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I can´t find any entry indicating this in the Dragondex, which is one of the best and most thorough ressources on Dragon content.

Regarding Modrons, there are two entries listed:
"Return of the Modrons" Ken Marable 354(34) D&D3
"Modron Magic" Monte Cook 241(56) D&D2

Both are way after the original book had been published, so it seems that they were first published in the MMII (Wikipedia says so as well, but that is not necessarily the final word on that matter).

Primus is not mentioned in the Dragondex at all.

Stefan

Wow. Blast from the past, I´d say. I was even thinking about getting the v20 book, but then, I was a few weeks late for preorder, and did not see anything else where I could get it. If it will be available as a pdf, I will probably get it.

I would still be interested in a PBP game (recently bought some old V:tM books as well). I´m moving next week, however, so I would not be too sad if starting the game would need a few more weeks.... But still, let me know when you start the game. (I will move about 200+ miles next week - not much by US standards, but a big move in an European context, so, adjusting will take a while. People in Saxonia do have a peculiar accent...)

Stefan

Well, I changed my shipping adress right now. Anything not shipped by now will reach me there. I only hope the last shipment arrives here this week... But then, all mail should be forwarded to my new address, so everything should be fine.

Stefan

I signed my new employment contract on Monday, and I will be part of the monument protection service of the beautiful city of Dresden, starting this fall or perhaps summer. This includes moving, of course, but still, it is an improvement for me. Besides, the city is just great. Now only my wife has to find a new job there as well.

Stefan

Finally! Moving to Dresden next week is upon us! Due to the German dismissal protection laws, I had to wait half a year from quitting to be actually released from my contract. But now, the time has come. We found a very nice apartment, spacy and not too expensive, right in the center of the city, about 5 minute walk to the Frauenkirche. And I can walk to my office in about 20 minutes. My new boss seems very likeable, the tasks I will have to handle sound very interesting - life is very good at the moment.

Now, if only moving wouldn´t be such a chore... I have quite a few books (surprise!), so we will be packing about 120 boxes of stuff, plus the furniture. But we hired a moving company for the worst part.

Stefan

Hi folks, I will be moving in late September. As shipments take about two weeks to Germany in my experience, I would love to have an really early warning before the next shipment, so I can change my adress accordingly. If the next shipment is to leave your warehouse until roughly the 9th of September, the old adress should be fine. If it ships later, the new adress would be better. I will have all mail forwarded anyway, just in case. Still, getting the paizo stuff as fast as possible would be nice :-)

Thanks to whomever had the idea of putting the books in my latest shipment in additional envelopes inside the shipping box itself. That way, the books arrived here this morning in pristine condition, which is great for a collector like me :-) If this extra packaging causes higher costs, I´m willing to pay extra for this service.

Stefan

Hey, great! No more fear of ramdom censorship of webpages. (Among other, less important stuff :-)

I can´t imagine living in a culture so different from mine for an extended period of time. Not because I´m racist or any such BS, but I think I would have a rather difficult time adjusting (not to mention that I would stand way out at about 6ft5in height). Moving to Dresden this fall will be enough of a culture shock for me, I guess, and it is within Germany...

Stefan

ISTJ, with a really big I (around 90%). Trustee or Inspector. I think this goes quite well with my job - public service, protection of historic buildings and monuments.

Stefan

AARGH! If I get that "this video is not available in your country" crap one more time, I will get mad!

Stefan

I signed my new employment contract on Monday, and I will be part of the monument protection service of the beautiful city of Dresden, starting this fall or perhaps summer. This includes moving, of course, but still, it is an improvement for me. Besides, the city is just great. Now only my wife has to find a new job there as well.

Stefan

Yeah, I´ve just gotten the mail as well. Thanks a lot, and I will resubscribe in time for the next product.

I finally watched the video. Well... the starting sequence is designed to be disturbing without going too far - a well-measured provocation, but then, since biting off chicken heads on stage is frowned upon these days, you need to find something else to get noticed. The music is meh... nothing special, so I didn´t listen to it for more than a few seconds. Maybe I´m getting a bit jaded these days, but it failed to upset me.

If you don't have it, pick up a copy of Qadira, Gateway to the East. it has two races that could/would word great, The Half-Janni and Suli (offspring of a half-janni and human).

