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We are all newbies here, discussing how to independently publish on a screen. Tells us what tools and techniques work for you. Email me at kk at kk dot org if you have something helpful you'd like to share. — KK
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iBooks Author
Somehow I missed the announcement of iBooks Author last week. TechCrunch published a list of "subtle details" from Apple's announcing event. Engadget published a helpful hands-on illustrating the interface with lots of photos and a video. Huffington Post has excerpts from the end-user license agreement and legal analysis. ArsTechnica has a good collection of reactions to the restrictions. Mashable has a brief comparison chart identifying the competition.
In short, the tool is free, and with it, you can create media-heavy ebooks. If you want to sell the books you create with the tool, you can only sell the books through Apple. And, oh yeah, these aren't epubs.
The ArsTechnica article points out that although the format is not strictly epub2-compliant, "there shouldn't be any technical limitation to exporting a ...compliant ePub document if none of the interactive features are used. Unfortunately, iBooks Author only exports PDFs and text."
GigaOM has reported on a webcomic author who has already used the tool to create and distribute (for free!) a collection of his work. Download it from Richard Stevens' website. You'll see the file type is .ibooks. So... basically, even if you're creating a free book, you can distribute the book however you like, but it's still limited to iBooks rendering, is that right? Certainly, this is a useful, boundary-breaking tool, and folks like John Gruber have done a great job explaining why it's in Apple's interest to pursue a proprietary format. I have to say, though, this does not sound like the answer.
We haven't test-driven iBooks Author yet. Please let us know if you have!
InDesign to EPUB and AZW
I was proudly updating a techie friend recently about the progress I've been making in my latest ebook conversion for Kevin. I'd mentioned it a few weeks prior. His response was not "That's awesome!" but rather "Why does it take so long?" Not exactly what I was hoping for, but definitely a fair question.
It took me about a week to remind myself how InDesign works (it had been at least a year since our last InD project), to learn how InDesign book documents (.indb) work, and to get up to speed with InDesign CS5.5's new epub export features. I highly recommend the Lynda tutorials for that set of information. I also leaned on Liz Castro's EPUB Straight to the Point and Rufus Deuchler's How to Create an eBook with Adobe InDesign CS5 (still helpful post-CS5.5). And since the cardinal rule of working in InDesign is to apply styles consistently, I found India Amos' post on how she names and manages styles to be very helpful.
For my setup, I created a Document preset with a single page (facing pages turned off) with a master text frame. Although it doesn't make any difference Rufus Deuchler recommends a page size (live area) of 600x800 pixels; Terry White uses 51x66p). (MobileRead has a great e-reader matrix with display dimensions.)
I created a separate InDesign document for each chapter in the book. Chapter by chapter, I imported my text from Word (previously described here). After importing the first chapter, I started to create my character and paragraph styles. When creating subsequent chapter, I imported the styles from the previously created chapter. All chapters/documents were pulled into a single InD book file. I struggled a bit to remain mindful of my style source and to keep my styles synced.
Once I finally got my InD book and styles all set up and my, I started to experiment with generating EPUBs. It took me another week to troubleshoot the errors I found during testing and validation.
The first issue I came up against was related to images. I initially inserted very high-res images that resulted in a ginormous epub file. I replaced and relinked them in InDesign, but upon re-export, InDesign seemed to disregard my export settings. Instead of exporting at 150dpi, they came out at 72dpi, giving me the opposite problem of pixelated images. I posed the problem to the helpful folks who participate in the #eprdctn conversation, and @markerrett suggested replacing the images after export. This means unpacking the epub, navigating to the images folder, and replacing all of the images with images of the same name, created to the desired spec. Worked like a charm.
I wrestled with embedded fonts. The first problem I had was with the descenders on the last line of text getting cut off. After taking Liz Castro's advice and adding a font declaration to the META-INF folder, the descender problem was fixed. However, I was still getting validation errors relating to fonts (maybe because some were true-type instead of open-type?). Because the typography in this book was not complicated (one font is fine), I decided to re-export the epub WITHOUT any fonts embedded. Problem solved averted.
One annoying but not crippling issue with EPUB created by InD is an excess of style sheet entries. I found some discussion of the issue at the Adobe forums, but I chose not to pursue "fixing" my CSS since it didn't produce any errors and didn't add significant size to my file.
