Dale A. Ward

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Odd... I was just about to say the same thing to James!

Re: The Future of Small Arms

Re: Discourse on Fantasy Hero That's pretty much what he said, but a lot of other folks did too, so I think the case is solved. By the way, BDH... the attribution for the quote in your sig is incorrect. That line was actually said by WKRP's ad agent, Herb Tarlek (played by Frank Bonner).

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Ummm... did I miss something? What watercraft? Cool! I'll get it on my site ASAP.

Re: The Future of Small Arms See my first note above. We might have much more powerful propellants and explosives 300 years from now. A simple arming device... perhaps incorporated into the primer of the round?

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Hmmmph... well, yeah... if ya wanna wuss out and let a machine do your job! Cool Beans!! I'll put a link to your site on mine! Samantha has a page?!? Lemme have the link and I'll put that on my site, too! Sorry, man... I thought I had already sent them to you. I'll send the whole thing when I send the writeup for Morty.

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Practice and perserverance... No... really. All I do is click on the quote button for each message I want to quote, copy the text of the quote, then back out of that message and move on to the next one. After I've collected all the quotes I want, I post a new reply and paste all the text clips into that new message, then add my various replies. It's an arduous process, but you guys are worth it.

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Mine tried to do that once. Got a kink in its neck and hasn't been the same since... Hmm... now that you mention it, I seem to recall having some server space, too! In fact, I was considering setting up an FTP section for game-related files.

Re: Discourse on Fantasy Hero

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Before you all go dissing the ship, please let me direct your attention to Milo's list of Disadvantages... about the sixth entry down. Go look now... I'll wait. ~hum de dum de dum~ Back? Good! Now, to quote another famous chief engineer... "Laddie. Would ye care t'... rephrase that?"

Re: Za Frûmi Saga - Orc Music Beautiful!! I predict that some fantasy movie will be using this group's music in the near future

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign ~facepalms~ I am so boned...

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) Eliza Dushku doesn't really thrill me that much... But, Faith can slap me around whenever she likes!

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Okay, I have good news and bad news... First, the bad news. I looked through all of my saved chat logs and was unable to find the one where Presto introduced himself by his RL name. As a result, I can't post my credits page yet. The good news? While searching through those chat logs, I located two undated ones that are from the Theseus Commerce destruction... before we were, officially, a team! You'll have to change the extensions to .html to view them in your browser, of course. Enjoy! See you guys tonight! [edit] Went ahead and added the credits page anyway. Left a blank for Presto's name, to be filled in later. [/edit]

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Excellent! That just leaves Presto... and I know he's mentioned his name while playing. Damn it, I ought to quit being lazy and go check my chat logs.

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Cool! You know any of the others? I'd like to get that section of my site done with.

Re: Class systems -- is there no escape? ~shrugs~ I really thought this was a rather silly premise for discussion to begin with... and now, it looks like people have begun arguing for argument's sake. Time for me to unsubscribe from the thread and disappear into the shadows. Later!

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign I know this was discussed during a gaming session, but give me a break... it was late at night and I'm an old man with crappy memory. I'd like to mention everyone by their first names on my website. I've got nolgroth (James) and ghost-angel (Gordon). I still need Starwolf, solron915, Prestidigitator, and SW's wifey. I'm thinking about making it a more general purpose website. The intro page would be a menu with links to each of my other characters (when I have more than one). Each section would be styled according to the genre, i.e. a scifi character would have a computer-like interface, a fantasy character would have an interface that looks like a handwritten parchment, a contemporary character would have one that resembles a spiral-bound notebook, etc. Should be pretty easy to do now that GA has clued me in to some of the intricacies of .CSS. By the way, nolgroth... I think I've found the (almost) perfect export template for posting our character sheets. The HTML Barebones template includes everything we need except the background info and a picture... and neither of those would be difficult to add to it. That's the template I'm using to display Milo's character sheet on my site. The only problem I'm having is trying to get the table styles tweaked just right. As it is, it's perfectly readable... just not "perfect", ya know? Well, I gotta get back to the ol' grindstone. Later, gang!

Re: Class systems -- is there no escape? ~heavy sigh~ Why all the angst about words? If you don't like a certain word, use another. It doesn't mean that you're playing a class-based game! The words are just a handy way to describe yourself, as several others have pointed out. Without those handy descriptors, we'd all get bogged down in semantics as we try to describe our characters without using those terms. Kinda like trying to describe a polar bear without using the word "white".

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Sorry... I didn't start saving the chat log until after that session.

Re: Daily Art Findings ~hugs Keith and offers him a hanky~ ~no, not the dirty one~

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign Cool... I'll be sure to add it in. Never know when we'll need an extra half mark! If I'm not mistaken, I think ORPG2 will be using Java!

Re: Daily Art Findings Tell that to the guys who built Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. Throw enough money at a problem, and it ceases to be a problem.

Re: Gemini Ascendant Campaign As I was telling Simon on the HeroDesigner forums, I got an update message from Java this morning. It says Java 5.0 Update 9 is ready to be downloaded and installed. Does anyone have any idea whether ORPG will choke on this update? I'm going to ask on the ORPG forums, too... just in case.