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Re: A Game Of Questions Am I the only one that happens to?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "If you give me a pass, I'll hand you three rounds of 12 gauge 00-buck. If you don't, I'll deliver them in a speedier fashion, if you know what I mean." NT: Ways to get Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johannsen, or Natalie Portman to come to your house.

Re: A Game Of Questions Did the mirror crack?

Re: A Game Of Questions What would you rather look like?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why did you use that method of getting between Miss Illinois and Miss Ohio? A: It's in the box, and it's definitely dead.

Re: A Game Of Questions What's wrong with discussing oil?

Re: Name Generator I must echo this recommendation. It's easy to make your own lists. It's also easy to adjust how tightly it follows the patterns in the source lists. I myself once sat down with the Seattle white pages and randomly selected names from it (both first and last), to make "American Names" chapters (one for first names, one for last). It makes rather "realistic" names. Now, if you want to go further, and make up a vocabulary, I recommend http://www.zompist.com/sounds.htm Not the easiest program in the world, but quite powerful, and very interesting.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Being Scott Summers. NT: What Steve Long is depressed about today. (Added difficultly: you CANNOT say "Being Steve Long")

Re: A Game Of Questions Do you recognize friction when you see it?

Re: A Game Of Questions Where??

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Was that a quote from "Rules for Evil Overlords"? A: But not on the good china!

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "What's that, Lassie? Timmy threw you down the well again?" NT: How to teach a cat to belly dance.

Re: A Game Of Questions Distracted by what?

Re: Inspired by 52 "18 Worlds" (warning, long post) Why is Sigma between Mu and Nu? Of lesser importance; why the gap from Nu to Sigma? And, why does the story say 18 when there's only 15 in the list?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Somebody just opened a mule-polishing franchise! A: With Brillo pads.

Re: A Game Of Questions Isn't that TOO long for a marathon?

Re: A Game Of Questions How did that end?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A: I'll make a note of it.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Cats. Because they'll laugh at you and then tear your face off with their claws. NT: Animals one shouldn't teach belly dancing to.

Re: A Game Of Questions Why did they start?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Hundreds of Tibetans in jail NT: Unexpected & metahuman-only uses for a cracker.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: You've just been arrested for Grand Theft Auto. If convicted, this will be your third conviction, and you'll go down under the Three Strikes statutes. Have you nothing to say for yourself? A: Yeah, yeah, fine; but the beer is still lousy.

Re: A Game Of Questions What am I, chopped liver?

Re: Illegal Cross-Continent Road Race Hero I like the idea of "checkpoints"; of places that have to be hit, in the correct order. You could place one or more in remote-ish locales, so that the competitors have to be good at more than straight-line zooming. Locations that require going on twisty, hilly, etc., roads would shake things up a bit; make the race more than a repeat of the Cannonball Runs (real and fictional). However, the "must stay overnight" bit just kills it for me. That just doesn't fit the genre (more of a sub-sub-genre, really). It's no longer a long, hard, hairy slog from one place to another, but a series of short dashes, just 6, 8, maybe up to 10 hours at a time. It's a completely different feel. I can see some characters dismissing it as "nothin' but one a dem fancy-pants road rallies." I'd recommend keeping the checkpoints, but just as someplace each racer has to reach to find out the next checkpoint. No disqualifying for reaching "late" (leaves the chance of "come from behind victory" open--good RPing possibilities there), and no requirement to stay in one place for X hours. You get to a checkpoint, prove you're you, and get the location of the next checkpoint. After that, you can stay awhile, or take off immediately. This does mean a team of two (maybe more) with a car that's comfortable to sleep in has an advantage.

Re: Illegal Cross-Continent Road Race Hero Especially the ones that can convert from car to airplane.