AmadanNaBriona

Re: "Neat" Pictures

I like celtic music. What group is it?

Renee's transitioning right now, producing the Accordion Babes calendars and doing Babes gigs, but up till very recently she was with Culann's Hounds.

Whitney (the brunette) produces The Hubba Hubba Revue, which is where these shots were taken

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

Hey Johnnie Cope by the Corries

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Nice close up of her...accordion.

Yeah, Honky is a neat machine. Diatonic button accordions are cool

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life.

"Despite all the chaos and insanity in your life, at least you're the guy who has women throwing off their clothes whenever he's around."

-One of my camping buddies this weekend, after the campful of lesbians next door discovered my dress-up bag

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

"Let The Monster Rise" from Repo: the Genetic Opera

Re: "Neat" Pictures

"On the woad again, just can't wait to put on the woad again..."

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Ooooh, moar of the pretties

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Re: Anniversery of the War of 1812 scenarios

I dont know the states who are most tired of the Feds' date=' would also be most likely to hate the way Canada does things as far as I can tell.[/quote']

 

I'm not so sure that with some sweet-talking the whole left coast might not consider it a better option than being ruled by rich Christians from the South

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Irish musical hotties I costumed and did backstage support (Make up & dressing) for....

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Edit: I should add my thanks to Nightshade of The Blight photography for taking the awesome shots

Re: Anniversery of the War of 1812 scenarios

not really symbolic of the anniversary at all, but the nastiest thing I could think of for a Canadian master plot would be to influence the government to extend the offer of provincehood (or whatever'd be more appropriate, I confess to an appalling shortcoming in regards to knowing the the way Canadians run things) to any US states that are tired of the way our Federal government has become paralyzed. It could be a great soft hand approach to provoke an American over-reaction, which could then give the "patriotic" supers the weight of public opinion behind them to go whup on US forces. Which might actually be a good War of 1812 plan, I suppose, if you timed it right.

I'm sure Borealis has read Machiavelli, after all

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

When I first bought it' date=' I thought I was in for a dry, science-fiction thriller. Imagine my delight when I discovered that it had been liberally seasoned with humor. One of my favorite sci-fi movies. I especially liked... *thinks for a minute* just about everything to do with this movie. I wish there had been a novelization so I could find out some of the backstory of this world/setting. We need to make a setting supplement for that universe, if only for our own use.[/quote']

 

Yeah, as soon as it began to play and I realized Moebius was the art designer (cause it was real obvious if you're a fan, and it was all live action and real, and....drool) I squeed and went all fanboy. The fact that it was generally an awesome movie was a double win, and it confirmed Mila among my favorites. *big badda boom*

Re: The cranky thread

My stupid cats are fighting again.

 

And people have been going out of their way to annoy me all week.

My sympathies, buddy. I've been having ongoing dominance issues among my pride as well, so lots of fighting, posturing... and marking. My whole place smells like cat pee. It's driving me slightly nuts, on top of everything else.

Re: The cranky thread

Whoever said parting is sweet sorrow is full of zwoot dung.

A noise came out of my throat I've seldom heard except from a dying animal, completely out of my control.

My face hurts. And I haven't even gone all Jubei Kigagami and started headbutting 'til things start going squish. 'Cause I promised I wouldn't, after I put my head through the wall last Friday.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

giving Tyr a listen.

They're soothing the Asatru side of me, tho I'm kinda jonsing for my axe...

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

Wait, did we talked about the upper Limits of Practilca Nuclear Weapons or the Upper Limits of Fission/Fusion Explosives in general.

 

Because both Castle Bravo and the Tzar Bomb were very powerfull - but utterly useless from a military point of view:

To heavy, to hard to build and whatever you aimed for was propably easier to hit with a dozen normal warheads (wich had the same weight and volume requirements) - wich also were harder to Block wiht Defense Systems. To quote Wikipedia: "the Tsar Bomba was an impractically powerful weapon"

Yeah, but if you use it and roll a mushroom cloud(or spin a triple yield) you destroy the world...

(I played a LOT of Nuclear War/Escalation, back in the day)

Re: "Realistic" gun damage

One source I have says that you get 8 shots from a "rifler's pound", so unless that's not really a proper pound, this means 2 oz. per round. I'll definitely reduce that for my campaign to more sane standards.

That doesn't sound right, yeah. I could, maybe, see 8 shots to the pound with premeasured charges including the ball, but just the powder? No way. I've gotten more shots than that out of a pound of powder using a cannon. A signal cannon firing blanks, mind, but still....