Wow. I totally missed that one.

Either use the various elemental versions of playable PC races, as stated above, or try to find Savage Species, a D&D3.5 book, which contains progressions for various monsters, and guidelines for creating more IIRC. Or you might try to create racial levels that are integrated into the standard class progression, which has been done for 3.5 somewhere as well, to replace special abilities granted by the standard class levels with special abilities more in tune with the race in question.

Stefan

Uchawi wrote:

Don't worry, it will only take 1 disturbed individual to state <insert popular RPG game name here> was the cause behind killing someone, or related activity, to get the evil game, satan-worshiper discussions started again.

It's pretty much proven that games, video games, or music doesn't make anyone do horrible things. I think that's pretty much common knowledge.

I wish. If a young man runs amok, so-called killer games are nearly always mentioned in the press (if the guy played them), and it is implied that they are one (if not the only) reason. Granted, this is mostly tabloid-style press, but they are widely read.

Stefan

Yes, cancel the subscription. I will resubscribe after this book.
Thanks a lot.

Stefan

My brother-in-law has the basic game, intrigue, seaside and prosperity so far. We played a few rounds with random cards from all sets last sunday, and it was a lot of fun. The cards from seaside that are lasting are a nice tactical element.

Stefan

Is it possible to take the Inner Sea World Guide out of this order? I just recieved the order confirmation mail, but the s&h costs are just too high for a hardcover.

Stefan

In Germany, it is usually given as Gaddafi. It depends on the transliteration used from arabic to latin letters (excuse the less-than-scientific expressions here). It is given as Qaddhafi alternatively.

I love getting affordable books from paizo. Yes, it raises moral questions about supporting an oppressive regime, but, as was pointed out above, as long as we get oil from saudi arabia or clothes from child labor in bangladesh, this is a moot point. It is fashionable right now to bash china for its lack of human rights (not in the least because China is on its way to become the next (only?) superpower by being ruthless in the extreme). But this is beside the point.

I did not experience any quality issues so far, only trouble with my stuff getting trashed while shipping, so the quality is fine to me.

I do remember starting one thread about concerns that the chinese printer(s) might not have environmental standards that are worth the name, but paizo stated that they only use certified printers, which is all they can do. What that means in China is another topic entirely, and nothing paizo is responsible for.

Stefan

I do miss the beholder though.

Nobody stops you from including them in your home game. Just sayin´. I know it is not quite the same as having them in the official rules, but other than that, it is no problem.

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Kein Schwein ruft mich an

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Heute Nacht oder nie
Max Raabe - Wenn der weisse Flieder wieder blüht
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Ich steh´mit Ruth gut
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Klonen kann sich Lohnen
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Mein Bruder macht im Tonfilm die Geräusche
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester - Moon of Alabama :)

Hey, I saw a live performance two weeks ago - it was great entertainment.

I don´t think that WotC will sell D&D - ever. They might just shelve it, but I´m quite sure that they won´t sell it. Even if they would, I think paizo would neither have the money nor the inclination to buy it. Especially the inclination part is important here - paizo is quite happy with Pathfinder and developing Golarion. D&D would come with a ton of baggage, like old settings, with fans clamoring to revive *insert setting here*. I don´t think that paizo would even want to do that, even if they had the manpower to treat the various settings adequately. The various settings were one reason that broke TSRs back. Furthermore, if they were to discontinue 4e, the fans of that rule version would be irate, and if they discontinued 3.x/PF, the fans of that would be irate. Buying D&D would be too big and it would be impossible to satisy the customers, who have shown themselves in the past to be a very picky bunch. Paizo would lose on this in various ways.

Stefan

Stebehil wrote:

Well, thanks to a not yet made agreement between youtube and the GEMA, I can´t see the vids here. The last link by cosmo needs a registration before viewing - I hate it when some folks tell me what I can see and what I cannot.

[walks away grumbling...]

Stefan

Try "clipfish.de", it seems to be the newest Lady Gaga video.

Did I just advice somebody where to look at the newest Lady Gaga video?
Sighs - I guess I did...
Sorry.
Well, there are some Combichrist videos there as well...

