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Re: Is "Hollywood-style" decompression accurate? Of course, accurate tends to be cinematically boring.

Re: The Last Word Hmm, didn't know that. Though I suppose it's a mark of restraint on my part that I don't know: I haven't been in house where a litter was born since I was 5 or so.

Re: The Last Word Do they kick them out, or just wander off never to return?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat The Marx-man

Re: The Mind Controlling Hero

Re: Complicate the Person Above L. Marcus is a second-order lycanthrope. He transforms into a narwhal during lunar eclipses. Doesn't remember a moment of it, either, just wonders how he ended up smelling like herring and old kelp.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Sweetie Buns.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What happened? The entire population of Amazons is dead, the morning after the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie marathon. A: That's not what is generally meant by the term "foot and mouth disease".

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Only by courtesy. "Booha", a pronunciation of the acronym BUHA, "Broomstick Up His A**."

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Hey, man, did you know your head looks like a firebell now? A: On second thought, maybe Berserk (14-) on being woken up was a bad idea.

Re: The Mind Controlling Hero Y'know, it's nowhere required that a character with Mind Control must also have the ability to read minds. If he didn't, that could lead to ... interesting ... situations, where the character had no solid handle on motives at the time he impelled his target to a particular action. I'm with the crowd who think that a mind controller does not have to be evil; it is, as always, the actions chosen that make for heroes. Now, much depends on the campaign flavor: silver/bronze/iron age campaigns constrain actions differently by their flavor, of course. EDIT: I'm done editing this now, after hitting "submit" way too soon and working it after that.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Hermit, best of luck to you and your grandmother.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat You called? "I'm from Idaho. Out where I'm from, that means, "Got any chainsaw oil?" (image)

Re: The Last Word The one we are giving to my sister-in-law is black & white, & the one needing a few days more care is all black, so with the two senior cats, we have four black cats in the house. Siegfried just curses at the kittens. At first they were frightened (he is immense), but once they figured out all he does is cuss, they've been stalking him. Felix doesn't care much either way.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Clouds over our house.

Re: Alien Stereotypes A variation on the energy people: the pure-mental people, just disembodied mentality.

Re: The Last Word Momcat was a sweetie, and a pretty gray to boot. I admit, though, I'm looking forward to being able to let the two resident cats back into our bedroom. We've been letting the kittens out during the day and nothing has happened yet, so I don't quite grasp the need to continue the isolation, but I'll ask.

Re: The Last Word Apparently the momcat & one kitten have already been adopted from the shelter after my wife returned them all late Friday afternoon. We have adopted one (and she'll be given to my sister-in-law when the latter returns from her vacation) and one other is still with us while recovering from some repair work. That leaves four kittens still out there.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Guano chemistry would be far advanced from the way things are now.

Re: "Neat" Pictures It's really frightening to be partway through a five-hour exposure on a faint (10th magnitude) star and have a nice bright satellite (6th magnitude; that's a factor of about 40 in amount of light coming per second) come into the field and blunder very, very close to your target. That would hose your work for the night completely. Fortunately, it didn't happen. I had very good luck that run.

Re: The Last Word I have. I think I do more needle-thread work at my house than my wife does. Of course, most of that is repairing buttons and holes in pockets.

Re: suggestions for "does not work in..." If your campaign takes people to space, then "does not work when gravity isn't within 25% of 1 gee" might be such a limitation; the local acceleration of gravity is related to the local mass-energy density and curvature of space-time. Makes the power more or less worthless unless the character is on Earth, though.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Heh. I have no nose to speak of. I have had people grossed out when I demonstrate how close to flush I can flatten it. And my wife finds it amusing that it droops visibly when I lie on my side in bed.

Re: The Last Word I tend not to associate the term "rack" in that sense with the term "company" in that sense either, so your interpretation of Lemming's comment slipped past me completely.

Re: Thoughts on SPD I want to echo the point Checkmate made back on page 1, and thrash the badly decomposed corpse of a horse I've beaten before on this subject. The problem with SPD is that the quantum of SPD is much too large at the low end. The difference between SPD 2 and SPD 3 is much larger than the difference between SPD 7 and SPD 8. This means that the quantization of SPD doesn't matter so much in a superheroic campaign, but at lower levels and in lower-powered genres it's huge. This is a direct consequence of SPD being the reciprocal of reaction time, and as SPD gets low, the differences in reaction time represented by different SPD values become very large ... and this happens at just the genre/power level when small differences in reaction time should matter most.