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I'll do that in future.  So it's at 1 PST, 4 EST, 9 GMT, 10 GMT+1.

Oh, I thought you (i.e. americans) used GMT too, and that you just used the other acronyms colloquially as they came up often.

So I was reading on the Iron Heroes website how in Iron Heroes 2 (due out sometime 2011) will be changed a bit. The one changed that I thought was really neat and that I liked quite a bit was this.

In IH every 4 levels a character gets 1 attribute increase. In IH2 every 4 levels a character gets 4 point-buy-points, similar. Stat increases cost the same as character creation. So it's the same increases for attributes over 17, but it lets you level up lower attributes a bit more as opposed to "wasting" points sinking them in something that's low.

What do you guys think about this?

Interesting.  Do you know if it's going to be based on 4E D&D, or an updated version of 3.5??

It kinda sounds like a hybrid of both to be honest. The core mechanics seem 3.5ish (to my untrained eye) but it seems to incorporate some elements of 4th (once again, to my untrained eye).

Here's the link

Each different aspect has their own topic on how they're going to change and stuff. Check it out :D

Quote from: Cataclysmic CrowOh, I thought you (i.e. americans) used GMT too, and that you just used the other acronyms colloquially as they came up often.

This is a joke right? Please tell me this is a joke.

This might be considered something of a derailment of the thread, so I'll spoilerize it.

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Why would it be a joke? GMT seems to be the system used by most countries, indeed, it is the only system you can rely on to describe time zones in most areas of the world. But seeing as a large country like the US only uses a few of these time zones when travelling cross-country, an internal time system makes perfect sense. But since no numbers are involved, only names, you would also need some kind of reference frame (like GMT, since it directly describes the difference between zones by a number).
If you are offended about something please tell me, because I'm not sure I can discern what it is you are offended about... Or maybe it's just that famous loss of tone playing tricks again.  
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Quote from: Cataclysmic CrowThis might be considered something of a derailment of the thread, so I'll spoilerize it.

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Why would it be a joke? GMT seems to be the system used by most countries, indeed, it is the only system you can rely on to describe time zones in most areas of the world. But seeing as a large country like the US only uses a few of these time zones when travelling cross-country, an internal time system makes perfect sense. But since no numbers are involved, only names, you would also need some kind of reference frame (like GMT, since it directly describes the difference between zones by a number).
If you are offended about something please tell me, because I'm not sure I can discern what it is you are offended about... Or maybe it's just that famous loss of tone playing tricks again.  
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Mostly loss of tone, though you're the first person I've ever known who didn't know about Americans using timezone names. Most of the Europeans I know/knew not only know about the system but know all the names. Part of it I'm sure has to do with the fact that the online world is still very "American heavy" and so times tend to be scheduled around North American timezones (though generally with a bit on the end giving the GMT time for everyone else). As for reference frame, use it long enough and you will in a split second go "It's 9am over here in PST and you're in EST so it's 12pm your time". But us Americans get very good at rapid recall of odd measurements and conversions since we still use that damned imperial measurement system.

It's kind of ingrained in us from North American TV, which constantly advertises shows etc with eastern/pacific time tagged on.  I can see why if you weren't aware of how prominent they were you might think we relied on the GMT +/- thing, though... probably makes more sense (like the metric system, which at least we Canadians have adopted).

Oh, I did know you used it, I thought that was clear. I just didn't know you used it exclusively without any reference whatsoever to GMT. Thought you used both interchangeably.

Quote from: Cataclysmic CrowOh, I did know you used it, I thought that was clear. I just didn't know you used it exclusively without any reference whatsoever to GMT. Thought you used both interchangeably.

Well we know about GMT enough to be able to use it when it's necessary (like with people from Europe) but internal references are largely made to one of the timezone names. The more you know...

>>Well we know about GMT enough to be able to use it when it's necessary

I would be willing to bet that at a minimum 1/5th of Americans have no idea what GMT is. I do not recall seeing many if any references to GMT in America.

Fun fact for Crow- the continental US and Europe have the same amount of time zones (4). The US has more if you don't count part of Russia as European. And China is one large time zone.

Quote from: Light Dragon>>Well we know about GMT enough to be able to use it when it's necessary

I would be willing to bet that at a minimum 1/5th of Americans have no idea what GMT is. I do not recall seeing many if any references to GMT in America.

You will find few references to it but that has nothing to do with a lack of knowledge. Very few Americans use Metric, but very few don't know about it.

I've been thinking, and I've decided we're going to use the D&D 3.5 experience tables instead of the Iron Heroes ones.  Usually Iron Heroes characters advance more slowly than 3.5 ones, but since this game is going to be online the combination of a fairly slow pace and the Iron Heroes charts would mean that characters would likely have very limited room for development.

More House-rules: I'll be using the Ravenloft Madness, Fear, and Horror saves for CE.  These are essentially Will saves made when certain situations are encountered; if you fail, depending on the severity of the horror/terror/madness-inducing creature, you suffer from one of a number of effects.  This is how something like a gorgon's gaze would work, and could also cause things like nausea in the face of particularly horrific imagery.