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Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's the symbol for the Log Cabin Republicans? A: Zinc, magnesium, vitamin D, and 50 mg of hatred.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER my wife bought me an ibrik and some turkish coffee for my birthday. Now I want my coffee no other way. I still drink it plenty other ways, however.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Roman Polanski only a 4? I would think staying out of the US to avoid prosecution for defiling a minor would rate a guy higher than that. Oh, and as for me, 1-3 in real life, 11 in my dreams...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Let me be the first then. Both creepy. I'm all in favor of a little fantasy here and there, now and again, hell all the time. Making a hobby out of (partially?) fullfilling someone else's fantasy, especially someone who has no social cred at all, strikes me as rather creepy. I like attention as much as the next wacko, and I certainly like to dress up in a good costume (not for sex - party skyclad, thanks!) and adopt a different persona, but this is just a tad.... creepy. Takes it to the next level. That they have dedicated followers is even creepier, I think.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I'll be back if I can think of anything worth making my 1000th post.

Re: Math is hard... Late at night when I can't sleep, I'll work out a champs power in my head, multiplying and then dividing by fractions until I nod off...

Re: Tornado Building What if we treat it more like an attack than a critter? A big heap of powers thrown (dare I say "linked"?) together (flash, TK, EB, etc.) with indirect, AOE (explosion?), continuous, uncontrolled. The hard part is aiming it - a tornado tends to move around in a somewhat unpredictable fashion. If that's what you intend, its almost like No Conscious Control, but not quite. Give it dozens of charges and a nearly guaranteed runaway? Make it an OIF, so Pecos Bill can rope it.

Re: Warning silly question, serious players beware Major Transform (all three axes), Megascale (LOTS of it), Area of Effect (One hex), Trigger(?). For a thousand points or so, the past is yours!

Re: Campaign Speculation: please read, comment Lying convincingly is more important than actually knowing (said the lawyer). What sort of Mars? Terraformed? Colonized? Governed? One state, or mulitple competing states? If terraformed, what biodiversity was imported? What is the status of machines? I might have a hard time working with a robot if an AI was holding my cousins hostage and keeping me away from my ancestral homeworld - call me a meatist. It has less gravity than Earth, so natives will be slightly physiologically different than we Earthlings. The days are longer, the years are longer. I don't know any specifics, these are all available pieces of info out there in internet land. I don't know the axis, which will effect the seasons, as well as the elliptic. Two little fast moons. Soil composition studies should be available soon, if not right now. BTW, love the concept - not PBEM by any chance?

Re: "Primitive" Disads Phil was a great one. Never go to bed in the middle of an argument. She sounds like a giant blue Lenape. Natives of the Pennsylvania area, still in residence when the Quakers arrived. They had few permanant residences, but set up temporary shelters wherever they went, currently called Wiki-ups. They had lasting concepts of real estate ownership - hunting grounds and fishing areas were owned by certain tribes at certain seasons. The winter camp areas were also considered the lasting property of individual tribes. They had little in the way of intertribal politics. There is a good deal of verifiable research into the Lenape out there, if you are interested in a resource. http://www.delcohistory.org/dchs/Bulletin_14.doc is a good start. Could tell you more about who to expect, based on one example.

Re: "Primitive" Disads Has the Wife Supreme read The Broken God, by David Zindell? The protagonist faces a similar situation for the first few hundred pages. Phobia - fear of predation. There are refugees from Chad (the so called Lost Boys of Chad) who have a hard time accepting that there aren't Lions in Portland, Maine. Enraged - figure that a survivalist culture would place high enough importance on some things, like basic property rights, and low enough importance on other things, like negotiation skills, that the net effect is the same as enraged - steal my stuff and I hit you until you hold still. I'm not sure how primitive you mean. Hunter gatherer? Nomadic? Encamped? Cave dwelling? Tree dwelling? Making there own shelter? Uses fire or not? Creates fire or guards it? Animist or polytheist? Tool use - wooden speartip, burnt wooden speartip, bone speartip, stone speartip, atlatl, bow? Clothing - raw skins, cured skins, sewn skins, reed cloth, wool cloth? Worships the black obelisk, or fears the black obelisk? Stores things in skins, clay jars, or reed baskets?

