Old Man

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "Why are there so many bicyclists on the road today?" "Target practice."

Re: Musings on Random Musings Man, what did I do to deserve that? I'll never be able to keep a straight face in the meetings now.

Re: Science: Particles seen moving at FTL speeds (CERN) That's odd, it worked fine for me. Oh well.

Re: How (un)realistic are Street Samurai? I don't think it would be hard to tack Shadowrun history onto real history. All that really matters is the Awakening, which would plunge the world into the appropriate chaos regardless of the specific year.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings The new sales manager wears fake eyelashes about an inch long. I want to grab her by the shoulders, shake her violently, and shout "WHY?????" into her face.

Re: Science: Particles seen moving at FTL speeds (CERN) And I've been watering and fertilizing them while you weren't looking.

Re: More space news! Probably not an instrumentation error, but possibly something about the instrumentation is poorly understood. Either that or perhaps they're not correcting for something--frame dragging from the Earth's rotation, perhaps. Or currents in the luminiferous ether. Or dark matter.

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Re: Campaign Classics: Vikings Should I lend you my copy of Pirates? edit: and Arabian Nights?

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Re: Musings on Random Musings I was expecting to have to cut back on the gaming until the kids became more self-sufficient; it's the economic factors that I hadn't really planned on. I can deal with it... for now.

Re: Converting adventures from other systems for fantasy hero The process I used for converting adventures goes something like this: Given an encounter with quantity X of creature Y: 1. Whenever possible use published Bestiary stats for creature Y. 2. This may require adjusting quantity X of the creatures up or down depending on relative power level. Example: hobgoblins in AD&D are a speed bump, hobgoblins in Fantasy Hero are a serious encounter. 3. If there are no published stats for creature Y, either replace it with a similar creature or work up Hero stats for the original. When working up stats, you can be lazy--what usually matters are CV, movement, attacks and defenses, physical stats, and vulnerabilities. It is very rarely worth the effort to bother with the point totals. It may be worth the effort to search this forum or the net for stats someone else has worked up. 4. Delete any magic items unless they are important to the plot. 5. Spells and other magical effects that might be used against the party will almost certainly have to be statted up, but again, don't bother with the points--look at the effect and determine the power, advantages, and limitations without doing the math. It is very rarely necessary to do the math. Do check to make sure you're not setting up the PCs for a TPK though.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings Yeah, I read that one earlier. I'm sure that's part of it. The rest is burnout and extreme annoyance with a job that doesn't pay what I was told it would.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "I'm working really hard on my poster so Dad won't have to work so hard, and when I win the hundred dollars I'm going to give it to him."

Re: "Neat" Pictures Shouldn't that be "10 Most Beautiful Eyes"? And is that supposed to be some kind of rickroll?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Lots of work to catch up on this weekend. Zero willpower to actually get started on it.

Re: "Neat" Pictures That last one is brilliant.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "Quick, Dad, before the moon erupts!"

Re: The cranky thread

Re: Okay class: Make me a rogue. Sorry, I bought plenty of hardened power defense. Besides, I'm already a ninja pirate.

Re: Transplanted Immortality Pistols at dawn.

Re: How (un)realistic are Street Samurai? I guess I'm having trouble picturing a first- or second-world "frontier city". I reckon they'd fit in any city, really, though as the law level goes up, the samurai will have to have a greater emphasis on concealability and blending in--i.e. less visible military-grade cyberware.