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  2. Sliders

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    Re: Sliders

     

    A world in which "The War on Drugs" involved strychnine as a cutting agent...

     

    A world in which "The War on Terror" involved desnsitising everyone to the sensation of terror...

  3. Humanoids not in charge?

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Re: Humanoids not in charge?

     

    The impression I get of the Eberron setting (from DDO' date=' granted) is that the humans aren't the dominant race, but just one of many. The more powerful races of dragons and giants sort of blew each other to kingdom come sometime in the past, so while they're still around and have influence, the "lesser" races have free reign. You've got the typical Human, Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling mix as one conglomerate, and the monstrous races as another, with some extra dimensional races annoying everyone. At least, that's the way the area of the world used in DDO is laid out. The monstrous humanoid races are given good fleshing out as societies and as players on the world stage.[/quote']

     

    AIUI the main setting of DDO is one of the continents of Eberron where Humans aren't in charge, I think it's meant as a sort of "Deepest Darkest Africa" cognate, where there used to be major civilisations (Giants then Elves IIRC) but they've fallen, so it's now Ruins, Jungles, & Monsters.

  4. "Neat" Pictures

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    Re: "Neat" Pictures

     

    Created using a website called Wordle:

     

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]45508[/ATTACH]

     

    (Rep to the first person to identify the source of the text.)

    The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins presumably (never read it, but I recognised the "Blind Watchmaker" reference as being Dawkins)

  9. Designing Your Magic System

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Re: Designing Your Magic System

     

    I still think the best, most useful, generic description of what magic is & how it works is the one given in Stackpole's Once A Hero.

     

    Unfortunately I lost my copy of the book years ago, & never think to look for it when I have money to spend on non-gaming eBooks, so I don't actually remember how it went...

     

    (I think it was along the lines of Magic being the manipulation of Energy, Time, & Probability by Willpower & Skill).

  15. Rogues...and Soldiers...and Assassins...and...Gallery (Dark Champions Art)

    in Dark Champions

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    Re: Rogues...and Soldiers...and Assassins...and...Gallery (Dark Champions Art)

     

    Not Ragitsu, but here's selections from a google image search for "shadowrun dwarf samurai|soldier", chosen because of the presence of a dwarf, not because they're just dwarves (didn't see anything usable on the female or indeterminate sides in the pages I checked):

     

    edit: (forgot to spoiler initially)

     

     

    193101-dwarfversions.jpg

    Shadowrun_Radical_Female_Orc_by_raben_aas.jpg

    shadowrun4.jpg

    shadowrun-races.jpg

    (p.s. Is it just me or does the Troll in that last one just scream "Verbal Kinte" as a Shadowrunner?)

     

     

  19. "Neat" Pictures

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    Re: "Neat" Pictures

     

    Some say that although he's undead' date=' he's still quite the raconteur. Some say that he only eats babies' brains during months with an "R" in them. I'm not sure, but I think the guy in the helmet is called: "Zombie Stig". [/obscure reference']

     

    The_5b1c4f_250188.jpg

     

    The Stig is an obscure reference???

  23. Unleash The Clockworks Of War!

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Re: Unleash The Clockworks Of War!

     

    How would people respond to inventors in a Fantasy setting? Would they be feared? Lumped in with the magic users? Or respected and sought after?

     

    My money is on "Lumped in with Magic Users", with a caveat that their magic can't be very good since they can't do it without their artifacts, & it's so much cheaper (presumably) than conventional magic.

     

    Which won't stop someone weaponising stuff & making a killing... ;P

  24. Blasters: why?

    in Star Hero

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    Re: Blasters: why?

     

    Because watter is good in one, important thing: Absobing and conducting thermal energy. The only way to prevent that is to not have contact with watter in the First palce.

    And they will get really good once we develop how to use Super-Cavitation effects for such small weapons:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation

    Super-Cavitation solves the problem of "not having contact with watter", while moving through it.

     

    Yeah, but wouldn't the principles involved in supercavitation potentially also apply to plasma weapons (since I doubt there would be a much easier method of generating a fast-moving plasma bubble in a fluid than to inject a fast-moving plasma bubble into it)?

  25. What Have You Watched Recently?

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

     

    I finally watched the whole series of Trigun. I seem to have missed something though. I could tell that the two boys were found as fetuses in some kind of artificial Womb' date=' but Where was it? How were they found? WTF is this about them being PLANTS?[/quote']

     

    From what I can recall those aren't really fully answered, but here's my understanding as such:

     

    The "Artificial Womb" is actually the power plant of the Colony Ship (which I had remembered as being "nuclear or equivalent", however if they're plants it must be "protoculture or equivalent"), & IIRC they weren't so much "found" in said power plant as "explosively ejected from" it.

     

     

    Which may be wrong as it's been a number of years since I've watched it & you've now forced me to decide I need to rent & watch it again. Thank you :smoke:.

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