Ian Mackinder

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be certain.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... All well done - especially (IMO) 3 & 4. Given all that I have heard about this bunch, I cannot help but think that their pics should be accompanied by a warning. Something along the lines of "Authorities are looking for these people ....".

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Another Polaroid moment soon to come, I am sure. As usual, DrHoz, I would rep ya if I could.

Re: "Neat" Pictures ... And hallucinogenics were cheap and readily available.

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Re: Creepy Pics. Using Firefox and Win XP. No problems. Check your settings.

Re: Jokes Worth noting that when we Aussies tell these kinds of jokes, they are always about New Zealanders.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Oh, ghad, no.

Re: What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished? It's deja vu all over again. Again.

Re: Eccentric but plausible ways a character could be rich? Consider the "accidental origins" favoured by many superhero PCs. The character was given a big lump of hush-money (or out-of-court compensation) by a major corporation after s/he was accidentally zapped with weird rays, doused in chemicals, bitten by a radio-active whatsit and/or genetically altered at their facility. Naturally, this payment requires that the character keeps totally quiet about what happened - and when the character finds out they got superpowers from it, that can complicate everything. Alternatively, either or both of the character's parents had the accident and got the pay-out, and the character simply inherited both the money and something extra.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Ayup, that sounds about right. Yet again, rep ya if I could.

Re: Tramp Steamer Info and Deckplans Thanks for those links. I play a tramp freightrer captain in a Pulp HERO campaign, and there is a lot of useful info there.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... So, she'll choose a more lethal weapon to attack him with, then?

Re: Super hero one liners ... And the sad thing is, you KNOW that is true.

Re: "Neat" Pictures W-e-l-l, the Mythbusters themselves say that failure is always an option.

Re: The Real Reason That The Nazi War Effort Failed Time travel, dude. Consider all the weird face-offs that both Godzilla AND the Nazis have ever been in. It is probably inevitable that, sooner or later, The Big G makes at least a cameo appearance in ww2.

Re: The Real Reason That The Nazi War Effort Failed IF he is very very lucky.

Re: The Real Reason That The Nazi War Effort Failed I liked it . But, in reality, Hitler had highly variable enthusiasm as regards Big & Flashy Technology; but was very uninterested in relics, the occult or religious matters (other than his belief in his / Germany's "Great Destiny", yadda, yadda, yadda ...). Himmler was always the go-to Nazi for that sort of thing.

Re: "Neat" Pictures I can live with that assessment.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... ... Or the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... In a recent 'Star Wars' game ... Our group are honoured guests of a local crimelord, having helped him against other equally un-nice people. We are in our guest quarters for the night, when those people decide to seek revenge. The Noble in our party settles down in her own room. She has some heavy-duty (secret) computer work to do and leaves instructions NOT to be disturbed. My Character, Sam Darpa (Scoundrel), makes her a pot of coffee and leaves her to it. Later, Sam is lying asleep in bed (having flubbed his Perception roll) when the assassin breaks in. Assassin tries to use his poisoned dagger, and also flubs it - doing very nasty things to Sam's pillow. Unsurprisingly, Sam wakes up. Given how things are developing for most of the party (Combat, except for the Noble - still oblivious in her room), the Ref probably expects Sam to go all Heroic or some such thing. Instead, I tell the Ref, "Sam screams like a school girl - and throws his blankets over the assassin's head...". Yeah, another proud moment for ol' Sam. The rest of the Players are amused. The Ref has me make a roll-to-hit, and I do well enough to entangle the assassin in the blankets. He can't see a thing, and will need to take at least one action to get out of said blankets. My next action is to ...... ask the Referee if there is any space UNDER the bed. The Referee says there is. "OK, I grab my blaster off the bedside table, and DIVE under the bed." The Ref orders a Stealth roll, which Sam makes very handily. The assassin pulls the blankets off his head, and finds the room now apparently empty. He is just about to start searching when two better-armed PCs burst in and attack. Sam waits out the fight under his bed. All he can see from there are feet anyhow, and he decides not to risk shooting the wrong extremities. To cap things off, as all the combat ends, the lady Noble sticks her head out of her room and yells to the world "Would you people PIPE DOWN!" before slamming the door shut. Somebody says "Sam, I think you overdid it with her coffee...". Not Sam's finest hour but, hey, for once he got through combat unharmed. Although, when proper security had been established and the bodies removed, he did choose to spend the rest of the night sleeping UNDER his bed.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? As L Marcus already said, because he was the greatest living expert on rocketry. AND because the USA's own efforts in that direction kept exploding on the launch pad.

Re: "Neat" Pictures As a keen player of Fallout 3, I approve. Repped.