Bucky

Re: Gamma Girl pics They don't have to be, guys just like big boobs. Its nature, evolution, what have you. It identifies the individual as a woman, rather than 1) a guy in drag, 2) an anorexic boy, or 3) a child. It indicates, not often reliably, that the woman in question will be able to feed any infants that result well enough to reach maturity. And bigger is better for those of us who don't see that well these days. Or as my wife sometimes tells me, "Sometimes size does matter." But seriously folks, Good job. I especially like the last one.

Re: What do you do onboard a starship? Resource Identification and Extration primarily. For aboard ship, (and also once you make landfall) you need farmers. That is your base, your foundation, that you need or else your colony will not survive. But with modern technology, that still leaves a lot of folks just hanging around. Which goes back into mining, and other areas of resource extraction. You'll need a science team that will be able to indentify any materials the colony comes across. Once you figure what is where, you can decide what is, and is not a resource to be exploited. So, farmers, a science team, miners. These you will need before any technology is even possible, let alone doable. After that you will need engineers, arcitects, and designers. You might need a government setup which will require people. And Cops and military (if facing external threats)

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... grin, who says that bureaucracy is necessary? It just gives some people something to do, out of the way.

Re: Why that costume

Re: Why that costume For Bucky, well, the long black coat looks cool, there is that. But also its practical. It serves as armor and can be used almost like a cape to protect others in. And unlike a cape, less likely to get him sucked into a jet engine.

Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question) Isn't that covered by both the Geneva Convention as well as US Constitution concerning cruel and unusual punishment?

Re: Picture if You Will... That depends on the atmospheric pressure and temperature. Assuming this is cold, deep space, then yeah. Those elements will sublimate. You might want to look at the ratio of the gravitational force between the sun and the planet in the region of the moon's orbit. I can't remember what is a good number, but remember that any expelled gas will face a tug of war between the sun's gravity (Also its solar wind, which can be dampened a whole lot by the planet's magnetic field) and the planet's gravity. So while the gas may escape the moon, it might not escape the planet's field, and hence form a ring that the moon is moving through. It may not be that young a moon after all. Just continually churning, expelling gas that gets trapped to rain back down on the moon, while forming very pretty rings around the planet.

Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question) That is pretty good. The 'understanding the consequences' issue is going to make some lawyers rich. "Your Honor. My client comes from a world where strangling others is a form of greeting. He did not realize that such activity would cause permenent death of the individual. Where my client comes from, death is not a permenent feature." Anytime you get into the subjective realm and law, it gets complicated. When you start talking about what the defendent understands, what he knows, what he thinks, it gets tricky to prove in court, beyond a reasonable shadow of a doubt. BTW, liked the Ghost Dance verdict as well.

Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question) I don't think so. It has nothing to do with whether it 'feels' like punishment. Again the whole purpose of punishment is to make the criminal NOT want to commit crimes any more. To protect the public from the criminal behavior. [Or alternately, it does not feel like punishment because it ain't punishment. It does nothing to modify the behavior, except prevent the criminal from acting for the time being. If anything, a good decades sleep might seem like a reward. You don't want to reward bad behavior, or you get more of it] Yes, Cold sleep does protect the public. Until such time as somebody forgets what was so bad about the criminal and revives him. Basically its not solving the problem, it just delays the solution. Its dumping problems on your kids, instead of solving them yourself. So again, the death penalty fixes the problem in the here and now. Cold sleep is just letting it lie there. It does not rehabilitate, it does not fix the problem. It is just a delaying mechanism.

Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question) Or have the players/NPCs find Vecna's head.

Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question) This is a good point. Another poster briefly talked about the vengence nature of the death penalty, completely missing the point that it has the lowest recidivism rate of any punishment method devised. You have to look at the purpose behind all this. The purpose of punishment is not so much to make them suffer. But to get them to stop doing the bad things that landed them in prison in the first place. It is a means of protecting the public. Cold sleep might be just as effective, however it still leaves the possibility for escape, or rescue. All you are doing is essentially leaving a problem for your kids to work out.

Re: Jack-Jack Parr Jack-Jack is what every baby is when it is born. You never know what they will turn into. Sometimes they feel like a lead weight. Sometimes they are a little demon. Sometimes it safest to have a mirror and a fire extinguisher handy every time you are around them. Each of the characters are arch typical. Dad is strong, and tough. Mom is uber flexible. The teenage daughter just wants to disappear, and the son is a speed demon running around all over the place. Its a metaphor.

Re: The Ultimate Mystic: Good, Bad, or what? I like it. The only complaint I have is that the section on psychological limitations appears missing. Other than that, it is a very good book.

Re: Hero System women are all insanely attractive Sanity is overrated anyway.

