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  1. Urban Champion: Unnamed as yet

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    Re: Urban Champion: Unnamed as yet

     

    I see others have address "Teaser Darts". :lol:

     

    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. :thumbup: Remember, the assumption is you can only regain Charges ~once/day.

     

    14 Staff MP: Multipower, 25-point reserve, (25 Active Points); all slots OAF (-1), Requires Multiple Foci or functions at reduced effectiveness (+1/4)

    1f 1) Staff mode: (Total: 25 Active Cost, 11 Real Cost) Hand-To-Hand Attack +3d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (22 Active Points); OAF (-1), Hand-To-Hand Attack (-1/4) (Real Cost: 10) plus Stretching 2m, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (3 Active Points); Reach (-1), OAF (-1) (Real Cost: 1

    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". :tsk:

  2. Urban Champion: Unnamed as yet

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    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. :tsk:

     

    If he's using the darts to disturb or annoy by persistent irritating or provoking, those are "Teaser Darts". Otherwise they're "Taser Darts". :tsk:

     

    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?

  4. Genre-crossover nightmares

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    Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

     

    Didn't one of them do that all the time (albeit offscreen)?

     

    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!

  5. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    Maybe it's just late, maybe I'm tired, or maybe I'm just thick, but...

     

    "Whaaa?"

     

    Did I miss something?

     

    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. :D

  6. My Demonic Housewife??

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    Re: My Demonic Housewife??

     

    {snippage occureth}

    given that I understand she's a "succubus" type of creature

     

    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.

  7. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    I was just reminded of an old quote. In character. (by me)

    Character: Mordain, dwarven Paladin of Moradin Soulforger (love that name!) A bit naive about the above world; spent all his life before adventuring underground in halls of stone. On his way to a swamp, he learned about quicksand. He was furious. "What? Dirt betraying it's existence by acting like water? Blasphemy!" At that point he carried a large rock around and dumped it on any suspicious ground. He finally found some, and the rock sank like, well, a rock. At first he was angry, then a bit taken back. Then .... he began to smirk, held his helmet over his heart and said: "Let us have a moment of silence for this brave rock. Without thought for itself, it gave it's life saving others and dying by a horrible death. Drowning. Who can claim such courage? I hope to live up to the rock's example. It's sacrifice will be engraved in letters of gold, and its deed will be sung in mead halls forever. Hail the rock. Hail!"

     

    I have no idea where that came from. The players were laughing themselves sick. As were the PC's. Glad I wrote it down.

     

    I like it :thumbup:, but.....

     

    An underground-adventuring dwarf without a 10' pole?!? :eek::confused:

     

    Or didn't he figure out poles work on dirt? :think:

     

     

    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.

  8. Jokes

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    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.

  11. "Neat" Pictures

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    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

  13. Seemingly Silly Things to Model

    in HERO System Discussion

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    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.

  14. NGD Scenes from a Hat

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    Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat

     

    .NT: Wow! I knew Hero Games made some changes in 6th Edition' date=' but I never thought they'd ______________________! (Difficulty: Keep it funny, don't whine about your least-favorite change)[/quote']

     

    Wow! I knew Hero Games made some changes in 6th Edition, but I never thought they'd go to using d12's and d20's only!!

     

     

     

    NT: What would Hero System games be like if they used d12's and d20's only. (Difficulty: no comparing to other games/game companies)

  22. The Puzzle of Astronomy's Unexplained Anomalies

    in Star Hero

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    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:

    4. Finally, Anderson and Nieto point to the increase in eccentricity of the moon's orbit, as measured by laser-ranging measurements between 1970 and 2008. These data show that the moon's apogee and perigee have increased in distance by about 3.5 millimeters per year.

    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 (B) 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".

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