Re: "Realistic" gun damage

Well, most fantasy settings seem to avoid firearms like the plague, even if the rest of the setting is basically rapier-wielding Renaissance in some parts.

 

For what it's worth, I'm actually ahead of the Brown Bess for my considerations, as the setting I'm converting has weird alchemical gunpowder used in breech-loading rifles. So something like the Dreyse or Chassepot. Pretty efficient action, and the military just seems go from balls to minie-like rounds at the moment (I do have to retcon the powder usage, though, as they're giving 50 grams per rifle shot, which seems excessively high).

 

There's still a lot of plate going round, some of which is probably done to armour of proof levels. And you don't find a lot of historical data for Napoleonic weaponry and its armor piercing performance…

50 Grams is insane. 50 Grains is closer to a proper powder charge, tho a bit light for a long arm.

Yeah, most fantasy games don't get up to the tech level you're at, because once you get to breach loaders and minie balls, you get effective rifled guns, and then all other weapons technology begins to fall by the wayside, until you start messing with better explosives.

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

From what I read, and I freely admit to being a dilettante in my hard sciences, it seems to me that this is more of a EM stimulated catalytic reaction, one that liberates more heat than the energy it costs to generate the pulse that initiates the reaction.

Which is still cool, and potentially very useful

Re: "Realistic" gun damage

 

Looking at good ol' WP, the Brown Bess was 0.71inches , which is 18 mm. Looking at this page: http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_brown_bess.html it claims that the damn thing could get through 3/8 of an inches of iron or 5 inches of oak at 30 yards. This really was a cannon.

Just so. Early naming conventions had cannon classes named for birds of prey. the Falconet was the smallest field piece, but the Musquet was the smallest weapon named according to the convention... period tacticians consider muskets support weapons, and expected them to be able to punch "proof" armors up to a around 30 paces, IIRC.

Re: "Realistic" gun damage

I'll poke around my books and see if Im can dig up my copy of Elizabethan Military Science. It has a good set of benchmark performance expectations for period muzzleloaders as written by veteran contemporary commanders, so they should reflect fairly realistic expectations of what various early/midperiod BP guns can do.

Incidentally, the Brown Bess, whilst verra common in it's day, reflects a later period than most Fantasy age firearms (which usually hover around 15th-early 17thC tech levels)

Re: Like Cold Fusion... Except It Works?

Wow. Who'd a thunk it?

very cool

Re: "Realistic" gun damage

HSEG 50. I think we all agree it's unrealistic. We're trying to figure out the best solution.

What make that extra funny, in my eyes, is to take that number and compare it to the HSVG 5th Black Powder cannons, and find that said musket does WAY more damage than a 12 pounder (I take exception with the 5th Ed VG cannons, obviously)

Re: A Thread for Random Videos

Yeah' date=' I've read the specs on the Arctic and it ain't no joke. I wouldn't recommend anyone build one with the intent of firing it around other humans and not wearing your goggles. That way lies blindness.[/quote']

 

Heh, If I ever have the funds to pursue my many art projects, one of the first is gonna be a proper flamelance, with one of these at the core.

Re: "Realistic" gun damage

I have been playing with Critical Hits since back in the 4th edition days and between those optional rules and the Impairing/Disabling rules' date=' they are the reason I am flabergasted any time someone says HERO isn't deadly enough. Critical Hits makes the combat system [b']VERY[/b] deadly. And it makes skill-based characters very, very effective combatants. Expert vs unskilled combats are fast and ugly affairs with those rules in play.

Exactly. In fact, I've found it shaves a lot of the time load you gain from using other optional combat rules, because a LOT of combats are so mean that you don't end up having to worry about the options much except on the PC's, which mostly can be managed by the players.

Roll-under-half Criticals are also an amazing way of encouraging players to take realistic defensive measures.

Fear and Loathing in the HERO system, baby.

Re: "Realistic" gun damage

Another note about using optional rules for realism, which kinda ties in with the Guns, Guns, Guns discussion above, is the optional 5th Edition standard "Roll under half needed to-hit for Max Damage" Critical Hit rules. When combined with the rest of the Optional rules mentioned already, it changes the core assumptions in HERO significantly, and thus results in radically altered gameplay experience. It plays a lot like some of the harsher realistic combat games of Yore, like Morow Project or the Tri-Tac system. You start thinking of weapons in terms of max damage, not average damage, which IME actually makes it easier to benchmark campaign standards.

It might be worth foolin' around with. I've liked the results I've gotten from playing this way, but YMMV