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I used to play quiet a bit in junior high. I knew a bit about the game, but the best way to play as a beginner is to have a few silly games with friends who play a lot. We always tried crazy, crazy stunts when we played. Like throwing a pint of alcohol on someone and trying to light them on fire with a flaming arrow. Or pickpocketing everyone in a pub, sometimes three or four times if we kept getting caught, which always resulted in a bar fight. All of which made our quests 10 times as long.

Ryan: Yeah, it sort of depends on who you're playing with. If you like pillaging and trying to tickle Orcs instead of killing them, that's fine as long as everyone else thinks it's funny too. Switching up DM always helps too. If one DM is more straight forward, have someone else DM thats a little more wild. Usually the other DM will be a bit more open too. Plus, there are two types of people that play D&D. There are the ones who goof off the whole time, and those who just want to play buy the rules and nothing more.

Those people are also the ones who find a loophole in every task you give them. "Well, I'm a half-wood-elf at level blah dee blah, so that means I can breath under water, and blah blah blah, so now your quest is ruined, Harry! Blah de blah!" Never play with more than one of these people. One is not recommended, either.

P.S.  Halflings aren't 'that' bad.  Really.  You just have to find something to hide behind...alot!

I don't really have any tips other than don't be a halfling, it sucks.

I was always a Halfling! Those are the best! Not only can you hide really well, but you can steal things. And isn't that the best part? Don't tell me you played Elder Scrolls and didn't walk around stealing everything from everyone.

Halfling Rogue is the way to go, my friend. Especially if there is a larger character with you, because you can ride them or hide in their coats.

Well, the best advice I can give you Magintz is to go to the Wizards of the Coast website and download the character sheet PDFs. The local library will sometimes have a Players Handbook which will help a lot, but you can find them online in torrent form or maybe even on those PDF book search things. Pick something basic, like a Human, an Elf, a Gnome, whatever you're happy with. Fighters are good, Rouges are good,  Bards, Barbarians, Ranger, even Clerics are good. Paladins are not. Also, don't shank yourself will the rolling of stats. If you get a really bad stat, roll again. No one other than the super Nerds will care. -1 is fine, but shoot for at least 0's.

Also, the best place to get help is from the players themselves. Most of them are happy to help you and tell you all of the rules.

SHHH! Don't tell. It's all a secret!

Don't worry, we'll all be dead soon after.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T3bxymRd3WA

I mean, the Mayans had a far more sophisticated calendar system then we do so they must be right. And this big boobied woman has insider access to all ISP decisions, so they must be right too.

I've seen quite a bit of him lately. He's done a lot of TV stuff too, mostly for his flash video reviews. Someone posted the links a few months back. Lots of talk about him and his reviews floating around the internet.

Same with Trap. I hear people talking about Potter Puppet Pals and his flash "videos" online, and sometimes even around campus. And I think to myself "Hey, I knew that guy! Kinda."

Four years ago, I was watching a local public access channel, and some guy ran an hours worth of Trap's videos, one after the other. Just found them on the internet and thought that they were funny.

Actually, the values want to go toward the middle of the value scale. So a dark mountain with get lighter, but a light colored river will get darker, but only somewhat. But mountains have a haze sometimes, and there are a lot of other factors. And as for the color change, as things get further and further away from you they tend to change color, only slightly, away from the color of the light source. Like, a blue house will look more blue-purple as it's further away in yellow sunlight. Something that's orange in yellow sunlight will look more red-orange. Atleast, I think that's how it works. The last time I had a class on this was several years ago, so maybe I'm wrong.

Look up some pictures of mountains and landscapes and it's easier to see. But in games, a lot of rules aren't followed and are made up.

Edit: Dammit Mash, with your fancy techincal wiki page

Needs a bit of clean up, but looks good. As for the man's position, maybe arch his back some. The woman is a long backwards "S" shape, but the man is sort of a "C" shape. Puffing his chest out a bit may give him more of a matching shape to the woman. Make sense?

