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Re: Who is your favorite character? What an unusual character. I almost never actually play, but my favorite character I ever wrote up was a Greek Fury. Hope I get to play her some time.

Re: Yog-sothoth.com Don't pimp slap Yog-Sothoth, man. It ain't wise.

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Re: Airlocks are for losers Retractable fins on a big critter?

Re: Would you allow this mental power? See, this is a perfect example. My character would not be able to detect your absence of caring what Sean thinks. On the other hand, if you felt active disdain or contempt, he would detect it.

Re: Stegosaur at Angkor Wat? St. Augustine City of God, 15:9: Chapter 9.—Of the Long Life and Greater Stature of the Antediluvians. Wherefore no one who considerately weighs facts will doubt that Cain might have built a city, and that a large one, when it is observed how prolonged were the lives of men, unless perhaps some sceptic take exception to this very length of years which our authors ascribe to the antediluvians and deny that this is credible. And so, too, they do not believe that the size of men's bodies was larger then than now, though the most esteemed of their own poets, Virgil, asserts the same, when he speaks of that huge stone which had been fixed as a landmark, and which a strong man of those ancient times snatched up as he fought, and ran, and hurled, and cast it,— "Scarce twelve strong men of later mould That weight could on their necks uphold." thus declaring his opinion that the earth then produced mightier men. And if in the more recent times, how much more in the ages before the world-renowned deluge? But the large size of the primitive human body is often proved to the incredulous by the exposure of sepulchres, either through the wear of time or the violence of torrents or some accident, and in which bones of incredible size have been found or have rolled out. I myself, along with some others, saw on the shore at Utica a man's molar tooth of such a size, that if it were cut down into teeth such as we have, a hundred, I fancy, could have been made out of it. But that, I believe, belonged to some giant. For though the bodies of ordinary men were then larger than ours, the giants surpassed all in stature. And neither in our own age nor any other have there been altogether wanting instances of gigantic stature, though they may be few. The younger Pliny, a most learned man, maintains that the older the world becomes, the smaller will be the bodies of men. And he mentions that Homer in his poems often lamented the same decline; and this he does not laugh at as a poetical figment, but in his character of a recorder of natural wonders accepts it as historically true. But, as I said, the bones which are from time to time discovered prove the size of the bodies of the ancients, and will do so to future ages, for they are slow to decay. But the length of an antediluvian's life cannot now be proved by any such monumental evidence. But we are not on this account to withhold our faith from the sacred history, whose statements of past fact we are the more inexcusable in discrediting, as we see the accuracy of its prediction of what was future. And even that same Pliny tells us that there is still a nation in which men live 200 years. If, then, in places unknown to us, men are believed to have a length of days which is quite beyond our own experience, why should we not believe the same of times distant from our own? Or are we to believe that in other places there is what is not here, while we do not believe that in other times there has been anything but what is now? http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120115.htm

Re: Would you allow this mental power? What Limitation value did you give for Blocked by Mental Defense? -1/4?

Re: Would you allow this mental power? I think you're right on second (third) thought...

Re: Would you allow this mental power? The character wouldn't sense anything -- he senses emotions, not minds or mental states. An automaton or someone in deep sleep would be completely invisible to the power.

Re: Martial DC, HA, HKA, Strength and Maneuvers You guys have obviously never met my Granny.

Re: Would you allow this mental power? Hmmm, Mind Scan, Uncontrolled, Area Effect, Always On? Does that make any sense conceptually?

Re: Would you allow this mental power? Doesn't Mind Scan work on one mind at a time?

Re: Would you allow this mental power? Hmm, I think it would depend on the intellectual sophistication of the animal. I think dogs can handle nervousness, confidence, etc. I suppose you're broadly right though. I think I'll nix it.

Re: Would you allow this mental power? How about the following. The idea is that he reads his opponent's emotional state and thus is able to anticipate what the opponent's actions would be: 8 +2 with All Combat (16 Active Points), Only vs. Opponents with Minds and Emotions (-1/2), Requires a Detect Emotions PER Roll (-1/2)

Re: Would you allow this mental power? Oooh, very nice thoughts. Thanks.

Re: Would you allow this mental power? Thanks guys. I think the second option is better (as well as being a heck of a lot cheaper!). How does one determine the range on a ranged sense? Is it assumed to be line-of-sight?

Re: Would you allow this mental power? Hmmm, I'm not liking this Telepathy option. It seems way too expensive for what it does. 4d6 Telepathy vs. Human, Alien and Animal Classes Of Minds, Area of Effect (8” radius; +1 ¼), 0 END Cost (+1/2) That's 96 Active Points! A 19d6 Energy Blast!

Re: Would you allow this mental power?

I'm building a character who senses the emotions of those around him. Would you require this construction: xd6 Telepathy, Area of Effect (Radius; +1), 0 END Cost (+1/2) (x Active Points), No Range (-1/2), Always On (-1/2), Only to Receive (-1/2), Emotions Only (-1/2) Or this construction: Detect Emotions (Mental Sense Group), Ranged, 360 Degrees, Functions as a Sense, Discriminatory (x Active Points), Mental Defense Applies (-1/2) (I'm not sure how this last Limitation would work) ?

Re: Stegosaur at Angkor Wat? In the City of God, St. Augustine uses the existence of giant bones in the earth as evidence that the Biblical Giants were real.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Your morning workout lasts long enough to watch an entire movie? You must be physically fit enough to make a standing broad jump to Mars (which was perhaps John Carter's secret as well -- are you John Carter?).

Re: Language? Well, what is the origin of language (and different languages) in the world? Did they evolve "naturally" (whatever that means, since we don't know the origin of language in our world), or through some other means? Was there some "Tower of Babel event," or was writing a divine invention, or stuff like that?

Re: Humans are "Special" Ostriches and emus were dating the GM.

Re: Airlocks are for losers Well yeah, but I want a rationalization. Hmm, wgat happens in Hero terms if a character is dumped out an airlock?

What kind of biological modifications would be required for a human being (or other similar organism) to survive for an extended period (say, hours or days) in deep space? As I understand things, as things stand, you would lose consciousness in a few seconds (why I'm not sure), and the killer would be lack of oxygen in a few minutes. Damage by decompression is more gradual. So the main problem for the short term could be overcome by an ability to retain oxygen for a longer time (as whales do for instance). What about later decompression? I understand also that vaccum is a great insulator, and so heat loss is not as extreme as one might think. But would you eventually freeze, or is body heat enough to make up the difference? What about radiation?