BoneDaddy

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Damned L'esprit D'escalier! A Thread for Muzzlings on Random Muslims would have been a much better title...

Re: Mental, the short stick? My approach involves calculation and patience. Mind Control, 12d6. Cumulative, Standard Effect, requires EGO+30. Standard Effect puts any attack right in at 36 points, which, darn it all, is a little too low for the average mook. So they accumulate, and wouldn't you know it, next round we're maxed out at 72 points of effect, and there they are at -6 to their breakout roll. It burns a lot of END, and in a pinch I have to try and sweep it, but rolling a 5- for a breakout roll is HARD work. "I put a spell on you... Because you're mine!" - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Re: Absolutely Indestructible?

Re: Absolutely Indestructible? This actually brings up a question I have mulled over in my head. An unbreakable focus could be very useful in many respects, but how to model it? Power tricks? OK - hypothesize an unbreakable staff used by a Martial Artist. In addition to kicking copious amounts of butt, could he not olso use the staff to brace open a heavy door? Pry open just about anything he could wedge the staff end into? With sufficient bracing, could he used it to stop an oncoming car (assuming a good hit on the right spot on the car, and good bracing on the other end)? The possibilities of an indestructible lever are endless. How to model this?

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Pursuit of Happyness. It is a fantstic, amazing, great movie, and a deeply affecting story. Emotionally, it is a two hour long punch in the stomach. When the movie ended, I wanted to weep with relief for the characters. Fatherhood has undoubtedly made this movie significantly more powerful for me. I recommend it highly (fatherhood and the movie). I wish Scary Drifter and Jeff T were around to discuss it with.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Out of curiosity (perhaps morbid curiosity) what is it that you do for a living?

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Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Speaking of Will Ferrell, we saw Stranger Than Fiction recently. I recommend it highly.

Re: Is anything in the system correctly priced? Correctly priced for what? If this is a subjective question, the answers will of course vary. If this is an objective question, the answer is yes. Everything is priced exactly as the designers intended to price it and it is therefor correct. It's a game. About simulating fictional environments. Correct?! I think Oriental Avenue is way overpriced, and after 4 trips around the board I think everyone should get a raise to $300/ payday. That's subjective. Objectively, the rules are sufficient to play a game for an afternoon or two.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Tonight, in a conversation with another boy, my stepson referred to me as his father. If you have been there you might know how damn wonderful that feels, and what a burden it lifts.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings If you have a dream of waiting at a bus stop with some other people, and you recognize one of the other people standing at the bus stop as Christopher Reeve, that bus isn't going to school. Woke me up with a start.

Re: Haiku Hero At first there are five. Seven more follow after. Then five more syllab-

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Just when I think I've heard it all, Rush accuses Michael J. Fox of exaggerating.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Did it make a little tearing noise when it went? Those are the best of the worst. Oh yes, happy news. I'm starting a new job tomorrow. Again. It's a field I like, and I like the people who work there. If I read like I lack enthusiasm it's because I was burned pretty hard about a month ago by my last employer, and my trust level is low. Still, it is happy news. I just need to embrace it more fully.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos A little culture for you, folks. A brief (Okay 26 minutes long) bit of beauty. Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. A beautiful piece, well performed. Rodrigo, BTW, was blind.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Brilliant!

Re: A Thread for Random Videos I don't know if this has been posted here yet or not.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos The little mermaid, parodied exquisitely. NSFW language. I must confess that the disney movie leaves me somewhere between frothing outrage and miasmic depression, so anything mocking it is OK by me.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Somewhat predictable, but cute, with good use of .

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Luther Wright and the Wrongs. Not a video, just a song. I swear it's worth it.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Bill Shatner, Joe Jackson, and Ben Folds perform "Common People" on Leno. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEcMUMZMEaQ

Re: Help making this power I would suggest a Transfer linked to a Hand to Hand attack, although the hand to hand attack part seems optional. The meta-rule folks like to apply is this: reason from effect. The effect you want - the opponant loses Body and you gain Body, can be simply accomplished by Transfer. The Abyssal Claw part is just a special effect (a nifty one at that.) There is another meta-rule: Given two options, choose the more expensive of the two. Ignore this rule.

Re: Tunneling Question.

Re: Tunneling Question. This is my case. My character is a blaster with a hell of a plasma generator attack multipower. The idea is this - shoot a hole in a wall, surprise the bejesus outof the bad guys on the other side of said wall. It's a super strength smash through, but ranged. Easy enough? A one hex AOE no knockback RKA to do the same damn thing would cost scads of points, and accomplish very little - I already have two RKAs with this framework, and a third one just to punch precise holes in things seems excessive, unnecessary, and most importantly, inelegant. A good framework should be robust and elegant. Ranged tunneling accomplishes that aesthetic goal of mine.

Re: Seemingly Silly Things to Model