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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:30 am

Marlith wrote:For those that still play here is a page that will print graph paper for you as a PDF. Sort of nice not having to pay....where the heck were they when I was growing up..

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs

i quote MShipley! great link!

but....

just for curiosity: who could use (and moreover) for what kind of game this layout????

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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:39 am

I believe that was the grid layout used to map Castle Ravenloft.

Actually, it isn't a game sit, aia. The guy even notes that he has no idea why someone would want hex paper. The Muppet!

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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:11 am

MShipley88 wrote: The Muppet!

Mark

hey thats my word!

Are we nearly there yet?

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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:23 am

just for curiosity: who could use (and moreover) for what kind of game this layout????

Q*bert!

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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:24 am

another question for you, since i cannot see any explanation behind this:

** expired/removed eBay auction **

now, my question: why should i wait for one week (and save of course 2 USD!!!!) instead of using BIN?

now i still miss to see a BIN lower than the starting price, and then i'm able to declare that i saw everything on ebay...

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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:48 pm

Some sellers do that to say, "OK...if you want to bargain hunt then click here, but if you know it will go higher than that click here."

I think the benefit of an auction price and BIN so close together is that it gets listed in multiple searches.

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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:42 pm

MShipley88 wrote:Some sellers do that to say, "OK...if you want to bargain hunt then click here, but if you know it will go higher than that click here."

I think the benefit of an auction price and BIN so close together is that it gets listed in multiple searches.

Mark

Some are even the same price.

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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:23 am

*looks around for mark*

Are we nearly there yet?

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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:24 am

................And so.............

Building on an idea that NetRodent posted on the RJK strand:

If you assembled all the runic copies of Cairn of the Skeleton King, and together they opened a portal to a janitor's closet at TSR......

Say you could control the year, but you could only use the portal for one visit and one return trip.......

What...would...you....DO?

Mark :lol:

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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:26 am

killjoy32 wrote:*looks around for mark*

Neat timing, Al.

(All very well with those comments on the other thread when we dun have to write the module in the first place!

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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:31 am

MShipley88 wrote:................And so.............

Building on an idea that NetRodent posted on the RJK strand:

If you assembled all the runic copies of Cairn of the Skeleton King, and together they opened a portal to a janitor's closet at TSR......

Say you could control the year, but you could only use the portal for one visit and one return trip.......

What...would...you....DO?

Mark

Go back to the day the building opened and take the 30 years of TSR book or whatever best laid out the events as they unfolded and leave it there with a letter explain the parts left out. They could then keep the company the way it started...create Magic The Gathering and perhaps buy Hasbro or whoever owns them now in the current timeline.....and buy stocks I know will skyrocket as well :lol:

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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:43 am

nah you would go back and advise that X1 was the biggest bag of spanners this side of the galaxy and destroy everything in sight.

25 years later...... there are only about 72 copies remaining....

hey it could have happened!

can you imagine it... 85 bids, current bid $1872.01, highest bidder a2jeff

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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:16 am

ehi guy, what about this?!?!

** expired/removed eBay auction **

...how can it be possible???

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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:30 am

I suppose I could post this to the GenCon thread, but I enjoy bumping this thread, too:

Anyway, GenCon SoCal is moving to downtown L.A., and all GenCon events are apparently trying to lure the video-game industry. Something to do with the demise of E3 ... not sure I understand it all.

Poorly executed press release here

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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:44 am

Read the letter from Peter Atkinson at the end of the press release. It is much more informative.

Mark

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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:20 am

MShipley88 wrote:Read the letter from Peter Atkinson at the end of the press release. It is much more informative.

Mark

It's a mistake on their part. All it will do is alienate longtime fans while doing nothing to gather any new ones. I mean, there is crossover between the electronic and tabletop games, but I wonder if it's enough to support the kind of endeavor that are attempting. Then again, I'm just an old fogie who doesn't like the tabletop and electronic games of their life to mix in any way.

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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:42 am

I don't like the mixing of styles either...but it's inevitable, and it might be a help.

Mark

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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:23 pm

Savage Worlds ...

Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane ...

Two great tastes that taste great together!

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