Old Man

Re: Real Costs for spells and how you handle them? Agreed, though if you want to avoid the swiss-army-knife-mage phenomenon, you need to enforce a couple of additional limitations on the MP or VPP.

Re: Conan: The Current Movie in Progress..... I'm less concerned about casting than writing, frankly. It would be very very easy to write a bad Conan movie. I can forgive imperfect casting if the script involves realistic character development and interactions, and takes itself seriously.

Re: Real Costs for spells and how you handle them? I was a fan of using ECs for spells, which I guess is not an option in 6th, but I seem to have been the only one anyway. I found that ECs gave about a 50% cost break while also encouraging players to buy spells of similar power levels. I am used to stacking all kinds of limitations on spells, so to me 1/3 is a really huge cost break, and I never liked that it was arbitrary and deviated from what I considered the rules of the game to be. It is simple, though, so it has that going for it.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings "Ladies and gentlemen, we've had some complaints that the temperature in the cabin is too cold. Blanket and pillow sets are available for purchase for ten dollars. Please have your credit card ready as this is a no cash flight. "

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I hate being right.

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!) Tech support! Tech support!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings New Hampshire is nice. But why are there so many snowplows around?

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!) Yes. I was dreaming about shopping at K-mart this morning web the alarm went off. It was Easter so there were lots of bunny and egg toys. I couldn't find anything my kid would like. I woke up and thought, of all the things I could have been dreaming about--K-mart?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings See, that's what I don't like about hockey. When the players on the ice can't even tell when a goal has been scored, and that the season is over, you know it's just too hard to keep track of the puck. Plus the goal seemed awfully random to begin with. Poor Philly.

Re: Only Humans Need Apply: Campaigns with Just Humans Are snakemen ever the good guys?

Re: Another weird science post: Laser Recoil! So in his universe, 1. All the PCs are blind. 2. All the plants are dead. 3. All planets are frozen lifeless chunks of rock and ice. You know, since photons don't actually hit anything. They're just light.

Re: The cranky thread My favorite telemarketing calls are the ones from the telemarketer who just started their shift at 9 A.M. EST. I usually treat them to a quick, intense lesson in geography, sales techniques, geneaology and anatomy.

Re: The cranky thread Did you buy whatever it was?

Re: The cranky thread Just about all of it, I think. I'm not sure which is worse--when family doesn't want to help, or when they really do want to "help".

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? How big is your ocean? You're talking about a terraforming-scale project. And of course, all the research I have done regarding terraforming suggests that the most efficient way to terraform a planetary body is to... seed it with life.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Decent beaches are made out of coral sand, which is made out of... coral. Which exists symbiotically with algae. I suppose you could have an ecosystem that consists of nothing but coral, but it seems to me that given any life at all in a benign environment like seawater at 75 degrees, you'd get significant speciation in no time.

Re: Musings on Random Musings I do that. It helps some, but when most aspects of your life seem to be conspiring to make your life a living hell, it only goes so far. I feel a bit like Ice Cube.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings This girl on the cover of the catalog, she seems so happy. I wonder. Was she really happy when they took that picture? Is her life carefree and stable? Or is she just acting? I'd like to think that there are happy people in the world, somewhere.

Re: Musings on Random Musings My favorite was the motel I stayed in in Jersey, where the TV remote was bolted to the bedstand, there was no shower curtain, and someone's obviously soiled underwear was still in the closet. I didn't shower, and I slept on top of the covers, but I don't remember anything about how hard the mattress was.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I should be studying, but instead I'm listening to revving cars, the neighbor's TV, and a constant stream of repetitive dance music from the grad party four houses away from here. Paparazzi. Paparazzi. Paparazzi. Paparazzi.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings It's not like it's a bad cold, but I'm on day seven and it's getting really old having to blow my nose all the time.

Re: FANTASY HERO -- What Do *You* Want To See? Wow, that seemed really fast even for you, Steve.

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!) Have you?

Re: Dwarves, Elves and Hobbits Need Not Apply! Seems to me it'd be easiest to run a prehistoric/lost world campaign. Take out all metal items, use shamanistic magic, fill the landscape with goannas and giant sloths. I'd play, anyway.

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!) We hiked through the jungle, me and the teenagers, on a steep and rocky path. We were in good spirits, but had to keep an eye out for the dangerous orange-faced primates we knew were in the area. As we got closer to our destination, we started to see them with greater frequency. They didn't attack, but we knew it was just a matter of time. We reached the shore of the lake and escaped the primates by strapping our our paragliders and flying out over the lake. These were much like real paragliders, but quite a bit smaller. We cruised around over the peaceful, deep blue water for a while, looking for an updraft. I finally turned to ask one of the kids when we'd know if we found one, when I was suddenly pulled upward. The updraft raised all of us with alarming speed. Since I was new, I concerned myself with staying in the current, while my friends all hooted and hollered and did all kinds of extreme tricks as we rose. It was exhilarating. Before long I was having trouble seeing the ground past all the cloud layers we'd risen through. Soon we reached the stratosphere, which wasn't as cold as I expected it to be. Shortly we saw our destination, and turned to land in turn on the top of a plateau. It had the remnants of an ancient road on it, with grass growing up between the stones, that ran to the edge of the plateau. I wondered what had happened to this civilization that had been here, only to have the plateau holding it up crumble away like that. We gathered up our kites and started the hike back down to do it all over again.