Dale A. Ward

Re: Daily Art Findings Link 9 was beautiful... but Link 8 appears to be a logo image for Angelfire. You may wish to check your link coding.

Re: Daily Art Findings Oooooh... Yes!! I see them all now... thank you for sharing!!

Re: Gravitational Tractors BLASPHEMER!!

Re: Daily Art Findings Well... Day 3 was superb. As for Day 1 and 2, all the links to the artwork were dead.

Re: Gas Giant Resources - Got Any? Sorry... the best I can come up with for the population of gas giants is how many trucks there are in the parking lot of a Flying J truck stop! ~ducks~

Re: Sci-fi wear swords? No no... you misunderstand. The lightsaber is just a tool. It's the Jedi who is the ultimate weapon.

Re: Fantasy Adventures Or Why are we always underground...again

Re: Fantasy Art Thread I'm going to assume that all those dead links are because the images got deleted in a massive disk purge. Extinct is right!!

Re: Fantasy Adventures Or Why are we always underground...again Snake, I really know how you feel. I pity people who get stuck in the underground rut. But, I have to admit that I used to be the same type of GM. I used to ref a regular 2ed AD&D campaign, and my players were starting to complain that their characters were suffering from a vitamin D deficiency from lack of sunlight. Fortunately, this came at about the same time that I was putting all my notes together into a huge world map, and I decided to kill two birds with one stone. I set my group to the task of charting a trade route between two major kingdoms... a near epic task on a par with the Lewis & Clark Expedition. As a result, they got plenty of above ground adventuring (with plenty of combat for those that enjoyed it) and I (with the help of some random terrain / weather / creature rolls) got a large chunk of my world map on paper. This one task took my group three years in game time and almost a year in real time, and they said it was the most enjoyable adventuring they had ever done. Unfortunately, in your case, it looks like the group in question is satisfied with the way things are going. If I really wanted to change the way this group was going so that I could enjoy playing with them, I think I'd start by looking at the GMs world map and asking what was in all the white spaces. If he/she has no answer, there's the opportunity to suggest a survey expedition.

Re: Starships ~holds his nose and runs screaming from the horrid puns~

Re: Psion: a unit of psychic energy.

Re: Starships I'm reminded of a Belter character I used to play. His ship was named the "Royal Flush". Anyone hazard a guess on how he got it?

Re: Who knows physics?

Re: Sci-fi wear swords? A very good point! Many of the greatest samurai were very skilled in such esoteric arts as calligraphy and flower arranging, as well as writing poetry, cooking, and painting. Even the act of sharpening their sword was a very artistic ritual... all very Zen, you know. Personally, I prefer a very large club... preferable with nails sticking out. Just displaying it stops most attackers in their tracks.

Re: Robert E Howard or J.R.R. Tolkien? The thing is... Fantasy is Fantasy. The only differences between the various genres depends on how close you zoom in on the action. For instance... if you stand way back and examine Tolkien's world, you'll see Epic Fantasy. But, start zooming in, focusing on one particular city, or even a specific person... while ignoring international events... you'll see gradually finer degrees of High Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, and down to Low Fantasy. Personally, I'd like to play in an adventure that focuses on the activities of a small group in a Tolkien-style world, having Howard-style adventures... perhaps having an effect on major events, but being totally unaware of it.

Re: Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real I noticed that too... in the part where they describe the four types of dragons that the show dealt with. Whenever the text popped up, there was a damn dragon sticking his head into the text box, covering up several words. Honestly, I like the graphics, but they needed to be elsewhere.

Re: orichalcum Godfrey Daniels and his brother, Jack!! Yet another pronunciation to add to the list!!

Re: house rule for c.s.l. No offense, my friend... but, speaking as a hunter, if you can hit a bird on the wing at 200 yards, your reflexes are definitely NOT slow and clumsy. It's not a godly feat by any means, but slow and clumsy won't cut it. Either that, or you have one of those nifty guns that just continuously sprays lead in the air in a cohesive stream until the bird accidentally flies into it.

Re: orichalcum Okay... for the record, I pronounce Drow as rhyming with crow. I think it sounds better, and conjures a more evil image in my mind than rhyming it with cow. As for orichalcum, my pronunciation USED to be "OR uh KAL sum". However, I have revised that to "OR uh KAL kum" based on this discussion topic. The second pronunciation seems to fit better. Now, just to throw another cat on the fire... what is the correct pronunciation of LICH (or, is it spelled LICHE)? I have heard it pronounced as... "rhymes with itch" "has a long i (like eye) and a soft ch (like church)" "lick" "like" "leechee... like the nut" This should be an interesting debate!

Re: orichalcum

Re: USAF studies teleportation Cool Beans... with a side of fries!! I want one of those "Quantum Effect" Modems!!

Re: Fantasy Hero back in Online Store

Re: I need a name for a Robin Hood-like fantasy character allllllllllllllllllll righty then...

Re: Earth's core Australia can celebrate a white Christmas...

Re: I need a name for a Robin Hood-like fantasy character