tkdguy

Thank you. Maybe I should be in the business of writing back cover blurbs.
 
 
Given that, 1) the relatively small number who will see a phrase like "The Desolation of Skarm" and automatically think of Tolkein's line "They were come to the Desolation of the Dragon, and they were come at the waning of the year," and given that 2) of those who DO think of it, most will respond approvingly and only a vanishingly small portion (perhaps  a single individual) will sneer and say "really?", I will venture to suggest that yes, even if it we regard it as a crib, it's still a good idea.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary looms up to say that overuse of the word "looming" is not necessarily such a good idea. Everyone's a critic.

Did someone say artist?
 

He still wears the scarf with panache.

It's Tom Baker's 85th birthday today.
 

"It's a bargain at twice the price!"

I read a short story called "Animal Lover" by Stephen R. Donaldson (as I recall) that involved a hunting preserve where the animals were genetically engineered to be able to use weapons and hunt you right back.

Electrical buying and selling is very common. German Coal Plants are actually mostly selling the power to France and Belgium.
 
Nuclear Powerplants have the huge downside of a very slow reaction time. Changing the output can take hours to days.
Renewable energy is by nature unpredictable.
Gas and Coal plants are resonsible for quick reaction adaption . For cases like this.

There was a Babylon 5 movie (River of Souls?) where someone opened a holographic brothel in Brown Level.

I will bet there is a third edition rule I am using that I have never noticed changing.  I play HERO, editions are irrelevant and ephemeral except to give everyone a base to start from. It is us to blame for paragraph long powers, we love to tinker and argue about the minutia - Steve simply tried to make it all clear. That took a LOT of words. Doesn't mean you have to use them.
 
I don't have a favourite edition, I play HERO and I think arguing about details is pointless, especially as you can now download and play any edition you want. 

I play 6th end write for 6th.  It has lots of ideas and concepts in it that are great and I strongly recommend people who play other editions definitely pick up and use.  It has others I don't care for.
 
But 4th is my favorite edition, as an emotional attachment.  See, the poll wasn't "which is the best?" or "what do you recommend?" but "which do you like the most?"

Fourth edition for me as I primarily played Fantasy Hero and 4th edition Fantasy Hero was SO good.
 
In fact for my current 6e Fantasy Hero game I have retained the weapon, armor and encumbrance charts from 4e as I feel they did a much better job of balancing the effectiveness of gear.

The 5th Edition is the ultimate evolution of the greatest RPG Character Creation System.

Wrong time of year, but....
 
Someone was going over a passage that stated the "no white after Labor Day" rule was invented by the old money families to differentiate themselves from the nouveau riche.
 
Me: No white after Labor Day? What if I have to use my stormtrooper outfit?

Wrong time of year, but....
 
Someone was going over a passage that stated the "no white after Labor Day" rule was invented by the old money families to differentiate themselves from the nouveau riche.
 
Me: No white after Labor Day? What if I have to use my stormtrooper outfit?

Possibly useful tech stuff:
 
Basics of Space Flight you can also find this in a large (book-class) static PDF if you go websearching.  It is rooted in current tech: short-duration rocket burns at special points to use a minimum of fuel in going from A to B, at of course a cost in time.  I don't know a good place to experiment with real physics with long-duration rocket burns and how that would work with quasi-routine manned interplanetary travel.
 
The JPL Small Body Database is a great resource, but is on the fritz at the moment due to government shutdown.  When it's working, great place to get visualizations of the orbits of Solar System bodies.
 
Will add more as I remember it/refind it.
 
 

I love the setting and was curious if there's anyone else on these boards who do too?
 
Steve did and amazing job with the book and I think it deserves more supplements.  Although the base book is very detailed in terms of races, geography, theology, etc, I think there's tons of room to expand on.  The setting has such good bones that it feels criminal to not expand on it.
 
Also, an update to 6th edition would be fantastic although strictly not necessary.

I agree 100%.  My son wanted to run a campaign when he was in High School after playing in my campaign for a while.  I got him a copy of TA and it worked very well.  There was enough detail that the world felt real, plus a ton of space so he could make it his own.

Katelyn Ohashi's perfect routine. This went viral and you can see why.
 

Romancing the Stone: Great romantic action-adventure comedy from 1984, with Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny DeVito. (DVD)
 
Solo: A Star Wars Story: Not horrible, but not great, either. Run time is a little long, and some of the action scenes feel derivative of other works. Musical score is mostly forgettable until it starts quoting John Williams Star Wars themes later in the movie. (Netflix)

'Frosty had the last laugh': Vandal tries to run over giant snowman, hits tree stump instead

Heh, that too, I just mentioned the first one that popped in my head.
 
Scottie was like 23rd century McGuyver, so he could make it work.

Or Star Trek?

I'm assuming all in-system travel involves acceleration to midpoint, and deceleration to the destination.  This great chart is from Classic Traveller.