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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 16 May 2005 : 02:40:15
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I am SOOOOOO depressed right now, so you know . . . misery loves company. So I ask you all, have any of you ever had a spectacular adventure made up, almost finished it, and then lost it (power outage, accidental close out, etc.)
Man . . . this never happened ages ago when I did all of this on my typewriter . . . lol
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Melfius
Senior Scribe
USA
516 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 03:09:35
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I don't know about losing adventures, but I used to have a ton of 1st Ed modules. That is, until the 'friend' I let borrow them moved to Florida with them.
Someday I will find him... |
Melfius, Pixie-Priest of Puck - Head Chef, The Faerie Kitchen, Candlekeep Inn
"What's in his pockets, besides me?"
Read a tale of my earlier days! - Happiness Comes in Small Packages |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 03:18:54
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Originally posted by KnightErrantJR
I am SOOOOOO depressed right now, so you know . . . misery loves company. So I ask you all, have any of you ever had a spectacular adventure made up, almost finished it, and then lost it (power outage, accidental close out, etc.)
I haven't lost any adventures that I've written up on the computer, but during my second year of university, I lost an important 100-page paper on a new data algorithm that I designed for a programming project. I nearly failed that class... but fortunately I still had most of my handwritten notes that I'd jotted down during the algorithm's development.
So, I more than understand how you feel  .
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Man . . . this never happened ages ago when I did all of this on my typewriter . . . lol
I still have my typewriter, which I use occasionally. It's always a good idea to keep the older technology around I think...  .
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
4607 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 03:37:36
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Originally posted by The Sage
I still have my typewriter, which I use occasionally. It's always a good idea to keep the older technology around I think... .
Sage, who spent his 1999 New Years eve and 2000 New years day inside a concrete bunker 3 miles under Perth 
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 03:38:06
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I nearly lost an hour-and-a-half's worth of work on a research paper, once, and -- like an idiot -- I hadn't saved it since starting. Luckily, I have Word set to auto-save every five minutes, so I just had to find where the auto-saved file was. Then, oddly, I had to figure out how to open it -- Word wouldn't open it's own auto-saved file! I used Notepad, and recovered all but the last couple minutes of the paper I'd been working on.
Now, I save every time I pause for longer than a minute or so, and I make sure I save when I first start the file, too. |
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Jindael
Senior Scribe
USA
357 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 04:02:20
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I once lost an entire (400k) text based game I had written because I only used one save file, and it got corrupted.
Now I not only make backups, but I make multiple backups. Huzzah for the New World Order of Paranoia! |
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
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Lina
Senior Scribe
Australia
469 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 04:41:14
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| I had something similar happen to me once. I was writing a paper or was it my thesis (it was one of the two), got stuck, saved the file then had a brilliant thought, got going again when all of a sudden there was a power spike. Of course that reset my PC and I lost track of where I was and couldn't recall what I wrote previously. Was less than happy as you can imagine. |
“Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows! Buried in the flow of time. In thy great name. I pledge myself to darkness. All the fools who stand in our way shall be destroyed…by the power you and I possess! DRAGON SLAVE!!!”
"Thieves? Ah, such an ugly word... look upon them as the most honest sort of merchant."
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 04:45:52
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Oh, I was writing it on Open Office, and I had the SRD open becuase I was cutting and pasting some rules that I knew I would use into the adventure that I was writing, and when I went to close out the SRD document, I accidentally closed the open office program, and like a moron, when I saw the "you have unsaved changes" window pop up for some reason I was thinking that it was because I had coppied the paragraphs out of the SRD documents and hit no . . .
Litterally two second later I registered what I did.
Thanks everybody . . . I feel better, lol |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 04:49:20
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Now that I have taken a deep breath . . .
I think that I might be able to "wing" this adventure, since many of the adversaries come straight out of the Monster Manual, though I wanted to show them having better equipment due to the involvement of the Iron Throne . . .
In my mind I have this particular adventure staged out . . . humanoids attacking Mistledale ranchers in the north west, humanoids well equiped, having gotten equipment from the Iron Throne, Neylessa thinks they are being equiped by the drow, but it is actually the Eldreth Veluthra acting through the Iron Throne . . .
Convoluted enough? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 04:58:43
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Originally posted by Dargoth
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Originally posted by The Sage
I still have my typewriter, which I use occasionally. It's always a good idea to keep the older technology around I think... .
Sage, who spent his 1999 New Years eve and 2000 New years day inside a concrete bunker 3 miles under Perth
Although, now that I think about it... I don't recall where I spent New Year's Eve 1999...  .
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 05:10:07
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| Thankfully I spent it eating pizza with my daughter . . . not flashy, but definately memorable . . . and much better than the year I ate too many Gardettos and then drank too much Goldschager . . . |
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webmanus
Learned Scribe
Sweden
338 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 05:42:54
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Hi folks!
I lost a Shadowdale document that I wrote, and also a Lathander church document, the adventures Orcs and Demons, Raiders from Galath's Roost (an adaptation) and many many more documents ... that was a pair of years ago ... How I lost it? I am too ashamed to tell ...
A good news would be that I have found some hard copies ... |
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
4607 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 06:12:52
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Dargoth
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Originally posted by The Sage
I still have my typewriter, which I use occasionally. It's always a good idea to keep the older technology around I think... .
Sage, who spent his 1999 New Years eve and 2000 New years day inside a concrete bunker 3 miles under Perth
Although, now that I think about it... I don't recall where I spent New Year's Eve 1999... .
All that proves is you drank to much Booze that New Years  |
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Emperor Sigismund
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Iliphar1
Learned Scribe
Austria
133 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 10:34:58
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I almost lost my final thesis for university 2 weeks before deadline, because my laptop wouldn't start anymore...
Somebody did manage to fix it in the end (thx God!!) |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2005 : 11:24:40
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Originally posted by Iliphar1
I almost lost my final thesis for university 2 weeks before deadline, because my laptop wouldn't start anymore...
Somebody did manage to fix it in the end (thx God!!)
I had a computer at work last week that just up and died, and wouldn't load Windows... Luckily, getting the data off the drive was easy -- I just had to figure out the jumpers on the drives. |
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Crust
Learned Scribe
USA
273 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2005 : 03:52:46
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Oddly enough in this computer age, everything I ever write concerning my campaign is on paper. I never put anything on file. Probably for fear of losing it in a system crash or something like that.
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"That's right, hurl back views that force ye to think by name-calling - 'tis the grand old tradition, let it not down! Anything to keep from having to think, or - Mystra forfend - change thy own views!"
Narnra glowered at her father. "Just how am I to learn how to think? By being taught by you?"
"Some folk in the Realms would give their lives for the chance to learn at my feet," Elminster said mildly. "Several already have."
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Griselame
Acolyte
France
18 Posts |
Posted - 17 May 2005 : 08:44:26
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Me too : I never write my adventures on computer , I always use my hand and my pen.....Don't know why , but I can't write anything at all about an intrigue on PC.... |
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