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Re: What have you used Hero for? Meh, I do know shit is old. But I really enjoyed the thread, yeah? Sadly, everything I've done has already been covered by other people in this thread (although I would like to hear how people handled the Toon conversion). Nothing super-special going on here. But I do like reading about other people's stuff. Have *YOU* run zombies?

Re: What have you used Hero for? What type(s) of zombies did you use? What type of power(s) did you emulate on, any other details? A zombie-one-shot campaign sounds like fun.

Re: Real Locations that should be fantasy [ATTACH=CONFIG]35203[/ATTACH] Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley

Re: I love me some xenomorphs! IIRC, it's not acidy-acid, it's molecularly reactive fluid. Kinda like free radicals, but more-so. So just dumping a xenomorph in baking soda, isn't going to neutralize their power....

Re: I love me some xenomorphs! Actually in one of the source materials, the larger head is room for IR signalling, which is how they communicate. And yes, they can see heat.

Re: Predators vs. Military Source? That states that Predator nukes are only tac-nukes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-nuke: "Modern tactical nuclear warheads have yields up to the tens of kilotons, or potentially hundreds, several times that of the weapons used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." You're still looking at a kill-ratio, and destruction ratio which (most likely) favors the Predators. Yes, you can quibble about how expensive it is for the Predators to come here, and that higher loses on humanity's part are an acceptable trade-off (like arguing that trading a scud for a cruise missile is favorable to the scud, because of the expense of cruise missiles). But, without real numbers to know how populous the Predator regime is, or how much of their industrial capacity is taken up by preparing ships/weapons, that's a pretty slender straw to wave around.

Re: Predators vs. Military That assumes they're wussy enough to believe that shit. I personally think that as long as people are armed, then they are acceding to the government they allow to remain in charge of their country - and are responsible for its actions and inactions. If the populace is unarmed, it might be arguable that they're being held hostage to the whims of their rules. Perhaps. Collective responsibility has been posited of entire species in Brin's multiple culture universe (Startide Rising?) That's because you've only ever seen ants fight. If there are no rules, how can you cheat? And vs. another species, for species survival - with no shared cultural bounds, there are most likely no rules. Send in the asteroids, or nova the sun. And we lose another city full of humans. Also assuming they'd go in an trip a claymore, instead of cutting the line (requires a tripwire - most of the time). Which assumes they're still hunting, and not engaging in warfare. Don't buy this. We can detect anything on the EM spectrum. We may or may not have off-the-shelf, optimized devices that can be turned into helmet-mountable optics.... As far as I can remember, that was just the control to the bomb - ie: a monitoring device, in case the hunter was killed, or if he wanted to suicide.

Re: I love me some xenomorphs! With unbreakable, infinite charge molecular acid projectors (that will eat thru anything on the ship), super-strength suits, the ability to climb quickly and web anything, and a single-point of failure electrical generator (plus motivation to want to get rid of it), I'll take the bushmen Actually, consider it a party of superhero PCs, with little or no direction, on an alien ship. Of course they'll make swiss-cheese of the thing, and break stuff so it's less operable.

Re: Predators vs. Military Assuming the predator doesn't feel like sniping them off from a distance (after they figure out itws war, and not trophy-gathering). Yeah, we could make trophy-gathering really painful for Predators. But that has little to do with how they stack up militarily. Like I said earlier, if they start losing every trophy gathering mission (and we start losing cities), they may decide we're a threat and get serious about getting rid of the vermin.

Re: I love me some xenomorphs! Who is this mythical 'everyone'? Define intelligence. Several different measures, which is why it's hard to factor G. Anyone who does is a moron, and hasn't studied human development. Babies learn to communicate, because food is involved. Language window opens more fully a little later, and that's because of the way the brain develops. Depending on the person - some people are lifelong language acquisition people, uhhh? not linguists... what's the term? No, I think I get a tribe of bushmen, and several weeks, plus I also need to give them incentive to do this thing. I'm sure if I give them several fail-proof bashing things (acid-projectors??) and a reason (food?) they could manage it.

Re: Predators vs. Military Yeah,got that comic. But it appeared to be inadvertent, not a planned military maneuver (ie: hit the herds, which were probably rounded up by helicopter). They could instead, stealth drop them into sewers and the like. Even distribution around the planet, etc, etc. And they could not go hunting, and instead wage war.

Re: I love me some xenomorphs! Define baby? Are you saying facehuggers, or chestbursters disabled the generator? Or, fully grown warriors? Yes, they mature fast. So what? And *I* have known of a 4-5 year old who got their hands on a screw-driver, and started disassembling the door, and literally everything they could reach, when left alone in a house. No flys on that kid.

Re: Predators vs. Military Hey, I do know a thing or two about snipers. Leonardo da Vinci ring a bell? But, sorry I wasn't clear - I was comparing LOS weapons, say 30 miles to Orbital, versus a non-crewed/non-vehicle mounted slug-thrower. Really, there's no comparison. Well, except the larger-sized slug-throwers needed to get sufficient range make excellently larger targets I disagree. And, I'd like to note for the warfare argument, that the Predators would have a much better kill ratio, if you are correct. Every hunter they lose, we lose one city to a nuke. Kinda takes all the fun out of warfare, don'tcha think? Also, amongst other weapons they've been shown to possess, they could drop xenomorph facehugger eggs, well, pretty much anywhere on the planet. They could just sit back, and watch us try to deal with that, and then laze us from orbit, whenever we try and bring a tank, or helicopter to bear on that problem. Even if they don't want to snipe individual humans. Thus driving all humans underground... into tunnels... which is the favored environment for Xenomorphs... Win-win? Heh.

Re: Predators vs. Military I see your sniper, and give you a computer targeted laser-beam. The problem with guns is the further the range, the poorer the accuracy. Also, let's not forget predator armor (for tasers). Since they breathe methane (and have been shown to be able to generate it from dead bodies in the comics), perhaps flammability is the route to go?

Re: I love me some xenomorphs! Also, from this prior thread (which discusses the mechanics of acid blood a fair amount - with a brilliant point: why're you modeling it anyways?): http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32926 There's a link to an example write-up http://web.archive.org/web/20060911092347/http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptionsmovie/alien.html