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Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product One of the problems I heard a lot (on these boards) with 5th Edition Sidekick and 6th edition Hero System Basic Rules is that "It didn't contain the complete rules." So I'd be very careful about what you do and do not include in this book.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'm glad I have a daughter. I don't know anything about how to raise a boy. I don't know anything about boys, really, about what they do, what they are like, anything. I never was a boy. I actively avoided most other boys as I was growing up. I was never interested in sports or other "boy" activities. If I had a boy who wanted to do those things, I wouldn't have the first idea how, or what, or why. And I, in all honestly, don't know if I'd be able to encourage him in those things or not. I suspect I'd be a terrible father for a boy.

Re: Jokes The bartender says, "We don't serve tachyons here." A tachyon walks into a bar.

Re: Fins and Ray-Guns Thanks, guys. Keep the ideas coming! Any tv shows or movies that really capture the feel for you? Like the Commander Cody series, or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow?

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Me: Baby V has another tooth coming in. I'm hoping it will be an enormous tusk, to rip out the bellies of her enemies with. Him: You have some unrealistic expectations as a parent. Me: All parents do. "My baby's going to grow up to be president! My baby's going to be a world-famous pianist! My baby is going to be the quarterback for the Jets!" Honestly, which of us truly has the least unrealistic expectations? Him: Yeah, you're right. Tusks are definitely more realistic.

Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product I think, for a product like this, you want it out on shelves. You want the local FGS to carry a copy (or several copies). If possible, you want your local Barnes & Noble to carry it. You want it available on Amazon. You want people to see it out there, to see that it's an alternative to Pathfinder and D&D. Just selling it to people who already play Hero (which is your main Kickstarter audience) won't really expand the player base much.

What are the best examples of "Fins and Ray-Guns" fiction? The art deco style of science fiction/science fantasy that was popular through the 50s or so? Movies, books, comics, TV -- I'm especially interested in stuff that's still in print and relatively easy to find. And I'm not limiting myself to stuff that was produced prior to the 50s -- stuff that was written more recently with the same sensibilities (either played straight or ironically) is good too. Things like Twilight (by Howard Chaykin, not Stephanie Meyers!) or Dan Dare (by Garth Ennis) are cool. Help a bunneh out!

Re: A Thread For Random Links Yay! <3

Re: Lucha Hero I run Lucha Libre games at our local gaming conventions, twice a year. They're almost always sold out! So I'm more than happy to talk about it.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'm having homemade pumpkin soup for lunch. It is very good.

Re: Looking For Input On Potential New Fantasy Product D&D has always had 3 core books -- the Player's Handbook, the DMG, and the Monster Manual. This is considered "complete," despite not having any details about the fantasy world's religion, geology, history, politics, or pretty much anything to do with world-building. To get that, you need to buy at least one more "core" book (Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, whatever), and possibly several more books. I'm guessing for Fantasy Hero Complete you'd include the Hero rules (pared down so they only contain the essential ingredients for a Fantasy game, ie no Computer Programming, no FTL Travel, etc.), plus a section on races, another on "classes," another on spells, a weapons/equipment list, a dozen sample monsters, and a short introductory adventure? Could all that be realistically crammed into 250 pages? Follow it up with a Fantasy Hero Companion that had details about the "official" Hero world, plus more spells, more races, more classes, more monsters?

Re: The cranky thread My problem is that I have no safe outlet for my anger. I can't scream or rage, I have no one to fight. I work out three days a week to the point of exhaustion, but that's a temporary reprieve at best. It worries me.

Re: The cranky thread I just want to punch you all in the face a few times. Is that so wrong?

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Re: The cranky thread "Do you want to know my secret?" Bruce Banner asks the assembled Avengers. "I'm always angry." I've never really been a huge fan of the Hulk, but in that moment, I knew him. I knew him like I know myself, because he is me. Sure, I'd like to be Tony Stark -- suave, sophisticated, smart, a lady's man and a man's man. Or Steve Rogers, sure of myself, certain of my mission, with a goal and a calling much bigger than myself, admired and loved by everyone around him. But I'm Banner, alone and filled with an anger that I don't really understand and can't safely express.

Re: The cranky thread "You must cease your wishing for things you cannot have, and just proceed towards the grave, kind as you can be to your fellow travelers, not raising any great hopes or moaning any great miseries." -- Margo Lanagan

Re: The cranky thread "You must cease your wishing for things you cannot have, and just proceed towards the grave, kind as you can be to your fellow travelers, not raising any great hopes or moaning any great miseries." -- Margo Lanagan

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I've never felt comfortable or welcome in church. It's been a long time since I even saw the interior of a church. Yesterday, at my uncle's funeral, was the first time in years. It's funny, because my parents were so dilligent about making us go to church every Sunday. We went to Sunday School. We even celebrated a large number of the Catholic Feast Days that most folks have never even heard about, much less knew you were supposed to go to church on. We ate no meat on Fridays. I went to a Jesuit high school. All of my family from my parents' and grandparents' generations are deeply devoted to the church. I've got several older relatives who are priests, or nuns, and almost all of the patriarchs of the family are lay deacons. But me, as soon as I had the choice, I stopped going to church. Heck, when I was old enough to drive, I'd tell my parents "I'm going to the late mass," then I'd drive myself down to the mall or to the park for an hour. I'm often amazed at how lax the family of my generation is when it comes to religion. Our highly-religious parents managed to raise a generation of don't-really-care-much-ists.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Got to see a big chunk of the maternal side of my family this week, who I haven't seen in years. I also got to meet several of my... Hm... the children of my cousins. That makes them, what, second cousins? Second cousins once removed? Something like that. Good kids.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings When I was about 16 or so, I got up before sunup, packed a little bit of food, a jug of water, a knife, some matches, my walking stick, a light jacket, and maybe a few other items, and left the house. We lived in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, literally halfway up one of the hills (known locally as the Hogbacks). I hiked up to the top of the mountain, and headed south along the ridge. There were no man-made trails, just a few scattered game runs here and there. It was quiet and secluded, even though I could see the city of Denver and its suburbs off to the east, I felt all alone. I felt like I was discovering lost territory. I hiked for most of the day until I reached the end of the hill, then climbed down to a little stream. I watched a herd of deer, led by a massive buck, negotiating the overgrown terrain to reach the rill and drink. I don't think they knew I was there, or if they did they just didn't care. I felt like I could've joined them at the water and they would've accepted me as one of their own. I climbed back up to the ridge and, as the sun was going down, I found a sheltered spot under a large overhanging rock. I built a little rock wall around the exposed side to provide some shelter from the wind, then made a small fire to keep warm. I slept there overnight, on the dirt floor, waking with every little sound, stirring up the fire and then dozing back off, fitfully. The next morning, as the sun came up, I hiked back home, hungry and a little bit dehydrated. I do not think my family missed me. I don't think they even noticed I was gone.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Dear Santa: This year I would like a stocking full of coal and sticks. Please do not give me any toys, as they will just make me sad and remorseful of all the bad things I did this year. (Pretty sure that will work).

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities

Re: How do GMs out there handle late arrivals Finally, someone talking some sense around here!

Re: Order of the Stick For those of you suffering from stick figure withdrawal, I recommend Servants of the Imperium, a stick figure comic about the universe of Warhammer 40k. It's actually pretty good (and not nearly as grimdark as the actual gaming universe!). http://www.servantsoftheimperium.com/comic.php

Re: "Neat" Pictures This is the reson to always use the serial comma: