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Re: Vehicle Character Sheets

If you have Hero Designer, then you should be able to use one of the export sheets to HTML or RTF that are designed for vehicles.

Re: Tru Davies

They both have the same ability and just use it for different purposes. She tries to keep the person from dying while he uses his gift to keep their death on course (or take another life to keep the balance).

Not quite clairsentience as both have restarted a day more than once on at least one occasion and made further changes.

Re: A mathematical difficulty

You do realize this means that the inner system's information will therefor be up to a year "out of date," because anything the hubs 'detect' will have to be transmitted to the inner system, don't you?

 

Why are the hubs so far out, anyway?

The information might be a year old, but anything traveling past them would be moving slower than the speed at which the information was flowing giving someone more time to prep the further out they detect the intruder coming in from.

Re: Character for comic and game. Copyright issue?

Yeah, I remember that. The basic argument was that Fantasyland at West Edmonton Mall would take people away from Fantasyland at any of the Disney theme parks.

 

[sarcasm]Cause there is a big comparison there [/sarcasm]

 

Now it's named Galaxyland and has a really stupid mascot, an alien named Cosmo.

Trademarks require that the holder do Due Diligence to defend it or they lose it. If they sue someone for infringement and that defendant can show that they failed to go after someone else similarly infringing (and it was known to the plaintiff they were infringing), then they have to pursue the other person first before they can proceed on the lawsuit against the current person.

You might find it stupid that they'd sue over this, but the law actually requires them to.

Intel sued a Yoga studio for creating a logo that was Yoga Inside for infringing their trademarked slogan of Intel Inside. The suit went nowhere, but it still became a matter of court record that Intel had done its due diligence (and the Yoga studio got to soak the legal fees to defend themselves).

Re: Character for comic and game. Copyright issue?

Copyright is not the issue since names cannot be copyright' date=' only trade marked.[/quote']

 

Correct. A body of work can be copyrighted, but names are Trademarked.

 

Intellectual Property is not an issue since there is not an issue since it refers to an abstract properties of the work, and a name would be something more concrete.

 

Trademark is a form of IP, so in this instance you are incorrect to say that IP is not an issue.

 

Trademark is the issue IF the DC does in fact have the name trademarked.

 

Now this directory of trademarked names does not have a listing for Solomon Grundy. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has 1 listing for Solomon Grundy's which is a colonial men's costume store (or something of the sort) and that seems to be a "canceled" patent.

 

With this research done, and the fact that Solomon Grundy is not an original name BY DC comics but a character from a nursery rhyme James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps in 1842.

 

From my understanding a name from legend or nursery rhymes cannot be trademarked.

 

Example: I could right a Robin Hood story (or use the name) without Disney's consent so long as he was not a fox with and little john was a bear. Other animals could infringe on IP rights.

 

How much of this is accurate? This just from the research that I have gathered.

 

Names from history with a description can be trademarked if they are unique from the historical instance. E.g. the aforementioned Robin Hood as a anthropomorphic fox or Thor as a superhero with a specific costumed look. And don't forget to check international registries.

Re: Order of the Stick

Kill-stealing? Ganking? Has Beklar been playing WOW?

You can't kill-steal in WoW.

Re: A mathematical difficulty

No' date=' the beams come from the inner system. The Hubs merely detect whether the beam has gone through any status changes between the launch point and the array - such as having interacted with normal matter.[/quote']

 

Ahh, but that doesn't change that the surface area one is calculating for isn't quite what the stations would need to create, heheh.

Re: A mathematical difficulty

My figures are a little different. Please check my math.

 

For a sphere 0.5 light years in radius. Google says that is equal to 4.73 x 10^15 meters. (go to Google and type in "0.5 light years in meters")

Surface area of a sphere = 4 x Pi x r^2

Surface area of a sphere = 4 x Pi x (4.73 x 10^15)^2

Surface area of a sphere = 4 x 3.1416 x 2.24x10^31

Surface area of a sphere = 2.81 x 10^32 square meters

 

Now, the sensors are spaced 1 light second apart. This means that the space each one takes up on the surface of the sphere is approximately a circle with a radius of 0.5 light seconds (if they are 1 light second apart, half belongs to one sensor and half belongs to the other).

 

Google says 0.5 light seconds is 1.49 x 10^8 meters

 

Surface area of a circle = Pi x r^2

Surface area of a circle = 3.1416 x (1.49 x 10^8)^2

Surface area of a circle = 6.97 x 10^16 square meters

 

So the total number of these circles you would need to totally cover the sphere is

 

number of sensors = sphere surface area / circle surface area

number of sensors = 2.81 x 10^32 / 6.97 x 10^16

number of sensors = 4.03 x 10^15

which is about 4 quadrillion sensors (using the US quadrillion, not the British).

This is a very close estimate, but probably still a slight over estimate (I doubt it is off by even a fraction of an order of magnitude) of the number needed as the hubs wouldn't be creating a true sphere. Instead they would be creating a tessellated surface (the beams would travel straight from one hub to the next).

