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  7. Your Top Ten Science Fiction Writers, and then some.

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    Re: Your Top Ten Science Fiction Writers, and then some.

     

    I discovered Robert J Sawyer a few years ago... I didn't think that we had a good scifi writer in Canada until then...

     

    a blurb from his site (sfwriter.com)

    "Robert J. Sawyer is one of only seven writers in history to win all three of the world's top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (the full list of such winners: David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, and Connie Willis)."

     

    what I've read so far impressed me

  12. Circle of Protection

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    Re: Circle of Protection

     

    Good idea, Tylorsama... (and welcome on board ;)

     

    Since it is already Constant, I'd say adding Uncontrolled (so the character can sleep it lasts until the Circle isn't "broken"), "Extra Time" (scraping the circle on the ground), Cost END to activate (if like a spell) or 0 END... add to that your Set Effect & affect Whole Object

     

    It costs a lot tho... with an AoE of 3m Radius (+- 20' diameter), it's about 90 AP...

     

    15 pts for 30 STR

    AoE +1/4

    Cost End to Activate -1/2 or 0 END for -1/4

    Affect Whole Objects -1/4

    Uncontrolled +1/2

    Extra Time (say... 5 mins to do the circle correctly, -2)

     

    90 AP, 28 Real

    101 AP, 31 Real for the 0 END one

     

    Pick one, season to taste...

  13. Circle of Protection

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    Re: Circle of Protection

     

    That's why I thought about the Change Environment... Just make them afraid to enter the area

     

    For the barrier, I'd let you do it if you limited it vs Lions but added semi-transparent from your own side (after all you can attack the lions, but they can't fight back)...

  15. Circle of Protection

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    Re: Circle of Protection

     

    What would you think of this...

     

     

    Change Environment, AoE, with a small surprise (say, 1-2 points of electrtical damage) -Xm Running (Only when going toward the Center of the AoE), only affects animals of type Y.

     

    Say it is a "ward" vs Lions... they'd get Zapped and slowed when trying to get to the center of the Ward, but not when going away from it...

  17. Aliens: everything you know is... well, "wrong" doesn't even begin to cover it.

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    Re: Aliens: everything you know is... well, "wrong" doesn't even begin to cover it.

     

    It's still a bit too expensive to CGI aliens. Also if you make the aliens too alien the audience won't really emphasize with them. This is ok if you are going for aliens like the Starship Troopers movie' date=' but if you want to have species that the average person can relate to you have to make them more human.[/quote']

     

    Please Keep off the glue-on nose-ridges & earlobes!!! Feed those to the Pakmaras

  22. Dragons

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    Re: Dragons

     

    I think that I am pretty close in that regard. Though for me even Drakes are extremely rare...

     

    Torwards the end of my D&D days, I remember doing a run where the group actually wanted to go into a Dragon's lair to kill the foul beast. I tried to tell that that was a bad idea with me running the session, with the intent on them going after a Dragon. They insisted that their PCs could handle it, and that I would run the session in a manner that they would enjoy the rewards more. Unfortunately none survived. A couple of the players loved the outcome, and refused to let the session be retconned into a dream. A few of the players were a little more than upset.

     

    Besides when "testing" AD&D 2nd (eons ago), I've never done a session with Dragons...

     

    why bother with Bite/Claws/Spells

     

    Just pick-up the fighter wearing the +5 plate and bash the wizard with it... should cut through any DR he has ;p... Or play "Put-out-the-thief" or "Drop-the-cleric-on-the-bard-from-100'-high"

     

    Ever seen a Halfing dodging a tree?

     

    ... Me neither.

  25. Dragons

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    Re: Dragons

     

    Well' date=' of course, you can say that most dragons aren't all that huge, until they get a lot older. If the average dragon is maybe the size of an alligator, with wings and a modest breath weapon, then they're nasty enough to imagine them raiding farms and carrying off large livestock, but not so nasty that they're a threat to burn whole cities to the ground.[/quote']

     

    Discworld's Swamp Dragons comes to mind :)

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