Finally, iTunes Producer didn't like the spaces in the titles of my html files (which were a product of a naming scheme encouraged by the Lynda tutorial on working with book documents in InD). So, I renamed the files and then updated the toc.ncx and content.opf files.
Even after removing the spaces from the html file names, Stanza would not display the document properly. There were several blank pages between each page of content, and, even more perplexing, the first two html files were omitted completely from display. I'm still not sure what was causing the trouble in Stanza - suggestions welcome!
I did desk-top testing in Adobe Digital Editions, Ibis Reader, and in the EPUBReader FireFox extension. I also tested on an iPhone and iPad, in iBooks, Kobo, and Stanza.
Here's a skeletal outline of my workflow for this book:
PDF --> Word (preserving character/paragraph styling as much as possible)
for each chapter
Word --> InDb
separate doc for each chapter, collected in a single InDesign book
style set up and application in InD
map styles to tags
images placed in-line with the text (no captions)
book meta-data added to style source document
export epub with CSS, no fonts embedded
test on devices and with validator
epub complete, intense feelings of accomplishment
EPUB --> Kindle:
combine all html files (from epub export) into a single html file
un-smarten quotes and add html entities for special characters
add kindle page-break code before new chapters
add table of contents and related internal links
remove extraneous epub files (leaving only html, css, and images)
upload to kdp for final azw wrapping
Lynda.com -- InDesign CS5.5 New Features
Colin Flemming -- CS 5.5 ePub Videos
Liz Castro -- EPUB Straight to the Point
Rufus Deuchler -- How to Create an eBook with Adobe InDesign CS5
India Amos -- How stylish are you?
Description of a book designer's succinct and intuitive style naming scheme
Adobe -- Export content for EPUB (CS5.5)
Brief but helpful description of all the epub export options in CS5.5
#eprdctn Hour Gems
This week's #eprdctn hour, moderated by @BookDesignGirl, just concluded. The topic was eReader devices and apps and their unique code rendering issues. These are some gems worth remembering:
@amarie - uses TweetChat to focus on conversations with a certain hashtag
Rendering Issues
@MatthewDiener - "for Kindle/Mobi, @jtallent's Kindle Formatting points out most of the rendering issues"
@BookDesignGirl - "Edges of the images in my .jpg's were blurry and the [epub] spec said to change to .gif it that was happening. It did the trick."
@ BookDesignGirl - "Tally: @camilcloutier uses center tags @NickRuffilo uses CSS not center tags & I've used empty span tags to make text center on iBooks!"
@pablod - Previews HTML components of an ePub file in Mobile Safari in the iOS emulator. Note: only good for previewing single pages (not full epub docs) - not a substitute for previewing on an actual iOS device, but in a pinch, it can help.
On embedding fonts
@ BookDesignGirl - "I've started embedding fonts. Used http://tinyurl.com/6cw5hoz for current project & it worked fine (knock on wood)."
@pablod - "I had to pull out a div with embedded fonts which was causing a rendering issue at page break for a UL within the div in iBooks."
@tinahender - "As a a rule, I do not embed fonts b/c licensing issues are not clear. But if a client asked, I would look into it further."
@pablod - "Alternately, Google.com/webfonts gets around the pesky font licensing issue. Also, theleagueofmoveabletype.com"
@biladew - "embed fonts only when necessary. Otherwise generic font faces should give you what you need (serif, sans-serif, etc)"
@BookDesignGirl - "We don't embed b/c of licensing/potential validation issues but did for this project. Times font didn't work for tweens"
@aarontroia - "go to @ebookarchitects bit.ly/lDSNWv and download Font Test, its a really good font embedding example"
On InDesign-based workflows and conversion tools
@MatthewDiener - "ID=>Aptara=>ePUB=>Kindle so far"
@BookDesignGirl - "We do InDesign to ePub (either conversion house or in-house) -> edit ePub -> convert to .mobi -> note conversion issues -> go back to epub and edit in Dreamweaver -> .mobi (repeat)"
@TonyRobertsMN - "Yes, export to ePUB then modify. Nothing Indesign produces on it's own satisfies me. I edit the HTML manually, then make the .mobi"
@JenniferOmner - "epub -> .mobi -> note conversion issues -> back to epub file for Mobi & edit in Oxyen -> .mobi"
@markerrett - "I did InD to ePub then use Calibre to .mobi it"
@BookDesignGirl - "I convert my epubs with Kindle Previewer."
