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Ms Duck:
you get a phone if you post by smartphone... its a different version fot he site.

Serack:

--- Quote from: Ms Duck on March 05, 2012, 11:57:05 PM ---you get a phone if you post by smartphone... its a different version fot he site.

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Ah, yes I think this is the answer you were looking for.

Serack:

--- Quote from: new forum member ---How is it that I see so many personalized avatars, but I can't seem to personalize my own?
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--- Quote from: Priscellie on February 16, 2012, 10:11:43 PM ---Members need to have made 100 posts before they can use a custom avatar.

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P.S. 
Here are the rules for individualized Avatars:

--- Quote from: Blaze on December 16, 2010, 03:03:26 AM ---Avatars:
--Personalized avatars must avoid touchy topics. 
--Please keep avatars to a size  not to exceed 150 x 150 pixels.
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See this post for an in depth guide on how to go about getting your own avatar displayed.

Serack:
Variations of this question come up rather regularly enough that I wanted to archive my standard answer

"Can we treat the DFRPG as WoJ?"

Not exactly, but here is some rather definitive info we have from the Publisher, and from Priscellie on what kind of input Jim had on its creation


--- Quote from: iago on June 13, 2010, 12:49:01 AM ---It is not Word of Jim, but it's close.  The blacked out stuff that folks can discover in the PDFs are 4th wall breaking stuff, mainly an in joke for people who figure out how to read it. Beyond that there are elements of the text that are at least slightly inaccurate or more often incomplete because the rpg as presented is being filtered through Billy -- a version of Billy who was more clued in prior to Turn Coat, so the rpg itself is at least a little alternate universe in its conceit.  But regardless we made it as close to the spruce material as we could manage, because we wanted the setting parts of it to work as a legitimate fan guide too.
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emphasis mine


--- Quote from: Priscellie on April 03, 2012, 04:09:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: Serack on April 03, 2012, 03:18:25 PM ---Jim didn't write the DFRPG, he just read over it and told them things like, "You can't use that, I won't be revealing it until much later in the series."  However, seeing their writeup might have motivated him to flesh out the points for your #2.
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While it's true that Jim didn't "write" the DFRPG, he answered a LOT of questions for the team, clarifying points that were unclear or thusfar undefined.  A LOT.  STAGGERING amounts of text.  He also provided a lot of answers to questions they didn't ask, providing huge, wonderful insights into the Dresdenverse.  (Good lord, how I wish I could see all that correspondence!  And all the future developments Chad figured out from text alone that Jim made him remove from the published version!  Covet!)  I think the DFRPG provided an excellent catalyst for him to solidify concepts in his mind he may not have taken the time to complete worked out.

Still, Jim is pretty good at keeping his books lean and relevant.  If something isn't necessary for a book, why put it there?  The Doylist argument of "He just figured this out and wanted to show it off" doesn't hold up to me.  I don't think he'd contrive to include a "this is how time travel works" treatise in PG if time travel wasn't crucial to the events of that novel.

Also, while I know the DFRPG was in progress at the time Jim was writing Proven Guilty, I don't know how actively Jim was contributing at the time.  I didn't become a beta until just after White Night was published, so my Behind The Scenes-foo was weaker.
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And from Jim himself at the 2012 Reddit AMA Q&A

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--- Quote from: Dudesan ---How much influence did you have on the writing of the Dresden Files FATE RPG? How canonical can we assume the information in those books to be? There's a lot of information in there which, while it would be useful for a DM to know, I don't think Harry would be very eager to tell Billy about.
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They're pretty darned close, I think. But canon is for religions, formal schools of thought, and steampunk airships that need something to shoot at other steampunk airships. My stories aren't those things. They're stories. They're supposed to be fun, and to make you think, and casting them in stasis for the sake of having stasis is sort of the opposite of that.
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Sir Huron Stone:
What did priscellie mean by red means they're about to get invaded by the canim?

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