BoneDaddy

Re: Seven unusual propeller-driven vehicles The propellor driven bicycle is a nightmare. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: A Pattern Savant Model attacks as VSE, OIF of opportunity, RSR: deduction. I might add variable advantages, or a few naked advantages (also with the RSR: deduction) just to keep the options open. If the GM agrees, and you can come up with a vaguely compelling chain of causation, it could be a good bit of fun.

Re: Musings on Random Musings I'm quite grateful that men aren't as prone to getting them as women seem to be. Not to sound selfish, but a woman's UT is about an inch long. Mine, while I'll spare you all the embarassing DaVinci's Notebook references, is longer than that, suffice it to say. Men could get much bigger UTIs, just as a matter of topography.

Re: Either that, or it's because people fear me so much! Debra Winger, an LOL account, outranks me in rep. (sigh)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Top ten "Rep the person above" participants, with number of participations: Edsel 564 Mightybec 481 death tribble 363 Bazza 278 tkdguy 275 Susano 215 Hyper-Man 175 NightStick 142 James Gillen 120 assault 107 Top ten rep rankings: Susano Death Tribble Bazza Edsel tkdguy Hyper-Man L. Marcus Klytus Hermit OzMike

Re: Would you model hardened buttons? I'd put about a minute of extra time on the damage shield, which should get him through the average sip of beer with a little practice. He isn't a disintegration ray, he's just an entropic accellerant. He writes with a quill pen. I think his damaging effects would be limited to things with moving parts, things with metal alloys, or things with petroleum products. Beer, saints be praised, would not be included in any such category. The glue in some books would be OK, but much of his library would likely resemble the old 4th edition blue book. I note that this would include prophylactics. If a gremlin wouldn't destroy those naturally, it wouldn't be a gremlin, would it? Yeah, about that team communicator...

http://survive2012.com/asia_pyramids.php In all likelihood, the source author is ... mistaken. However, if you can't find a tomb to raid in all this you just aren't trying.

Re: Hmmm...okay, how about a Bosnian Pyramid? I figured that as long we're discussing a Japanese Atlantis, a refresher in wacky prehistory might be fun. Bumpity.

Re: Japanese Atlantis? First of all, just having a little fun, not tryiong to make a persuasive argument. Remember we're discussing a game of collaborative fiction. The last ice age ended it's period of glaciation about 10000 years ago, which raised the sea level about 200 feet, which was 200 feet higher than it had been 8000 years earlier. 10,000 years ago, the age of Leo, when the great sphinx of Giza still had the head of a lion, Teahaunaco in Bolivia was a thriving center of commerce, and the Pyramid at Giza was eclipsed only by it's larger cousin in Bosnia. Before the cold country of Tir na nOg sank below the waves, and when Mu, now off the coast of Japan, ruled the Eastern Sea. Robert Howard would approve.

Re: Would you model hardened buttons? As his predecessor was known to say: "These Blockbuster bombs don't go off unless you hit them juuuuuuuust right."

Re: Japanese Atlantis? Me either, on all counts. In my limited experience, geologic formations prone to making such precise angles tend to make a lot of much smaller ones. These formations don't make sense to me in terms of crystal formation or erosion. Entropy rarely produces such an appearance of order. Usually it makes mud, or beach, or heaps of rubble, or jagged escarpments. This isn't that. I'm not saying that rules nature out, but it sure looks more like the stuff we make. It looks an awful lot like the square cave pictured in the second link.

Re: Build this: I surf the 'net In this lovely age of wireless internet, I'd say the 'bot could use a real cheap Summon to get access to any web-based program available, and whatever KS: the summoned computer might have. The KS would remain with the summoned and not the summoner, so it seems fairly kosher. An off the cuff idea, by the way, that may have a wrinkle or two to iron out.