On KindleGen
@aarontroia and @jtallent - both recommend KindleGen over Calibre or Sigil
@jtallent - "easy to do in command line. "path_to_kindlegen.exe path_to_opf""
@MatthewDiener - "Once you figure out how to use it from command line/Terminal it is an easy tool, and edit/rerender simple"
@MatthewDiener - "If you need help with KindleGen, instructions on using it are included in this document. http://bit.ly/opHs8W"
@BookDesignGirl - "I assumed that KindlePreviewer uses KindleGen. And then you have the preview right there."
Zip tips
@tinahender, @aarontroia, and @PenguinPowered - all recommend @danrodneytweets's epub zip and unzip scripts (also here)
@markerrett - "Plus BBEdit now lets you open HTML inside the ePub with the need to Unzip then zip again."
Awesome EPUB Error of the Day
ERROR: wtw-intl.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx(110): 'heading_id_17': fragment identifier is not defined in 'OEBPS/Text/wtw-intl.html'
I got this error (actually, like 200 of them) from the EPUB validator that ThreePress very generously hosts, and also from iTunes Producer when trying to upload a file for the iBookStore.
I tried FlightCrew too, another tool I'm super happy to have, but got a similarly unhelpful error message:
file: wtw-intl.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx
line: 110
message: This
OK, that's English, but after double-checking the files and values it mentioned, I still couldn't identify the problem.
After banging my head against the wall for 30 minutes, I decided to run Sigil's check and discovered a few seemingly unrelated errors. So I closed a couple paragraph tags that were left open (ah, the perils of hand-coding), and corrected a couple of typos in a couple of internal anchored references. I then re-ran the file through EPUB Check and, presto change-o, errors gone. Nothing to do with the table of contents file (toc.ncx), and nothing to do with that particular id value. Yeah, that totally makes sense :)
I've previously mentioned the epubcheck wiki and the mobileread epub forum as helpful sources of info for error troubleshooting, but I wonder if there are others.
Can anyone recommend any other great diagnostic tools or resources for EPUB errors?
Moving text from PDF to InDesign
We're working on another EPUB conversion now. For this one, we're moving from PDF to EPUB via InDesign. Currently, the whole book exists as a single PDF. The text in the PDF includes a small but not insignificant amount of character styling (bold, italic, etc). The best workflow I've found so far seems to be:
1. Break the single PDF into multiple PDFs by chapter. I'll be using a Book organization in InDesign, which means creating a separate InDesign document for each chapter. For that reason, I'd like to import the text chapter-by-chapter.
2. Copy-Paste the text for each chapter into a separate Word document. Remove extraneous carriage returns. There are two main methods for getting text into InDesign. You can copy-paste directly into a text frame, but for big sections of text, this is not recommended. The better method (I think) is to use InDesign's Place command (ctrl+D). To do this, text needs to be in a place-able format like TXT, DOC, or RTF. Because I'm working with formatted text, DOC or RTF are my best options. After a few rounds of experimentation, I find Word to offer the best tools for maintaining character formatting and eliminating extraneous line breaks. Depending on what happens upon paste (or paste special - I've experimented with all of the options and it seems like I get a different result each time), I may use AutoFormat to fix extra carriage returns while maintaining paragraph breaks.
3. 'Place' text in InDesign. When you place text, you can "Show options". The only adjustment to the defaults I've made is to omit page breaks. I've left several defaults that don't apply to my document and it doesn't seem to break anything. This is what my Place options looks like:
So far, these three steps seem to work pretty well. It seems like there's a fair amount of variation in the way my pasted text lands in Word (especially in terms of the presence or absence of extra carriage returns). Also, although the first chapter I worked on seemed to transmit fairly clean text, in the second and third chapters I'm finding many instances of words running together ("inhalesthem" instead of "inhales them"). I suspect this is related to the carriage return issue. Although I'm not always seeing extra carriage returns, it seems like their absence is sometimes accompanied by a missing space.
If anyone has a better workflow for getting styled text from PDF to InDesign, please share in the comments!
Kindle Conversion From PDF
Ebook conversion from PDF is possible but problematic. Often, PDFs carry print-specific elements that aren't useful in the context of reflowable text, like page numbers and repeating chapter titles. In the case of our most recent conversion, our PDF was fraught with various printers crop-marks, the file name, and creation date on every page. It's hard for conversion programs (like Calibre and the converter built into Amazon's KDP web-based uploader) to recognize and strip away unwanted elements like that. Layout-specific elements within PDFs, like sidebars, call-outs, and anything tabular, can also befuddle converters.
