BigJackBrass

Here's an interesting story from the Beeb. A Colombian designer is marketing a range of lightweight bullet-proof clothing in India, under the slightly peculiar name Discreet Inners. As worn by Steven Seagal, apparently.

Re: Freeze Frame: Polar Photographic Archive I did put an apologetic cough in front of that remark, at least

The Scott Polar Research Institute has set up a wonderful site called Freeze Frame, putting many superb images from the history of polar exploration on-line for the first time. Excellent for period details and a *ahem* chilling sense of scale and desolation for your own games around the poles. No sign of the entrance to the hollow Earth but I'm assuming those will be posted later. The frostbite pics are a bit grim, mind you.

Re: Dodging bullets. Really.

Re: Dodging bullets. Really. Presumably less than if it failed to do so A pity it's been withdrawn, though. Mind you, now that the idea is out there I suppose this means that, as it isn't patented, then anyone can have a go at building it...

Sadly it would appear that they've not found Atlantis after all... at least according to the official story...

Re: Dodging bullets. Really. It's an intriguing idea, presumably thought up by a masochist. Let's see, I'm being shot at... it's the perfect time to electrocute myself!

In the "coming soon" file we have this interesting patent note: Bullet Time, anyone?

Re: Yet Another HPA -- Into The Unknown: Expeditioneering Rules Hmm, was that at GenCon 2005? If so then your personal hardcover is quite probably the one sitting on the shelf to my right... Dave very kindly agreed to pick one up for me, along with the secret decoder ring

Re: Yet Another HPA -- Into The Unknown: Expeditioneering Rules

Re: HPA In The Works: The Great White Hunter's Bestiary Aw, and here I was just about to suggest hunting a venomous mammal... in the hope that you might miss the unfortunate scale of the thing Why doesn't nature make these things eight feet tall any more?

Re: HPA In The Works: The Great White Hunter's Bestiary I'm tempted to send a party off in search of the Namibian Fog-Basking Beetle, although big game hunters might be a bit disappointed when they find it It does have one of the best names ever, though; and a reasonable level of acrobatics.

Re: Changing into a costume Velcro seams, mate. Top tip

Re: HPA In The Works: The Great White Hunter's Bestiary

Re: HPA In The Works: The Great White Hunter's Bestiary And there was much rejoicing! Hmm, how about a thylacine? I'd also be interested in one of the "twists" for existing man-eaters (or reputed man-eaters) being an unusual degree of intelligence, as was attributed to the wolf Lobo by Ernest Thompson Seton. Bigger and stronger is one thing, but when those supposedly dumb animals suddenly seem to be out-thinking the PCs... that's much scarier.

Re: Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow

Re: Stronghold Yes, I spotted it at Leisure Games recently, although I still have no idea why it took so long when all of the other Hero books seem to arrive quickly. Thanks for pointing it out, DT.

Re: Dark Champions vehicles in real life Another vehicle in the news at the moment, also with a Dark Champions or Bond-esque flavour, is up for sale: Need a yacht with its own escape sub? Of course it's not perfect: "...it does not, for example, have a gym and boasts only one helipad."

Re: Does anyone really roll 30D6? I've always opted for lower power games, preferring to do more with less, but once in a while I'll happily roll as many D6s as the table will stand. After all, I used to play a lot of Tunnels & Trolls And in exciting (for me) and marginally related news, a mere one year after moving house I finally found where I'd put three sets of my HERO Dice! Along with the one set I'd already located that means that I can certainly roll 24D6 if necessary

Re: Ape Name Needed Hmm, haven't contributed to this thread for a few months... So, with a nod to Charlton Heston, how about Dan Dirtyape?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Brainiac's Daughter - The Dukes of Stratosphear (XTC's secret identities).

If your PCs are finding it too easy to eavesdrop and wiretap in your games then maybe you should go straight to the state of the art in encryption: Quantum Cryptography.

Re: 1970s-era Police Campaign I'll just point you to the inevitable Wikipedia article As it happens, I'm from England and work for the Police, but I try to leave that stuff back at headquarters

Re: Brass City Nocturne Well, I certainly approve of the title

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Partly because I'm using them as research material for an upcoming adventure and partly because I haven't read them for a while I'm working through the Jerry Cornelius stories and novels, primarily by Michael Moorcock with contributions from several other writers and artists. There isn't really a single comprehensive edition of the short stories, but you can piece them together in The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (the more recent American version loses The Dodgem Decision but collects several additional stories) and The New Nature of the Catastrophe; The Cornelius Quartet and A Cornelius Calendar are the easy way to get the novels and novellas. The older I get the more I get out of these stories, rooted in contemporary culture but universal enough to outlive their direct inspirations, be they the war in Vietnam or the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Hilarious, terrifying and brutally satirical. The experimental forms may not be as fresh as they were forty years ago but they still sparkle. Despite a couple of shelves groaning under the weight of my Moorcock books I notice that the man has no sympathy and continues to keep writing... A new Cornelius story appeared recently, as yet uncollected. You can also read one of the Cornelius stories, The Spencer Inheritance, online.