Looks pretty good. Some cropping issues around the bottom and the thing that Ryan Timothy said. The only other recomendation I would have would be to lighten up the clouds around the center mountain. The tones are too similar and blend together which drag the horzion down and then you have issues of excess negative space.

Hmm, one is password protected and the other is under 18 only. And the password isn't ags, bluecup, or chrisjones.

File harassment charges against him and get a restraining order, and then he'll just sue you for his money which he won't get. Take him to court. If he doesn't have any evidence to prove his claim then he can't get the money.

I don't mean to be that guy, but to me it looks like a tracing of a photo or a render that has been colored.  It looks good, don't get me wrong, I'm just curious if this is something completely original?

There's a local college that has banned sex on campus. The fine for possessing alcohol (even underage) is around $20. But, if you're caught having sex it's a fine of $200. A very strange cost difference.

At my university there have been a lot of attacks and rapes on college girls just outside of campus. They've advised everyone to travel in groups. This sort of situation would be the only situation where some sort of group study requirement would be legit, but people would still have a huge fit about it.

Very ridiculous.

I've got a wireless optic mouse that sometimes gives me problems. First thing I check is that the receiver is in the USB port all of the way and that nothing is on the touch pad of my laptop. Then I "restart" my mouse by turning it off and on, then switch to new batteries if I'm still having problems. Some optic mouses can easily be fixed by cleaning the LED and photon receiver thing with some rubbing alcohol on a q-tip.

Also, completely off topic, I love my infrared mouse. No more bright red lights or anything. They might be more common than I think, but I don't miss that harsh LED on my eyes. But a downside is that you can't play with it on the wall. But if you do decided to pick up a new mouse, keep an eye out for one.

Both of my parents smoke. My dad smokes a few times a day, my mom only when work stresses her out, which is often. My dad has tried every method to quit, but never has. My mom did for a while, but eventually went back to one every so often, to whenever she feels like. It can be done, you just really have to want it.

LGM had a little smoking problem for a while and bought himself some special flavored tooth picks for his oral fixation, like earlwood said.

But I think the best method is just to work in steps. Bob Clendenin just did a PSA about if you can not smoke and drink a cup of coffee then you can not smoke while whatever, then whatever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf01Ti6bH8U

Best of luck to you.

I get too excited about faux trailers. Grayson, I thought, was amazing and I wanted it to be a movie SOOOO BADLY! It wasn't done that well, but it still was an awesome concept. It's also the perfect example of why trailers for fake movies are both awesome and annoying. I don't think a movie of just trailers would work, but it still might be good.

Here's a link to the Grayson trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZuvJ48MZ0

LGM and I saw Grindhouse when it came out. I loved the whole thing. Planet Terror was a fun and sort of campy take on Grindhouse films, but Tarantino took Death Proof to the extreme and made it as much like a Grindhouse flick as he could. It was a bit boring at parts, but it made the rest of the movie so much better.

Danny Trejo is supposedly doing a full length version of Machete, which will be kick ass. I didn't find Don't as funny as everyone else did. Other than Machete, I think the best trailer was Werewolf Women of the S.S.

Four letters.

F.E.A.R.

Scared me shitless in less than 2 minutes. I still haven't beat that game. Too damn scary. And you know it's scary when you unload two magazines into ghosts you know aren't really there.

It could be good, I certainly have no doubt in Maya and Bryces capabilities...but I'm not sure there's many people here willing to fork out the £1200 to try it

Don't forget, Bryce 5.5 is free. I recently downloaded it to make a few basic models. You could totally make an awesome game with Bryce.

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LGM used a video camera and a green screen and it worked really well for sprites, if you've got the time on your hands. You can photoshop the images too and get a consistent effect. Tim and Eric's "Tom Goes to the Mayor" is a good example. Just green screen a bunch of photos and batch process them in PS.

What's weird is that there are so many options to the burn and dodge tools, but they're designed just like a semi-opaque brush tool. Avoid them at all costs. Totally not worth it. But if you do decide to use them, fool around with the settings so they are working in your favor.

But seriously, don't use them.