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Re: Resource Pools in Star Hero Exactly, there are a lot of ways to make your players sink points for the privilege of having mil-spec weapons and gear

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities Virtually every woman I've been in in LTR with has been a geek of some sort, and in every case our relationship started on a geek level before it morphed into something more physical/emotional, and every exception has ended once the New Relationship Energy has worn off, so Yeah... what she said... Again, what She Said. I've always been into costuming, from a very early age. As it happens, according to our dominant cultural paradigm, playing dress up with girls shoulda made me 'gay' or something. Instead, it gave me a topic of conversation I could share with many of the geek girls I've ever met, and led me to decisions like "Do I watch the game and drink beer with the guys, or go get naked and take pictures with the girls?", which is really a no-brainer in my book. I have never regretted my choices on that behalf, obviously. Women are people. Just as weird, just as screwed up, just as conflicted, as any geek. More common ground than not. All it takes is to let go of the hurt.

Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities yup

Re: Resource Pools in Star Hero We used a variation of a Resource pool in our SH game. Found that the accessability perks worked well, but the active point limits sometimes became kinda wonky, especially when combined with the higher tech ger, which often tended towards high AP totals. FWIW, I did spend the mass of points for Advanced Military, but I was playing the Captain of a Broadsword class mercenary cruiser with full compliment of crew and vehicles.

Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters?

Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters? Sorry if you took my words as a direct shot against you, m'man. Just a posting position coincidence. They were generally aimed at the whole thread. I tend to agree with you on most topics, after all, and you'd literally just stated your dislike of Villain PC games

Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters? Stop. Take a breath. Then ask yourself "Am I defending this premise for any good reason, or am I engaging in exactly the sort of "makes girls so uncomfortable they abandon gaming" BS and think that by putting in a "But they're not REAL girls it's OK." justification is going to change how creepy the whole thing feels. Objectification. It's OK I'm using these woman surrogates because they're actually literally objects. Great idea, sure, yeah. Not in my game

Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters? So it's alright that he's dedicating so much run-time of the game to sex puppets he uses to troll people with, Great, much more progressive.

Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters?

Re: "Neat" Pictures I was gonna post that if it wasn't already up. in a similar vein... [ATTACH=CONFIG]45044[/ATTACH]

Re: More space news! If we'd detected the appropriate Gamma pulses it'd be pretty clear evidence of intelligent life fairly close to us. Yeah, it's a pretty zippy drive system. There are a lot of issues that'd need to be worked out, but the payload and speed of an Orion ship makes it worth contemplation Edit: with a second glance, I mighta missed some nuance in your question there, Old Man. I guess no signs of NPP in nearby space means very little chance of us getting Footfalled, on the brighter side of the coin

Re: More space news!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I haven't been able to get the Rains of Castamere out of my head...

Re: Analysis of the Red-Shirt Phenomenon in Star Trek As my ex just returned a stack of ancient materials to me, she had hidden away in a box somewhere, I happen to have my original Starfleet Technical Manualat hand. Turning to the section on Uniforms, letsee... Command:Tenne, Sciences:Blue, Engineering and Support Services: Red Interesting. Yep, division insignia confirms the same. Security does gets mentioned in the Org charts, tho.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos My brother in law is doing video tech work for some mad pagan genius puppeteers, and they've launched a kickstarter to fund a webseries in hopes of eventually producing a TV series http://kck.st/SVd9Yh kickstarter link, if you're interested in checking it out. I know these folk, and think the world probably needs more kids shows like these.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings A friend of mine (Theoretical math grad student... crazy smart geek girl) just had eye surgery to correct a congential defect that messed with her eyes ability to aim together. So, in her mid twenties, at the full height of her rational adulthood, she is suddenly getting to experience the third dimension visually for the first time. Reading her blogs arises echos of authors like Lovecraft struggling to describe the sudden wonder at perceiving a previously unperceived dimension. They just wrote it, and she's living it. Blows my mind, it does. I keep thinking of artists she should revisit with her new perspective.

