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Re: Answers & Questions Q) Why do you saying I'm "rough around the edges"? I'm charming, good-looking, and really, really slick. A) Excalibre, for example.

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Re: The Empire Club: recruiting drive! Unfortunately, Allen Pinkerton (founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, the first private eye company) is before the Pulp Era. Buffalo Bill Cody didn't die until 1917. Three months later "Diamond Jim" Brady died (millionaire, trencherman, and man-about-town). Mustafa Kemal, founder of modern Turkey. Aviator (and member of the US Army Air Corps) James H. Doolittle. Charles Leonard Woolley and Howard Carter, UK archaeologists. William Randoph Hearst, muckraking publisher -- some PCs might work for him. Charles Atlas, of "97-pound weakling" fame. Hugh Lofting, author of the Dr. Doolittle books. Since all (IIRC) of them were adventures in far-away lands, perhaps some of them are "real" places?

Re: The Empire Club: recruiting drive! Jules Verne, of course. Roald Amundsen, Umberto Nobile. Wilhelm Messerschmitt and Juan de la Cierva can discuss Aeroplane design. And back to Anglo-Americans: A. Marmon Wasp---won the first Indy 500, in 1911. Plus Hiram Bingham, who 'discovered' the Inca city of Macchu-Pichu in the same year.

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Re: Magic Items Thread Why Normal Healing? That's not going to be too useful, nor too popular. I'd go for an all-or-nothing healing. Say, if BODY, STUN, or END Drained. Or if subject to accelerated aging. Just a suggestion.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's the name of that band all of whose members are Superheroes? A: But then the janitor showed up, and everything went to hell.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What do groundhogs say every February 2nd? A: Now that's a tongue twister!

Re: Problem with creating a FH spell. That's not an answer, that's sales job. :tonguewav :tonguewav

Re: Answers & Questions Q: If you try and play your footware as a musical intrument, what noise do you make? A: Somewhere near the Orion Nebula

Re: Answers & Questions Q: If you could get carp to grow with their tails in the dirt, what would you have? A: Well then, did I come in sixth?

Re: Pulp-era resources, if anyone is interested. Oh, by the way, I've been doing some research on copyright matters, relating to offering this material, and learned something surprising. The ©1926 PhysChem Handbook had its copyright due and properly renewed. This means it is under copyright until 2021. So, all I can do is offer imformation gleaned from it, but presented in a different form (and I have to be careful about that). Sorry for the bad news. In good news, I'm finding more and more stuff from the 30's and 40's around here. I'm thinking of scanning &/or OCRing some of this stuff, and making it available on a website (probably Freewebs). What do people think of such an idea?

Re: Secret decoder 5-8-25 25-7-11 3-23-23 3-1-8 12-7-1-24-8-14-14-18-17-24 14-7 11-15-8 14-5-8 20-7-4-8! 14-5-3-14'15 19-11-15-14 16-23-3-18-17 2-1-7-17-24!

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Re: Problem with creating a FH spell. Hey, you're right! There's already an excuse for the construct. Cool! You need to copy what you want to make into an inner-quote, paste it where it should go, and put a {quote=whateverhisnameis} in front and a {/quote} after it. Of course, you use "[" and" "]" instead. That is, you form it up just like the auto-magically made quotes, entirely inside the primary quote. Oh, and use "preview" to make sure you got it right.

Re: What's in a Name? "I'm a were-WHAT??!?" "Um, a were-basset." "OH NO!!!" It's not easy being a lycanthrope of any type, but some are worse than others. Poor Richard Cardman has perhaps the worse fate: he's a were-dog. Not a German Shepard, not a Doberman, but a basset-hound. Luckily, Richard is resilient, and has adapted to his fate. He's decided to go for a hero (he just can't see being evil), and he tracks down crime as Hound Dog, Nose For Good! That is, when he can overcome his embarrassment. Next up, The Book Lover.

Re: Questions and Suggestions for my next campaign. Most of the work done with RL airships was by the military. Commercial use was secondary.

Re: Pulp-era resources, if anyone is interested. Actually, the '26 PhysChem Handbook has a surprising amount of info on building materials; strength, modulus of elasticity, and such. Not as much as what you're talking about, but a useful amount. Problem with that is scanning it all. I'm not prepared to do that unless I have reason to believe there will be interest. Are you saying you would be? If so, anything in particular? I'd hate to scan the whole book, if all you want is one page.

Re: Questions and Suggestions for my next campaign. Bullets come out of the gun more than hot enough to set off a well-mixed hydrogen-oxygen mixture. I'm not sure how far downrange they stay hot enough; it would depend on the firearm. Incendiary bullets are known in the pulp period; that's how most WW I barrage balloons were destroyed.

