L. Marcus

Re: The Last Word . . . Amazingly, I've never, ever owned a d12.

Re: The Last Word Which means you have the full legal right to be a raving fanatic, right?

Re: The cranky thread . . . MO . . . MO-re the merrier?

Re: The Last Word Persecute, kill the heretics!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER . . . Methinks it's hot enough as is. Twenty degrees Centigrade is enough for me. It's a quarter to twelve, and the outside thermometer shows 21.4 . . .

Re: The Last Word . . . I haven't seen the series . . . I'm thinking about picking up the boxed set when I come across it. And the movie.

Re: The Last Word Hum hum . . . Is that d20, mayhap?

Re: The cranky thread . . . Tongue is good . . . But I'm afraid the teacher would probably start yelling "sexual harassment!"

Re: The Last Word I'm looking for inspiration, but lazily.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Re: The Last Word . . . Just a wonderation: Does anyone know of any other hard-ish SF RPG out there? I can only think of 2300 AD . . .

Re: "Newtonian Acceleration" Advantage? Yup. That's why beam weapons platforms -- like the Le Havre -- are getting the upper hand in the campaign, but there are still missile launchers around, hence the need for CIWS lasers. And, as you say, the damade depends on the toughness of the missile. But a 12 DEF, 13 BODY anti-ship missile would still demand respect, right? The biggest spinal UV lasers around do something like 10d6K, AP, so if the missiles hit, they're well worth it.

Re: "Newtonian Acceleration" Advantage? . . . Sorry. I'm calculating using the Optional Velocity Damage tables on Fred, p. 293. So a kinetic-kill missile travelling at 12 km/s, doing a Move By should do STR/2 + 24d6 of damage -- say, 25d6 for a man-sized missile.

Re: "Newtonian Acceleration" Advantage? I'd see that as a good model of reality. I'm aiming for hard-ish SF with my builds, rather than space opera. O'course, combat would use Velocity-Based DCVs. At those speeds, any ship would be a mother to hit!

Re: "Newtonian Acceleration" Advantage?

Re: Planets not orbiting stars . . . I wanna see stars. Don't you?

Re: Complicate the Person Above Bazza runs the White Lotus tong from behind the scenes. Or so they let him think . . .

Re: Future Tech Links . . . Gotta spread Rep around yadda yadda yadda . . . Well, at least now I'm hooked on this thread!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Rearwievmirror -- Pearl Jam, Vs.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings . . . Is it GenCon already?

Re: [Vehicle] TechTronic ISV-S 5.2 I'm more partial to build probes and satellites as automatons or vehicles with some sort of communicator Mind Link with the mothership. It might be a bit convoluted, but I've gotta do something with my spare time . . .

Re: New Orion drive concept . . . Your beard is neater than mine. There. That's another one. I just hope it won't swell your head.

Re: "Newtonian Acceleration" Advantage?

Re: Planets not orbiting stars Whee! A modern B-movie! I love those!

Re: New Orion drive concept . . . You know, you've got way too little rep . . .