Yeah, well... I used it mainly to vent my frustration about that castrated version of youtube you get over here, not so much because I was keen on a lady gaga video. Last year, we were in Boston on a holiday trip, and one of the bus drivers for the sightseeing buses couldn´t get some lady gaga song out of his mind, and sang it the whole time, or at least the refrain of it...

Stefan

Oh, and regarding Mearls´ articles - well, I did read the first one, but honestly, I don´t really care for 4e or an upcoming 5e. I had a look at 4e and decided it was not for me, so I chose to ignore it for the most part. That causes Mearls call for unity fall on deaf ears here. I personally think that some of the moves WotC made at the start of 4e did divide the fanbase even further than it was already. YMMV, of course.

Stefan

The ads linked a few pages back - I didn´t care for them, as I just thought they were not as funny as the folks who made them seemed to think. Especially the one presenting older versions of the game left me "Did they really think that was funny? Its stupid." Offended? If anything, I was offended by the stupidity of the clip as whole. But that is a matter of taste.

I think that many folks were not especially offended by that clip alone, but rather by a number of decisions many fans did not like - the very different rule system, pulling the various licenses, pulling the pdf sales, fundamental changes to the game worlds, the tighter rules of the GSL. Given all that, the advertizing campaign was probably the last straw to many folks, as it can be seen as portraying folks clinging to the older games as incompetent nerds. I guess it seemed to many that the designers at WotC did not listen to the fan base, or if they did, the fan base was considered not important enough. Given the less-than-stellar history TSR had in that regard, many folks did not take that as a good development. Rather, some of these were seen as a step backwards, especially as some licencees did really good work, and the OGL undeniably revived the RPG market tremendously.

Stefan

Well, thanks to a not yet made agreement between youtube and the GEMA, I can´t see the vids here. The last link by cosmo needs a registration before viewing - I hate it when some folks tell me what I can see and what I cannot.

[walks away grumbling...]

Stefan

Does this mean a Private can rule forever?

Nope, no longer than 12 years. The example of that "austrian private" shows this.

Well... There was a big archaeological dig in my hometown last year (about 10.000 m²) in an area where the late medieval/early modern era fortification of the city once was. There were walls and their wooden foundations, ditches, a stone tunnel and a lot of stuff, like stone cannon balls, two arquebuses from the 15th century, a rapier from 1602 among other things found. The wooden foundations could be dated to the 15th and 16th century (using the dendrochronological method), showing multiple phases of building there.

Now, our forebears had a surprise in store for us: the stones used were partially worked stones, obviously taken from a demolished building. There were gothic traceries, columns, ribs and other stuff, most probably from a gothic church, which can be dated tentatively to the 14th century, early or mid-century most likely. It had a coat of arms on a rib vault keystone I could identify as that of a local minor noble family, which died out in 1409. Now, I set myself to find out what church it might have been part of once - scientific research is asked for there. Another highly unusual find was a stone that had been a grave marker once, dated to 1284 AD, giving the name and the profession (a cleric) of the deceased. All this is highly fascinating to a history buff like me, and to be part of this is quite exciting.

Stefan

I sure don't see "europe going to hell again" yet, at least not concerning integration politics. They need to be worked on (and worked with), but I don't see an unavoidable disaster in the near future.

+1. Integration politics didn´t work out in the last decades, resulting in parallel societies in Germany (where I live as well), but that does not spell disaster IMO. Rather, it is acknowledged now as a problem and can be worked on.

I´m a little concerned about the Netherlands, however, as it seems that right-wing populist politicians gained quite some clout and an atmosphere of hostility to foreigners seems to foster - but then, that is judging from afar.

Stefan

Bump. 84%.

Stebehil wrote:

"Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine 1821

While this phrase is part of a play, and thus, used for dramatic effect, I think it has some truth to it: A mindset that allows books to be burned probably has not much respect for living beings also. Sadly, Heines works were among the books burned by the Nazis in 1933. I absolutely abhor burning of books or other symbols, like flags, as nothing good ever comes from this.

Stefan

How Prescient of him!

Yeah... I only wish he wasn´t...

Couldn´t give much for various reasons, but at least we are at 75% now.

My father probably does not need an operation for his herniated vertebrae disc, and it seems like his prostate cancer is in check as well for the time being. He turned 76 a few weeks ago, and it seems he still got a few years. My parents can in all probability celebrate their golden wedding anniversary in a few weeks. This makes me very happy.

