tkdguy

I've got bad news for  MAGA folks who want the Niners to win because Taylor Swift is rooting for the Chiefs. It doesn't matter. The 49ers have Gavin Newsom. Remember he was Mayor of San Francisco before he was Governor of California. So regardless of the outcome, Woke wins, and MAGA loses! 😜

I've got bad news for  MAGA folks who want the Niners to win because Taylor Swift is rooting for the Chiefs. It doesn't matter. The 49ers have Gavin Newsom. Remember he was Mayor of San Francisco before he was Governor of California. So regardless of the outcome, Woke wins, and MAGA loses! 😜

And I don't have a problem with that!

I've got bad news for  MAGA folks who want the Niners to win because Taylor Swift is rooting for the Chiefs. It doesn't matter. The 49ers have Gavin Newsom. Remember he was Mayor of San Francisco before he was Governor of California. So regardless of the outcome, Woke wins, and MAGA loses! 😜

I've got bad news for  MAGA folks who want the Niners to win because Taylor Swift is rooting for the Chiefs. It doesn't matter. The 49ers have Gavin Newsom. Remember he was Mayor of San Francisco before he was Governor of California. So regardless of the outcome, Woke wins, and MAGA loses! 😜

Condolences Tkdguy. I'll keep you in my prayers
 

That's the problem with chemotherapy (and radiation treatment). It's the medical equivalent of carpet bombing—take out everything, and hope that the healthy tissue recovers faster than the cancer can. Sometimes it doesn't turn out that way.
 
My deepest condolences to you and your family.

Unfortunately, my uncle received the Last Rites earlier today. His cancer had spread. It was the chemo that destroyed his heart, which had up to then been healthy.

Unfortunately, my uncle received the Last Rites earlier today. His cancer had spread. It was the chemo that destroyed his heart, which had up to then been healthy.

I know much more about this sort of thing than I wish I did, and it has a very familiar sound to it.  My condolences.

Unfortunately, my uncle received the Last Rites earlier today. His cancer had spread. It was the chemo that destroyed his heart, which had up to then been healthy.

Unfortunately, my uncle received the Last Rites earlier today. His cancer had spread. It was the chemo that destroyed his heart, which had up to then been healthy.

Oh my gosh.
I'm SO sorry, I truly feel for you.

Unfortunately, my uncle received the Last Rites earlier today. His cancer had spread. It was the chemo that destroyed his heart, which had up to then been healthy.

I had a portable drive that was having issues, and did something pretty stupid...I honestly don't recall what, at this point, it was several years ago.  Lost the entire drive.  Lost some older, personal stuff, I know.
 
My critical stuff goes onto one of my Google drives now, with the major username/drive mirrored on the PC.  
 
I stopped building PCs when I either fried the memory somehow, or it was just plain bad.  And for the last several years, there's no real point, at least for me.  I don't do hardcore gaming, so integrated graphics is perfectly fine.  There's plenty of outfits that put together basic boxes, with options for what I want to include.  
 
 
Yeahhh...that's too much like how I heard the news about my mother.  It was 2011...we were caught up in a major freeze, considering how far south we are.  SERIOUS issues...the University shut down for 2 or 3 days, we had rolling power to a degree for 3 days.  So I was home...trying to finish off a new system build/OS install, that wasn't the brightest of moves during unreliable power, but I got it up eventually.  And it was my mother's birthday.  Tried to call...several times.  Finally heard back...from my *sister*.  My mother was in her home, where my sister was providing hospice care...she is a doctor...with help, IIRC, from a hospice caretaker.  Yeah...ok...I knew she was dying;  I'd made a trip up there a few months before.
 
But I hadn't known it'd gone to that.  At all.  
 
My mother died the mext weekend...but that, honestly, was mostly an anticlimax.  NOT entirely, mind, it never is, but it was clearly inevitable, and that it would be soon.
 
So, I'm glad to hear your father's going to recover.  There is no good time to get bad news, but there are bad times, and we can do no more than hope they don't happen.

I have to say, I find this particular insight pretty compelling.
 
 

That's how I do things as well. I haven't run superheroes since high school. Now I will ply them, but running, them. no. I am too mean.

Wierd.
 
I looked at a picture and now I'm in traction.....
 
 
Who knew you could dislocate seventeen joints by _seeing_ something?!
 
 

For the elephant/A-10: /imagine an A-10 Warthog crossed with an elephant
 
For the elphant/warthogs: /imagine illustration of a huge animal on the savannah that is a cross between an elephant and a warthog that has four majestic tusks and no trunk --no trunk
 
These were on MJ.
 
I just noticed it was set to 5.2 for those. Going to try the elphant/warthog on 6.
 
It really leaned into Elephant on version 6, but added bristly hairs. Ignored the --no trunk completely:
 

There are a couple of products available in DriveThruRPG that deal with the Bronze Age, but you'll need to convert them to HERO: 
 
Into the Bronze (OSR): https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/318919/Into-the-Bronze--OSR-Bronze-Age-Sword-and-Sorcery
 
Mythic Babylon (Runequest): https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/355333/Mythic-Babylon
 
Glorantha, Runequest's default setting, is also has a late Bronze Age or early Iron Age level of culture and technology.

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly
With his song

I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him, to listen for a while
And there he was, this young boy
A stranger to my eyes
 
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly
With his song
 
I felt all flushed with fever
Embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on
 
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly
With his song
 
He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me as if I wasn't there
And he just kept on singing
Singing clear and strong
 
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly
With his song
 
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me
 
He was strumming my pain
Yeah, he was singing my life
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

The Robin Hood book is one of my main resources. Low fantasy makes for a great change of pace.
 
Edit: If you need coats of arms for the different houses, look here.

The Robin Hood Campaign Classics book is by far the best of the series, if not the best sourcebook ever printed for FH.  There's an incredible amount of detailed lore about life in England in the Middle Ages, including folklore and mythology.  There's FH stats that were actually developed by someone who knew FH (as opposed to just converting the RM stats).  There's even--gasp--adventures, in defiance of the ban on published modules for FH.  Even the art and layout are top notch.
 
It really stands out because it's the one book that shows what Hero is capable of at the lower end of the spectrum.  (Robin Hood himself comes out to 80 points IIRC.)  And it actually makes you want to play low fantasy.  Ultimately, though, that is the book's one fatal flaw--it's low fantasy when the rest of the world is playing D&D video game fantasy.  But if you can get hold of a copy, do so; it's worth it even if all you do is read it.

TEQBALL
 

 
Maybe it’s the post-surgery meds, but it made me think of the Mesoamerican Ballgames.
 
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mball/hd_mball.htm
 
 
I slipped a ballgame into a 17th C pirate campaign using Fantasy Hero, Justice Inc, and some homemade ship combat inspired by Wooden Ships and Iron Men. 
It was amazing to see how pirates handled scenarios of ball games, murder mysteries, and political intrigue.