Ok. Neko had the crazy idea to try to convert *.mkv to *.avi with something called PS3 Video 9. (He wants to play things on his PS3.)

It didn't work. Does anyone have any ideas for converting *.mkv to *.avi, preferably in such a way that it WOULD play on a PS3? what he passed me is adware and I want it off my system. I WANT something that's free, though ^^ (He found it on playstation forums. Sheesh, yuck.) Need to convert it to Xvid. ^^

..I just don't know where else to ask. ><

Hey gals,

Thought you all might find these useful. I'm DM-ing my first campaign over the holidays and wanted some tools to make my own world. Most of you all probably knew about this stuff already, but since I'm new to the whole DM thing I figured I'd share.

First, a nice listing of random generating map tools:
Six RPG Map Making Solutions For Your Game

Digging into this site a bit, I found some useful links.

I found this random map generator very useful. It has lots of tweaks that you can use to create the specific city that you want. It requires an application to be installed, but I think it's gonna be very handy.
Roleplaying City Map Generator

Even more awesome is this Photoshop tutorial on how to transform your measly little box/lines map into a nice professional-looking one. It requires registering with the site to view the images, but its free to do so.
[Award Winner] A medieval town map tutorial in Photoshop

And finally, a nice simply random dungeon creator. Some pretty nice tweaks available here as well.
Random Dungeon Generator

Looking through the first link might have some extra useful items, but these were the ones that really stood out to me. Enjoy! =)

Hi, my names Cherie. Been a part of this group for awhile but never posted. I post because I have a question. Anyone know how to go about creating character sheets for role playing games such as D&D? I ask because I had in my head the idea to make character sheets for random characters (mostly animated. I'm an animation nut.).

I'm thinking of starting with Dr.Facilier from Disney's new movie "The Princess and the Frog", but I have no idea on how to go about creating character sheets. Can anyone help?

Hi Everyone!

Hope that you all are looking forward to the release of Avatar this Friday. I have written a very special preview post for my science in entertainment site, ScriptPhD.com, on the behind-the-scenes technology and innovation, along with art and design, that resulted in the masterpiece that I promise you all will enjoy very, very much.

My actual film review will be up on Wednesday.

In the meantime, if you're curious about the behind-the-scenes magic and wizardry, check out the post: Behind Avatar: Science, Technology, Art and Design.

Thanks.

X-posted to some other sci-fi communities.

I was doing some reflecting, and I've come up with 11 (it was intended to be 10) of my "oh dear, I am a nerd" moments. I posted it to my private journal but i thought maybe I should share it here too... feel free to add yours in the comments :D

Now, I'm not talking about the fact that I play DnD and own an xbox 360... no, these are the little things that remind me daily that I am a nerd. I'm sure theres more but off the top of my head this is what I came up with... So here goes, in no particular order:

( my nerdy lightbulb moments )( Read more... )

and you know what? I love it all.

Ok. My dad was a collector of old movies on videotape. Some of them you cannot get on DVD. I'd like to get them in digital format so we can back them up and not worry about the tapes getting torn up, ripped up or otherwise destroyed by age. Possibly also burning them to a playable CD as well so we won't be tied to a computer if the worst happens and we want to watch those.

Girls; Anyone know where I can find information on basically copying/encoding the contents of a video tape on a computer? What we'd need and everything? It prolly won't happen instantly, I know that. It'd prolly take equipment we don't have at the present. But it'd be something to shoot for.

A hearty hello to all my fellow RPG World fans, be they young, old, or having a mid-life crisis.

I just wanted to introduce myself as I've been doing a bit of a self-run RPG World project. I don't want to speak much on it yet (it's fledgling, after all), but I'm laying the groundwork and I need help.

I'm currently trying to redig up the old archives of RPG World. I'm making good headway via the Wayback Machine, but I may end up with some missing holes. If anyone has a good archive of your own, let me know. I'll need all the help I can get.

I have my own copy of RPG World Vol. 1 to rely on for the really early stuff, but anything past that's proving difficult from time to time. I'll post a list of what I need when I finish compiling.

I also need some fun avatars. That will probably be lifted from the comic in time. =P

Later guys. Nice to meet you all. <3

-Cherry2.0

has anyone used any of the RPG charactr sheet apps for the iphone? Santa is bringing me one for Christmas and I'm looking at geek related apps.

I'm searching around and the only one I can find good demos on is the i4e. Right nowI'm playing a pathfinder game and most of the apps seem to only aplly to DND 4e. there's and app called character in my pocket.

I really want to know how these things work with multiclassing. I'm playing a Gnome necromancer/bard which can be difficult to manage all my spells and something like this would be awesome if it works.

Any thoughts?