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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Long time no chat. How's things? I mean besides from the computer woes...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hel-LOoo! It's Hero System!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I was tryin' not to count his last 100 or so. By the way...hiya!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Holy cats. D-Man is responding to every post on the thread. 165 pages at 15 posts a page... ...um...carry the two... Over 2400 posts! You goin' for your decamillennial master title, D?

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I am, but I drink and am amused easily.

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Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Von D-Man is now 56 posts into his run this afternoon (morning/evening/whatever whereever you are). I think he's goin' for some kinda record here, folks.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Almost halfway there, D!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Like Steven King I tend to go for the older stuff. Andromeda Strain, West World, Coma, etc. Although I liked Eaters of the Dead, Timeline and Jurassic Park, too. Oh, and The Great Train Robbery. Okay, yeah, I tend to like his stuff. Better than Grishom, anyway, and usually more than King. And I try and read his books before they become movies. Or at least before I see them.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I think Von D-Man is trying to get all 38 of his posts in one sitting...

Re: Teen Villain for review: Bungee Um...nothing personal,Wormhole, but with lack of formatting I'm not inclined to decipher the power. Do you by chance have the character in another format you could attach?

Re: Your rules for sleeping? I don't know that it's come up in recent years, but I know in the past we proposed DEX, INT, CON and CV limits after a certain time. Also our GM imposed a permanent END drain on our characters (I think that's what it was), so that we could never recover full END until we slept. Might've applied to STUN, too, but I can't remember the details.

Re: from little plot seeds, mighty games do grow: Share you ideas! I'll agree with this sentiment at face value, but I don't know steriaca so I won't pass judgement. Not only is it plausible, but I've used it before almost as it's written. I think I got the idea from an old comic, or maybe a cartoon. The spoiled rich girl hired a cadre of mercenaries to capture a villain. She did something so that he'd have to obey her (some sort of mind control shock collar-type thing). In the course of trying to find this villain (who was behaving uncharacteristically), the heroes discovered he was a puppet and went after the real villain. The little rich girl had her daddy use his huge influence and money to get her off of any charges. She did the whole thing out of boredom, just to see if she could. EDIT: For the record, the villain was indeed taken off to jail, and the girl bailed him out later. She returned every so often to plague the heroes as quite the amoral NPC (and yes, she sometimes did things to help them, just out of boredom). Your evaluation of his spelling notwithstanding, it was an idea he proposed and I think you were overly harsh, Kirby. Unnecessarily so. Yes. So why didn't you? If it bothered you that much you should have ignored it and moved on. If steriaca sees a lack of response to his posts then maybe he'll strive to do better. Maybe not. Doesn't really matter. I would've bypassed this entirely if you hadn't critiqued both his spelling and his idea, Kirby. The first was unnecessary. The second was completely out of line. I don't see how it could. Beating a man with a hammer because you don't like his tie would have been more helpful than your reply. Pfft. Steriaca, please, strive to do better with your spelling. Kirby is right in that it makes it difficult to read and at times too much of an effort to understand, much less respond to. Keep a word program open, or type it up in another medium so that your words are easily corrected as you go. You have options. You honestly should consider them. Consider the free spell-checkers, or (and please don't be offended by this), consider that perhaps with your limited resources and limited time, this might not be the best conduit for your thoughts. Now, back to the plot ideas...

Re: The NGD at 28/6/04 ? I'm sure it's a plot. You should take it personally.

Re: Is "evil race" an intrinsically rascist concept? Not that this has stopped you from posting thread after thread of potentially-inflammatory questions under the pretense of "in relation to gaming". Personally, Cyst (and the name is appropriate), if you want to ask your questions, ask them in the NGD forum and ask what you want to know. Twice now I've seen you come right out and say that your reasons for the questions you ask actually had little to do with the games or genres in which you posted them. I'm sure there's more, but I don't read 'em all. I don't think you have an "agenda" in the malicious sense, but you're not representing your reasons for asking the questions you do with any sort of integrity. You continually throw out additional questions to promote or incite some sort of given response. You take the intellectual high ground but won't let the issue settle. That's the mark of a troll to me, however intelligent and educated he may be. Regardless of whether you think RPGs promote racism, my suggestion is to quit fanning the flames. I do not believe you represent roleplaying or gaming in general in any positive manner, and I for one don't appreciate your presence on the genre threads.

Re: What sort of benefits do Fringe Benefits confer? I think the main idea behind a Fringe Benefit is being able to perform that job in a professional capacity. Also, in addition to the specific ones mentioned, it might include certain "courtesy" benefits. Being a licensed pilot might get you an 'in' with other licensed pilots. Being a licensed doctor might get you some courtesy at the local hospital. That sort of thing.

Re: Global Guardians status? The GG mail server had some issues last month and they briefly went to YahooGroups, thinking it would be a relatively-lengthy interim solution. The server is back up, however, and most (if not all) of the lists have been recreated. I believe the site has the appropriate email links to the various lists.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Negative rep?

Re: is this legal? You already stated the rule forbidding it. "12 DC setting". That's all the justification you need not to allow it. Take off the extra DCs HtH attack and let the rest stand.

Re: Whattya call it? Heh. Funny, but not quite what we had in mind.

Here's the premise (and forgive any rambling...it's hard to nail this down). Imagine your basic "Western Hero" setting. We're talkin' post-Civil War stuff, late 1800's. Now imagine a bit of magic and steampunk-esque technology thrown in (air ships, steam-powered robots, a guy with a gatling gun for an arm or something similar). It's basically like "Wild Wild West" meets "Deadlands", but not too heavy on the more esoteric aspects. It's still a Western, and it's about outlaws and cowboys and hustlers and rustlers and all that good stuff. If you've seen the comic "Alternation" you have an idea of the setting. What would you call it? "Western Hero" seems a little more limited than the scope of the game would imply. "Western Steampunk", perhaps? I know, it sounds like it'd be an easy call, but the whole "the name is everything" applies here. We gotta call it something. So...any ideas?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Please tell me you've left work already...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It's like a bad NGD version of "Groundhog's Day". Except it's "Lemming's Day", and it's contagious.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Whoa...deja vu. Again.