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review: The Planar Handbook
« on: August 25, 2004, 09:27:15 AM »
reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=816

Gemm and I argued last night over the score. He submitted as a 5.5, then an hour or so later wanted to raise it to a 6.0. HOwever, it appears to contribute to power creep, so I didn't make the change.

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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2004, 09:29:02 AM »
The only person that should be allowed to submit scores of 6 is 42.  Becasue he hates everything so if he gives it a 6 that must mean its freaking awsome.
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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2004, 12:12:39 PM »
I do not hate everything. I despise and loath everything. There's a difference.
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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2004, 02:42:35 PM »
I think I'm becoming like you, 42. Looking over the last few disagreements that EUOL and I have had over films, I appear to despise and loath everything too.

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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2004, 05:15:30 PM »
You despise and loath everything that I love and cherish it would appear :P

Apart from LOTR of course.
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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2004, 07:12:05 PM »
But seeing as I depsise and Loath LOTR, it's all good.

Except for the movies, they were good.
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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2004, 08:18:33 PM »
Your name is not, however, SE. And as such, the above comment was not directed at you.

Noob.
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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2004, 10:27:18 PM »
I think if we were a club, any club, we'd be closely associated with the Anarchists club. Since we somehow get along, yet share completely differing opinions on everything.
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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2004, 11:01:51 PM »
I disagree. Freak.
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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2004, 11:23:38 PM »
On the topic of this book, I also think the score might have been a little high.

Still this book has been in demand from planescape fans for a while and is the book most Scapers expected when MOTP came out.

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Re: review: The Planar Handbook
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2004, 04:26:50 AM »
So, in trying to run a campaign at 12 AM, nothing plotted out at all, and only a few simple things to accompany me on my journey towards this cressendo, I made an adventure. But by 3... or 2 AM, whichever subset of numerical timing you are under currently, it got quite hilarious and to the point that we couldn't continue because the character I was playing was being to funny.

Anywho, the adventure will consist of a point made in the Planar Handbook. That sometimes planes start to merge, or meld, into each other. I forget the term they used for this, but it's there; in the book. So, I've decided that the town they are in, Jiffylite (which came from a package I saw) and the rest of the world, is starting to turn in on itself, into a shape of a donut, much like the city of Sigil. In fact, it is becoming Sigil.

I guess I can now say that every so often (but not immensly often enough that it's ridiculous) Sigil actually "kills" a planet that is inhabited by some kind of peoples, consuming them and their society into their own current one. Intersting, yes? I think so.
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