Re: Wish List: Other Licensed Content As to Fringeworthy, You'd prolly REALLY like it. There's a good reason there have long been accusations against the Stargate franchise for plagiarism. The Gate systems have a LOT of similarities, but the Fringeworthy gates end up working in a very plot friendly fashion... the gates take you to sort of a pocket dimension/roadspace, and you can navigate the system to travel to different times, alternate dimensions, you name it, fairly easily. Just try not to stumble across the shapeshifting, all-consuming, self-replicating monsters that destroyed the Gatebuilders who created them. Stargate plus Sliders about covers it.

Re: Wish List: Other Licensed Content I know it well... The Elder members of my H/S HERO group who headed off to UC Santa Cruz were, I'm pretty sure, the guys who really got him hooked on Hero. I know they mostly ended up working as production staff at R. Tas I distinctly remember that Arisaka Industries was a badguy corp from our proto-Star Hero game long before Cyberpunk was written. It both amused and amazed me when I opened up Cyberpunk and found them playing a prominent role.

Re: Real Locations that should be fantasy very cool link. Making some bridges like that is one of my "Someday maybe" projects for tabletop terrain building. Because they'd be great for Mordheim. I might just have to use the idea in Minecraft to get it out of my head

Re: After The Magic I was specifically thinking about The Four Treasures of the Tuatha De Danann that became the core of the Thirteen Treasures of Britain. A lot of the Age of Magic stuff like the Chessboard that plays by itself would fade, but the four treasures were originally from The Many Colored Land and would probably act as their own magical power sources to those that can touch their Fae spirit. There are a bazillion interpretations of them, but I'd probably go for the Slaine approach, to whit (at full mythical strength): The Cauldron of Inspiration: Returns the dead as undead, feeds the hungry, gives visions, acts as a gate to the Otherworld. Quenches the Spear. Associated with Wales The Spear of the Sun: Always hits what it's thrown at. Always kills. Always red hot, drips blood. sings with it's own battle mad voice. The Cauldron can calm it down. Associated with Ireland The Sword of the Moon: Silver sword that cuts anything. If sheathed within the Stone of Kingship, only the King may withdraw it. Associated with Britain The Stone of Kingship: Graven stone that embodies the link between land and king. Sings when the true king stands upon it. Associated with Scotland. Uther conquered the North, and joined Sword and Stone for his son before dying, but Arthur barely completed his quest for the Cauldron, and never won the Spear Just the random thoughts bouncing around my head tonight...

Re: Wish List: Other Licensed Content Really? Hadn't heard anything about a Midkema/Eddings connection. I know Feist's Riftwar series is set in Midkema, and is basically "D&D campaign versus Empire of The Petal Throne:Fight!". I've used Dragaera and Newhon for FH games before, and enjoyed both, but if if HERO were to go after licenses I'd actually prefer to see them do licensed conversions of some other game settings, especially some of the ones that had great potential but are now mostly defunct, often due to poor rules holding them back. I know I've wanted to do both Fringeworthy and The Morrow Project using HERO, did use The Mechanoid Invasion as the basis for a SH campaign, and I thought that Traveller Hero was a natural fit and I'm still annoyed about the shenanigans that got pulled. I think Glorantha Hero could be epic, and Harn Hero seems to have a solid following already...

Re: After The Magic "Blue bloods", heh. Actually, if some of the more mythical national treasures still retain some power from Faerie, but they can only be accessed/activated by those with sidhe blood, it'd promote a lot of the royal house inbreeding we actually saw in history

Re: How are Takofanes's zombies created please?

Re: How are Takofanes's zombies created please? Makin' more Draugr, generally, much like zombies. Generally if they wounded you, you were doomed, if they goo-ed on you, you were doomed, if they hung around you too long, you were doomed... Depends on the story, really, but the worst one I can recall was considered almost like a natural disaster rather than a foe, kinda like the orignial folkloric basilisk D&D wights are one of their direct gaming descendants, but dialed way down

Re: How are Takofanes's zombies created please? on the traditional lore front, proper Norse Draugr are zombies turned up to 11. The White Walkers from Game of Thrones are a pretty good depiction of Draugr, actually. Infectious as all heck according to some stories, as in "Burn the bodies, kill the vermin escaping the fire and toss them back in, then kill anyone who inhaled the smoke and throw them in" to clear them out. Nasty boogers.