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Re: closed beta applications I and a friend both just received them last night.

Re: Champions Online - Server Names I would definitely be interested, but with the caveat that I have 3-4 friends who aren't on these boards very often, but are Champions players from way back and I would vouch for them, if necessary.

Re: June 2nd Sounds like a good birthday present to me.

Re: I didn't create him, but now I wish I did! hmm, weird. none of those links work for me.

Re: [Alera - Furies of Calderon] Advice on Summoning/Elemental Ally Watercrafters can also sense others emotions and were used to move ships at sea and hide them from Leviathons. I will watch this thread with interest, as I enjoy these books and the magics involved (Aleran Furies, Canim Blood Magic, Marat Bondings (which allowed a Marat bound to an Aleran develop fury crafting)). I think preset elemental controls for each type of crafting would work. Your level of power would be how many points you want to put into it. And number of furies would be how many different ones you would want to purchase. The reason I say EC is that we have seen windcrafters fly and increase there SPD while increasing vision.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Re: New Screenshots: Lemuria Anyone know how they are doing the underwater. "Rentable" breathing items or can you build into your character underwater abilities?

Re: Jokes I think this is not only from other countries, but also northeast coast to midwest and west coast. 2 things stand out to me on that: 1) When I worked at a small computer store, there was a couple who flew out to go to a local convention and decided to stop by our store. They started asking us which buses to take to get to where they wanted to go and we all stared at each other in bewilderment. They commented that next time they came out they would make sure to rent a car. 2) Not driving, but a similar story. My brother was stationed at the old air force base in the early 90s. One of his group was from the east coast area near the adirondack mountains. One day, he looked up, saw Mount Baldy to the north and decided to go for a jog up to the mountains, since in his opinion they couldn't be more then 10 miles away. Half a day later, and seemingly no closer to the mountain, he decided the people telling him they were 50+ miles away might have been right. (A history teacher I had used to joke that the settlers who crossed the adirondacks didn't realize that those were just foothills compared to what they would see).

Re: Champions Online on MSNBC You don't know what her power was. Maybe she also threw them off Heroin.

Re: Champions Online on MSNBC I loved the triple floating blasters in front of the hero and the swarm of thugs piling on the heroin and being thrown off. And who were the invisible guys?

Cryptic bought up by Atari. http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171726

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I enjoyed that series up till book 4 or 5, though my brother says that books 1-3 were altered since he read them way back when based on what happened later. I got them all on Audible, which may have helped. To me the books took a serious left downward turn once . The series as it began had such great promise, it was a great dissapointment.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Hadn't heard of this, how do you compare it to the Jeremy Brett series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086661/)? I consider the Brett series to be the best version of Holmes done so far.

Re: closed beta applications signed up and crossing my fingers

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? thirded

Re: Jokes That had me laughing Edsel, would rep ya, but must spread around. I hope you get out of the hospital for all that soon.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I and my wife are both enjoying this series.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I read this series up to a book or 2 past Obsidian Butterfly. I thought the series had promise, but just got tired of the endless sex stuff. When Butterfly came out, it seemed more the type of story she seemed to start out to write (detective with supernatural powers, etc.), but as soon as Anita went back, back into bed with the Vamp/Werewolf/etc. she went. So I gave up. Friends who liked the series gave up shortly thereafter, I believe. Part of it is that I read the first 7-8 books in rapid succession, not spaced out as they were written, and so the (what felt like) exponential rise in romance novel writing and the decrease in detective style writing was very apparent to me; whereas to them, it hadn't seemed as abrupt as it was. I have to give her credit though, if you read the intro to book 1, she explains there that she doesn't know a lot about detective work, and therefore you shouldn't expect a lot. I prefer Kim Harrisons Witch books or Dresden Files. Even the Sookie Stackhouse or Harper Connolly books seem better to me.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I just finished the first 3 books of the Aleran Codex by Jim Butcher. A little slow to get into, but I really like the magic systems (3 so far) and the races. He bases his main people on Roman culture, including their army. At one point in book 3, he explains through example why the shield wall technique they had perfected worked on stronger foes. Well worth the read, can't wait for the next one, due in december.

Re: Jokes Are these from Scott Adams, the writer/artist for Dilbert? I only ask because I can remember him using the term In-duh-viduals in his first book, The Dilbert Principle.

Re: Jokes Little Harold was hopping on one foot then the other. "I gotta piss! I gotta piss!", he cried to his mother in front of her friends. Mother took him to the toilet and explained to him that next time he wanted to go to the toilet, he should not use those words. She said he should come in and talk quietly - "That's a whisper" she said. Two hours later, Harold came rushing in again. "I wanna whisper! I wanna whisper!", he said. His mother knew what he wanted and took him to the toilet, after which he was rewarded with a candy bar. That night the urge came on again. Harold jumped out of bed and ran to his father. "What is it, son?", his father asked. "I wanna whisper, Daddy. I wanna whisper." "O.K. son, come here and whisper in my ear."

Re: Master List of Limitations, HD Prefabs Very Nice and Repped away.

Re: Supress & Dispel: How effective? I am running a character who uses bardic style music as a power. He has a dispel (18d6 iirc) vs. sonic based powers. He can use his perfect pitch to countersong them.

Re: 007 7.0 Thanks for the clarification. You are right about the ranks, my brain had obviously just shut down.

Re: 007 7.0 My friends and I have always gone with the notion that the 00 status (only 9 of them at any one time) came with a premade secret ID (ie 007 is Admiral James Bond) created and maintained by MI-6. We feel most agencies work this way, and curiously, if you think about it from the books, this theory is also held in the Jason Bourne books, where that is just one of his identities and no one knows who he really is.