EvilDrPuma

Re: Thrilling Places! It's worth it (I laud the decision to include a Lost World with Pleistocene megafauna instead of dinosaurs!).

Re: [Review] The Ultimate Skill

Re: Speed of Travel I guess it all depends on the feel you want to create. A month from Sol to the frontier doesn't sound bad to me. It'll feel a little like global travel by steamship in the late 19th/early 20th century, before commercial air transportation became a big deal; if that sounds like what you're looking for, then go for it. You might want to go for something a bit lower if you're thinking of an "Age of Sail" analogue.

Re: Van Damme does Pulp Correct--hence, "The Muscles from Brussels." (Or, to his detractors, "The Twerp from Antwerp.")

Re: Van Damme does Pulp I bet he was hiding under the mat.

Re: Making the Police Officer package deal more realistic Enter the Bobbies: +20 PRE (20 Active Points); Only For Making Presence Attacks (-1), Only When Saying "Oy, What's All This, Then?" (-1/4). Total Cost: 9 Points.

Re: Predators: who else found the 'Easter Egg'? The idea is similar. In a movie or TV show, an "Easter Egg" is a visual homage to some other pop culture icon. Often these are hidden in plain sight. Example: In Watto's junkyard in The Phantom Menace, you might spot a derelict in the background that is, in fact, one of the EVA pods from 2001. But only if you're looking carefully at just the right shot. In a book, I would suppose that such a thing would appear mainly in illustrations.

Re: Could you be a spy? As reality TV goes, that might not be such a bad idea. On the other hand, I hate reality TV.

Re: Stupid or silly WWYCD's Your character is flying high above the city in his/her brand-new, one-piece, zip-up-the back spandex outfit, when suddenly he/she experiences a lower intestinal urgency. What does he/she do?

Re: Flyboys: WWI pilots, dogfights, and zepplins!!!

Re: Flyboys: WWI pilots, dogfights, and zepplins!!!

Re: Flyboys: WWI pilots, dogfights, and zepplins!!! I didn't see any other German planes in the trailer earlier this summer. Unless I missed or forgot something, that is.

Re: Cool Pulp Images That's it. I'm reppin' you upside the head.

Re: Lost World Map Repped. If I was twice as cool as you are, you would still be cooler than I.

Re: [Cosmology] The ur-Stone. (Thoughts wanted.) Clever. A nice (dare I say it?) ur-myth. Repped.

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Re: Stargate Question More the latter, I think--or at least, we haven't seen Hermiod proclaim any use of Daedalus's Asgard equipment to be "abusive." The technology is sufficiently far ahead of both Earth's and most Goa'uld tech that it simply couldn't be maintained without an Asgard to help. Kind of a Peace Corps thing, but not so much on the peace.

Re: Even more cool planes... Interesting to see how closely the Luftfracht-Langguth "tailless airplane" design patented in the U.S. in 1933 resembles the Flying Wing in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Supposedly, J. K. Northrop's flying wing designs from the '40s were the basis for the Raiders plane, but the Luftfracht-Langguth design is very similar, of German origin, and patented during the correct period. Luftfracht-Langguth "tailless airplane." Nazi Flying Wing production drawing (presumably by Norman Reynolds). A larger version of the drawing can be found at the above link. Nazi Flying Wing production photo.

Re: Map of Mongo! "What do you mean, 'Flash Gordon approaching...?'"

Re: Stargate Question True enough that the third disintegrating shot hasn't been seen for quite a while, but no rationale has really been necessary--you just never see anybody shoot the same target more than twice with a zat.

Re: Stargate Question Good point, but when a Wraith feeds on you, it doesn't simply age you, it sucks away your "life force" for its own sustenance. I'd say that rules out Transform--the aging/"stealing years" is the special effect, not the power. I wasn't thinking when I said Drain, though. It would have to be a Transfer of (at least) STR and CON, with the Wraith enhancing its own (at least) STR, REC, and END. There'd also either be a godawfully high Delayed Return Rate Advantage or a set of modifiers such that the Wraith burns the Transferred points more rapidly and the victim regains them slowly or not at all. The problem with Wraith feeding is that we've never seen the Wraith leave a victim alive enough to recover, if that's possible at all.

Re: Stargate Question Three words: Ugly, ugly Drain.

Re: Stargate Question Just to clarify--no, Ra's Threatening Armored Men were not called Jaffa in the movie. In the series pilot, Jack O'Neill notes that they didn't have the symbiote pouch when General Hammond shows him the dead Jaffa from the Cheyenne Mountain raid. So, not Jaffa--but except for anything relating directly to the symbiote, Jaffa write-ups should work just fine for them. As for why Ra was using human TAMs and not Jaffa, don't look at me, man. I didn't do it.

Re: Ok, this is a Stargate question? Funny thing, though, Earth is the only planet that has ever been shown to have more than one gate--and that was really only because the original (the Antarctica gate) became inaccessible. You might think that multiple gates would be desirable, if only to have a backup or because a Stargate is really a pretty lousy deal for deploying strategic or large tactical forces...but until the Ori started trying to set up supergates in season 9, that never came up.