Layout programs like InDesign offer increasingly sophisticated ebook output options that allow the user to specify reflow-friendly display instructions for elements like these (eg: don't include page numbers in the epub output, place sidebars at the end of the section and style them differently, etc).
I recently converted a book for which I only had the PDF --no InDesign files, nor Word files to port to InDesign.
Even though I knew the Calibre developer discourages conversion from PDF, I took a swing. The program produced a fairly literal conversion (including crop-marks) but with lots of strange line-breaks and no images (where did they go? I don't know). I also attempted uploading a copy of the PDF to KDP for conversion, an although it impressively removed the crop marks and other repeating page elements, images were again partially left out (partially because some textual elements from images were preserved, like chart text, which was probably an artifact of the Adobe OCR process).
Copy/special-pasting directly from the PDF to Word did a decent job of preserving italics and bold text, but also preserved unwanted repeating page elements. It also included artificial line-breaks (which would interrupt reflowability).
Finally, I tried exporting HTML from the PDF using Adobe Acrobat. This produced a set of files (html, css, and images) fairly similar in display quality to the Calibre conversion, the KDP conversion, and the Word copy/paste. All of these alternate formats, based on the PDF, would need quite a bit of fine-tuning. I'd need to create style classes, inspect parts of the text with unique formatting, re-insert images optimized for display in the ebook environment.
I decided editing the HTML directly would give me the most precise control over everything. However, the HTML that Adobe exported was U G L Y. Tons of extraneous style application and markup of unwanted elements (line-breaks, crop-marks, etc). Not to mention it was really hard to read -- just one continuous flow of code.
These are the steps I performed to clean-up and process the HTML:
1) HTML Tidy, to nest elements and ID errors (eg: unclosed tags)
2) Remove unwanted image elements (crop-marks, mangled charts and illos)
3) Remove unwanted textual elements (page numbers)
4) Convert in-line styling to CSS styles
5) Re-insert images (744px wide, jogs, 72dpi)
6) Insert links for TOC and endnotes
7) Cleanup CSS elements which Kindle strictly regulates (justification, paragraph indents, list-styling, blockquotes)
A similar process could be done from Word directly. Word has a pretty neat auto-format feature that performs a similar task to HTML Tidy. It'll remove hard line-breaks and assign headings and styles pretty consistently so that you can more easily make changes. Instead of creating CSS styles, you'd be creating custom styles in Word. Instead of doing GREP searches in Text Wrangler, you'd be doing wildcard searches in Word. Working in Word is probably easier to read for more people. (I previewed as I went by viewing the file in Firefox, which allowed me to diagnose problem areas using the Firebug extension.) You could then upload your Word file to KDP for conversion or you could port it to InDesign for epub export. I like to think that I avoided a lot of bloat-related trouble-shooting by working directly on the HTML, but honestly, Kindle is a lot more forgiving than iBooks, so it's a little hard to tell. Natasha Fondren presents a good argument for hand-coding ebooks. Ditto.
I'll need to work on the iBooks conversion next to test that theory.
Formatting guides/helps for preparing Kindle ebooks:
Kindle Formatting, by Joshua Tallent
website and guide are both super helpful
Natasha Fondren's blog, Avdventures in Writing on the Road
see especially the Kindle Formatting category
iBooks vs. Kindle Delivery Time
As Kevin already mentioned, his book Bicycle Haiku recently became available for the Kindle. And now, I'm happy to report that it's also available in the iBookstore. In both cases, we prepared the e-books in-house and uploaded them for distribution through self-publishing programs (Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, and Apple's iTunes Connect, respectively).
Although there were some differences in the file preparation processes, the most significant distinction between the services so far is the application process and the length of the wait from when you submit your file to when it actually shows up for sale in the store. With Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), account creation is instantaneous. You need to provide tax and payment information, but that's about it. With iTunes Connect, in addition to tax and payment info, you also need to apply with at least one ISBN for a title you intend to distribute. They also specify that you must be able to deliver valid EPUBs. Optionally, you may submit your prepared EPUB with your application, and I did so. It was about two weeks before we were notified of our acceptance into the program.
In terms of delivery time, the file we submitted to KDP was available within a day. With iBooks, it was fully 15 business days (5 business days longer than Apple says it might take) before our book appeared in the iBookstore. The upload mechanics are also slightly different from one service to the next (KPD's upload is done in-browser, iTunes Connect makes use of a separate uploader program which you install locally), but the distinction is trivial next to the huge disparity in wait time.
