Old Man

Re: A Game Of Questions Are you my wife?

Re: A Game Of Questions Isn't that a job for the fashion police, not the question police?

Re: Help with Fire Elves You could go all out and have the Fire Elves be elves that are on fire. They would have to live in caves, or the desert, or other non-combustible locations, and wear only metal or perhaps specially treated scaly hides. They would be aloof from other civilizations, almost out of necessity, but not necessarily evil.

Re: Musings on Random Musings You are a brave man.

Re: We Loves Us Some Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Four hours of sleep in the past 60 hours, but we fixed the mail server. I guess I get to keep my job. Whoopee.

Re: A Game Of Questions So what if he is? What's he gonna do, take you down to the station, cuff you to the bars, strip you and give you a cavity search? Does that turn you on?

Re: A Game Of Questions Why me? Why today?

Re: Which mechanic for magic works best 90% of my FH games were run with no framework and no blanket discount. 5% were run with ECs, which people seem to hate using in fantasy for some reason. The last FH game I played used multipowers, which would probably have worked better if I hadn't munchkinized my character such that each slot cost 1cp, allowing him to run around with 25 lightly-limited spells.

Re: We Loves Us Some Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs I'm sure you could, but what are you going to do about the fifty zillion munchkins who run them as greedy selfish kleptomaniac assassin thieves? Especially the ones who want to run half-kender half-dark elf crossbreeds.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I spend so much of my time trying to make people happy. Epic fail.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I've only read his other Uplift stuff, which was also good, but not as much. For really epic scale SF, there's Brin, Vinge, Banks, and to a lesser extent Haldeman.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings So despite our repeated pleas, this customer persistently refused to develop or sign a contract specifying what he expected out of us in terms of off hours response time, scope of work, overtime, even contract length. But we wanted to help him out so we hired a guy out to him anyway based on a handshake. We gave him and inch and, lo and behold, the sonuvabitch tried to take a thousand miles. And now he's pissed at us? That workplace literally works its employees to death; what makes him think I'm going to let him do the same to my guys? Unbelievable.

Re: Where to send the scientific expedition Yeah, yeah. Planet formation. How long will that take?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Look, man, we are on your side. Selling your products. So don't lie to us.

Re: The cranky thread I AM AN ENGINEER DAMMIT! NOT A THERAPIST! NOT A CONTRACTS LAWYER! NOT AN HR EXPERT! NOT A BABYSITTER FOR YOUR FRIEND'S NEIGHBOR'S HIGH SCHOOL KID!!!! AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHH!!! But then again, at least I don't need dialysis. Hope that gets better, dude. Or no worse. Or something.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... So I just finished David Brin's Heaven's Reach, which is to say that I finished the Uplift trilogy that includes Brightness Reef and Infinity's Shore. I'd give it a 4.5 out of 5. Brin is not afraid to think big--really, really, megascale epic big--and he's got the chops to pull it off. The one problem, if you can call it that, is that the viewpoint characters and scale change so much that the books are almost standalone. The series begins on a low-tech backwater world and by the end dimensions are being destroyed left and right. In order to do this Brin has to basically leave large parts of his background and story behind--necessary, but disorienting, because you're gradually introduce to more and more viewpoint characters. He does pull it off, though, and I pretty much had to read the last half of the last book in as few sittings as possible.

Re: Where to send the scientific expedition How about the fridge in the break room?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Your software wasn't Working before we showed up, Clown. So don't blame us.

Re: We Loves Us Some Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs I wouldn't have a problem with certain races except that they tend to attract the worst kinds of munchkin for some reason. Right, Legolas?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Drive past the jail. Squad cars on the shoulder. Cops Peer into the trees.

Re: Handling day and night on infinite plane? You could have the sun be stationary, and night and day are caused by the rotation of the plane. The further out you get, the more the plane seems to 'tilt' as characters are subjected to stronger centripetal forces. And what's on the other side of the plane?

Re: We Loves Us Some Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs To lower the campaign learning curve for new players. It's much easier to tell a prospective player "you can play a high elf, a wood elf, a dwarf or a hobbit" than it is to explain the peculiar cosmology and physiognomy that drives a five-limbed Qarzha'ni to seek the rarest pebbles for his Dowry of War.

Re: If Earth was hit by a Meteor Did somebody say something?

Re: Musings on Random Musings I'd excuse him from work for that. Permanently.