Nolgroth

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? X-Files Season 1 (about midway through).

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Hanging By a Moment - Lifehouse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6-jmQOwTJ0

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn Sorry. My computer completely hard locked. Had to do a hard reset. Back up now.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Invisible Sun - The Police

Re: Autonomous networked flying robots By your command.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn Due to an unexpected (but good, very good) chain of events, I will have to cancel the game tonight. I apologize for the last minute notice. I shall see you next week. Thanks. The good news is that it gives me an extra week to prepare the next segment of the campaign. This is a good thing for all involved. Again, thanks for your understanding and I look forward to our next session.

Re: The Cape - What do you think of it so far? Just watched episode 1 and 2 on Hulu. I liked it. Sort of had that late 80's vibe, where some of the early 80's cheese factor was still present, despite the attempts at the burgeoning 90's melodrama. I hope it does well.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn Okay. That works too.

Re: Non-lethal melee weapons Depends on your definition of pain. There was, many years ago, an article in an Army publication about non-lethal crowd control measures. One of them supposedly smelled so vile that it induced nausea and weakness in the test subjects. Aside from that, depending on your flavor of sci-fi, resin grenades (Entangle), sonic attacks that disorient (Change Environment with some characteristic rolls thrown on), non-lethal chemical weapons that cause narcoleptic symptoms. Oh you specified melee. Urg. Tough one. The last one could be delivered, close burst, with a soft rod (something like a harmless foam sword). The sonic attack, would technically be ranged but very tight. Think of the guys from Firefly with the blue latex gloves, only the device disorients instead of kills. Maybe some sort of strobing light to temporarily blind/disorient the target? Melee weapons are going to be really tough. Our present non-lethal (or less lethal) methods rely on pain compliance (joint locks/pressure points), inflammation (pepper spray), irritation (mace), short circuiting the nervous system (stun guns and tasers) or outright physical trauma (clubs and batons). I just don't know how we are going to shift away from those methods. They work well in accomplishing the goal (subdue the opposition) fairly successfully. A few people are, sadly, seriously injured or killed, but most targets subjected to one or more of those methods eventually submit without permanent injury or debilitation. Really far out methods might come from electrically stimulating portions of the brain to shut down parts of the body temporarily. Sort of like the electrical shock method but far more precise. I got nothing else.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Whatever you do, do NOT buy the Red Box. It is utter crap. I fell into a nostalgia moment and bought it. It is a horrid example or marketing over substance. If you have any desire to play D&D again, just start picking up the Essentials line. Order the books off of Barnes and Noble, where they are much less expensive. And just in case you missed it before, skip the Red Box.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn Tokens are just a matter of time and patience, two qualities which I have, even if only a little. Guiding the Gemini Crew? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Re: "Neat" Pictures But did it cost him a dime?

Re: 5e pdfs discontinued? When they release a new version of an old book, the PDF is no longer available. In this case, Fantasy HERO 6E is out, so the 5E version is no longer sold. Or at least that is how it was explained to me.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn One other thing. The Hero Boards server downtime is happening the Monday before our game on the 20th. While I hope HERO is able to make the transition with as little pain as possible, technical stuff has me a little on edge. I suggest that we have a chat program up in the background on that day. My handle on AIM and Google Talk is.....wait for it......Nolgroth. Surprised? If we have some sort of chat backup, at least we can pass notes back and forth if there are any more issues. Remember, we are switching back to 1.3b74. Sorry again about the debacle last night.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn And in other news, everything BUT the tokens imported just fine. I am currently in the process of building the new tokens. Sigh.

