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If he's been rifling through her wallet, he should feel guilty even before finding that card. :P

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Mine would have been better if it hadn't occurred in such profoundly depressing circumstances.

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Originally written by Lady Davida:

But honestly, I place the value of life over the value of the choice between life and death.
How do you reconcile this with the problem of evil, the mainstream solution to which is to give free will an absolutely paramount position in religious moral philosophy -- that is, that it's best for people to be able to make the wrong choice rather than to take that choice away from them?

In fact, one could make a good case that as a Christian it's your moral duty to give other people as many opportunities to sin as possible.

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Okay, who said that they usually go to sleep at 10 o'clock in the morning?

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You probably shouldn't save them as JPG; it makes them blurry. GIF or PNG works better.

At the moment the format really hurts the quality of the small poses. But it seems as if they'll look pretty nice once you've fixed that.

[ Saturday, October 08, 2005 19:34: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Originally written by Laurana:

Although - do you think legalising assited death might open opportunities to hide murder? Say, to get rid of terminally ill or heavily disabled relatives who are a constant burden on their families? (This is just an example, think "frail old rich Auntie" or something)
Not likely. Or at least, it wouldn't be any easier than it already is to bump someone off and make a fake suicide note.

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And even if that didn't bother you, I doubt that anybody knows how to make that specific change anyway. Sorry.

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Better still, submit your graphics to the Louvre.

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Originally written by Milu:

A variant of Angband (called PernAngband!) was loosely based on the world of Dragonriders of Pern, and the author of the books didn't like the idea. The game had to be removed from the net. So, I wouldn't put names from those books into my scenarios...
Actually, a descendant of PernAngband still exists, although most of the Pern references have been fiddled around a bit so they're not so obvious, and it's been renamed. It's now called ToME.

As far as BoE goes, there was also a scenario named Nightfall based on the Isaac Asimov book of the same name, which was really good, and a scenario named Blade of the Jedi set in the Star Wars universe, which really wasn't.

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How much encumbering armor do you use? in Blades of Exile
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Blesses and hastes. Magic breastplates. :P

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Also, it's implied that they eat people.

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Also, it's implied that they eat people.

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Originally written by Synergy67:

It's a highly tricky one, this matter, no matter where we land on the issue. Pinning down how to handle it legally looks complicated, though to me, it could start as simple as, if you require being hooked up to some machine to keep living, you should have the right to disconnect the thing and turn it off and whatever happens after that is what happens.
That's already the case in almost every country, as part of the right to refuse medical treatment.

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If you provide a premade party, the player shouldn't change anything about it. They can, but they're not supposed to, and if they don't honour your polite request that they refrain from doing so, well, that's not your fault. :P

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If you provide a premade party, the player shouldn't change anything about it. They can, but they're not supposed to, and if they don't honour your polite request that they refrain from doing so, well, that's not your fault. :P

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I am almost certain that no such call exists. Why would you want to know this, anyway? Trying to create a duplicate of a party member or something?

(Of course, one way around it is to provide a premade party for your scenario, in which case you know what graphics they have.)

[ Saturday, October 08, 2005 05:03: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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I am almost certain that no such call exists. Why would you want to know this, anyway? Trying to create a duplicate of a party member or something?

(Of course, one way around it is to provide a premade party for your scenario, in which case you know what graphics they have.)

[ Saturday, October 08, 2005 05:03: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Originally written by Archmagus Micael:

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Originally written by Khoth:

Incidentally, there's really no need to delete the question once you have an answer.
Yeah, but it was showing part of my code...

It'd be nice if you left enough context to make it clear what the question was about. Someone else might come along with the same problem as you had, and read this topic to try and find a solution.

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And Thuryl, thanks for your help - I've got it working perfectly now. (Apart from the screams - is there any way I can muffle those?)

- Archmagus Micael
Hmm... not as far as I know. Turning the party to stone and back instead of killing them worked in BoE, but I think that in BoA that still produces a sound effect.

[ Saturday, October 08, 2005 04:51: Message edited by: Thuryl ]

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Originally written by Archmagus Micael:

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Originally written by Khoth:

Incidentally, there's really no need to delete the question once you have an answer.
Yeah, but it was showing part of my code...

It'd be nice if you left enough context to make it clear what the question was about. Someone else might come along with the same problem as you had, and read this topic to try and find a solution.