I'm working on a hero who is, in his hero ID, a gremlin. He's innately destructive of technology, and has as a permanent side effect a very small damage shield (1pip RKA, penetrating, only effects manufactured/ artificial substances (plastics and metals, petroleum products, synthetic fibers, etc.), extra time - one minute) which makes his life complicated. He eats with chopsticks and carries a flint knife, wears natural fibers (cotton, wool, or silk) and leather, writes witha quill pen, and he's to be wary about what he touches. Sitting on a park bench for five minutes would likely destroy it. The day to day aspects of his life, the details, are what I'm wondering about. Would anyone bother to model hardened buttons? What about a hardened ceramic pocket knife? Would you bother, or is it just a "flavor" detail, possibly useful under some weird McGuyver like circumstances, but unlikely enough so as not to be worth modeling? I'm planning on modeling it as a 5 point phys. lim., but I'm wondering about the rest of the minutiae - worth noting? Worth modeling? What say thee?

Re: Help: Two Dimensional Characters Do you mean flat, or do you mean two dimensional? Two dimensional living has its challenges, such as the need for total life support. Additionally, I would suggest that the desolidification could be total, since the hero would be less than an atom's thickness and therefore completely permeable. Would he be limited to a planar existence, or would he be a two dimensional anomoly in our three dimensional world? Could he move in all three dimensions? How? Hypothesize for a moment that whichever direction he moves in, he move only in two of the three possible dimensions at any given moment. He might look like a very primitive ray tracing of a superhero, or a lifesized work of origami. He would be invisible and unstoppable to whatever he approached (invisible special effects, or indirect, and penetrating would be the way I'd do it) or at least the approaching part would be, since the plane of existence must be parallel to the direction of travel. He could have a hell of a dodge if all he must do is turn perpendicular to an attack for it to miss him entirely. He would need some way to perceive three dimensions simultaneously, possibly bought as Clairsentience with no range. (!)

Re: A Thread for Random Videos That must be one of the worst ideas I've ever seen someone survive. Acme products R&D, no doubt.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Dibs!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings If a thousand people each owe me a million dollars, that doesn't make me a billionaire, any more than my ability to drink a gallon of water a day for ten thousand days makes me a swimming pool. The unspeakably venal and foolish notion that the simple fact of being a creditor equated to wealth and profitability has to be the single dumbest thing to happen in economic history, and it's going to bite every last one of our developed asses all over every developed nation. Narratio can go his in-laws and hide out while the rest of us figure out that every one of our global financial institutions has been involved in a Ponzi scheme, and there's really only about three hundred bucks between the lot of us.

Re: People with Powers Armed with 15 more AP, Mike Huckabee would be the biggest thing to hit Rock n Roll since the Beatles, and would ditch politics so fast it would make heads spin around completely at Fox News. It's interesting - armed with 25 AP, I'd waste it. Wealth, fame, talent, prestige, and me and all my loved ones would get old and die anyway. I probably wouldn't even find the cure for cancer. (sigh)

Re: Partial Multiforms No book in front of me - that's a good reason! And yeah, I think that's too great a savings. How does only changing a part of the character in each form disadvantage you exactly?

Re: Partial Multiforms Why not just use the limitations listed for Duplication?

Re: Partial Multiforms What if you built it as a series of mutually exclusive ECs and MPs? Frex, Captain HVAC has two suites of mutually exclusive powers - fire and ice. He has a fire EC, a fire MP, an ice EC, and an ice MP. How much of a disadvantage is it to have powers Only in Hero ID(fire) or Only in Hero ID(ice)? -1/2? Really? Given the overlap between the powers sets (I can't imagine that only HVAC(ice) has armor, for example) I have a hard time imagining it's that much of a limitation, but it is the only step up from 1/4.

Re: Power Build Question: Manipulate your own projectile That's indirect.

Re: Childhood's Monsters All of their attack powers should have the limitation "Not vs. blankets." Still - chilling stuff, gets me deep down. Nice work!

Re: Partial Multiforms There is, however, nothing to prevent you from buying multiform for a vehicle, or a follower, or an automaton. This begs a different question, though. Say I buy my intelligent vari-weapon as a follower with multiform instead of a focus based multipower. Can I pick up my follower and hit someone with it?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings My Dearest Tribble, I must insist that you share Jeff Wayne with the rest of the former colonies. Send him and his entire War of the Worlds concert tour forthwith to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, or I shall be forced to write a more strongly worded letter. I feel it prudent to remind you that I have at my disposal all locked or forgotten threads, and all of the relentless shambling headless ascended provided to me so haphazardly by our larcenous lapine mutual ally. They could make a great smelly mess of London. Smellier, and messier, actually. Yours, BoneDaddy