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Re: How to found a new Catholic Order Honestly I'd have to do quite a bit of digging to come up with decent cites, but just working from memory the rough theory goes that among the treasures recovered from the temple of Solomon (Which gave them much of the wealth coveted by the French crown) were early Christian writings hidden in the temple to preserve them, and these represented a potentially very real threat to the lifestyle of the rather corrupt religious officials associated with the French Court. It's been a very log time. I recall it was from the time when I was researching connections between the Templars who escaped the French crackdown, Robert the Bruce's Excommunication, and Scottish Rite Masons. I'm not even saying it's all that solid a theory, more that it wouldn't surprise me given the politics of the day. The Templars got unfairly hosed

Re: How to found a new Catholic Order While I'm not a huge conspiracy nut, I have to admit I enjoy exploring theories concerning the Templars. Lots of very rich history there. I would honestly not be surprised to learn that the heresy the Templars were accused of stemmed from something they uncovered digging through the Temple that didn't line up with current doctrine.

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships OHHH, right.. mostly General War era, IIRC. Early X technology sound right for that era?

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships Always got that feeling from the Wyn. No one in our group played em.

Re: reference material for Street Heroes Best example of the Rock and Roll Fable subgenre, ever. One of my favorite movies of all time.

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships Erk, been to long to answer, as I don't exactly grok the question. Era? Uh... well. I mostly played around the early 80's. Hydrans just worked well for me. Fighters are what let you get close enough for a proper knife-fight with your Hellbores & Fusion guns Edit: tho I also played Gorn quite a bit, to be fair.

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships s Dude, I OWNED with the Hydrans, almost every time I played 'em. Little green tripartite buggers FTW

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Two nights ago I tore off on a tangent discussing a theoretical model for time travel. When I hit my conclusion there was a slight pause then my girlfriend looked at me and asked.. "So do you also have a plan to inhume the Soul Cake Duck?"

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships As well as rules for the effects of Superior Quality Officers in various positions, allowing a pretty easy way to integrate the effects of various PC's actions in relation to the overall ship combat.

Re: Creepy Pics. Lucky for them, badgers aren't what you'd call a common animal around California

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes I prefer to see more mature and reasonable treatments of the complex questions of force and the private application of such to exert one's will. I don't need, or usually even want, my Supers campaigns to be blood soaked Iron age festivals, but I similarly can't comprehend the attraction for the saccharin fake world imposed on the Comics industry by the HUAC and Senator McCarthy's witchhunts. As far as I'm concerned, setting a Supers game in an unexamined Silver age setting is like playing a Hogan's Heroes game without even considering the implications of milking Nazi camps for comedy.

Re: Damage Negation! DN, especially DN limited to only work versus "Real" attacks as mentioned above, is likely to become a component of the Size templates in my future games., as well it's counter advantage It seems a graceful way to handle scale differences, one of my pet peeves w/ HERO Edit: That is to say that the counter can thus be used for "out of scale" weapons intended to attack larger targets

Re: The cranky thread Wow, that sucks, my friend. I hate dealing with septic systems. Even when I was in the biz I generally never worked with poo pumps, but if you run into any problems I do have some professional experience in the field and might be able to help sort 'em out. And I'vwe been through similar with the horse, come to think of it. Both at once... ugh. I recommend whiskey

Re: Cool Guns for your Games Build a pintle mount for that puppy and mount it on the roof of your Jeep in a barbette

Re: Second Best Game System ? I know what you mean. I've been thinking about picking up the hardback BRP books and taking a look at how the system has evolved. It's always been a good system for pick-up games, the kind I find myself far more likely to run these days.

Re: Second Best Game System ? I've always had a fondness for the Chaosium BRP system, and Superworld has always held my second favorite Supers game position.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The one, followed by the next, neither worksafe, both funny

Re: Order of the Stick Redcloak has become the Magneto of OOTS

Re: Pirate Hero I've heard Raider, Reaver, and Pirate all offered as rough translations of the intent of the word

Re: The Towers of Fortune Alien Reality TV?

Re: Musings on Random Musings IMO, that's unfair to Bush Sr. I don't like him much, but even with loads of friends in the right places stupid people rarely make head of the CIA

Re: Adult Entertainment Oooh, I like the idea of candid "Battle damage" shots being the upskirts of the superhero universe!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I have recently been regretting no longer belonging to an active Circle of hedge pagans.

Re: Adult Entertainment

Re: Car Sidecrash Broadly speaking, the "Shove" maneuver seems to feel right