Re: First extra-solar planet with CO2

Here you go, Cancer.

Re: Scourges Of The Galaxy

Content looks very versitile and extremely usable right out of the box. I really like the 'What they say: X' portion getting mock-third-person comments on the NPCs in the book. Great touch!

Sounds reminiscent of the Shadowrun books that were written as if they had been posted to an electronic BBS, so character comments showed up inline with the rest of the text.

Re: What does a "20 Comeliness" look like to YOU?

And now back to the topic at hand... I don't think there is any example of a human that really would fit with a "20" comeliness.

Re: What does a "20 Comeliness" look like to YOU?

I dunnoh man...I had to lift a 100Lbs over my head when I joined the army, it was easy for me...but everyone else there did it too...

 

It was a machine, with the weights on rails though...(Likely for safty, less broken feet that way...)

 

So I'd figure a healthy young male should be able to lift 100 over their head...

 

Maybe your example is an 8 STR? (normal in other words..)

You can lift a lot more than normal without pushing when you use a machine as the other muscle fibers that normally would be recruited for balance and control can now contribute to lift instead as the machine prevents the weight from swaying slightly as you lift. This is why free weights give you an overall better workout at lower weights than the machine systems.

Re: Solar HERO: R.I.P. Phoenix

I'd be very surprised if Phoenix awakened from the ashes come spring. Even if the panels survive intact, the rest of the probe will have been suffering through extremely cold temperatures without the benefit of heaters. From what I can gather, they are expecting CO2 Ice to destroy the electronics onboard.

Re: Anyone actually playing anything?

I really like the Traveler setting and general approach' date=' so I'm eying the [b']Traveler Hero[/b] pdfs. What do you all think of these? Are the two books (1&2) complete enough to provide all you need? Money is very tight and if I get Traveler Hero it'll probably be my one and only gaming purchase for the foreseeable future.

Traveler HERO loses its distribution rights in just a week or so IIRC. So, you might want to make that purchase soon.

Re: Public Domain/Free Pictures

Honestly there needs to be more public domain material. It not only spurs creativity by giving you more tools to work with but provides more ways to convey ideas to each other on the form of pictures.

Welcome to the new age of copyright law. It now has to be at least 100 years old or specifically put into the public domain to make it so (longer if the work was an individuals rather than a companies).

Re: The Terminator Franchise RPG

Not sure I buy the 101 having a Dex of 15... Seems a little high to me.

Re: Opals on Mars

Neat. You learn something new everyday.

 

I had this idea once that would fit well with a Champions game where the big bad supervillain planned on hitting earth with an small asteroid but blew it up in orbit and the chunks the upper atmosphere. There would be damage and death for sure but the big angle of it was the core of the asteroid was solid gold. With thousands of tons of gold raining across the earth's surface a gold based/backed economy would be thrown into chaos. Or at least it would make a good story.

Yep, if there were any gold backed economies. I don't think any 1st or 2nd world nation has had its money backed by gold for quite some time.

Re: THE BOOK OF DRAGONS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

Specifically with regard to Dragons:

 

I want to see some good illustrations where the dragons don't look humanoid. It always bugs me to see human-looking musculature on a dragon. I've seen many pictures like this, such a a rearing dragon whose upper torso looks like a man's torso but with scales, dragon limbs that look almost exactly like human arms and legs. Make sure the artists understand the difference between reptiles and primates.

Just because they're scaly doesn't mean they are reptiles.

As to the rest, well, the big problem is making sure their torso has the anatomy to handle flight. If they are 4-limbed with wings, then where are the muscles that drive the wings. If they are 2-limbed with wings, then the pectorals and other muscles should be the primary motive force for flight (see bird anatomy) with some secondary use if they can walk on those wing limbs while on the ground.

Re: THE BOOK OF DRAGONS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

Look at GURPS Dragons (3rd or 4th) and then stat out from there...

Re: Scourges Of The Galaxy

First I heard of it was when I walked into my FLGS and saw it on the shelf.

Re: Traveller HERO: end is approaching

Does the license expiring mean you can't produce any new material or does it also prevent the sale of current stock as well?

Re: Order of the Stick

New one is up.

Re: Heroes of Might and Magic IV gallery is up!

All images are copyrighted by their respective owners.

Interesting that you acknowledge this, and yet, did you get their permission for this use of their work?

Re: "Mystic Dart 'only vs living beings'."

Right' date=' it doesn't do anything to the armor you're wearing, it passes right through and blows a pumpkin sized hole in your stomach.[/quote']

 

Oh, cool. So guess it can be used to kill a king in the middle of his throne room from outside it through the walls then, heheh

Re: 'En passant' extra attack

True if using super-heroic rules.

 

Under heroic rules that may not always be the case since anything above a 4 SPD normally costs double.

Well, then you might need to tell Simon that as I had no trouble adding 3 SPD to my 3 SPD Heroic character by going to the powers tab and putting in the ability. 30 Active, 12 Real (might be less, depends on the generosity of the GM).