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  2. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    NT: Fictional movies that will make you want to blow up the theatre you just saw them in. (Again' date=' no real movies)[/quote']

     

    The Return of Seeker!

     

    The Bacandforthtrian feels ill at the idea, but the infamous Dr. Infamous wants to watch it at the premier. Which helps explain why he's infamous.

     

    The Bacandforthtrian and Dr. Infamous are products of Basil's Twisted Imagination, Unk. All rides reserved.

  6. Seemingly Silly Things to Model

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    Freeze! You've Got Me Surrounded!

    When this spell is cast, the next "shot" (gun, bow, crossbow, sling, etc) made by the recipient of the spell is multiplied into 10 "shots" that go off in all directions. Useful if the recipient is actually surrounded. However, it's dangerous to nearby allies. Also, it uses up 20 Charges. If the weapon doesn't have Charges, there's a side effect of a 10d6 HTH hit on the weapon.

  9. "Neat" Pictures

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    I seldom have anything to contribute, but here's one.

     

    [ATTACH]35133[/ATTACH]

     

    Lucius Alexander

     

    Do you see the palindromedary?

     

    There's no Bacandforthtrian. The infamous Dr. Infamous is displeased by this.

     

    OTOH, the supersonic telepathic mutant penguins with lazer eyes and the llamalls are happy with this. One Bacandforthtrian is quite enough, in their opinion.

  14. Answers & Questions

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    Re: Answers & Questions

     

    A: Look' date=' I don't care what your orders say. We're not going into that House of Pancakes.[/quote']

    Q: OK men, our orders are to acquire lots of round, flat building materials, STAT!

     

     

     

    A: Say what you like, I'm not going into a Burger King restaurant.

  15. brainstorming a urban cyber-fantasy setting

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    Re: brainstorming a urban cyber-fantasy setting

     

    re. "contrite" - - - "I do not think that word means what you think it means."

     

    contrite adj. grieving and penitent for sin or shortcoming.

     

    Ordinarily I let errors in word choise go unremarked upon, but in this case I can't even guess what you mean, so I must ask.

     

    I join Ranxerox in asking "where is the apocalypse this is post?" As well, if you come up with an apocalypse you will not have cyber-space; the infrastructure needed for such would never survive an apocalypse.

     

    Other than those points, an interesting idea.

  16. Jokes

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    Re. the rail-gauge/horse-width post. I was skeptical up to:

    And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
    Wow, I spotted this as three goofs in one, just from my own scattered readings.

     

    A) The number of war chariots the Romans ever used could be counted on the fingers of one centuria; the number ever used by the Romans in Britain is a small fraction of the total.

     

    B) The roads the Romans built, some of which were in active use through the Renaissance, were particularly resistant to rutting. They were carefully laid, and surfaced with the toughest stone available. They took a lot of traffic before any appreciable wear showed. And most of that wear came in the centuries after the "fall of Rome," mostly by being used as convenient "stone quarries."

     

    C) How come every single war chariot followed exactly the same path down roads two or three times as wide as said chariots? For the entire length of time the Romans and the Romanized Celtic locals had war chariots available?

     

    Nope, sorry, doesn't even start to work. And Snopes went way too easy on it.

     

    For a fuller debunking, see The Straight Dope (NB: the "rutways" he mentions were ruts deliberately built into a road, to force wagons into following a certain path.

     

    Even better, see this HTML-ified version of a PDF (or d/l the PDF if you want to see the pictures)

  17. Order of the Stick

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    Re: Order of the Stick

     

    #699:

    "...I'm as dumb as things that are really dumb." --- Pratchett reference, perhaps?

     

    #700:

    If he's so dumb, why did he recognize it was half a ritual??

     

    The Mallard, Masked Man of Mystery, thinks the monster's method of staying in shadow is dumb, but the llamalls love the Hello Demon Kitty umbrella is magnificent.

  18. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    NT: Inappropriate times to quote from Princess Bride. (Must also provide quote used)

    "He's only mostly dead." At a funeral. (Or, "It'd take a miracle" when someone's just left to do anything dangerous.)

     

     

     

     

    NT: Inappropriate times to quote from ST:TOS, with quote. (difficulty; nothing to do with any other Star Trek series or movie)

  22. Firearms in fantasy?

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    That cossack is a great find. Repped.

     

    ISTR that the earliest bayonets were essentially big knives with handles that could be jammed into the end of one's musket barrel, turning it into a makeshift pike.

    Yep. Hence the term "plug bayonet" that's usually applied to what you're talking about. Note that they had fairly good sized cross-guards, since that's what you grabbed to pull the plug bayonet out of the barrel on the gun.

     

    Woe betide the fellow whose bayonet's cross guards got hacked off!

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