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[Carcharoth]

Awww... But I like tinkering...
Will stick to tinkering with putty for the moment

[darth tater]

Yes, that you're allowed to do! 

[Jubal]

Did you know that if you click on "community" ont he website there's still a big FoD link?

Also, all the text and sketch-pics look really dark right now. Like really, really dark.

And also have you stopped putting the basic rules on the site? I can't find them anymore... (I do have a rulebook, of course, but it's good to be able to point people to them to read through without having to physically be there with my book).
EDIT: just found them... me being dumb. Sorry. OOI, why did you add Brenar and the Jenta in but leave Beru, the herders and the ranged rules out?

[Carcharoth]

Sorry. OOI, why did you add Brenar and the Jenta in but leave Beru, the herders and the ranged rules out?

That was entirely down to space in the printed rulebook! Seen as I was updating them I shifted the points costs from the experimental bit to the main stats pages and then had a spare page. I didn't have room for all the new ranged rules, but Brenar and the Jenta fitted nicely (and gave something to both the Devanu and the Empire).
As an aside, Beru is the same engineer described in the rules, the scenario and in the little story (and these letters). I just decided to finally give him a name and highlight the fact that he's a character rather than being a generic little engineer. This thoroughly confused Beth, Tom and Gill at salute when they ran out of Engineers and had to give out Beru instead...

[Jubal]

I'd worked that one out, but the "Beru" rules are different to the original due to the ranged combat rules having been introduced.

Is Beru, to your mind, a fairly "ordinary" Engineer, or is he a cut above the rest? My own contraption rules kinda rest on the principle of him being about the same "power" as an ordinary Engineer thus far (though of course they're always open to change).

[Carcharoth]

Beru is far from ordinary, but there are plenty of other engineers who would be of a similar level of intelligence/creativity to him. A lot of those would focus their attentions on completely different areas of research, but there would be enough engineers around so that your contraptions aren't completely out of place!

[Brandlin]

engineers are never ordinary - we are all special...

[Gethuch]

Did you know that if you click on "community" ont he website there's still a big FoD link?

Also, all the text and sketch-pics look really dark right now. Like really, really dark.

Yeah, I figured the FoD link can stay there for the moment, The Forum link is more prominent anyway.

Do you mean the text and sketches on the WoT website, or in this forum? Do they still look like that? Which browser are you using?

[Jubal]

On the main site, they still look like that, and I'm on Internet Explorer 8.

[Brandlin]

sounds like the dark areas aren't being displayed as transparent as they should.

"here grandma - big hole in one end and a little hole in the other and blow - dnt suck."

[Gethuch]

Hmm, weird. Any chance of a screenshot? And does anyone else use IE8? Does it look the same for you?

[Xylifrost]

yes - use photobucket.

you can just paste in the url of the picture from the web into Photobucket and then just copy and paste the photo bucket url into the forum.