Old Man

Re: Conan vs. Elric I know you didn't just bring up saving throws in a FH thread.

Re: Yet another Fantasy Hero Weapons Thread... I don't know if disadvantages are really warranted, actually. You've already done a fine job of differentiating weapon types. Though I'd give staves a +1 OCV as well (you can poke or hit with either end, and normal damage sucks in FH).

Re: Musings on Random Musings You kids have it so easy. Back in the Ice Age, everybody trudged through the snow everywhere, every day. Mammoth skins are heavy, and smell bad.

Re: Star Frontiers: The Ethics of Needlers 5. One of the few published settings that isn't gritty or even post-apocalyptic. It's one of the more 'fun' settings available in any genre, in fact. SF's game system problems to some extent are a logical consequence of the problems all sci-fi games have with respect to lethality and game balance. Even a modern-day setting, with fairly realistic combat, is going to be way too lethal to be much fun.* Especially since there is no magical healing to fall back on--even non impairing wounds will take months to recover from. In the future, weapons will be even more lethal, so how do you arrange things so that the PCs have a prayer of surviving? And how do you reconcile that with a setting full of unarmored, squishy civilians? *I once played a modern-day Hero campaign that lasted until about phase 4. Uzis were involved.

Re: Conan vs. Elric Being an Elric girl is not nearly as much fun as being a Conan girl or a Bond girl.

Re: Musings on Random Musings You are so disagreeable in the morning...

Re: A Thread for Random Musings "Hot air balloons are filled with helium gas, which, when heated, becomes less dense than the surrounding air, causing the balloon to rise." Gotta love children's books full of misinformation. Why make them educational when we can fill them full of pseudofacts that they may or may not have to unlearn later? Why are such undereducated people editing children's books anyway?

Re: Musings on Random Musings It is kind of a disability in some respects, isn't it? Though I've found sympathy is hard to come by.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings So the high wind warning lasted just long enough for the state to close all the schools and give everyone the day off... the day before a three-day weekend. And, lo and behold... no high wind. Hmmmm.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Is that the Aquilonia that's west of Nemedia and north of Argos? Or another Aquilonia?

Re: Star Frontiers: The Ethics of Needlers

Re: How to organise space *aims gluon depolarizer at L. Marcus*

Re: How to organise space I've tried to organize space by putting all the matter together in big clumps. It mostly works, but sometimes the clumps get close to each other and wind up spraying matter all over the place. And sometimes the clumps develop intelligence and get all uppity.

Re: Star Frontiers: The Ethics of Needlers Wasn't the needler/albedo relationship similar to the laser/reflec one? Or am I confusing with Traveller? Anyway given that you can dial up a laser pistol to the point where it is an effective anti-vehicle weapon, I'd say the needler ethics question is sorta moot.

Re: Musings on Random Musings How many of you guys routinely wear kilts anyway?

Re: A Game Of Questions Wouldn't that be the brain in your pants?

Re: Musings on Random Musings I can see the appeal of going briefless, especially since I live someplace warm. But I need control. I can't have ten pounds of meat swinging around out of control down there.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings More heavy weather coming. Kids are sick. Wife is sick. Four hours sleep in three days. Family visiting on saturday. Eighteen large items on my to do list at work; can't make headway. Where the hell is the ejection handle?

Re: The cranky thread That has to qualify as harassment. Try the phone company and the police, in that order.

Re: The cranky thread What's a BSOD? What's spyware and adware?

Re: The cranky thread I was thinking of injecting the perp with viruses, myself.

Re: A Game Of Questions Am I only dreaming? Or is this burning an eternal flame?

Re: Adventure Seed/Hook -- Ancient Brain Discovered Well, there goes my brain-in-a-jar patent.

Re: Conan vs. Elric Elric: "If you would be so kind as to let me kill a few spear carriers with my hellsword first, I'd be more than happy to engage you in a duel." Conan: "DIE, PALE DEVIL DOG!" Elric: "Arioch!" Conan: "What?" Arioch: "Oo, yummy!" Conan: "Crom!" (dies) Arioch: "You owe me, son of Melniboné." Elric: "Whatever."

Re: A Game Of Questions Who would be so stupid as to give him the keys anyway?