Michael Hopcroft

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Teva loguskia babor shinkil! Evala? Evala? Sosu krimea elava? A: It was all Geek to me.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Break on Through" (radio edit) - The Doors

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat He'd go through TV sets so quickly that best Buy would put his picture on the wall of its "Best Customer" section. Turns out the big green guy has a very low tolerance for NBA officiating.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: Does America really have Talent, Mr. Cowell? A: Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Two words; SCA War

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What does it look like when Popes fly? A: This is what it looks like when cows fry.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: How do you know when it's time to move on to another Broadway show? A: Let me clip dirty wings.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Ready to run the Marathon? A: The time to act is now.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Who put Prince Albert in that can, anyway? A: Excuse me, I have to go catch my refrigerator before it crosses the city limits.

Re: Bizarre Spell Ideas I just saw something that reminded me of this thread. It's not so much the spell itself as the fact that you use cell-phone-like devices to cast them. To cast a spell, you insert a card into the phone -- the card dissipates but returns to your pocket after a few minutes for re-use. Another thing it did remind me of, though, is the danger of combining impressive raw power with complete naivete. Or taking a talking wolf to the center of town when he just won't shut up....

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What a bummer, Sarge. Having pneumonia on the day of the Inauguration. How do you feel, Sergeant Price? A: The time has come, my little friends, to talk of Other Things.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Jealousy Duet" from The Threepenny Opera (the 1970's production with Raul Julia).

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat It takes two to get down the railway tracks on a handcar. NT: Subtle signs that you aren't in power anymore.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What are you going to do now that the lightning strike bruned down your hovel in the woods? A: I've been elected to rock your a**es till midnight.

Re: Pathfinder Campaign book Well, the Pathfinder core game is essentially D&D 3.75, so it's getting a lot of interest from the gamers who don't want to move on the 4e. I'll have to take a good looks at the setting book to see what, if anything, distinguishes it from the standard D&D campaign setting. One thing I wonder, not having seen the book, is whether there is an ubertheme or whether it's something you simply plug your new characters into and run through things. Pazio also is using the "Adventure Path" style of publishing to give players things in the setting they can run right away. These seem to be taking the place of the former Dungeon magazine. Look like interesting adventures, but they'll need some adaptation of HERO. Which brings me to a question: if you're translating a D&D adventure to HERO, is there a correlation between D&D level and the number of points in HERO a character is built upon? Or is it somewhat more complex than that given that power creep is more extravagant in the magic-using classes?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "My Wife" -- The Who, off Who's Next.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why are you so darn enthusiastic about theatre popcorn? A: Now this is a three-pipe problem.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Track down Eagle Shooting Heroes, a made-in-Hong Kong kung fu comedy with twisted relationships, an unusual path to divinity, the use of ingested invertebrates as torture devices, deadly projectiles with an alarming resemblance to shoes, and the single unluckiest master villain since the Coyote. NT: New high-tech ways for the Coyote to fail to catch the Roadrunner.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Monkey Wrench" -- Foo Fighters

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What do these four horsemen need with Teddy bears? A: Don't touch the olive oil or the wine.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why should I join the Army of the Swamp-Dwelling Fowl? A: And that's why they call it Raider Nation.