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Re: Answers & Questions Q: OK, the crown goes to the dwarves. Where does the ugly mask go? A: Leperchauns.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Be insane to begin with. If you'll indulge me --- I missed this one, but just had to answer Because I couldn't get Emma Peel! :weep: :weep: NT: What non-superhero(ine) is in your bedroom, and what is s/he doing there? Extra Difficulty: no reference to clothing, jello, or "marital aids" allowed.

Re: Time Travel Wish List? Noon (Greenwich time) on Jan 1, 4713 BCE. Preferably where London is now. Just so I can say "I was there at Time Zero!" OK, I'm a geek.

Re: Champions Universe: The Unresolved Questions/Plots What happens when "the magic goes away." Specifically, how does super-tech disappear and all the supergenius lose their superintelligence. How (especially in terms of politics and the economy) does Earth get from (CU) present day conditions to those described in the Intro to Alien Wars. The explanations I've gotten so far do not suspend my disbelief, they do not hang it by the neck, they shred it into a fine pink mist. I'd also like to see FULL information on "The Elder Worm." Or at least why they have a name in the singular.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Where do you not to get fried clams at? A: It has a purple roof.

Re: Elementary, My Dear Watson Yes, the Duke does pay double. At the end, Holmes refers to the horseshoes done up to make cow-tracks as the second-most interesting object he'd seen. When asked Doesn't sound like that well off a fellow, does it?

Re: Lewis Carrol Hero OK, let me get this out of the way first ---- Lewis Carroll is a ****ing GENIUS!!! I *adore* his works. *ahem* I recommend The Annotated Alice and More Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner. Terrific research into the Alice books. Don't make the Alice-verse "coherent." It's supposed to be nonsensical. After all, C. L. Dodgson was a scholar of Logic (back when it was a sub-field of language, rather than of "mathematics"), and he delighted in the illogical things one could do with words. BTW, if your players make it through Wonderland and Through-the-Looking-Glass, try them on the land of Hunting Of The Snark. Now *there* is a truly *odd* work. Well beyond the Alice books.

Re: Most Obscure Reference You've Ever Worked Into a Game I once played in a Deendee game where the whole setting and all the things we ran into were based on operas. Damned obscure to me at least.

Re: Airlocks are for losers I suspect you'd need really, really big fins. A few square meters in fact. Big enough to get in the way a good deal. And don't forget, if such a critter got on the sun-lit side of a high albedo object (like a space-habitat) that it would no longer be able to radiate it's heat and would risk heat-shock. It would definitely be a huge problem.

Re: Elementary, My Dear Watson

That's why I wrote it. The witch of the North----here you only thought it was the wicked witches that melted!

Re: Realism check: How accurate are lie detectors?

Re: Airlocks are for losers Shock caused by extremely rapid drop in pressure. Oxygen retention is key. Decompression can be solved by purging nitrogen before exposure.

Re: How Fast Do Rogue Planets Move? OK, that instantly became my favorite webtoy.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Actually, god doesn't love you." NT: Books not to look for in the public library.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: OK, so Dorothy has gone into hysterics. Anything else? A: A tin lion and a cowardly woodsman.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What did he say that made you decide he's a racist who makes fun of how foreigners pronounce English? A: But that would make sense!

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "The Origins of the Jesus Mythos in Mystery Cults of Ancient Israel." Not that any preacher would ever admit it,...

Re: A Question About Jobs and Income Forgot I own a 1928 World Almanac. Not much info on incomes in the data, but the ads are another matter: the second ad in the whole book is a "how to get a job" deal, for jobs in "Electricity: Big Pay Field" promising $3500 to $10000 a year. Apparently that was very good wages. Here's another for "how to get hired by the feds" for jobs like Railway Postal Clerks, City Mail Carriers, etc. It promises incomes from $1140 to $3600 a year. That sounds more like librarian-type jobs, and can be considered way higher than a normal starting salary. Hope that helps.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: OK, so what's the toughest part of fighting Darth Gates? A: It's not on the map.

Re: Need a resource idea There are those who claim, not with too much exaggeration, that the British Empire was founded in large part to create customers. This applies to both the "natives" and to the colonists (who often were undersupplied at the time of the founding of the colony). I doubt that would work as the sole, or the primary, justification, but it could well be a secondary one. There's also the idea of a penal colony.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: He knows all that Mendeleev stuff real good; don't that prove he went to college? A: He may have meant a dot.

Re: A multisensorical virtual reality OK, first of all: CyberSpace is a separate universe, like Discworld or Middle Earth. It is not Earth seen through some odd gizmos, it is not an aspect of Earth's computers. If you try and model it that way, you will give yourself the biggest PITA you can imagine. And, it will be dull, unplayable, or both. I've thought long and hard about this, ever since the days of CyberHero. I think the far-and-away-best method to handle everything would be to have the deck give Multiform with Linked XDM, and the Limitation "Leaves original body behind in a coma" on the Multiform---yes, that's technically a Duplication, but since the original form is both useless and in a different universe, I think it's simpler as a Multiform. This lets the "programs" be merely window-dressing (not even up to the level of Special Effects); you say your deck gives your other form this, that, and the other abilities because "I wrote up this neat wossname program," while the mechanics are that you built the other form to have X, Y, and Z abilities/skills/powers. Believe me, having read CyberHero I can promise you that writing up each and every ability as a separate program is nothing but an enormous PITA. Just give the other form the neat tricks, and have done with it.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Sings "I can do anything better than you can" in a piercing contralto. And then does so.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Um, coach...why...uh...why is...um...why is my...um...thing, stick, wood, uh...my um bat...um...splintered? A: No, he talks like that all the time.