Citizen Keen

Re: The World of Edean Keep up the excellent work. Where do you get your illustrations?

Re: Deadlands: Hell on Earth..uh....HERO Found this through another link... How about a Naked Modifier: Ranged, on up to his sword damage? With an OAF, etc.

Re: God of the Machines Mister E - is that copied from somewhere on the net where I could read about it, or did you transcribe it from a published book I'd have to pay money for?

Re: I am an idiot. Ahh. Thank you. Adding "Traveller" to my Google search allowed me to find it.

Re: Planet Generation

Re: Chainmail Bikini Effects The amount of "extra" protection I allow a character to buy above and beyond the value provided by their armor is always linked to how much Luck they buy.

Re: Sci-fi wear swords? I guess I mostly agree with Markdoc - there is no real reason. If there were, we'd probably be using melee weapons a lot more right now. I guess I'm more interested in the mentality that justifies there use in a fictional sense. I guess I'm thinking really over-the-top justifications for melee weapons, like a giant space computer that monitors peoples brains and kills people and so forth, like the Homeworld series.

Re: Valdorian Age Campaign A Go! Man, now I want to play a horribly anachronistic Valdorian Age / Dark Champions crossover. C'mon, a Robert E. Howard meets Frank Miller universe... How fun would that be? GM: So, your character's parents were mugged and murdered when you were coming back from the theatre? PC: That's correct. GM: And now you carry batarangs? PC: No.... I carry boomerang shuriken. GM: And now you fight crime in Snake's Den... PC: Crime and corruption, yes. GM: And you saw fit to name your apparently very stealthy warhorse "Robin"? PC: Yes, I ride him, and robins are fast. GM: You didn't want to name him "Batmobile"? PC: I have no idea what you're talking about.

Re: Turakian Age Arabia? To be honest, I feel like an "Arabian" setting in Fantasy HERO would be more in line with the Valdorian Age. Djinni, sword-swinging mercenaries and adventurers, thieves, and long lost forgotten tombs filled with traps... Sounds like the Valdorian Age to me. I don't have my copy of The Valdorian Age here at work, but I bet there's a country with an Arabian aesthetic to it in there somewhere.

Re: Valdorian Age Campaign A Go! And remember, it's always important to bar the bar from bringing a bar to the bar fight.

Re: Fantasy University Floor Plans Keith- I know you've answered this before, but I can't find the posts. What do you use to illustrate your maps? Photoshop? Illustrator?

Re: Swashbuckling Fencers and the "Target Falls" Effect I can't remember exactly how it was written up, but I knew a player with a character who had a 3d6HA that was Triggered by Fall Maneuvers. He wouldn't resist a fall, but would kick them on the way down. Just thought of that.

Re: Valdorian Age Campaign A Go! Meanwhile, back at the nearest barracks: The Over-bearing but Paternal Captain: "How could you let them get away?" The Hot-Shot Rookie Guardsman: "But, sir-" Captain: "You're suspended. Turn in your sword!" Rookie: "You can't fire me!" Throws sword against wall. "I QUIT!"

Re: Valdorian Age Campaign A Go!

Re: Sci-fi wear swords? Do any of you employ really over-the-top weapons in your sci-fi campaigns? I'm thinking along the lines of Cloud's sword from Final Fantasy VII or, even better, all the melee weapons in Warhammer 40k. Giant electrified plasma chainsaw vibro blades. Anyone up for that?

Re: God of the Machines You mention the presence of (relatively) barbaric humans and a psionic indigenous species. Which leads to an interesting implication... Many pantheons have utilized imagery from other species to represent their gods. From the tails of Spider and Fox from North America's own indigenous peoples to the head of Anubis in Egypt, time and time again other species are given great power. What if your desert machine world did the same? What if Dod72 was a high priest to ROOT, the Father of the Gods, and Ath2-X was a devout follower of ANSWER42, the Lord of Sentience, and 7Rau was secretly a cultist of WINDO, the Crasher of Creation. Yet when things go wrong with no convenient explanation, all three mutter a silent curse to FRANKIE, the Cyborg Trickster God. Thus, the machines identify trouble and mischief with the barbaric humans. Hmm...

So, I'm curious... Other than wanting to have our cake and eat it, too, what is the justification of swords in science fiction? Or any melee weapons? Super futuristic weapons (light sabres, etc) are a bit more of a stretch. Unless they are partnered with a force-powered ability to move fast enough to deflect laser-beams, they're really not as good as a nicely ranged blaster. Personally, I'm fond of Dune's explanation regarding personal force fields and slow-moving blades. As such, I'm curious what other explanations gamers have used, or writers have employed, in their fanatical need to justify the presence of bad-*** looking antiquated combat tools.

Re: Sci-fi swear words? I'm such a horrible reader. I got really excited about a post about "Sci-Fi Wear Swords?" Now that I think about it...

Re: Worlds of Empire I'm curious what the "various reasons" that Earth was dropped are?

Re: I am an idiot. I know what the Sector Generator is, but what is Heaven and Earth? I can't find the link in the Free Stuff.

Re: 'So wait, how do I hold this thing?' I'm a pretty big guy, so it just rests in my hands.

Re: ITT: You Give Me Ideas, I Steal Them Enforcer: You stole my sig! (I mean, I abandoned it, but you stole it!)

Re: ITT: You Give Me Ideas, I Steal Them Trencher, JTesla, thank you. That's exactly the kind of stuff I like. The Mummy is exceptionally cool. I'll keep the world posted as I come up with more. Please feel free to do the same.

Re: How to build a couple powers.

Re: ITT: You Give Me Ideas, I Steal Them Ah man, that looks sexy. Not quite what I'm shooting for in terms of scope (I'm going to limit myself to a planet), but worth picking up regardless. Don't worry, DoJ - you'll still get plenty of my money.