Scott Ruggels

[Partial Repost from Facebook] Just got the news Scott Bennie Passed away Yesterday. Hearing about this is kind of Crushing for me, because he was a friend and collaborator. We were both in Carl Rigney's immense Play By Mail/ Convention Champions game, and Scott was who I would run into at various conventions when we would game out the combats of Carl's game, but then I would see Scott in just about every other Convention Champions game, run by the "Good" GMs. We were both in the various 'zines. I think we even exchanged phone calls a few times. His villains could be very scary, not only because of their builds, but their convictions. His anti-smoking assassin was memorable. Scott had health problems that made him a rarer, and rarer presence over time, but he still continued his writing. I lost touch with him when I dropped out of gaming due to my move to Los Angeles in 2005. Very sad to hear of his passing, but now his suffering has ended.

Drhoz, you have become my weekly television drama. Play on!

Life god(ess?) animals primarily. Domestic, Feral, for healthy cattle, but also the rats and mice that your eat the grain. Predators and prey.

I think a few of these first appeared in genre books such as Savage Lands by Aaron Allston, also Western Hero, Horror Hero, ect. and then got consolidated into 4e, afterwards.

Hit locations, and "sectional armor", for FH and Modern Mercenary. I leave activations for the superhero crowd.

They added a pistol to the product line up!

I never look at the recommends, The recommends even on YouTube are getting worse and worse, so Instead I look at my Subscribed list to see what's new from people I actually want to hear from in a timely fashion. For HBO, it's a case of just digging by subject. Oddly though, the Amazon Recommendations are actually not terrible, which was a surprise.

Part of that is that yes, you do need the exact titles, yes. The other is that you have to go down to the bottom, and search in the submenus for the "Channels" that Max offers. IT really is annoying, but there really is a lot of material if you look under every nook and cranny of that terrible interface. That being said, I kind of prefer Amazon Prime, and I am still poking at Netflix on occasion, as long as I avoid Netflix Originals, and look at other offerings.

Katla (Netflix) an Icelandic TV show with curiously high production values about a few families staying behind in a village slowly being buried by a volcanic eruption, and has lasted for a year. One day Duplicates of people, living or deadstart to show up in the village. Strange and very interesting, the show builds up a very specific mood.

I ask myself this, every time someone posts a D&D conversion to X Edition of Hero, here on the Fantasy Forum..... Make your own thing.

Man, I have to write all of this down, and make it happen. THings are just falling into place.

I heard about this yesterday on YouTube from a devastated correspondent of Prof. Barker’s. It still was TSR’s second printed fantasy. The history of it is still there. With the revelation of the authorship of Serpent ‘s Walk, this all becomes a variant of the “Goat****er” joke. The value of the world building is called into question.

Exactly, though Humans would make the core of the Yeomanry. (give all the dwarves Welsh accents.)

If I ever run 5e, I may run with this, to a near literalness, by making Elves the Nobility and Aristocracy, and because of the lands they have staked out, it forces the Humans and halflings to go to the colonies if they want to grow enough to eat, or make money.

Malkewiscz of Kolkur is a heavy set man apparently in his 50s with a salt and pepper beard, and a very solid gaze. He has a piercing, commanding voice, that he uses to dramatic effect when lecturing students, apprentices, or Nobles in his presence. He dresses in the dark robes of an academician, with a stole around his neck covered in characters few can read. He is a man of great courage, but of cold fury when angered. He can be very diplomatic, and patient, but has little patience for frivolity. He has devoted himself of the pursuits of the mind, so magic, a bit of engineering, history, and politics occupy his time. He teaches the National Magic style well, and most of the senior military mages of the Kingdom have been his students, But he has studied the traditions of other lands, and has mastered a few, such as transformation magic. When using the National Magic style, is shapes are precise, and geometric, The colors bright and clear, and the lines of force, direct and straight. But the other styles are subtle, indirect, and quiet. About his only indulgences are food, and High quality writing utensils. He is observant, but not pious, careful not to offend the higher powers. It's not clear how old he is, but he's been in Kolkur since before it was a Northern possession. Three or four generations of students have described him looking as he does now, never younger, as if he had met the Victorious Dangar Ice Hand in the streets of Kolkur as a 50 year old human, politely pledging himself to Icehand's banner. With him as the senior Academician, at the University of Kolkur, he has shaped it into a very focused institute of learning, and Magic in the northern provinces.

How many DC is that in Hero?

This has been the blessing I have found for online play. Face to face isn’t really an option for me due to my remote location, but there are huge groups of players from all over the world looking for a game. You can be a lot more selective. Find the players that are compatible.

In the least it’s a focus.

Poking around on my Mom's HBO Max account, it's not that it is bereft of content, it's that the menus suck. I mean really suck, but there are a lot of classic movies on it, as well as a large amount of animated content (I am a sucker for cartoons). The selection is admittedly not as good as Amazon Prime, but it's a bit more varied that Netflix.

It's on HBO Max.

I think it was. This matches what Arneson said when we talked to him at a Bay Area Con in the late 80s.

Supercrooks on Netflix. Another of the Millarworld properties (Jupiter's Legacy), this one was animated in Japan by a top crew, and shows it. A story of Johnny Bolt, and Electrical based Supervillain, just out of the Supermax Prison, and his adventures once he is out. It would make an interesting "inverted" Champions game from the Villain's point of View. The Way of the House Husband on Netflix. Based on a Manga of the same name. A former Yakuza marries a hottie, business woman named Miku, and stays home to take care of their apartment. No kids yet, but he puts his incredible determination and extremely high presence to work, making a home for the both of them, and their cat. His former reputation as "The Immortal Dragon" causes some social problems around the neighborhood. The Batman. A flawed, but ultimately good film about The World's Greatest Detective, actually being a detective for a change. It's a little long, and the over the top ending was a bit much consider4ing the rest of the film that came before it, but Pattenson was a good actor, in a film full of good performances, but it's very very dim and cloudy visually, but the few action sequences really stand out. Has a very cool, if low tech Batmobile. Dog Channing Tatum plays a Former U.S. Army Ranger, trying to get a job doing Diplomatic Security, but needs a recommendation from his former commander. The Former commander needs a favor. Take a former military Dog to the funeral of its former handler 1500 miles away, oh, and he has to drive, because the dog can't fly. It's a very fractious Dog. Hijinks ensue. A decent film, but not ad good as The Batman.

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I found this YouTube channel very good in evaluation Ship interiors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPdjrLoUsyJh3XS7Aw7rzg Yes, it's mostly star Citizen, but his professional evaluation of ship interiors as a working architect make a lot of logical sense.

The problem with that, though is that it is an unequal terminology if there are Humans in the organization, with a pejorative connotation. You would have Academics fainting all around the Universities over that one.