Besides the inconvenience of the wait, this delay on Apple's side means that while we've already accumulated several weeks of sales data from Amazon, we're still in the early days of our iBooks sales, making a side-by-side performance comparison difficult. If you want to release titles on both platforms in parallel, it would seem you should initiate with Apple and confirm the release there and then release to Amazon -- this would at least minimize the gap in release time.
Orientation for First Ebook
500 Free to One Paid
That's the ratio one self-publisher found was needed to extract paid sales from free books.
Technical writer Keir Thomas reports on his experiments in screen publishing. He wrote a book (a resource guide for the programming language Ubuntu) and then made a PDF. He posted the PDF online available for free. The hosting site and the PDF itself contained advertisments for paper versions of the book (printed on demand by Amazon's CreateSpace) priced at $12.99. Hundreds of thousands of people downloaded the free book, which Thomas treated as "free" marketing. Some downloaders bought the book. Here are the results of his sales:
I've lost count how many people have downloaded the eBook but the last time I audited the figures, which was around six months after the book's release, it'd seen around 500,000 downloads. I suspect that number has doubled since then.
Since going on sale at the start of 2009, the book has made me $9,000. Bearing in mind the book took three months to produce, that's a salary of $3,000 per month, although costs such as hosting have to be deducted, and I also spent quite a few days marketing the book once published.
I estimate I have to give away 446 copies of the eBook for every sale of the print edition. Without Amazon S3, I simply couldn't have done it.
The book's been a success in terms of providing a free educational resource for the Ubuntu community, and I'm very proud of this achievement. But as a commercial endeavour, I wouldn't recommend anybody take a self-publishing route.
Thomas is now trying a new experiment, selling Kindle versions of two new books at 99 cents.


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Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
Scientific Name: | Cupressus goveniana | |||
Species Authority: | Gordon | |||
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Taxonomic Notes: | See under varieties for synonyms. |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Endangered B2ab(ii,iii,v) ver 3.1 | |||
Year Published: | 2013 | |||
Date Assessed: | 2011-03-22 | |||
Assessor/s: | Farjon, A. | |||
Reviewer/s: | Thomas, P. | |||
Justification: The assessment of the species as a whole is driven by that of the nominate variety (var. goveniana) as it has the greatest extent of occurrence (EOO) and area of occupancy (AOO) as well as numbers of mature individuals. This variety was assessed as Endangered under the B criterion. The area of occupancy for the species is estimated as 180 km2, with severe fragmentation. The continuing decline in area of occupancy, extent of habitat and number of mature individuals lead to this species being assessed as EN B2ab(ii,iii,v). |
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Range Description: | This species is found in the California (USA): Mendocino, Sonoma, Santa Cruz, San Mateo and Monterey Counties. |
Countries: | Native: United States (California) |
Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | The total population of this species probably consists of fewer than 2,300 mature individuals, perhaps unless the dwarfed individuals with seed cones on the Mendocino "white plains" are also counted as such. |
Population Trend: | Decreasing |
Habitat and Ecology: | This species is found in chaparral, 'pine barrens', and open pine woodland with Pinus attenuata, P. contorta, P. muricata, P. ponderosa, P. radiata, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Arctostaphylos, Quercus, and Rhododendron, often in groves of up to 1000 trees or more; on sandstone outcrops, white or yellow sandy slopes, and leached, virtually sterile sandy 'hardpan', where it becomes dwarfed. The altitudinal range is from near sea level to 1200 m a.s.l. The climate is of the Mediterranean type with dry, hot summers, but in a narrow coastal strip cooled by frequent fog, and winter rain. |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Major Threat(s): | Urbanization, agriculture (conversion of wild land to pasture), and changes in fire regimes are threats to this species. |
Conservation Actions: | Some (parts of) subpopulations are within protected areas. |
Farjon, A. 2005. A Monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Farjon, A. 2010. Conifer Database (June 2008) In Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2010 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., eds). Reading, UK. Available at: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/. Farjon, A. 2010. A Handbook of the World's Conifers. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden. IUCN. 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2013.1). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 12 June 2013). |
Citation: | Farjon, A. 2013. Cupressus goveniana. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 March 2014. |
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Microsoft's new Surface tablets close to selling out
The Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 "are close to selling out," Microsoft's developers account tweeted earlier Friday.
