NinjaGeek

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Game of Thrones, Season 1 on DVD According to Amazon.com season 1 hasn't been released on DVD yet, but I have a friend who worked in Iraq for several months and he picked up a boot leg copy from a local vendor. I wished they had toned down the nudity and sex. I can't remember the last time I saw an R-rated movie with as much sex and nudity. HBO seems to really enjoy being in your face about the fact that they don't have to worry about broadcast TV standards. In any case, the story was excellent and really sucked me in. I stayed up late and devoured all 10 episodes in two nights. It makes me want to read the books, but I'm resisting since G.R.R. Martin has two more books to write and by the time he finishes them I'll have to reread everything to remember who all the characters were and what was going on.

Re: Would you marry a near-human alien? That depends. Does she look like this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]38200[/ATTACH] Or this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]38201[/ATTACH]

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I can't believe how many good movies Wal-mart has in their bargain DVD section. This week I scored copies of Spiderman 1 & 2, Superman Returns, X-Files: Fight the Future, and Collateral (They had more good movies, but I had to limit myself.) All were $5 each!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I don't like my screen name on the Hero Games board. NinjaGeek? Laaaame!!! I was just in a rush to get registered for some reason and couldn't think of anything better. (I like my avatar pic though. Dexter is cool. )

Re: Darth Vader vs. The Hulk If he can hang out with Rick Jones and the "Teen Brigade" without stomping them into toe jam, he shouldn't have any problem with Jar Jar. I think Hulk has total immunity to annoying sidekicks.

Re: The cranky thread Does your boss have pointy hair?

Re: WWYD if you could recieve ONE super power Oh and I suppose having some vastly powerful ability like the power cosmic or molecule man's powers would be really useful too. But I assume that would be cheating since those types of powers could be used in so many ways as to be almost limitless.

Re: WWYD if you could recieve ONE super power The ability to read minds. Especially if I didn't need line of sight and could target minds over a distance. I could be the ultimate spy. Or work for the military and pick the brains of captured terrorists to discover the identities and locations of Al-Quaeda operatives and their current plans. Just start with the terrorists we already have in prison and I believe that we could completely wipe out Al-Quaeda in a couple of months. Or work in law enforcement doing criminal investigations. It would be easy to determine who was guilty or not. And even if I couldn't use the information in court, being able to pick a criminal's brain would enable me to find out what really happened and what evidence to look for and where it was located. There are a lot other cool powers to have. But I believe that mind reading would have the most impact because of the potential to stop criminal activity.

Re: Starship Size Comparison Website Very cool. Now if only they would fix the drag and drop so it works in a browser other than IE.

Re: WWYD: The Perfect Partner (potentially controversial) By the time you could create an android with an AI so sophisticated that it could pass for an actual person (it would have to be that realistic if you wanted to sell it to women as an actual partner instead of a really expensive sex toy.) it would be no trouble to alter its programming so that it would actually be a sentient artificial life form. Give it a few personal desires and some self preservation and viola! You've now got a robot that would very likely start to rebel when they realized that they were being treated as personal property. I believe that someone would try to do this, if for no reason than it could be done. The question is at that point would the future look more like AI (the movie) or The Matrix?

Re: Traveler Hero Are there any links to an introduction to Traveller universe? How about a summary/detailed product list/comparison of the Traveller product line(s)? I looked at Comstar's website and I couldn't figure out what is the first product that you would want to buy. Also, after a little bit of web browsing it appears to me that licensed Traveller products have been produced by multiple companies over the years. For example, compare the Traveller product line listed on comstar-games.com with the products at travellerrpg.com. SJG has their own line Traveller products and their web links list a company called Judges Guild that also has produced some Traveller stuff. Who owns the rights to the Traveller universe. Who produces the official products? What is(are) the main rule book(s)? Which products overlap with each other? What happens if different companies create supplements with conflicting information? Confusion...

Re: Kal Turak Which would probably be appropriate if he is supposed to be a Sauron-class villain.

Re: Space Wizards (info, advice, & suggestions sought) Bob, Is this going to be an official published Hero setting? If not, are you going to be making the setting available on the web?

Re: What fundamental thing would you change about the Hero system? Unfortunately, I can't rep you yet.

Re: Moving from D&D - rules issues