some rats!

By: greywulf

greywulf — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:22:00 +0000

Good set of links you got there. I'll be chasing them all up today.

Thanks for the linky to Save Or Die too. I've put up real, honest-to-goodness proper .pdfs of each issue today along with instructions how to make your own on my blog.

Oh, and here's a sneak peak of what's going into Issue 3. Don't tell anyone I told ya!

Introduction

A closer look at.....Rats
- Riding Rat
- Ratling
-- Ratling Characters
- Ethereal Rat Swarm
- Amorphous Were-Rat

Bookshelf Essentials
- The Mother of All Treasure Tables
- Ptolus
- The Book of Templates Delux Edition
- World's Largest Dungeon
- The Burning Plague

A thousand gleaming spears
- Decisive surgical strikes

Meet the Badgers
- Brocka characters

Occam's Role-player

Problem Monster Number Uno

By: ve4grm

ve4grm — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:43:00 +0000

So the topic seems to have been closed with Shamus figuring out just why it may have been misinterpreted.

Reread comics 6 and 7, going from panel 1 on page 6 to Chuck’s comment in panel 2 on page 7.

That was the way the joke was originally written.

Apparently they didn’t decide on the three-panel format until later on, and recut some previous comics, inserting punchlines along the way (such as the “Improved Stamina” line).

Rereading it in the way it was meant, Chuck comes off as much less of a jerk, and it becomes much more reminiscent of the Aragorn - Legolas (or “Leggo-my-ass”) interactions at the council of Elrond in DMotR.

By: Noah

Noah — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:47:00 +0000

Yeah, I don’t think I’d ever want to play out a rape scene at a tabletop group - heck, not even online, where the anonymity makes it easier to get into character.

What was fascinating about that whole thing was that there was no-one in the scene except the Bad Guy, the Victim, and the Head GM. We got to the part where there was obviously no escape, then ‘faded to black’. The strong reactions from others were to just knowing that it had happened.

And he was a pretty freaky Bad Guy.

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:08:00 +0000

While our group has matured, and tackled heavier subjects than before, we all drew a line and Rape is definitively on the other side of that line.

Your Bag Guy example is freaky. I respect the GM’s call but I would not feel comfortable with such a scene was I a player.

Poor Shamus…