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Re: Answers & Questions Q: Do you object to my character having a 100 Comeliness? A: You're as crazy as a bag of nuts in an unbalanced centrifuge!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Walk a Mile in my Shoes - Joe South

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Theme to The Rockford Files (don't know the artist/band).

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, what happens if they ever publish a collection of Matt's poetry? A: Don't hurt me!

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, what'd they do when the infinite monkeys went on strike? A: Halliburton.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I am Pegasus - Ross Ryan

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What do you have when you lack a landmark, a road, and a native american? A: Godzilla's Bathtub.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I've got it on one of my "Best of the '70s" compilation discs. Funny; I'm a bit of a purist, but I like that cover. Probably because it's such a different take from the Beatles'. Right Now: Hollywood Nights by Bob Segar.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Did I do something bad? A: The Overture.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Eleanor Rigby - Zoot.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Inquisitor! Why does the penitent fall on his face to kiss my ring? A: Fleidermaus - Mann.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why should you always camp near an Inch Down tree? A: I AM kneeling.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Pulstar - Vangelis

Given that according to the rules, the endurance cost of Non-Combat movement is equal to the proportionate endurance cost of combat movement, i.e. moving one quarter of your maximum non-combat movement is equivalent to moving one quarter of your combat movement as far as endurance costs are considered; Further given that it is perfectly legal to apply a limitation or advantage to only part of a power; I have the situation where one of my players has applied the advantage Reduced End Cost only to the base movement of his flight, but NOT to the adder Improved Non-combat Multiple. The claim is then that since the combat speed Endurance cost has been reduced, and the non-combat speed Endurance cost is based upon that, the non-combat speed Endurance cost is equal to the reduced amount. This does not sit well with me, as I do not like something-for-nothing situations, but I cannot deny the basic logic. I have ruled that the reduced endurance cost will apply only if he does NOT use his increased non-combat multiple - if he uses more than 2x speed, he must pay the FULL appropriate endurance cost. Nonetheless, I would like to hear your thoughts on the subject.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's the third dial for? The one in meters per gallon? A: Man-eating Turkeys.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Great Southern Land - Icehouse

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? London Calling - The Clash

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's in this box with all the "DO NOT OPEN" symbols on it? A: I defuse.

Re: Fictional Cities I've created a fictional city in Nebraska, Kingdom City, for my current campaign (The Skeleton Crew). The best thing about it is that the players have helped build the city - one guy drew a much better map, another suggested some locations, etc. With their help, it's turned into a much more real place in all of our minds.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Yes, I remember you telling me the local god was called thunder. What does that have to do with our WWF franchise? A: Greetings, my droogs.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, did you just have an accident with a paint mixer? A: Little Plaid Men.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Sister Golden Hair - America

Re: Answers & Questions Q: So, your universal vaccine cures every disease known to man - A: Nothing makes me feel older.

Re: Aliens watching our television It's really very unlikely that any outside listener would have picked up our signals sent before the mid-fifties - i.e. when Television became commonplace. Most of our signals prior to then were in wavelengths that tend to be bounced back to earth by the ionosphere - deliberately, I should note, since that gave them greater range. But when we needed the greater bandwidth for TV broadcasts, we opened up the VHF and eventually UHF area bands. These punch right through the ionosphere, no bounceback, and since the mid to late 1950s Earth has been one of the brightest radio sources in this part of the galaxy. (The earliest TV broadcast was the famous 'cast of the 1936 Berlin Olympics - but that was neither a powerful transmission, nor a very long one.) An advanced civilization COULD detect our earlier radio signals, but they'd need to be A) lucky, and using something similar to the Very Large Array that SETI uses to search for - well, exactly that sort of evidence. So, a civilization 50LY from here would probably have just become aware of our existence. One 100LY away would know nothing of us, unless they were phenomenally lucky. One 25LY away would probably have told us to SHUT UP by now...

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Electric Barbarella - Duran Duran