Kristopher

Re: Nova? Depending on what part of the eastern sky you saw it in, I'd guess satellite.

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ???

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? I watched it when you posted it.

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? It seems to me that you'd have to adjust for the rotating planet anyway.

Re: Poison Gas Cloud It's one of those quirks of the HERO system.

One of my players for the science fiction game wants a pistol that fires a beam that causes intense heating of a spot where it hits, causing flamable materials to catch fire, etc. Any thoughts on how to build that?

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? That doesn't sound like the Sagnac effect has anything to do with the "crazy-quilt" effect from the "train example" -- which specifically references different observations at different "frames of refernce".

Re: Your "2010" Pet Gaming Projects To finish writing up my science fiction setting, and hopefully run it.

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? OK, in detail, what are they actually compensating for? The light-speed delay and a slightly slower clock on the satellites, or the crazy-quilt effect described in the "train example"?

Re: What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us?

Re: "Tightening the Curve" on damage That's where I'm headed, I think.

Re: "Tightening the Curve" on damage I will be using hit locations. However, I don't want zero variation, just less variation -- a smaller range and more results near the average.

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? Oh, I get what it's trying to say, that's never been the issue. I just don't believe that the universe, that reality, is a sideshow house of mirrors.

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? Sure, fine, but where it breaks down in the "train example" is still in the assertion that it behaves in as many ways as there are different frames of references around it, that it does multiple things at the same time, instead of one thing.

Re: What styles are going to be covered in 6E Ultimate Martial Arts? And yet in real martial arts you'd have aborts to strike, combination block and strike in the same move, etc.

Re: Nazi Belt Buckle Gun If you fire off all four .32 rounds at once, that's still not much kick to deal with. At really short range, the four bullets at once would still mess someone up, even with that little round.

Re: "Tightening the Curve" on damage My main concern was simply avoiding the random BODY damage lottery of Killing Attacks as they exist now.

Re: What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us? Not sure if the simple metric of brain to body mass ratio is so all-telling. Brain structure and little details in the neurology have to make a big difference.

Re: Star Wars Weather 50s F? Hoth?

Re: Hero System Good Idea/Bad Idea... Isn't that a... star... as in, a sun... right there behind the vampire?

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? Again, not what I'm asking and not what I'm talking about.

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? I'm not talking about time or simultineity or frames of reference. I don't care about one observer or the other, or any observer. I only care about what the light actually does.

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? Only to say that your assertion that this is "emotional" is something of an insult.

Re: Instantaneous Communications plus Time Dilation Equals ??? Who said anything about "absolute time? That's never been the issue here. Go back to the actual crux of the matter in the train car example: what is the interaction of the light and the train car? Does the back of the car "catch up" to the light from the flash, while the front of the car is "moving away" from it? Or is the motion of the photons independent of the motion of the train car? Pick one. That's reality.

Re: Star HERO with... not magic, really, but... Your ideas have been added to the list. Thank you.