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Re: [Video] Nazi Robot Attack NERDS!!! Keith "ahem. I feel better." Curtis

Re: [Video] Nazi Robot Attack I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me. Simply beautiful Keith "Giant robots improve everything" Curtis

Re: Superhero Podcasts Thanks UltraManRob. I wasn't aware of the X-Men podcast. What's the general tone? Is it four-color? Iron? Rust? Is it generally accessible, or do you need to be a dedicated X-Fan to get the plots? Keith "Pendant Production's Bibbo, next heard serving coffee in Episodes 28 & 32" Curtis

Re: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners So you've never seen a Robin Hood movie, then? Keith ";)" Curtis

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Re: Fantasy Travel Question Two minutes of research shows that the suggestions in FH are not too bad. The definitive work that most authors seem to quote is "Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army." I would guess that 20 miles a day is sustained travel with a fully packed traveling horse. For shorter distances, and less heavily encumbered, you could travel much farther. Keith "On a road, take a bicycle" Curtis

Re: DM of the Rings Awesome. That explains a lot. FWIW, this one one of my earliest games, and I think the one I actually first tried to run adventures in. Keith "Wish I had had the TSR book, way back when" Curtis

Re: FH Gripes Not quite. I've posted this before, but it bears repeating: Keith "And yes, I perpetrated song in the show" Curtis

Re: DM of the Rings For a guy with a general IQ of six outside of anything not related to cutting large things into smaller things with a piece of metal, John Carter could occasionally come up with an awesome turn of phrase. Keith "Man if could talk like that, I would be swimming in chicks" Curtis

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Re: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners This is the sort of thinking that makes Tolkein's work into a novelization of the movie trilogy. I can't count it if it wasn't original to the movie. YMM, of course, V. Keith " 'You speak Treason!' -- 'Fluently.' " Curtis

Re: Steampunk keyboard I would blush, but I have BobGreenwade on my ignore list. Keith ";)" Curtis

Re: DM of the Rings

Re: Steampunk keyboard Guy! Take me off your ignore list! Keith "jumping up and down and waving my arms" Curtis

Re: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners To be fair, that's not a movie quote. Keith "Giving credit to Herodotus" Curtis

Re: Making paperminiatures True. I do all the artwork for primary PCs and NPCs, but I gladly lift things off the internet for hordes and mooks. Keith "Hordes and Mooks sounds like a buddy cop movie" Curtis

Re: DM of the Rings

Re: FH Gripes It is funny that the majority of times this has happened to me have been on stage, during a live show. Both times doing the same basic maneuver. You'd think I would learn. Keith "Ah well, if it hadn't happened, I wouldn't have met Susan" Curtis

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Re: My Cool Color Hudson City Map whew. Keith "I have my reputation to think about" Curtis

Re: Armour has a fixed SFX? I think this was first pointed out on USENET or AOL about 15+ years ago. Keith "Strength is underpriced too, while you're at it" Curtis

Re: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners Well, I guess that fulfills the requirements from post #1... Keith "Yippekayay, MF" Curtis

Re: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!" Jules, Pulp Fiction Keith "OK, maybe not exactly a hero..." Curtis

Re: Making paperminiatures Here is my recommended method for printing and folding. I greatly prefer this to tri-fold or standard tent-fold. You can label and color code them in one swell foop. Keith "foop" Curtis

Re: FH Gripes I don't allow Combat Luck to stack with armor. TO me, it's a way of simulating the genre convention of the lightly armed fighter who doesn't get hacked to bits in their first combat (Conan, Red Sonja, John Carter, etc.) I use a very abstract armor system in which the pieces worn are entirely special effect. You reference the DEF and Activation on a table, and that gives you a set penalty to DCV and Dex-based rolls. If you have a DEF 6 on and ACT of 12-, but are only wearing a pair of bracers, then you are just really good at blocking blows with them. Deadly Blow should be reserved for very specific classes, not broad ones. "Evil" is so generic, it's pointless. Most opponents will be evil. "Trolls" would be much better. "Giant sized creatures" is too broad. "Storm Giants" is better. Further, I would never let it be taken with a class of weapon, unless it was something like "knife" or another piddly weapon that seems to be especially deadly in the hands of a character from books or movies. I rarely track muscle-powered END, but try to design characters who are reasonably END efficient. If fatigue is critical to an encounter, I track it. But I certainly don't mark down the END use for 20 mooks and don't require my players to either. END use for magic is something else entirely. That's one of the standard controls I use. So far, it hasn't been a problem. For the record, atlascott, I never found your tone to be confrontational or unreasonable. You came off as someone having trouble with the system and seeking aid. The solutions being suggested give you problems because implementing rule-changes mid-campaign is always difficult. Obviously you will need to explain to your players the problem and take a hard stance. If you don't feel your players are the type who would take a re-design well, you'll probably need to re-design the campaign to a higher-fantasy style and increase the level of opposition. Keith "my 2¢" Curtis