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  6. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Star Wars campaign. Sheila Lowspeed is an alcoholic failed Jedi. An unidentified NPC walks into the bar where the PC's are meeting, collapses, and repeats over and over "I been drugged".

     

    The PC's and various NPC's try to get more information from the distressd NPC. "I been drugged" is the only response.

     

    Sheila Lowspeed: "Let me through! I speak Drunk!"

     

    The game stopped for about 10 minutes due to soda spewing from noses, etc.

  7. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    From the Titans game:

     

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    Feline Fury: I may need to redesign my costume.

     

    Neutron: Why?! We all LOVE that costume!

     

    Feline Fury: I need a utility belt. Ive got so much stuff crammed into the tops of my boots theres not enough room for my knees anymore!

     

    QUOTE]

     

    Having seen her picture, I think a utility belt may be problematic. She won't be able to see it...:hex:

  8. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Tonight's Defenders game

     

    Enigma: Do you want me to keep hitting you?

    Inertia (OOC): Kind of.

     

    Built To Last (to Promethean): Question, can you grow body parts back if they're severed?

     

    Inertia rolls poor damage. Promethean rolls good damamge.

    Inertia: Oh! No fair! That's where all my 6s went.

     

    How To Demoralize An Army:

    In Faery the group finds themselves in the midst of a huge battle between Good and Evil. Classic stuff. After defeating the Headless Horseman, The Big Bad Wold, and the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man the Dragon (sorry, The Dragon) shows up. It ignores Promethean's uber-blast, knocks Enigma into negative body, then charges Built To Last and bites him.

     

    Built To Last proceeds to make a Called Shot To The Head, and rolls a natural 3. The GM just gives him maximum damage. And even manages to do 4" of knockback snapping the dragons head backwards, spinning it head over heels and knocking it out cold. He turns to the Army Of The Adversary, fist in the air:

    "I wear a crown of stars up my brow. With my name written upon my thigh. I come conquering and to conquer. BOW."

     

    they fled.

     

    Best presence attack E-V-E-R!

  12. Megaman and the Mouse

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    I saw something in another thread that got me thinking. (I know. Me. Thinking. Hardly ever the case.) What sort of problems have you GM's had with power mismatches in your groups? For example, say you have Black Canary, The Question, and Nightwing matched up with Captain Marvel (DC version). Or you have Thor, Silver Surfer, and Doctor Strange matched up with Night Crawler.

     

    My own experience with it was pretty positive, from a players perspective. I usually run bricks, but for a while I was in a campaign where the characters were heavy on firepower and low on detective-type skills. Hard to fight the bad guys if you can't find them. I ran a detective/agent-killer (Figure of speech. No killing.) My character had about 8 dice max, and that was all HTH, no ranged attacks. The rest of the group started at 12 dice and went up. My GM just made sure everybody had something to do. I always got to sneak around the edges of a fight, defusing bombs, or knocking over agents, while the rest of the team bashed the Big Bad. Out of combat, they would run a danger room session, while I tracked down the Big Bad. And a good time was had by all.

  13. Who would win? Writer's choice

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    Re: Who would win? Writer's choice

     

    I'd like to see how a Bird of Prey can stand up to a Shadow Vessel. Okay' date=' it's got a cloak, but I think the Shadow Vessel does too. Besides, can the Bird of Prey's photon torpedos penetrate the Shadow Vessel's hull? I know it's the writer's choice, but personally, I'd have to take a long hard look at that one.[/quote']

    Also, In B-5, ships don't have shields. So, will Shadow weapons penetrate BoP shields? If it's in the script!

  21. Stargate weapons

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    I may be wrong, But I believe they will STOP 30-06 AP!!! probably not multiple hits in the same region, I believe the ceramic crushes, disipating some of the energy and abrading/breaking/yawing the bullet so it is more easily stopped by the Soft portion, not iirc kevlar, or not all kevlar.

     

    The doctors in Iraq and Afghanistan have had relatively few upper torso wounds to deal with.

    The President of Second Chance Body Armor demonstrated using 7.62 NATO Armor Piercing fired into the level IV body armor he was wearing at point blank range. While standing on one foot. He didn't even stumble. It's amazing stuff.

  22. 'Empire': a cliché?

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    The Sten books by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch deal with the idea that an Empire is always going to be a bad thing. Power corrupts, and an Emperor will eventually rise who will abuse his power. If real checks and balances exist to keep your interstellar governing body from becoming a totalitarian state then call it a commonwealth, or grand alliance.

  24. We're Gonna Need Guns

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    There is a version of the MP-5 that has a non-detachable silencer. With sub-sonic ammo the sound of the action cycling is the loudest sound it makes. That's still fairly substantial, easily heard 50 feet away. The weapon has an action lock that prevents the action from cycling, turning into a very quiet single shot. The action is then cycled by hand. Used only when maximum stealth is needed.

    Some handguns with similar capability have been made. In Vietnam, a 9mm Smith and Wesson Mod. 39 was modified to use subsonic ammo, fitted with a silencer and and action lock, and dubbed the Hush Puppy because one use was to take out sentry dogs from a great enough distance to keep them from alerting, with a low enough sound signature to prevent detection. The SOCOM .45 is supposed to have a similar function, quietly removing guards, dogs and such during a Special-Ops raid.

  25. We're Gonna Need Guns

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    Its not so much about the density its the hardness, lead alone is too soft for most modern guns it just strips out filling the rifling with shavings and not getting the proper spin which is why "lead" bullets are actually a lead alloy, silver on the other hand is too hard (or so I recall) making it tough on the gun barrel. Sure you can put a copper jacket on it but what effect does copper coated silver have on a werewolf?

     

    My solution for horror games has generally been, get a shotgun (you can stuff pretty much anything in a shotgun shell) or for those with extraordinary resources can use saboted ammo, the sabot takes care of getting the slug down range. My favorite round from a Stalking the Night Fantastic game was a bane round we cooked up after getting our butts kicked by a demon who could only be hurt by glass (IIRC) basically it was a shotgun shell with bits of broken glass, silver & gold pellets, wood chunks, pebbles and anything else we could think of, we thought something in it should hurt critters with unknown vulnerabilities, oh yeah we loaded a magazine full into a full auto shotgun, unfortunately the next time we ran into a demon it turned out to be a hoax (a guy in a rubber suit), on the plus side it got my character into the looney bin instead of prison (it wasn't hard to argue he was insane).

     

     

    You can alloy the silver to make it softer, or use a sabot made of plastic which drops off after the round leaves the barrel.

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