At this time, it's unclear how many tablets Microsoft made and what "close to selling out" actually means. A Microsoft spokesman declined to provide information about how many devices the company built but reiterated that inventory is low at Microsoft stores and at the company's site, with some models shipping later than the slated October 22 release date.
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Gay Editors Create 'Queen James' Bible
References to homosexuality are amended.
A group of gay editors has come together to create a new version of the Bible, the "Queen James Bible."
According to the editor's notes on the official website:
No Bible is perfect, but everyone knows the King James Bible; It is arguably the most popular Bible in history and the basis of many other translations.
Most English Bible translations that actively condemn homosexuality have based themselves on the King James Version and have erroneously adapted its words to support their own agenda. We wanted to return to the clean source and start there.
[Also Read: Is The Black Church Driving African Americans To Atheism?]
And the whole "Queen James" thing? Well, according to the editors, the phrase is an "obvious" link because everybody knows that King James had gay lovers.
The "Queen James Bible" doesn't necessarily rewrite the entire scripture. Instead, it only made changes to eight specific verses that are usually used to condemn homosexuality.
Christmas is right around the corner, after all. The "Queen James Bible" is available at Amazon.com.


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Tuesday, 26th February, 2002, 10:04 PM #1
players making useless characthers
Our group has one player with the amazing ability to make every charachter next to useless. Not that he should cheese them out and min/max, but he's got this wonderful ability to have characters that are nothing more then space heaters with swords. Anyone else with this problme/source of humor?
He's got one bounty-hunter type fighter/rogue. Well, due to his distribution of skills and feats, he can't fight and he can't do any roguish sneaky sneaky. For the most part, he just absorbs damage for the other players and provides misinformation due to no skill ability.
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ø Ignore KingThorvarSounds like some nice comic relief for the game..
If he's having fun, let him go for it!Wherever you go.. there you are.
Tuesday, 26th February, 2002, 10:19 PM #3
wish it was that easy
I wouldn't mind if that was the case. But, he gets upset when everyone else is doing their thing and contributing and his character can't accomplish as much because he shot himself in the foot during character creation.
Hey, I've made worthless PCs that were still fun to play. But he tends to get upset when his character can't contribute in the same way as the rest of us who know how to make productive members of a fake society.Last edited by troy31; Tuesday, 26th February, 2002 at 10:20 PM.
Tuesday, 26th February, 2002, 10:20 PM #4
Yeah, I know a guy like this. Made a guy using a 1SDC weapon in a Rifts campagin that was intended to be high power (and this is by rifts standards... so most of us could level large buildings/take out minor gods/rule mid-sized nations with ease, but he couldn't kill a rabbit). Made a bard that was such a coward he ran away from fights and told our captors everything just to spare torture on himself. Made an avarial elf wizard who didn't cast spells because he hated magic after having been apprenticed to a wizard as a child. Carp like that.
Comic relief is all well and good, except when it comes at the expense of the party's fun. In otherwords, if nobody in the party finds the antics funny, 'tis not comic relief... 'tis just being a jack-rear-end.
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ø Ignore BLACKDIRGEOh man, you have just described a player in my campaign. he likes to make characters that do things "different" than normal members of their class. He builds fighters that wield two weapons but won't take any of the two weapon feats. He builds clerics and wizards with no concentration skill and has them enter melee range to cast spells. He buillt a barbarian/psychic warrior that would rage immediatly and then never get to use psionics.
He's a good guy and doesn't complain when his characters don't amount to much, but the rest of the group is just left scratching their heads about some of the choices he makes.
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ø Ignore AFGNCAAPSounds all too familiar....
Had a player make characters whose powers/actions/attitude proved to be a hindrance rather than a help to the party. Typically turned out that, despite these characters' different backgrounds (& even alignments), they'd generally wind up having very similiar personalities.
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ø Ignore wolfpunkI made a character with a very low constitution. It was like 4 or 5 I believe. Anyway, I made this neat history background of his suffering of a terrible illness. I made a little table on which I could roll to determine how his health was for the round. While it made for a great story, the character was not much of an adventurer because he would get sick or pass out at pretty much the worst times possible due to bad dice rolls.
Character quirks, and tragic flaws are nice and all, but they tend to make the game a lot harder to work with.
Wednesday, 27th February, 2002, 12:22 AM #8
If he agrees, for his next character how about assigning a 'coach' who knows the rules really well and can point out certain things that would make his character slightly more effective.
