Basil

Re: Urban Champion: Unnamed as yet I see others have address "Teaser Darts". Suggestion: don't call it a "Continuing Fuel Charge" call it a "Fuel Charge". Avoids confusion. Oh, and that's the Limitation by the book. Remember, the assumption is you can only regain Charges ~once/day. What foci, and why doesn't "Staff mode" have this? Acting, Climbing, Concealment, Conversation, one Language at "Idiomatic", Persuasion, one PS at 11-, Shadowing, and Stealth are all Everyman Skills, and don't cost anything. It's "Neighborhood".

Re: Urban Champion: Unnamed as yet I'm only looking at the first version for this reply. Later reply/replies will reflect later versions. Is he going to get into formal fights with someone named Batton? If not, it's a "Dual Baton" mode. If he's using the darts to disturb or annoy by persistent irritating or provoking, those are "Teaser Darts". Otherwise they're "Taser Darts". You have AoE on a Damage Shield. Unless he damages people who come near him, this isn't needed (and I'm not sure if it's "legal"). How does the NCMultiple on the swingline work? NB: most "swinglines" I've seen have no NCM at all, not even the usual 2x. Also, why is the stretching half the length of the swingline?

Re: How To Delay Doomsday In A Dying Solar System Now that is taking the long view! The Bacandforthtrian is taking the medium-range view, and waiting for 9/09/09.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Don't ask me; I don't follow Hollyweird gossip. Neither does the Bacandforthtrian, who hurries to get in one more reference to 9/01/09. The Fractal Spectrosummoners point out it is only a week and a day until 9/9/9!

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I'm just having fun with the fact the date is a palindrome. If you haven't heard about the Bacandforth, the supersonic telepathic mechanical penguins with laser eyes, etc., don't sweat it. Just random silliness.

Re: My Demonic Housewife?? {snippage occureth} Perhaps she's not a tempter, but a punisher. Id est, she sticks souls with pitchforks, throws them in lakes of boiling pitch, etc. The Bacandforthtrian will be punished by disappointment in about half an hour when it realizes it's no longer 9/01/09. The llamalls won't be too happy either.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I like it , but..... An underground-adventuring dwarf without a 10' pole?!? Or didn't he figure out poles work on dirt? Basil would use a loaded Bacandforthtrian, instead. The Bacandforthtrian is loaded because it's celebrating the reversibility of the date 9/01/09, and forgot to decide which end was supposed to drink and which end not. The supersonic telepathic mechanical penguins with laser eyes did rather egg it on, too. The S.T.M.P.w/L.E.'s, the Bacandforthtrian, but not today's date, are products of Basil's Twisted Imagination, Lqf. Patience pent-up.

Re: Jokes In the end, someone will have to pay the bill. The Mallard, Masked Crimefighter and Master of the Mystic Arts of Uzbekistan, wonders if he's being slighted by Basil, but the Bacandforthtrian distracts him by discussing the mystic power of reversible dates such as 9/01/09. The Mallard and the Bacandforthtrian are products of Basil's Twisted Imagination, Ink. And we at BTI are grateful for the Bacandforthtrian's quick thinking.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares The Golden Girls Gone Wild.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Describe the activity level of a one-armed paperhanger. A: Actually, this belly-dancer has two legs. The Bacandforthtrian is busy celebrating the palindromicity of 9/01/09.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Ningauble has seven eyes. And refuses to share any of them with Sheelba. For once, the llamalls are sure of today's date. Or they were, until the infamous Dr. Infamous started telling them about all the other calendar systems that exist. And he wonders why they're so uncooperative

Re: A Game Of Questions Was anyone obligated to send out the memorandum? The Bacandforthtrian asks "How could I not enjoy 9/01/09?" and the llamalls agree. Yadda yadda Basil's Twisted Imagination yadda yadda.

Re: Seemingly Silly Things to Model Less Than One Point! All needles, pins, and such-like in your vicinity become utterly blunt. Does not work on weapons. Less Than One Point! Whoever you are arguing with becomes incapable of conveying the slightest part of his/her argumentum. Less Than One Point! Your HKA/RKA does 1d6-6 damage.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

Re: A Game Of Questions What's all which, when?

Re: Order of the Stick Maybe he'll share with Eban. Wait, this is Belkar's cat. Nevermind....

Re: A Game Of Questions Where is anything from? Where is everything going?

They've now figured out how to get a video inside a print magazine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8211209.stm So, what does this mean for the future? What's it like when your newspaper sings at you? Hm....

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares The Ghost in the Shell and Mrs. Muir.

Re: Seemingly Silly Things to Model Lend me your ears! All the corn on the table teleports from other people's plates onto yours. However, if you try and eat it, it teleports back. After all, it's "Lend me your ears"

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Romancing the Stone of Scone

Re: The Puzzle of Astronomy's Unexplained Anomalies The page now comes up for me. The first "anomaly" is said to be a change in acceleration. Reading the relevant article however shows it's a change in velocity. Anyone who can't keep straight the difference between acceleration and velocity should not be writing science articles. Regarding #2: The Earth is rotating more and more slowly. Thus, it's angular momentum is decreasing. Angular momentum can be neither created nor destroyed. Thus, there must be an increase in angular momentum somewhere else. An increase in the size of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is an increase in angular momentum. Now, some may point out that the increase in the size of Luna's orbit is an increase it momentum; true, but is it enough? You see, it is convenient to treat the Earth-Luna system in isolation, but it is incomplete; what should be considered is the Sun-Earth-Luna system (actually, all of the planets have an effect, but those effects are small enough to ignore for a first-pass approximation; the Sun's effect isn't, though it is often treated as if it is). Thus, the question is, since the Earth and Luna are rotating more and more slowly, where does the angular momentum get moved to? The increasing Earth-Luna distance may not be enough to balance out the angular momentum. I don't have the numbers, nor sufficient background, to tell whether this suggestion is borne out, but I hardly find it that much of an anomaly. But it's #4 that shows the writer doesn't understand what he's talking about: If the total of the apogee and perigee are increasing, that says damnall about the eccentricity; it means the size of the orbit is increasing. And that's something that (A) has been known for DECADES, and ( is caused by the 'transfer' of angular momentum from the Earth's slowing spin. OTOH, if the apogee and perigee are each increasing by ~3.5 mm per year, then the eccentricity is DECREASING; the 3.5 mm is a larger fraction of the perigee than of the apogee, and the orbit is thus becoming (slightly) more circular. Though I'm not surprised at these errors --- Anyone who writes something like this is writing junk so full of hogwash it's slopping out of the trough. I didn't bother with the rest of the "anomalies".

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Raisin in the Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What is this woman's personal mantra? A: I'm leaving, on a biplane.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Put it in the bank.