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Old Man

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  1. Kobold Press (Midgard World) Kingdom Games (Deathbringer) Kishwaukee Publishing (Neon City Overdrive; Veilwraith) Kellogg Studio (Blades Against the Machine)
  2. Details matter when it comes to metallurgy. There's no testing of bronze vs iron (as opposed to steel) out there simply because you'd have to handmake your own crappy iron weapon for the test, and even then it matters how the iron is tempered, the exact alloy of the bronze, relative thicknesses, etc. That goes for all the super cool youtube vids along these lines--arrows versus plate armor, swords versus mail, and so on. The exact gauge of the steel matters. The curvature of the steel matters. The mass and velocity of the arrow matter, as does the exact shape of the arrowhead. It matters whether the mail is 4-to-1 or 6-to-1 linked, whether it's butted or riveted or welded, whether the links are flat or wire. Can arrows kill a mounted knight in full armor? The answer is... it depends!
  3. I don't know I'd go that far. I'd rather just give it an extra DC or a slightly lower STR min. The main advantage of iron over bronze in the field, back in the day, was that it could hold an edge better.
  4. Mainly what you're doing with the prompt is telling MJ which images to steal from use as a reference. If MJ can't quit trunks, you might look into prehistoric pre-elephants like platybelodon or deinotherium. There will be a smaller base of images to pull from but that might work in your favor in this case.
  5. Not the outcome I wanted, but I can root for Mr. Irrelevant in the SB.
  6. Yeah I quit watching after that. More interested in the Lions game anyway.
  7. I recently taught the Astronomy merit badge for the troop. When the scouts come to me with their cards to sign off, I give them a verbal final examination: Is the Earth round or flat? Fortunately no one's gotten it wrong yet.
  8. This is why I quit building PCs altogether.
  9. The Robin Hood Campaign Classics book is by far the best of the series, if not the best sourcebook ever printed for FH. There's an incredible amount of detailed lore about life in England in the Middle Ages, including folklore and mythology. There's FH stats that were actually developed by someone who knew FH (as opposed to just converting the RM stats). There's even--gasp--adventures, in defiance of the ban on published modules for FH. Even the art and layout are top notch. It really stands out because it's the one book that shows what Hero is capable of at the lower end of the spectrum. (Robin Hood himself comes out to 80 points IIRC.) And it actually makes you want to play low fantasy. Ultimately, though, that is the book's one fatal flaw--it's low fantasy when the rest of the world is playing D&D video game fantasy. But if you can get hold of a copy, do so; it's worth it even if all you do is read it.
  10. Why is this, does anyone know?
  11. Byzantium is a cool place to base a campaign because you can really mix it up culturally. You have Persians, Turks, Russians, Varangians, European crusaders, Italian city states, Spanish kingdoms, Asian Khanates, and African caliphates all a boat ride away.
  12. True, although most of the time it felt like it was coasting on inertia, almost in spite of whatever the emperors were doing. Still, it took a plague plus some really big guns to finally put an end to it.
  13. I'm more of a knots guy myself. The one good thing that could be said for CCGs is that (questionable art direction aside) it kept fantasy artists employed for almost thirty years. But now AI is here.
  14. That Morris is not Belichick (or Vrabel) is the main reason those fans are unhappy.
  15. Who knows where fast cops lurk in the hearts of men?
  16. Raheem Morris to the Falcons. Falcon fandom is firmly not thrilled.
  17. Elsewhere than Texas? Latitude matters for orbital launch. The only other contiguous state that far south is Florida, which not only has a worse lunatic government problem, it also has a worse climate change problem. No, the answer is to kick Texas out of the Union--and then invade it and seize it.
  18. But I want to know where the fast cop hides.
  19. Replying to my own post--I didn't know this when I saw it, but Godzilla Minus One was filmed on a budget of $15M. That's almost incomprehensible considering the product that made it to the screen. It should probably win the effects Oscar based on this fact alone.
  20. Ascendant the game seems to get mid-to-good reviews depending on whether you mind charts. It's hard to find reviews of the game through all the controversy swirling around Macris, though. I have to say, getting yourself banned from rpgnet is something of an achievement.
  21. Goldfinger (1964): It turns out that aside from a couple of iconic scenes, I hadn't seen this movie at all. It really did a speedrun of the formula, as Bond gets through an infiltration, an explosion, a fistfight, a drink, and makes out with a pretty girl, all before the opening credits. After FRWL this film went pretty far into the ridiculous, especially with regard to female character motivation, so it was something of a letdown. And the idea of murder-by-gold-paint hasn't gotten any less stupid. But it wasn't bad if you try really hard to suspend your disbelief. Next up is Thunderball, which oddly enough is on Prime and not Max.
  22. 757s haven't been in production for years, so at least that incident is a maintenance issue. Which is not to say that everything is hunky-dory at Boeing. The engineers are starting to talk to the press.
  23. Journal of the American Medical Association: Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans For those of you who are related to at least one woman.
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