It is a altar like in dragon slayer. Looks very cool. www.daz3d.com

Thanks for the reminder!

Actually, since they spelled it "alter" nothing gets sacrificed there. Totally unintentionally, they have provided a place where alterations happen and you get to see the serious Magick of METAMORPHOSIS rather than the dreary display provided by a circle of mentally sick men slobbering as a helpless female writhes in terror and pain. If you want to watch lizards eat dinner, go to the Alligator House. Meanwhile, with a more colorful paint job... a few sigils around the perimeter will do, we have ourselves a transmogrifier. (The very word brings a lilt to my heart.) Trolls into toymakers. Witches into wunderkind. Fire demons into fairies. ::sigh:: Men changed into women? An improvement, IMHO. Dinosaurs into birds? It's happened before. Carolly

I must admit I got a huge giggle out of "alter", brandished in great big letters.

Hi, Carolly. Thought you vanished with he whose name must not be spoken.

Well it's CALLED alter! In danish that is G So it's just nice to see that DAZ finally learned to spell properly ;o)

Hi, back! I'm still here. Busy. Some things in real life to deal with, so my temperament is possibly pricklier than normal. And this Forum is full of people who get upset if the world isn't handed to them with rose-petals and pearls. Meanwhile, I've got a stunningly great idea for Lyrra's next contest. ::grin that would light up San Francisco:: "The Misspelled Word" This month, DAZ has given us "Horde" instead of "Hoard", but I ignored it. There were so many articles in that pile of pelf, that it qualified both ways. But now we have "Alter" in lieu of "Altar"... hey, does Stephanie turn into Michael before our eyes? The possibilities! Yowsers!! And they aren't the only accidental homonyms, just recent, high profile ones. I've seen wearwolf for werewolf and gild for guild in the last few months.... So, imagine (feel free to add the rasp of claws and crackle of bones as well as the spattering reek of a tar-dipped torch), that you are not a spellcaster yourself (s/he is lying there unconscious), but are reading aloud from a scroll... and you realize to your horror (as if your predicament wasn't bad enough) that one of the words was misspelled. An essential word. A primary word. This could be laughable or lamentable... depending upon the nature of the spell you'd chosen and the word which was substituted. This could be fun. Carolly

Darn. DAZ changed it by the time I got there. Not what I expected in an altar, but I suppose technically it would be a high place. Carolly, grate idea! My rusty weals are starting to tern.

LOL. Sorry,cause Im the biggest culperate when it comes it misspelling words, as you can see. Dont know why but my spelling gene died sometime ago. :( But im so happy I spelled altar right. LOL. For a min I thought you all were pokeing fun at me. :)

We never had altars like that in chruch when I was a kid and still went to church. Why not? WHY NOT?!?

Awww, you mean they're NOT??? So disappointed... ;o)

"We never had altars like that in chruch when I was a kid and still went to church." You just went to the wrong church. The Church of Starry Wisdom up in Providence, Rhode Island is where you ought to be.

Ia Ia Chuthlu......

Ayup, summat's oop wi' t'download. I started the download and it said xx of 10.92 MB, then it died. When I restarted there was about 90KB total, so I left, came back, 375KB, little later 680KB, then 1.25MB, it's now up to 3.83MB. Do you think the server-imps had an encounter like the infamous student-with-a-box-of-punch-cards sketch, and they're slowly gathering them back up?

Oh dear god, I remember punch cards. And not fondly, either.

Hiram, Oooh! "Tern"! Good catch, "turn" is such an essential spell word... for turning undead, turning poison into potions, just about every class and type of spell caster has a spell with turn in the title or main phrase. (So you "terned" the army of evil Anubis warriors - you just have 64,000 hungry seagulls to worry about.) Maid and Made might be interesting, too... if you are retrieving a dwarf-made axe, for instance. One style of viking axe is considered a bearded axe. ;^) Born and bourn? "Not bourn of woman" opens up a lot of possibilities. This is going to have to ferment for a while... but the odds that I'll inflict it upon my gaming group are very, very high. Non-lethal and non-predictable events are delicacies which take a bit more care in the seasoning. Carolly

hauksdottir, The real world has been playing me too, so instead of looking at granite I'm looking at hardpan clay and dust. I hope whatever it is that is bothering you will be resolved soon - or at least that it will bring you a shrubbery(sp?). It looks like you're bouncing back a little. Bourn could mean many things - without some context to go on . . . I like boundry in this case as in 'not the boundry or limitation of women . . .' perhaps next week will be better, - TJ

So, bikermouse, it was just hardpan but you took it for granite?

I have one about leaving no tern un-stoned. Then there was the famous violin tuner who could leave no tone un-Sterned.