Stefan

Only losers get convicted of war crimes.

I hope this is not actually true, at least not if countries are involved that have a jurisdiction worth its name.

In Ohio this is a good tactical move which very well may give Republicans a permanent advantage in the state. There's no better method than to render your opposition penniless and with the domination of state legislature, they're not dependent on Democrats to make the quorum to pass.

I see. So, politics is the continuation of war with other weapons? I don´t see how a permanent advantage of one party is democratic in any way. And here I thought that the US was an exemplar of democratic practice - I´m obviously still very naive. A so-called democracy where one party is practically assured dominance by "good tactical moves" sounds to me like a road to autocratic government.

Remember this is America not Europe. We have here a system of majority rule, not representative rule. Which mean when you have the majority, you curbstomp your opposition to the ground if you get the chance.

Well, then lets hope that your goals are never in opposition to the majority. I like the european system better, but then, I´ve never been a very competitive guy, and I lose at Risk regularly.

Stefan

I don´t think that a state (or country, for that matter) should be required to have to bargain with a union by law, or being in a union should be mandatory for an employee. But neither do I think that states can even pass legislation declaring unions not having the right to bargain on their members behalf (which is pretty much the point of a union), much less if this does indeed apply only to unions of public servants or those unions that didn´t support the winner of the last election back then - this is a massive abuse of legislation, as it mixes up the state as legislator with the state as employer. Legislation has nothing directly to do with employment of public servants. If legislation about unions being mandatory was passed in the past, this legislation is is to blame and should be undone, as this is a part of the relationship between employer and employee and thus, not a matter of legislation.

Even here in Germany, nobody would happen on the idea of such legislation, and I doubt it would be in keeping with the laws. The unions here have a traditionally strong position and have proven themselves time and again as a sensible partner of the employers, with practicing moderation in the bargains when the economy was weak, and having an eye for things beyond their immediate concerns, being part of the society as a whole. (The idea of curtailing unions immediately calls back memories of very dark times indeed, so this would be unthinkable here.)

Sending out the police to drag the "fleeing" representatives back in is just ridiculous and speaks volumes about those threatening such - their understanding of democracy is not worth a damn. In democratic tradition, you should talk to each other about the issues at hand and find a compromise way before a situation gets out of hand like this. But the present political atmosphere in the US seems to have bargaining only at gunpoint on either side (although the Tea Party movement seems to be the worst of them all, judging from afar). It seems to me that the US society in general is very strongly confrontational beneath all that friendly veneer you encounter on a daily basis. I know Germans are often seen as being curt or even outright grumpy, but this is for the most case a matter of minding the business at hand first and foremost, and having no tradition of "warm-up small talk". This behaviour is sometimes seen as being honest in contrast to the friendly facade presented by Americans, which is seen just as a false facade - the recent political shouting matches in the US seem to reinforce that notion.

Stefan

If I get that right, the dems left state to avoid a legal vote they would lose on a specific topic ? This is not a magic moment for democracy for sure. If no law speaks against such behaviour, it is technically not illegal, however.

That vote would have been about curtailing the rights and powers of unions, right? From what I´ve gathered from the US legal system, this should be taken to court, not be a matter of legislation. If somebody, like a company in this case, feels wronged by a union, it sounds like a civil matter to me. I do have a bad feeling about legislation curtailing unions rights, as the right to have a union was hard fought for. I see that unions have a wholly different background in the US, and have a reputation to be prone for being a haven for mobsters.

But still, unions normally use their influence not only to get the highest wages for their members, which is their foremost task, but also strive for the betterment of working conditions if they are worth their name. IMO, the right to unionize is an achievement of advanced democratic societies, and not something to be given up lightly. I concede that there is abuse according to what I hear from unions in the US, but you should not blame that on the idea of unions per se, but rather on inept and greedy union leaders.

Stefan

Many thanks everyone! This was a really fun piece to work on, and I'm busy brewing up a bunch more iconics in creepy situations. I'd tell you more about 'em, but then Sarah would have to kill me :).

I like your art very much. It is clearly fantasy, but not over the top - neither Vallejo nor Manga, just the right amount of fantasy (for me, at least). And the Iron Medusa cover is just great - I can´t wait to see the printed version.

