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Re: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Bunnyverse Oh Alpha Flight certainly maxxed out on their psychological limitations.

Re: The Official Handbook of the Marvel Bunnyverse Wait, these characters aren't anthropomorphic rabbits? Bummer.

Re: Setting for a "realistic" campaign in space I think you've overdone it a little. Having the two systems have the identical setup makes things look artificial. I'd suggest having A have two planets in the habitable zone while B had the gas giant in the habitable zone.

Re: Help with a "Susceptibility" Are you point scrounging? Because if you aren't you can just roleplay it.

Re: Having Star Hero Parallel this world in the 18th-19th Centuries

Re: Having Star Hero Parallel this world in the 18th-19th Centuries You could use giant robots as your "infantry". They'd have short range interstellar capability so that in high density areas they become the primary mode of interstellar combat because they can flexibly flight in space or on the planets themselves. But to make long trips you need to load them onto ships.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) George Mitsotakis thought he was the luckiest man in the world when he met the beautiful girl with the multiply shaded red hair. It was a whirlwind romance, a marriage within weeks, and she was soon pregnant with a daughter named Elena. For seven years everything was as perfect as he could reasonably ask until he did one thing she'd asked him never to do, peek into her room in the morning. Dumbstruck at the unearthly glow that surrounded her, he could only stare and listen as she explained that she was Eos, goddess of the dawn, and her freedom to remain on Earth had been dependant on not revealing her nature to any mortal. Then she disappeared, leaving George to raise their daughter alone. As she grew it became obvious that she'd inherited some of her mother's powers. She could fly, emit burning or blinding light, and she was stronger than you'd expect from such a slight girl. Eventually in the midst of a demonic invasion she took to the field as "Dawnstar".

Re: WWYCD: The Seven Deadlies The Virtues opposed to their respective Vices. Lust v Chastity Gluttony v Temperance Greed v Charity Sloth v Diligence Wrath v Patience Envy v Kindness Pride v Humility

Re: Having Star Hero Parallel this world in the 18th-19th Centuries Just As Fast As Light.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Then let's just give the nod to Whitewings for resurrecting the thread and let him pick the next name.

Re: Having Star Hero Parallel this world in the 18th-19th Centuries I'd go with "Britain" being a colony of "America". Earth sent out a JAFAL colony ship that founded the independant colony of Albion, but Albion discovered FTL and ended up carving out a much larger and more powerful empire than that of Earth. Many Terrans still hold a grudge over that holding that as the birthplace of humanity it should be the capital planet of a united humanity.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) I wonder whether Wylodmeyer is even on the forum any more

Re: Panspermia, anyone?

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Post-Scarcity! That was the shining vision of Simon Hendriks when he created the Forge, an automated manufacturing facility that could make anything from toasters to sophisticated robot servants for the asking. Naturally it ran amuck, seeking out its own raw materials and manufacturing a host of robotic foragers to get them, then soldiers to protect itself. It rebuilt itself into a gigantic tracked vehicle equiped with ground to air weaponry for protection. Naturally the military blew it to smithereens anyway, but some of the foragers survived and secretly they are reconstructing Forge, as a burrowing machine this time.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? Oh they aren't total unknowns. We know that life originating has to happen in the first place.

Re: Panspermia, anyone?

Re: Panspermia, anyone? The only way we know life could exist in an environment is by observing life existing in it. And of course if we leave this solar system we'll preclude the evolutionary development of any other advanced tool-using species. Which would indicate that our existence indicates that there's no billions of years old species responsible for the origin of life on Earth.

Re: Pet Powers Wouldn't "Uncontrolled Missile Deflection" be Missile deflection that only works when the GM wants it to? I don't see what the problem is. I'd be punking you on a regular basis. And having you find weakness on your own team mates just for laughts.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? Of course if your campaign actually includes species who existed billions of years ago and were technologically capable of interstellar flight, then there's no conceptual problem with panspermia except that an explanation for where they went could be an issue. It can be handled using the glowy ball of light approach or the lovecraftian "monsters ate 'em" version.

Re: WWYCD: Registration Payback I sure wouldn't let you get selective effect for free.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? Panspermia ISN'T ruled out. There's just nothing to support the idea and it adds whatever the problems are with life originating to the problems associated with somehow getting life into space, across interstellar distances and onto a planet in shape to start replicating.

Re: With even greater power.... That depends. What happens to me when I complain about her regime?

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Haruhi Potter and the Hogwarts Host Club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouran_High_School_Host_Club

Re: Panspermia, anyone? High. Heavier elements are more massive. If pre-solar nebulae form in the first place (and we can actually see them forming in lots of places, notably the Pleides), then heavier elements are less likely to escape the gravitational pull. Um...so? Leading us to the conclusion that space has lots of rocks in it. As it happens we've looked at space, and it turns out that space has lots of rocks in it. Ah but that's not the issue. The issue is whether an even more improbable event is preferable as an explanation to one which merely seems improbable. Panspermia can't be ruled out at this time but there's no real support for it either. We haven't found earthlike-life in space, and there are reason to think that space would be very inhospitable to it so until we do, there's no particular reason to think that Earth-like life didn't originate on Earth.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? If space was filled with life we wouldn't have to go to Mars to find it it. We'd be finding it in moon rocks and meteorites. The only reason why they went to Mars in particular looking for life is because they have a sneaking suspicion that life needs liquid water and Mars probably had liquid water once upon a time.