Re: Campaign Speculation: please read, comment One could aquire a mirror of sufficient size, fabricate a sufficient aiming device, and use it during daylight hours to send morse code messages into space. It is unidirectional and primitive as hell, but hypothetically effective. Additionally, return messages could be shot in with a mild laser. Any tech sufficent to live outside of a terrestrial environment for extended periods is also going to be sufficient to communicate with the surface of the planet Earth, at least one way, unless the AI intend to blacken the sky.

Re: Does Marital Disarm Help You Hold On? When you have to disarm the wife, nothing can help you.

Re: Effects of different gravities on carbonation? To finish McCoy's answer, at higher atmospheric pressures, fizzy water will cease it's fizzing. At lower pressures, it will fizz more. Next time you go on an trip on a zeppelin (or some other aircraft), bring a soda in a plastic bottle. Open it and watch it fizz when you are on the ground. Close it. Open it at altitude, watch it fizz more strongly. Your demonstration is half over. Finish the soda, and reseal the bottle. Watch the bottle compress slightly as you descend. Higher pressure, less fizz. Lower pressure, more fizz. As an alternative experiment, take the soda deep into a mine, and watch it stop fizzing altogether at the higher air pressure. Do not drink it while you are down there, else you shall have bad cramps later. So, in the end, there is no real relationship between air pressure and gravity, aside from the fact that more massive objects will tend to have more gravity, and therefore more gas, and therefor higher atmospheric pressure closer to the center of the gravity well. But not always. There could be a supermassive object with no atmosphere, or a microgravity situation with relatively high atmospheric pressure (inside the space shuttle, for example). So far as we've seen thus far, mass and gravity go together like Lima Beans and Corn.

Re: Ripping Telephone Poles From The Ground 30 Str is enough to lift a little over 1.5 tons, and I think it takes more than that to hoist a phone pole out of concrete, so I think this takes more than casual strength. I think that logically means this takes at least a half-phase action, and I think a strength roll is appropriate. I think, were I the GM, I might want to guesstimate the Body damage the concrete can withstand, and then see your brick beat it. Of course, I think you could just snap off the pole at the earth and swing away. Simple Strength roll, probably. Of course, telephone poles do no live in isolation. They have friends. Close friends with whom they are in constant contact. You sure you wanna do that, and risk the 60 cycle dance? Or is that 120 cycle, for electrical lines?

Re: My Faithful Steed Reason from effect - call it running. The horse is just a special effect. Limit as necessary, and feed the running from an END pool. Unless you want Silver to do more stuff. Then make it a multipower or an EC. I avoid the complicated stuff because I'm a sissy, rules wise. There was once a swashbuckler character I knew who could swing from a chandelier wherever he was. Handy things, his chandeliers...

Re: Hot Diggity, "Reality Storm" at last? Reality Storm? You mean like Torg? That would be cool.

Re: Hero Character Portfolio -- What Do *You* Want To See? I'd like it in PDF format, with space to load in a character image. FASA had a nifty character creation questionaire in the Shadowrun main rules book. It could be a good source for inspiration in any character creation questionaire. Try 2d edition, IIRC. (And if FASA sells the rights to the SR series, scoop 'em up if you can - great campaign world already created...)

Re: Please Help with Mutant Tentacle Guy 5

Re: [HELP] Need various things for a scenario The smoking gun has a wide an entertaining assortment of mug shots - mostly people in the middle of having very bad days.

Re: THE ULTIMATE BRICK -- What Do *You* Want To See? I don't have UMA. Huh.

I posted this a week ago (or so) in your Ultimate Brick thread. I've been trying to find it in FREd, where I would SWEAR I read it. I can't find it. Is it the product of my sleep deprived and disordered mind, or yours?

Re: THE ULTIMATE BRICK -- What Do *You* Want To See?

Re: Name for a water guy... Third Wave (It's always the big one)

Re: Ultimate Brick -- What Things Weigh I think it would be good to include the mass, body and def of some typical brick-scale weapons, both intentional and opportunistic. Of course, the telephone pole. But also, the medieval battering ram, the wrecking ball, the crucible full of molten iron, very large rocks, assorted construction equipment, manhole covers, etc.