Stefan

I'm an english-speaking Serbian. Where Stefan is a very common name. :D

Heh. So, my point about an international gaming crew is proven - not that it would need to be. Stefan is quite common here as well, most prevalent in guys between 25 and 45 years.

Stefan

This PDF of Player's guide out how many days before the first book of Carrion Crown ?

Those who are register with subscriber will receive the pdf of the first book to date about what ?

I guess the Players Guide will be available at about the same time as the first book. You will recieve access to the pdf downloads as soon as the subscription copy ships. There will be an E-Mail notifing you.

(Isn´t is great? A French-speaking guy asks a question in English and is answered by a guy who is a native German speaker in English. Yay for international gamers.)

Stefan

All that said, I do want my previous edition .pdf's back. There's still quite a bit of that D&D I'd like to be able to discover for less than your typical bloated Amazon/Ebay price.

+1. I don´t buy the piracy argument - how do all the other game companies handle that problem? I guess getting pirated versions of WotC stuff is easy still. Rather, improving the anti-piracy measures would mean quite some work for little gain, and WotC would support OOP versions of the game with it - so, pulling them entirely was easier, and does even make sense from their point of view, I guess. That the move did not sit well with the people who payed for the stuff - well, too bad. These customers probably won´t buy the new edition anyway, so why care? In the long run, it would have been fan service only, with WotC probably even losing money on it.

Stefan

Mothman wrote:

The gamer community being fractured has far less to do with 4e, and nothing to do with page 114 or 115 of the 4e phb, than it has to do with some people (now and through the history of RPGs) being narrow minded and antagonistic instead of just getting on with playing the games they enjoy.

THIS IS EXACTLY IT!

Mike Mearles, this is the problem with gamer unity. People being too narrow minded and emotionally invested with they game they play. And being too antagonistic instead of just getting on with playing the games they want to play.

And this kind of narrow-mindedness is not limited to a certain part of the gamer populace, like supporters of "game A". It runs the whole range.

Stefan

I would chalk that up to his divine status. If you plan to use that for a homebrew, that is the explanation I would use - if gods can´t bend the rules, who can?

Gorbacz wrote:

Memory of Darkness (grinds teeth)

Not to completely derail the thread, but I've heard that a lot, and about that AP in general. What was the problem?

It is said it was railroady in the extreme, and had the players cooperate with evil NPCs. I didn´t read it, so I don´t really know. More may be

here

And talk about secrets -- Mordenkainen STILL DON'T KNOW that Tasha was actually Iggwilv in disguise.

If this does not scream "Vecna" I don´t know what will - leaving an Archmage who is normally steeped in secrets and who is all about discovering secrets in the dark like that looks just like him.

If Iggwilv was indeed born on Oerth, it would probably be some time in the late 3rd century CY - at least, she first is noted in the early 4th century and gains notoriety in Ket. That would indeed make her about 300 years old - but then, she existed on other worlds as well and may be much older than that. So, if Vecna would have had any influence, it would have been around that time, roughly 280 CY. If she is much older, it might even been the time of the great meteor, 198 CY. I should look at the timeline (seemingly, the greychrondex is down right now) if anything might indicate some involvement of Vecna somewhere - just for the fun of it.

EDIT: The Greychrondex worked just fine - I have no idea why I could not access it earlier. If you want to give players something to chew on, she could be the same age as Zagig, who was born 277 CY (most probable date). That could explain how she escaped notice except by Baba Yaga - another potentially powerful archmage being born the same day might avert attention of anybody looking for such signs.

Stefan

Stebehil wrote:

LazarX wrote:

James Martin wrote:

The government funds things that corporations can't or won't and that serve the public good. Roads, police protection, defense, NPR, PBS, all these are things that corporations can't or won't provide without adding their own commercial spins. Contrast Fox News and PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer.

Just an update, as of a few weeks ago the government has rescinded all funding to public broadcasting. It's only income at this point is from public and private donations.

Thats interesting. I have no idea what broadcasting services were funded and what this funding did. One idea behind government funding of broadcasting normally is that the media can work independent of any private support and concentrate on their work. If that was the case, it could be that really independent media will be less common and less wide-ranging in the future.