Re: The Empire Club: recruiting drive!

Re: Problem with creating a FH spell. Bear in mind I made the Usable by Other naked advantage Usable as Attack. The caster of the illusion stealing spell has complete control over how the naked advantage is used. That's what Usable as Attack does, it confers the attacker total control over how the power it applies to is used, and the power in this case is the naked advantage Usable by Other. This construct, of course, still bends the rules (in at least two ways that I can think of), but not for the reason you state. As I said before, that doesn't bother me too much. Sometimes you have to bend the rules to get where you want. The Fantasy HERO Grimoire books by HERO Games' own Mr. Steven Long are full of spells that bend the rules for convenience and state as much in the spell descriptions. Oh, I saw where you're coming from, I'm just not sure it's book-legal, for the reason I gave. Of course, that's not a huge stumbling block when it comes to Hero. Let me see if I can be clearer using an example of a different power/advantage. Suppose I buy "Increased Maxiumum Range, for up to X points of EB" as a Naked Advantage, and buy "Usable As Attack" for said Naked Adv. I don't think it would be legit to claim I can now make Dr. Nasty's henchmen miss me by forcing them to shoot past me. That is, I think there are some Advantages that are, inately, a matter of choice, and forcing (with Naked Adv. "Usable As Attack") such an Advantage on a Power should not give you the ability to control the underlying Power. This is particularly a problem when the forced-on Advantage is "Usable By Others" and you claim you can force the caster of the original spell to give you control of the (now modified) spell. That comes too close to mind control. Now, I agree, the basic idea of "Naked Adv., _______, Usable As Attack" is a perfectly legit build, and doing it so the person 'attacked' has trouble, or even danger, from using the underlying power, is a neat idea. I just think that it's not a viable method of taking over complete control of the underlying spell. Still, YMMV. BTW, a really nasty example of "the user is now in a heap of trouble", imagine a foe with a power with AOE or Explosion, and forcing "Megascale, 1 hex=1 km, for AoE/Explosion on a power of up to X Active Points" on your foe's AOE/Explosion power. He attacks a target outside his usual blast radius, and POW!, does himself in.

Re: Pulp-era resources, if anyone is interested. Populations, huh? Well, there's the 1942 World Almanac I've got, though that's a little on the late side. The 1940 Britannica will also have some info along those lines. Maps: the Britannica has some basic maps, and there's some from the National Geographic I can access, though most of those will be post-Pulp, I'm afraid. Unless there's some other stuff around here I'm not calling to mind. Anyway, you and everyone else are welcome to ask and suggest.

Re: Not good is my Google-fu.... I've tried looking through the 1940 Encycopaedia Brritannica with no luck. The only relavant info I can find is some passenger&crew info for airships. Now, commercial airships of the period are more like small liners than like airplanes, so this might help with some ballpark numbers. The Graf Zeppelin's first transatlantic flight had 20 passengers, some freight and mail, and 40 crew. Across eight years of service, it averaged 25 passengers, and had a crew compliment of 40 throughout that time. Re. the Hindenburg, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster "It could carry 72 passengers (50 transatlantic) and had a crew of 61." Oh, here's one re. ships: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/kristianiafjord.htm This is three lists covering all the crew of the Kristianiafjord, a ship that hit rocks off Newfoundland, but had no-one die. Note that the lists cover the crew as passengers on another ship. If you miss that part, it gets a little confusing. From the same site, re a ship hit in 1905: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/ParisianCollision.htm " The Parisian had 740 passengers made up 440 in the steerage, 281 in the second cabin and 29 saloon. Her crew numbered 163, making a total of 903 souls on board. She had 300 tons of cargo for Halifax and 800 tons for the road. She had 268 bags of letters and 152 packages in the parcel post." Indeed, the whole of: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/index.htm has a list of wrecks and such, more of which may have passenger and crew numbers. Most of the wrecks are from before the Pulp era, but could prove useful after all. In fact, some of them have a list of the names of those lost or saved. Well, here's another: http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/shipdate.htm This is a bunch of lists of crew and passengers in ships in Australian waters in the mid and late 1800's. It lists each crewmember's job, which you might find very helpful. Unfortunately, you have to go through quite a few layers to get the information. Still, I think it might be part, at least, of what you need. For instance, http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/1884/03/010kat.htm tells us that in March 1884, the Katoomba had 39 crew (ranging from the captain to "donkeyman" and "lamp timmer") and 54 passengers (10 "saloon" and 44 steerage). I'll leave you to go prowling through the other lists. One last one: http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/r4.htm History of a passenger/ferry ship from New Zealand. The number passengers and crew that could be carried varied through a long and interesting career. The page may be TMI for your purposes.

Re: Magic ammo suggestions?

Re: Magic ammo suggestions?