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All the documentation I've read says I should not be able to use bitlocker to encrypt an exFAT thumb drive, and that it has to be formatted NTFS or FAT32. But I did (apparently) encrypt the thumb drive.

What's going on here?

If I were to allow magic-users to cast any spell they have in their spell book, useing their memorized spell number more like a spell slot, how much would that break the game? (using OSE in my case)

In my mind, the following is the only thing that makes sense of all of what we do know:

You are a pilot. You are suffering some mental health issues. You want to end your life, but you also want to make it look like an accident, so that your family can get insurance payouts. Even more, if it looks like an airliner accident, your family might even get a hefty payout from the Malaysian Airlines.

How do you make it look like an accident? Well, there are a few ways, but they are difficult, because every action taken by the pilots and every word spoken and every action of the airplane will be saved in the Black (actually orange) Box.

But there is one way that is relatively simple: When you ar

It would be really cool if the Critical Role cast did a long-term Traveller Sci-Fi game. Honestly, I've had this thought many times before. I would be the happiest little critter. I think Traveller would be a great platform for Matt to tell fantastic stories, and allow the other cast the right kind of space to build great characters with a great tone.

I'm a year or so into the process of planning and preparing to run a Pirates of Drinax campaign. As I've read and learned about the OTU, I have found several parts of the lore that I'd like to tinker with.

My philosophy when running some official universe's lore is to have a light touch, and change things as little as needed. Having said that, I have no problem changing things where I think it is needed, or where it would add better flavor and a better player experience.

I was curious, for any of you who run campaigns in the OTU but have made some significant (or not-so-significant) lore changes, what are they, and why?

Recently bought a "The Rock Slide" glass slide. It has an unusual shape, with a lower cutout on the side your finger goes in. Does anyone know whether that cutout is mean to be positioned on the finger side that faces (bends toward) the palm, in order to help with bending the finger? Or on the other side?

Also, there is a flattened area on the other end of the slide. Is this meant just to be able to rest the slide on a flat surface without it rolling off a table, or whatnot. Or does it have a functional purpose with regard to using the slide?

I've owned a few slides in the past and have only messed around with them a little, and this shape is different than what I am used to. Here's the l

I've played acoustic for a long time before I finally got bitten by the electric guitar bug. I bought a Fender American Performer series about 6 months back (the one with the Yosemite pickups and the pull on the knob in question to combine the neck pickup with in any position).

I've always assumed that the tone knob (at the far bottom) was wired to my bridge pickup (especially given the aforementioned ability to pull it up and add the neck pickup), but then I learned that most Strats out of the box do not have the tone wired to the bridge.

I am not home right now to test it, so I can't find out with my own ears at the moment, but do any of you know if the tone knob on my model is already

Some news stories are starting to report that the investigation and potential charges against Hunter Biden are starting to move forward.

If I were a corrupt president, and it looked as though I couldn’t stop charges from coming against my son, then the next best thing would be to make sure those charges, and a trial and possible guilty verdict, comes before the end of my term, so I could then pardon him and make sure he spent the least amount of time in prison as possible.

I was reading a MgT2e adventure (Last Train out of Rakken-Goll), and they mentioned that Terran horses were spread through the Imperium.

We know that connections of Firefly to the game. Was the widespread availability of horses a thing in the first edition, or is this something more recently adopted in 2nd edition lore?

This is a mild, somewhat tongue-in-cheek ribbing, because there is some (little) usefulness that can be gained from mind-mapping. In the end, they are nothing more than an attempt at visually representing logical relationships between concepts. As such, they are a data structure, specifically a graph data structure (perhaps something like, a directed acyclic graph data structure, but I don't want to give them that much credit).

However, the way they are often presented to people focuses more on the pretty picture, the colorful circles and lines, than on any well-thought out logical connections between concepts. "Hey class, shout out whatever words come to your mind and I'll put them on the

My question about Special Attacks on 19 is buried a the end, but I have a few other questions, and some background I wanted to give. This is a little bit stream-of-consciousness, so I apologize in advance for that.

I'm a pretty big fan of LFG. I have a sizable collection of different rulesets and games. When it comes to an Old-School game that has some modern sensibilities baked in, LFG is usually my go-to.

I'm putting together a campaign, mostly for a friend who has never played any kind of RPG, but really wants to. I've decided to run him (and a few other friends) through one of my favorite settings, the Hill Cantons series by Chris Kutalik ("The Slumbering Ursine Dunes", "Misty Isles of