STefan

Many of those public services have pretty much putting themselves in this position by taking a political view on reporting. When you tell half the people that have to decide on your funding that they are stupid, don't be surprised when they decide not to fund you.

Thats why government funding mostly comes with a clause to remain politically neutral, and recieve the guarantee that politics won´t try to influence your work - at least, that is the theory.

James Martin wrote:

The government funds things that corporations can't or won't and that serve the public good. Roads, police protection, defense, NPR, PBS, all these are things that corporations can't or won't provide without adding their own commercial spins. Contrast Fox News and PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer.

Just an update, as of a few weeks ago the government has rescinded all funding to public broadcasting. It's only income at this point is from public and private donations.

Thats interesting. I have no idea what broadcasting services were funded and what this funding did. One idea behind government funding of broadcasting normally is that the media can work independent of any private support and concentrate on their work. If that was the case, it could be that really independent media will be less common and less wide-ranging in the future.

STefan

If Vecna "had a hand" in Iggwilv's conception wouldn't that throw off the GH timeline?

I don't know how old Mordenkainen is but Iggwilv assumed the persona of "Tasha" to become one of his students -- that would put Iggwilv FAR younger than Vecna as a mortal.

Unless, of course, if Iggwilv was already a bazillion years old when she became Mordenkainen's student -- but if that's so, if she was already an uber-powerful caster (with Baba Yaga AND Vecna in her lineage), why on Oerth would she want to become Mordenkainen's student? It couldn't have been just to create the spell Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter.

Well, I don´t think that Vecna had a hand in that as a mortal - that would indeed play havoc with the canonical timeline. I would place Iggwilvs birth somewhere around 100 to 200 CY. At that time, Vecna would not exist in physical form. He is a demigod ~ 580 CY, if you follow the published adventures. He ascended to the Spidered Throne after the Rain of Colorless Fire, according to Vecna Lives. That would be about -420 CY. His Empire probably fell about -357 CY already, at least according to canonfire, and Keoland ascends. So, that gives about 450-550 years to the birth of Iggwilv, and about 880 years to ascend to godhood at most. If he managed to exist in some form between his destruction and his ascension, which we can safely assume, he might have influenced the birth of Iggwilv in his proto-deity form of existence - either by sending a proto-avatar, or by influencing the mortal parents with some kind of magic.

Iggwilv might have wanted to pose as a student to Mordy to really learn more, and to spy on his activities - for her own gain, for her supposed foster mothers gain, or for her fathers gain, if you take the Vecna idea. It would befit him to have a triple agent in Mordys castle. Vecnas influence on Iggwilv might be so subtle that not even she or Baba Yaga might be able to discover it.

Stefan

Stebehil wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

I hear all the best secrets get told at PaizoCon.

I guess someone will tell the uninformed masses afterwards.

This is a new era of information exchange. Someone will twitter it during the announcement. News filters to the messageboards same day.

And here was I thinking that by using messageboards and email, I would be up to date... Seems I´m getting old - no - I am old.

Stefan

Stebehil wrote:

Yep. Only that it is not overseas to me - which might explain my sensitivitiy to this kind of behaviour.

Ich verstehe. My grandfather left just beforehand; with a name like "Goldmann," his family decided that staying in Germany would soon be an unacceptable risk.

To derail this topic now completely, I´ve heard and seen so much about the Third Reich and how it came to be that I´m highly sensitive to extreme-right positions. Even today, new evidence just how deeply involved my people (speaking of Germans in general) were with the Nazi crimes on all levels of society is uncovered with almost frightening regularity. Yeah, a family named Goldmann would almost certainly not have survived...

Stefan

It would be remiss of me not to mention Open Design in-progress campaign setting: the World of Midgard, currently being brainstormed, constructed, geo-formed and terramorphed on the KQ forums as we speak. It incorporates years' worth of canon on Zobeck and other fan-favorite regions featured in Open Design projects and Kobold Quarterly over the years.

Midgard Campaign Setting

Of course! I don´t know how I manage to forget the various OD projects I´ve signed patronage for again and again. (Currently, Dark Deeds in Freeport and this). Thanks for the reminder. Somehow, Wolfs emails always get buried in a ton of other mails, and I forget to respond in time...

Stefan