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The Dominion Arms shotgun is certainly cool, but in the US it would count as a "short-barreled shotgun" and cost you a $200 registration from the BATF, if I understand such things correctly. Of course, for such a cool gun, maybe it's worth it.

The Armored SWAT Forklift, for all your tactical warehousing needs!

You could just make the vehicle a special effect on some Running.

It isn't about sex so much as it is about gender. One is biological, the other is social. In any case, it doesn't really matter whether you approve or not. "Pursuit of happiness" is a basic civil right, and if someone happier living as the "other" gender, it "neither picks your pocket nor breaks your leg" to let them. Vondy, the quality of your arguments has gone downhill lately. This sounds less like a carefully reasoned argument and more like a rant about how it makes you angry that people are starting to call you on your bullcrap. Furthermore, you lose track of (what I take to be) your main point and spend most of your post ranting about how political correctness is oppressive. Then you shouldn't expect anyone to acquiesce to YOUR subjective beliefs, either. For instance, you shouldn't be allowed to mutilate a baby boy's penis because your religious beliefs say it's okay. I absolutely agree--that's one of the best arguments against religion. I sadly predict that Vondy's response here will be an accusation of anti-Semitism or some such emotional response, rather than an honest reflection on whether he's unfairly privileging his own beliefs over others. He also likes to accuse me of not addressing his arguments, which were: 1) transgenderism doesn't reflect biology, and 2) political correctness sometimes leads to people criticizing things I say. So, here goes: 1) No duh. 2) " I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express." Now, I've made some uncharitable predictions about Vondy's behavior, so I'm cooking up a big juicy humble pie with a side of crow here. I would rather be wrong than right in those predictions, and I apologize in advance if I am.

That's about what I expected. A truly reactionless thruster would violate both conservation of momentum AND conservation of energy, so I really don't expect to ever see one. It feels slightly ironic that warp drive is actually more feasible.

It would be super awesome if the reactionless drive really works. Freed from the tyranny of the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation, we could mount interstellar probe missions even if warp drive doesn't pan out, and the entire solar system, at the very least, would be ours for the taking. Combine that with the work being done on economically reusable launch systems, and the next few decades could be VERY exciting. However, there's that pesky conservation of momentum thing . . . IF the drive works, a major law of physics will have to be reworked, and the implications and ramifications will be almost as exciting as the applications of the drive. For example, if it turns out that you CAN violate conservation of momentum, what other ways can you violate it, and how might those be applied to practical technology? I'm not getting my hopes up just yet.

Teleport, IPE, Only Vs. things in pockets? Nah, I'd probably just buy Invisible to Touch as a naked advantage for the character's STR, maybe with a limitation.

This is one reason I like the Clint Eastwood western "Unforgiven." The movie deconstructs the heroic consequence-free violence quite thoroughly. "It's a hell of a thing to kill a man."

Pff. No one would care.

United Laboratory, Tactical, and Reconnaissance Agency/Assets?

An important benefit to creating a fictional city is that it can be thematically adjusted for the stories you want to set there. Metropolis and Gotham are great examples of that--they're both fictionalized versions of New York City, but with different aspects emphasized to better fit their respective superheroes.

One nice thing about playing a Weird West campaign is that it's a lot less cliche-ridden. You can turn to less commonly used myths and legends, and have more freedom to make things up. I played in a Deadlands campaign once, and I was impressed with how much it helped the horror atmosphere that we, both as characters and as players, didn't know what we were dealing with. We didn't know what the monsters were, what they could do, or even what they were CALLED. Lovecraft wasn't kidding when he said the oldest and greatest fear is the fear of the unknown. The movie "Cowboys and Aliens" would also fit nicely into the "Weird West" label.

I can't help thinking that "Inquisitor" should be a "bad guy" class.

Well, gamma radiation doesn't make things radioactive, so the gamma pulse doesn't contribute to fallout. The majority of the gamma ray energy from a nuke detonated in air goes to heating the air for the blast and thermal effects. While nukes DO deliver a potentially fatal radiation pulse, in general anyone close enough to get lethal radiation poisoning will be killed immediately by the explosion.

From a scientific perspective, the only difference between the sun and a star is how far away it is. From a magical perspective, one is THE Sun, and the other isn't, in the same way that sunlight reflected from the Moon is now Moonlight, not Sunlight.

As unpleasant as it might be, suffering from a nutritional deficiency while consuming everything now known to be required would yield important new information about dietary requirements.

I don't want to live in a universe made of fried 'mons.

How the heck does anyone living in the 21st century fail to realize that stuff like this is no longer acceptable? I can understand someone still having private prejudices, and even still thinking that they "should" be allowed to express them, but how is anyone so unaware as to think it's okay to act like that in public?

I know that I would like to have some kind of easy to make, easy to consume product for the times when I don't "want to eat" so much as I just "want to make the hunger pangs stop". Living exclusively on it would be a drag for sure, but it would be handy to have a bin of Human Chow by my computer desk.

We fight for gold and XP. Mostly the XP.

Whoa. I mean, holy crap. Also, how can 26 nuke-sized explosions go off without anyone noticing? I'll be keeping an eye on this topic.

If the Catgirl Empire needs men, I suppose I could go there, in the spirit of philanthropic altruism. (philgynopic?)

I gave the desert-dwelling Dark Elves in my homebrew setting a 1-point Life Support power making them immune to sunburn. Perhaps it's not "insignificant" on a 150 point build, but it's pretty cheap, and it makes one health hazard of the desert a complete non-issue for them. Of course, this doesn't address the issue in the OP. The question there doesn't make much sense to me; how can one character be simultaneously Susceptible to and immune to sunlight? Seems to me that the "power" you're looking for would be not taking the complication in the first place, or (as mentioned above) taking it at a reduced value.

I've only had time for a cursory look at the "Eclipse Phase" stuff, but it sounds like it's on the right track, and, importantly, already laid out from a roleplaying game perspective. Thanks for the reference!

Yeah, it's a bit much to get people's heads wrapped around. I can't see it working unless all the people involved have read a number of stories examining alternate modes of personhood.