Season 5, Episode 6: Pandora's Box Part I Catching Up The Gemini Crew is back in action! When we last left our heroes, they were following up on a distress call that led them to an uncharted planet. Subtle clues and information from sources unavailable to others revealed that they were going to confront an Elder, a being from the dawn of time and the embodiment of chaos and destruction. As they made their way to this climactic battle, a smaller battle took place in the cramped tunnels ahead of them. A battle that caused the ceiling above them to collapse on top of them. Current Summary of Events The crew found themselves in quite a pickle this time, with the ceiling above them collapsing and trapping them under a couple of tons of rubble. Luckily, between Doc Caspar's special abilities and Ta'Rang's energy sword, everybody was able to get free. A new companion, Jack, joined them. As it turned out, Jack's unit was scouting the planet and had been ambushed by zharog warriors. During the battle, one of the zharog threw a grenade. The resulting explosion is what caused the cave-in. Jack was tossed away from the collapsing chamber and ended up in a pocket between the rubble that blocked him from his team and the Gemini crew. He crawled through the narrow space left after the deadfall and came upon the others. Their greeting was somewhat less than friendly. Once introductions were over, an aftershock brought even more of the roof down. Being prepared this time, the crew managed to avoid any further inconvenience. Indeed, the latest instability revealed a corridor above them. Unlike the natural cave they were in, this one appeared to be of dressed stone. It was probably that fact, more than anything else, that saved them. Killian assisted Jack in repairing his radio while Doc Caspar kindly scanned the local area for minds. She locked in on Jack's team fairly quickly and discovered that they were still engaged against enemy forces. Meanwhile, Samantha and Ta'Rang climbed up into the other corridor, where they noticed a dim light coming from a larger chamber at the end. After notifying the others, Samantha and Ta'Rang started moving cautiously down the hallway. As he got closer to the large chamber, Ta'Rang started to feel an enormous source of khalha energy. He sped up, almost involuntarily led by his curiosity to find out what such a powerful being would be. He found that it was Dar'Gredick. Dar'Gredick had changed. The last time they met him, he was simply a powerful member of the Dargha clan (zharog heavyworlders). Now his form coursed with khalha energy. Ta'Rang immediately identified the energy as coming from one of the ancient beings that had been released about the time they had met Samantha. None of that mattered to Wade, who immediately fired both his weapons at the zharog emperor. It was not so much that Dar'Gredick resisted the damage from those powerful weapons as much as he simply didn't acknowledge it. Ta'Rang also attempted to surprise Dar'Gredick but was easily avoided by the powerful being. After a brief exchange where Ta'Rang accused Dar'Gredick of depriving him peace and Dar'Gredick commented that Ta'Rang was impulsive as the "traitor Alvarez," the two parties began a serious negotiation. As it turns out, Dar'Gredick needs the Gemini crew to seek out four of the most powerful psychics in the frontier. Ta'Rang stubbornly refuses to help until Dar'Gredick can "prove" he is telling the truth. Dar'Gredick offers this truth in the form of a vision that he shares with Ta'Rang. After seeing the vision, Ta'Rang agrees to help. But first, they must kill Alvarez to keep him from waking up the Elder. Dar'Gredick warns them that Alvarez is much more powerful since "joining" with the Elder. He also advises Samantha that Alvarez destroyed Elvis. On their way to the lower chambers near the heart of the sealed rift, Samantha finds Elvis's head mounted on a staff. A single note is attached to the shaft; "Flowers." Behind the Scenes Some of the quoted text is taken directly from the chat log and some of it is embellished a bit to add color. It is a new thing I am trying, along with moving these summaries from the blog format to the discussion board format. I hope both work well. This is our first session in over a year. As such, I walked into it fully expecting to have some glitches. Good thing too, as we had them in spades. MapTool 1.3b80 has some sort of bug that causes Out of Memory errors when it autosaves. The coolest thing about this bug is that it only seems to manifest when the server is connected to clients. So I could not have foreseen this if I tried. After some debate and some fiddling, I shut down the server, updated Java, restarted the server and turned off Autosave. There were still problems, but not the game stopping ones from before. I do not exaggerate game stopping. Each time I pressed a key, an error window would pop up. And they were all hollow with just the outer frame. Made chatting impossible unless I typed something in a text editor and pasted it in. I posted my findings at RPTools.net, but ultimately decided to regress to 1.3b74 after the game. Aside from the technical side of things, I had a lot of fun. The group fell into their old roles (and new for Ragnarok) like they were a set of comfortable clothes. A lot happened in the three hours that we actually got to play (subtracting 30 minutes roughly for down time). For this season, I actually have a plan for the sequence of events. I am going to try to guide the players along that path as much as I can without issuing passes to the G&M Railroad. We'll see how that turns out. Great game everybody. Experience A great first outing with some pretty impressive roleplay to it. Everybody gets 1 for Show and 1 for Roleplay. As always, an arc must be completed before XP can be spent.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn I was having some weird Java errors. Updated Java to see if that helped.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn Just you. I'll PM the IP address.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn Server is up. Had to go run a couple of errands so it took me a little longer than I thought to get the server up.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn Sorry but we currently do not have any openings. Check the Player Finder forum. Savinien, one of my former players, is getting ready to start on online game. I am sure he would be happy to have an extra recruit.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn Nolgroth's Server. I don't have it up yet, as I am still working on some macros. We had a problem where logging in resets the macros. This doesn't happen if I edit everything first and then start the server. Expect it up somewhere around 3 PM.

Re: Gemini Ascendant: Reborn No sir, I have everything. I just need to add weapons onto each token. Nearly done with all of that.

Re: Hero Games books on Android I am looking at picking up an Android tablet soon. This kind of recommendation is gold.

Re: PC that can see death on people Clairsentience with Precog, No Conscious Control, Only to see people marked for Death would be your starting point. Flavor as you see fit. EDIT: May want to throw on Vague and Unclear into the mix.