Old Man

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Often Mac software requires no actual installation. You can just drag the application to the thumb drive and run it from there on another machine, unless it's complicated and/or has DRM like the Adobe suite.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Red Dawn Pirates of the Resident Evil Dead Man's Chest: Waterworld. Extremely hot barely legal high school girls armed with swords, chainsaws, boomsticks, martial arts, and AK-47s fight a guerilla war of piracy on the high seas against zombie paratroopers in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Fatal error: Call to undefined method ValidationErrors::getParent() in /var/apache2/htdocs/ac/activecollab/application/modules/pages/controllers/PagesController.class.php on line 122 Why me?

Re: Old races, new tricks. Cat-folk from the '80s. Big hair, eyeliner and lipstick, shoulder pads, skinny ties, and loafers, regardless of gender.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings All flags cast the same shadow.

Re: Old races, new tricks. I once flipped dwarves and elves around to get Wood Dwarves and Mountain Elves. Wood Dwarves were woodsmen, a less-cartoony version of Snow White's gang. They were forest caretakers, cutting down this sick tree, planting a sapling there, keeping the forest wildlife in balance. They couldn't speak with animals per se, but such was their familiarity with the woods that they could attain an almost supernatural clairsentience with what was happening within a mile or so. Typically they operated in small groups of around, uh, seven, but many lived alone, and hidden Dwarven villages were scattered throughout the woods as well. Expert hunters, trappers, and woodworkers, the Dwarves were inherently somewhat magical; some could go on to join the ranks of the Druids. By comparison, Mountain Elves were more feral, living brief lives of tribal warfare on the high peaks and in the deepest crevices. Not miners, they traverse sheer rock faces using their mountain goat-like agility, and navigate the narrowest crevices underground by dint of their slender limbs and extreme flexibility. These Elves are masters of concealment, able to fit into impossibly small spaces under boulders, or appear to vanish into a rock face simply by remaining immobile. Immune to the cold, they routinely travel the highest reaches of the mountains, but often visit the rocky foothills as well, all in their quest for valuable ores which they work not through smithing, but through outright magic. A Mountain Elf cannot be bothered to carry something as bulky as a bow and quiver, but Elven knives are the keenest in the land. Sadly, this knowledge of metalworking is one of the few talents remaining to the Elves, who are the last survivors of a once-mighty empire that spanned the continent.

Re: Dark Elves: Compelling? I think that dark elves should have pale, greasy, pimply skin, long greasy hair, ugly patches of facial hair, anemic limbs, and sagging potbellies. That way it'll be easier for their players to get in character.

Re: What gives the "rightful" king the right? You're really thinking about this too much. Basically, you can kick the current king to the curb, but then it's up to the rest of the nobles and clergy whether they think you are the new Chosen. Which is why you need to buy them off by giving them land and titles to reward them for their vote.

Re: Return of the blimp/zepellin The "potentially revolutionary Control of Static Heaviness system" is called a ballonet and was a standard component of semirigid airships in the late 19th century. Popular Mechanics has been trumpeting the Return of the Zeppelin for at least two decades now. I'm all for it, but please excuse me if I take this particular report with a pillar of salt.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Pics! Pics!!

Re: Musings on Random Musings Actually, I don't think you stopped being confused. You were just briefly deluded.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Desk is clean! (Floor and top of file cabinet hopelessly messy. But hey, it's a start.)

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER TextEdit. Or go to versiontracker.com and download TextWrangler or BBEdit. Also, you're a weakly interacting massive particle.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Words to live by: AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 1000 AM HST MON JAN 14 2008 .SYNOPSIS... THE ATMOSPHERE IN OUR AREA IS RATHER DRY AND STABLE. THE LOW THAT IS CAUSING HIGH SURF IS PRESENTLY 800 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE ISLANDS. AS IT DRIFTS WESTWARD THROUGH TUESDAY IT WILL WEAKEN THE TRADE WINDS.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER *kaboom*

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sure it is, as long as you're not the one who dealt it. Or smelt it.

Re: What is Your Favorite Item? If you want to go mundane, the best item is the large shield. +3 DCV with very little drawback? Sign me up!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Wait--inverse order of magnitude, but--in astronomy magnitudes are more negative for brighter objects-- (brain explodes)

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Steampunk Star Wars. http://gizmodo.com/343178/steampunk-lego-tie-fighter-beats-the-crap-out-of-x+wing-shows-amazing-vision-of-star-wars-universe

Re: Submarine Aircraft carriers of the world! Oddly enough, I was surfing Wikipedia yesterday, reading about WWII surface warships. Nothing as unusual as SSNCVs, but these could at least be used in the background of certain pulp campaigns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_battleship_Richelieu_%281939%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bart_%281940%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regia_Marina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Roma_%281940%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_class_battleship_%281939%29

Re: Free Fantasy PA book from RPG NOW Looked over it for a couple of minutes. Some interesting stuff in there, if you can get past the d20ness. Pretty high power level. You could base a great FH magic subsystem based on the material here.

Re: Planetary Magnetic Field Question Which provides a nice justification for Savage Earth furry mutants, assuming you use comic-book radiation and not the real thing.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Sure it can. But it's not very efficient unless the GM is letting it put both movement powers into some kind of multipower framework.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Yes, but love knows no bounds. It bought lots of teleport.