Xavier Onassiss

Re: "Neat" Pictures Lucy always seemed like the "ultimate tease" to me. (Here, I'll hold this football for you, Charlie Brown....) No surprise there. Franklin seems kinda stereotyped. Gold chains? Really? Oh, no you didn't.... Edited to add: on the whole, I enjoyed the heck out of these.

Re: Knowledge Skills for Medieval Surgeon/Doctor Knowledge of important medical texts from different societies. ( Kamaranthin's versions of the Corpus Hippocratus, Huangdi Neijing, Sushruta Samhita, etc.) If there's one particular text or group of texts the university emphasizes, their graduates will most likely be fluent in the original language of the text.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine And Charlie's their place-kicker. Some things never change. That's gotta hurt.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Excited candidate is excited! -- or -- THIS! IS! STARK! COUNTY!!! I love the bit when he gets around to mentioning his Master's degree in communication. ORLY???

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine I doubt he needs one. Where's his pet beagle?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? PAY BO DIDDLEY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K3nwDFZwko

Re: Hit Locations Shot with what? A .22 pistol? I've heard of a few cases like that, but they were the exception, not the rule. I think HERO's hit location rules reflect this fairly well; while it's possible to shrug off hits from small-caliber weapons, it's much harder to do so against larger calibers, especially those big enough for an inherent +1 Stun mod.

Re: The cranky thread Well, the individual in question is a licensed professional who thinks he knows what he's doing. But he's getting near retirement age (read: maybe starting to go senile) which means things have changed a lot since he went into business, and he refuses to do anything differently. So yeah, it was sort of on purpose, but not malicious. Next time around I'll know -- just rip out all his work and start from the beginning. Or if possible, do the whole job myself before he gets involved....

Re: The cranky thread It didn't rain today, but that's the only thing that went right. Somebody around here needs to be fired. The cabinet was wired about halfway backwards. And nothing was grounded*. There was a short somewhere which kept causing random components (fuses, two transformers, and a contactor coil I think) to fail -- one of the transformers blew up in my face, but that just made me mad. I kept having to drive back to the shop to scrounge up parts that should've been installed already. About halfway through the afternoon I finally said F**k it! and ripped out all the wiring so I could start over from scratch. It's wired up properly now, but still needs work. Going back first thing in the morning to finish. And it'll probably rain. *Well, sort of. Three ground lugs, with a ground rod on #1, and all the ground wires hooked up to #2 and #3. No jumpers connecting them. How stupid do you have to be not realize that won't work?

Re: The cranky thread So I've got my marching orders for tomorrow morning.... About four o'clock this afternoon one of the field-hands comes into the office. He tells me up in Wabash county, the electrical cabinet on unit #10 is completely fried. No problem, we've got a replacement ready... only I'm thinking this is gonna be an all-day job and it's supposed to rain again tomorrow. But no, that won't be necessary, they already sent the local electrician up there to replace the cabinet and do the wiring; they just need me to finish up the control system. Yeah, right. Our friendly local electrician is certifiably insane -- I've seen his work, and it ain't pretty. I'll wire up the controls after I've inspected his wiring, found all the mistakes, completely re-wired the cabinet myself, verified it's safe to power up, and completely tested everything. In the *&^%$#@! rain. Or not. If I see any lightning, I'm gonna pack up and head back to the office. I may be cranky, but I ain't stupid.

Re: Cat Up a Tree I liked C.D. Bales' solution in Roxanne. Tried to find this on youtube, but no luck.

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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? This is awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5FRyEa54oU

Re: Hit Locations While that's true, they aren't antonyms either. But that's what the OP seemed to be implying.

Re: Hit Locations You mean bad TV and movies? In Young Guns, there were some semi-realistic portrayals of gunshot wounds to the limbs; the victims did not just "shrug it off" and keep shooting back. They fell back, clutching the bullet wound and screaming in pain. When Simon got shot in the leg in the Firefly episode "Objects in Space", it wasn't just a flesh wound -- he was down for the duration. Those are the first two examples that come to mind. I could find you a few hundred more if you like. I realize that for each of them, there are literally thousands of tv shows and movies portraying serious wounds to arms and legs which the victim ignored as if they were mosquito bites. The technical term for this sort of thing is bulls**t. If "just like a bad tv show" is what you're going for, then of course that's the way to run your campaign. But if you're going for any sense of realism, there's no point basing your game on a medium known for getting pretty much everything wrong.

Re: Post Apocalypose Hero inspirational art Thanks for posting that. I had that site bookmarked prior to my computer crash last month and I've been having trouble chasing down all the cool links I lost.

Re: Cat Up a Tree Cosmic Ray has telekinesis w/fine manipulation, but he doesn't want to freak out the cat. (There's only room for one 'freaked out cat' in this campaign, and it's him.) The obvious solution is to use TK to lift up the little girl so she can retrieve the cat herself.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Some cover bands improve every single song they play, without fail. And then there's these guys....

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Love that hair.

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Re: "Neat" Pictures Now I know where to take that snorkeling trip....

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Re: Project WyrmStar: Terracide There's a new blog entry up with an intro to the next Terracide adventure I'll be running at GenCon. I have another Terracide adventure running at GenCon which should have its own intro posted soon.