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ø Ignore adndgamerRe: wish it was that easy
Originally posted by troy31
I wouldn't mind if that was the case. But, he gets upset when everyone else is doing their thing and contributing and his character can't accomplish as much because he shot himself in the foot during character creation.
Hey, I've made worthless PCs that were still fun to play. But he tends to get upset when his character can't contribute in the same way as the rest of us who know how to make productive members of a fake society.Ah, but if one is to die, it is best to die for a good cause, fighting shoulder to shoulder with good friends.
Wednesday, 27th February, 2002, 01:11 AM #10
Re: Re: wish it was that easy
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Smack him up a bit and tell him to quit acting like an idiot. That's my only advice.
Our group has a campaign dedicated solely to peculiar and misfit adventurers, which we play once every two or three months for fun. In that forum, characters such as the ones described above would all be spectacularly entertaining. Otherwise they aren't clever or amusing, and lack merit in every worthwhile manner conceivable...IMO .
Go home and annoy your siblings, not the DM and other players.LIVE STRONG
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Wonder who carried out their own Risk Awareness Analysis????
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We had one too. Already sent our data in, but too soon for the FSA sho managede to send an e-mail back saying that the e-mail address I had sent it to (at their request) wasn't active until the 7th so send again. The fact that it clearly was active in order to activate the not active activity activation was a bit of a mystery to me, so I sent it again on the 8th. Today we had an email addressed to a completely different firm.
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report thisJan 09, 2013 at 14:31
Didn't one of the investment houses recently receive a fine from the FSA for a systems failure?!
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 14:35
Yes but they are not protected from ANY wrong doing as the FSA seem to be under this dopey government.
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 14:43
Be fair. It's not just this Government. The last lot were just as bad. But you are right - the FSA do seem to be able to make as many cock ups as they like without fear of retirubtion.
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 14:48
Has there been a breach of the Data Protection Act (for which any IFA firm would be roundly hammered)?
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 14:54
I contacted the FSA before Xmas as it is not posisble to send in a nil return on the spreadsheet, the FSA said they had had a lot of calls about this problem. Still waiting for a reply!!!
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 14:56
The Q&A section at the end of the email provides some helpful guidance :-
Q. What happens if I have sent my data to the wrong email address?
A. It is important that you send your data to the correct email address as you may put your data at risk. You will receive confirmation by email that you have submitted your data.
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 15:01
No breach of Data Protection from what I have heard - all the info is freely available on the FSA Register.
Still its pretty embarrasing for them!
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 15:36
It is the ultimate irony that as we enter the dawn of a new era with the regulator looking to improve professional standards for authorised firms they send out an email entitled 'RDR Professionalism' with incorrect firm names and numbers. It does not inspire any confidence in the regulators professionalism or for that matter risk controls....
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 15:49
Do as we say, not as we do.
If you screw up, we'll hammer you, because you're accountable to us.
If we screw up, well, shit happens, dunnit and we're not accountable to anyone.
And when are these blasted pop-ups going to cease?
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 16:33
Quote from FSA email:
"It is important to make sure that you send your data to the correct email address and that it meets the guidance on the website. Your submission will be rejected if it is not completed correctly."
report thisJan 10, 2013 at 07:00
From the precedents, its surely of limited significance that the emails did not cause 'consumer detriment'. These 'systems and controls failures' put its 'consumers at significant risk'. Surely, these 'senior management failings' need to be addressed? (and not through the granting of knighthoods).
Who fancies putting in the Freedom of Information request asking for details of their "apportionment of senior management functions" asking them to identify which FSA 'senior manager' was responsible for this? And fo course, what action has been taken against said senior manager?
report thisJan 10, 2013 at 08:24
We were unable to submit a 'Nil' return and on contacting the FSA were told - "Put in that you have had one claim and the redress as nil the system will then accept the return"!
We've not submitted the return and are waiting for a response from the FSA as to when they'll have the 'glitch' fixed!
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I thought the entire thing was lame and attention-whorish. And the last part was just pure faggotry, like the cherry on the top of a sundae of fail.
Then the reply afterwards where he said he was glad zero thought it was stupid because that is what he was wanted made me believe that he hasn't actually learned his lesson, and will continue to lame up the place with each additional post. Also, before the gay list and naruto comparison post he posted (and then deleted) a post just to say this: Quote:
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