Comma is best.

Don't plan a One Stage warning then FD. Sit down and think it through from an OOC point of view. Plan the stages, plan the threats, plan the concequences.

This.
Killing a players character should be the last thing you do if you haven't built up the conflict and just go stay out followed by kill your not involving them your only pride gaming.

By the same token if you have built up a conflict and when it comes time to "kill" your foes don't be shy kill them and feed there bodies to the pigs.To many "conflicts" are dragged out to long this is why it seems PvP and full death is under used or incorrectly used.
This isn't just a player failing it's a DM one also (no offense intended)but often a DM will rescue a character when really they took the risk and lost yet they deprive the winner who also took the risks of there victory…this happens far to often and the story grows stale and pointless.

@Amy:

I agree to the above. If they have power, it's because they earned it.

Or because they can write apps.
What i really would hate to see is more of the current trend you know grind your ass off to 7+then start pvping ..only now you can do it as a WM or a FTR/PM.

The levels are hidden, you can grind to level 7, then walk wham into the guy who grinded to level 12.

Just be wary of arcane archer apps that start taking levels early…

I'd guess they'll either cap the PrC, or change something so you aren't roaming around with a +5 machine gun at level 10

pure class crafters do tend to have access to more spells and with the right feats can make a multitude of useful items..such as potions, scrolls, wands and attuned gems

and pure class characters can be fun, if one has patience

The people of a certain tower near Dhedluk hire you to go and eliminate the evil cows whom keep cursing their men with their evil milk.

No need to ever apologize for things like that :) Also hoping everything's alright.

Its only 1/round, and you have to be in combat mode. (turning on parry works too)

Good times! I never played on Menzo but spent a good bit of time on the Silver Marches. Sojo also had a Waterdeep/Undermountain server that had tremendous atmosphere to it that we played on fairly often. We started working on the Bloodstone Lands mod as a replacement to the SM/UM servers - it went up in mid/late summer 2006 and ran full time until 2010 or 2011. That's a fun setting to build for. Palischuk (a city of half-orcs, for those who aren't familiar) was a real trip.

*remember the deliveries are your friend, use those to build up a surplus of gold to purchase supplies for the dangerous quests, set a level of supplies for each specific quest. longer ones will take more. never quest when healing, restore, invisible supplies dip below a certain level, try to have spares to help your friends. (remember exploring should also not be done without supplies as well)

*watch the latency, i gauge this by talking to the npc's who have conversation trees, if the response is slow, over a one thousand one, one thousand two count, use your online time to do the deliveries and RP

*never ever RP in a spawn zone, move to a more sensible place

I'm tempted to lock on the back of that, Stooge.

It's referring to the .tlk file missing from your tlk folder. I'd check your hak folder to see if a .tlk got installed there in error and move it to the tlk folder. If that doesn't work, may have to do some searching to see which .tlk file is missing/needed and search for it as a direct download (I think the Vault still is still probably the best resource for this sort of thing, but I've really been out of the game for the last 4-5 years.)

Same thing happened to me Zero

There will be a 30ish minute delay from the time posted. Still on.

I find many (too many) people lack one very important aspect of a character. "Something" that their characters would risk their lives for. The "sink or swim". The end goal that is worth the character's life.

When you concept, always ask yourself "what would my character risk his life for?". Ask yourself that, and you'll find out you'll be much more willing to see your character's story end, because the risks he took were worth.

The key point - Don't whine at players if they use what's floating over your head. It's just annoying to them. Make sure what is over your head is an appropriate distingusihing monika/Alias/TrueName when you create your PC and expect people to use it, whether you've handed it out or they just read it. Don't regard this as metagaming your name.