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And Thuryl, thanks for your help - I've got it working perfectly now. (Apart from the screams - is there any way I can muffle those?)

- Archmagus Micael
Hmm... not as far as I know. Turning the party to stone and back instead of killing them worked in BoE, but I think that in BoA that still produces a sound effect.

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Politics and Beliefs in General
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Originally written by Aranea Hirsuta:

There are many possible axes/dimensions of a political spectrum based upon the many values a person can have. But given that politics is primarily about how governmental power is organized/distributed througout society, doesn't it make sense to organized it based upon how centralized the power is? So one end should be utter anarchy, the other Stalinist Russia/China/Third and Fourth Reichs (hopefully only Third :D ). Say that the anarchy side is the left, and the fascist side is the right. I would lean a bit left of center I guess. I would describe many of my political beliefs as libertarian. Though regulation is needed in many cases.
It occurs to me that one thing nearly everyone with an interest in politics agrees on is that power of any kind is dangerous and nobody can really be trusted with much of it. The only real disagreement is on which kinds of power are least harmful; after all, an unregulated corporation can develop political and economic power comparable in scale to that of a government, and is arguably more likely to abuse that power for its own ends.

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I don't pretend to have all of the answers here, but society should not be bearing the cost.
Women with unwanted pregnancies are just as much a part of society as anyone else. The question isn't whether society should bear the cost; it's which part of society should bear the cost.

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But the point is that we cannot allow these people to feel that what they have done is ok. They have irresponsibly used their sexual faculty and they must understand that they cannot shove off their problems to others.
Most unwanted pregnancies occur in people who have at least been attempting to use contraception. Contraceptive methods aren't perfect and neither are the people who use them. It would seem that some sympathy for their position is not unjustified.

After all, we don't abandon people who engage in other behaviours that result in their needing medical assistance later on. Smokers who develop lung cancer are still entitled to the same degree of health care as any other member of the population, and so are obese people who develop heart disease. And before you suggest that these groups should be cut off from publicly-funded medical treatment too, consider that practically everyone engages at least some risky behaviours.

For example, I'm studying to be a biologist. In the course of my career I'm likely to spend a fair amount of time working with radiation and carcinogenic chemicals, increasing my risk of developing various forms of cancer. Suppose I develop cancer later in life. Since I have voluntarily engaged in a behaviour which is known to carry certain risks, should my entitlement to public funding for my treatment be reduced by an amount corresponding to that increased risk?

See, that's why we have publicly-funded health care in the first place; everyone takes risks, but only some people suffer the adverse effects of those risks. Not everyone who forgets to take a contraceptive pill gets pregnant, not everyone who smokes develops cancer, and not everyone who goes mountain climbing falls and breaks a leg, but some do, and it's only fair that the lucky ones should share the burden of the unlucky ones.

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Hmm. To minimise the chance that the party will lose items, make sure there are no other items (or at least, as few as possible) in the same town as the party when they die.

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Hmm. To minimise the chance that the party will lose items, make sure there are no other items (or at least, as few as possible) in the same town as the party when they die.

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Originally written by Archmagus Micael:

Will the party notice this?
Yes, the player will most certainly notice if you kill and then revive their party. :P

You'll just have to find some way to make it not stand out too badly.

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Originally written by Archmagus Micael:

Will the party notice this?
Yes, the player will most certainly notice if you kill and then revive their party. :P

You'll just have to find some way to make it not stand out too badly.

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If someone will take that job for $4, why should the company get penalized? It is a free market, and no one is forced to take a job they don't want.
This is easy to say when one isn't faced with the choice between a lousy job and not being able to feed one's family.

There are some situations which are so inherently open to coercion that a fair contract can't exist in them; if you find a starving man lost in the desert and offer him food, water and a trip home on the condition that once he gets home he gives you everything he owns, I don't think it's fair for him to be held to his end of the bargain.

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In the USA, parents can choose to send their kids to any school they wish. There are catches, like being a resident, or having money, or having a differently capable child, or member of a church. It may be different than in Australia.
Parents choose. Children don't. That's the problem. There are, in my opinion, some choices which parents do not have a right to make on behalf of their children -- indoctrinating them in a particular religion, or sending them off to a school that will do the same, is one of them.

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