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Re: The Last Word The Lewiston I referred to is in Idaho, right across the Snake River (= state border) from Clarkston, WA. Those are about 30 miles south of Pullman, WA, where we lived for a few years.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-drool", by Ronnie R and the Alzheimers. NT: Graffiti you'd like to put on the side of Air Force One.

Re: Complicate the Person Above If you rub death tribble fur on the plastic used for most laptop cases, in two strokes you generate a big enough static charge to fry every chip in the motherboard. There's a reason DT uses only rack-mount server-class machines with milspec grounding.

Re: The Last Word Actually, in principle there could be more, but there are no stable nuclei with atomic numbers high enough to show more than 7 shells. So the number 7 is an "accident" resulting from nuclear physics, not atomic structure.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I wish my subconscious would believe me when I KNOW that the thread is NOT titled, "Double the HERO Excrement!"

Re: The Last Word Look at the periodic table of elements. The number of rows is the number of "shells", each row being a "shell".

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Re: The Last Word Some weddings are more fun than others, but it'd have to be a hell of an occasion for me to go intercontinental to one.

Re: The Last Word Not with me.

Re: A Thread for Random Mooings Cows and lasers (targets, not armaments).

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Re: Complicate the Person Above Death tribble: his family have been chastity belt makers for the House of Habsburg since 1628.

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Re: To Have a Campaign Map or not? There's two different questions here. First (and the one that's mostly been addressed): do you let the players have a map? Second: do you the GM bother to make an accurate map of the relevant parts of your game-world? From my perspective (which is heavily Simulationist), the answer to the first question depends on whether it makes sense in your world for maps to be available and accessible by the PCs, and whether the PCs have the skills necessary to read and use them. The answer to the second ... well ... a Simulationist almost requires that the alternate reality of the game-world have its important features mapped out. Otherwise, how can you hope to answer questions about your game-world "correctly"? You're going to make up something on the fly, and you'll have terrible inconsistency/contradiction problems down the line. OTOH, other viewpoints don't have anything like my priority on consistency, and consider maps to be an annoyance that get in the way of the story. The materials in Seventh Sea were clearly published with this attitude. In a certain sense, the decision to do without maps means that everything goes at the speed of plot. That means that if you get your players into a race condition ("We have to get to the old desecrated altar at Black Marsh before Khargath does, or he'll complete the ritual to bring demons into the world!") the decision of whether the players win that race depends purely on the GM. To a certain extent, then, nothing the players do can affect whether they succeed or not ... that most-accursed fate of canned linear adventures. You might be happy with this, but there are types of players who are driven to frustrated distraction by it and will call you a railroad engineer.

Re: The Last Word Hmm. Since one of the folks who's talked about it most is my brother, that works even better than originally I'd guessed.

Re: The Last Word Well, intended was an 'r', but as typed it works also.

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Re: The Last Word Hmm, Freudian typo yesterday.

Re: The Last Word Heh, I haven't seen any of them, though I've listened to fiends rave about it.

Re: The Last Word Look at Alice & my sigs.

Re: The Last Word I was hungry. Miso soup sounded good.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Excuse me, there's a smoking gun in my coffee this morning."

Re: Musings on Random Musings There's lots of capacitance for more shocks to the system yet.

Re: The Last Word Hiso or Miso?

Re: The Last Word It's fun if they're sweaty because they are afraid.