Re: WWWYCD: Caught in the Web Bucky "I have fans??!! Are they older than the age of consent? Do they have money? Why me and not one of the girls?" (Bucky is the sole male teammate.) Then would proceed to find out if the gals have fansites of their own, read the NC-17 fiction about his team mates as long as he could stand it. (Bucky is pretty shallow and simple when it comes to matters like these) Afterwards, he would start to wonder who was doing it, and whether it would cause problems with the University he works for. As he is just starting off on this whole super hero schitck, and their single foray into this thing left them in an alternate dimension, cut off from ALL earthy contact for about 4 weeks, the issue of whether to keep his super heroic identity secret or not is one he has not addressed. Maybe Bucky should, before things get out of hand and he is no longer able to keep it secret. Then again, maybe its too late for that.

Re: Help with Cuthulu Hero Good point. And if these are pregens you hand out, I wonder how many players will note that particular disadvantage or question it. I mean, before they confront the big baddie. That could be real fun in and of itself. What? The GM is not allowed to have fun?

Re: Special virgin powers? When I first saw the thread title, I was thinking you were talking about the various beliefs that virgins have mystic powers, due to, well, pent up sexual energy or some such. Like Solitare in "Live and Let Die" as just one example. And that sexual abstinance is a requirement for some 'real world' magickal systems, (Abramelin comes to mind immediately) There is a belief that poltergeists have a similar origin/cause. Not due to any spirits, but due to some poor souls raging hormones affecting their environment mystically. But for your purposes, it sounds like to me mostly Combat Luck would suffice.

Re: Robotic Warfare...Today Bingo. You just nailed why the military is interested in this. If you can kill the bad guys without putting your own life at risk, all the better. It makes the bad guys think twice about being bad. There is a line in the movie "The Big Red One" about how to find a sniper in an urban area. You send a guy out and wait for him to get shot. The rest of the platoon then figure out where the shot came from and remove the sniper. Hopefully, the "bait" survives the incident, but its not highly likely. While Doc is right about jamming capabilities, there is stuff in the military communications 'arsenal' that can overcome most jamming. Couple that with a few autonomic routines, (IF radio contact lost, GOTO abort and return routine) the unit can still be useful.

Re: But where's the map for that?? THis site http://www.missilebases.com/ has some neat maps of real live underground missile silos. Some are even for sale. They are for the most part a fixer upper kind of thing, but still, what would make a more impressive base than an old underground Titan 1 Missile complex?

Re: Utility Belt MP This brings up a related question. Supposed your utlity belt is a bandoleer? Is this still an OIF, or because a bandoleer is easier to remove from a person than a belt, does it become an OAF?

Re: Can't see me! Just want to point out that film is not electronic. Video tape and other means of electronic recording can be covered pretty well, but film is a chemical medium, and most cameras are mechanical in their workings. Not really an electronics issue. {Yes, most cameras have electronics for metering, flash, for determining exposure and shutter speed. But the actual shutter mechanism is not really an electronic thing as much as simple mechanics. Press button, shutter trips.}

Re: TOS Star Trek and The Warp Drive Wesley was brought in, originally to be the "third part" of a composite character along with Piccard and Ryker. They all were supposed to be Horatio Hornblower at different stages in their carreer. No, it did not turn out like that, and Wesley did suffer Will Robinson-itis. Such is television.

Re: Hitman: Your Next DC Campaign! Oh and doing it for free would be more personable? I mean I am all for doing it yourself in most things in life. But if you are going to kill someone, you really want to let a professional do it. You might screw it up, and instead of a quick painless death, you get hours of excrusiating pain, whining, complaining, and probably a horrible mess to clean up. That's not being more personable, that is just being cheap. There is a smiley around here somewhere

Re: WWYCD: Wonder Drug Bucky would establish an academy of some type, charging large tuitions to help train the folks in their new found super powers. Or figure out some other way to make a ton of cash off the idea.

Re: WWYCD: Sleeping With The Enemy Our campaign and characters are fairly new, and so far we've only had to deal with one master villian, that is still alive. And my characters are the only males in the group, so it kinda depends on who it was. Dandilion who is a 8 foot tall green alien gal, apparently of the age of consent: "Uhh... you do know he is a bad guy, right? Right???" Go from there. Blakley an underage were-dragon: "Kid, you are waayy too young to be getting into this type of stuff. We are gonna have to bring this up with your guardian." And then go tell her guardian about what he saw, but in a circumspect way such that the intimate behavior is deniable, and less embarrassing for her. Rose Sputtering "But, but. He tried to sacrifice me to an elder god!" Unless this was some form of "undercover work" would be extremely upset, worried about Rose, but generally keep quiet about it. And go back to dating grad students.