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Re: STAR HERO Reading List Has anyone mentioned Jack McDevitt

Re: The Hero System is bland and over complicated try having the main light off with only the gaming table lit up, maybe have mood music at the GMs fingertips

Re: Guess the inspiration behind this superteam! yup - you get rep

Re: Growth SFX question

Re: So you think you can build a solar system anyone know where one can get the source code (i realize it will be in Java)

Re: Help Me Populate A Creepy Island ...or a creepy hotel chain (it rattles at night)

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Somehow I think it involves a rabbit

Re: Guess the inspiration behind this superteam! nope

Re: The Scale of the Universe Life Support UOO Area Affect Entire Universe

Re: PSLs, Combat Manuevers, penalties, etc. by 2 levels (and you waste 3 points)

Re: Aliens: everything you know is... well, "wrong" doesn't even begin to cover it. IMHO that article is 80% philosophical (add word here). the good 20% is - SF does tend to anthropomorphise aliens both physically and mentally. however note that: Fiction does (and should) concentrate on the interesting. No-one is really going to read a first contact between people and alien bacteria. SF does tend to concentrate on contact and interaction with intelligent beings. (not necessarily sentient) which means creatures that interact usefully with the environment and other beings. beings that develop advanced technology are either immortal (unlikely evolution-wise) or socially cooperative (at least within family or clan). Evolution also drives competition between groups who may be genetically diverse. Although this does not demand "leaders" (types of sexual selection tends to do this however) it does push toward things like land grabs, wars, etc.

Re: Martian Cave Discovered!

Re: Guess the inspiration behind this superteam! yup

Re: Guess the inspiration behind this superteam!

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Jonah Hex vs the Volcano

Re: Guess the inspiration behind this superteam! Hows this one: Master Planner: SuperIntelligent individual who grants superhuman luck to those who follows his plans Flyboy: He has telekinetic flight and can float others along side Bad Ass: Brick/Gadgeteer with acrophobia The Charmer: A shapeshifter with High Pre and Pre related skills

Re: The Hero System is bland and over complicated Its been a while, but I was sure that the systems had the same number of primary attributes. If SAN didn't replace POW, I couldn't tell you what it replaced.

Re: A Variant Origin for Elves (version 3) both the world they come from and the world they landed upon are spherical worlds. Later spinoffs indicate that at least the world of two moons exist in a space not unlike ours. The ship that brought them here did "Jump" there, but I saw it more like a SF Jump (which although does involve other dimensions, probably would not be described as a dimensional craft)

Re: What's different about YOUR Champions Unvierse? Put your hands up. Put your hands up for Detroit!

Re: A Variant Origin for Elves (version 3) Times yes, but not sure about the dimensions tho

Re: A Variant Origin for Elves (version 3) of course ElfQuest has its own elven origin - it also uses a spaceship

Re: Conan: The Current Movie in Progress..... In L.A. who'd notice?

Re: Martian Cave Discovered! Thats baaaaaaaaaaad (had to rep you)

Re: GMing style, what else apart from 'Round the Table'?

Re: The Hero System is bland and over complicated RuneQuest had a POWer stat instead of SANity. It was used with magic, and there was no risk of insanity (as far as I am aware)