Tim

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 

 
NP: Everyone's picking on me. This game is too hard. I quit.
 
GM: Why is my player base so stagnant?
 
Hero Games: Why are our sales not going up? Where are all the new players?
 
Off topic to the thread, but maybe the new player would have a better time, and be up to speed faster, if someone actually helped them, instead of yelling at them and abusing them for making errors. I like to get an experienced player to "buddy" the new player for a few sessions (freeing the GM from this task).

Re: The Last Word
 
Word Up!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Never leave a battery lying loose on your desk.
 
http://www.jhprod.com/mpegs/Pile_Eng_480x360.mov

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
http://www.angrymonkey.net/putfileshere/thellamasong.swf
 
Yes... its worksafe.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
revise the above. Just got done talking to my mom.
The doctors found more blockage, so she is going to have double bypass surgery next week.
 
Could you all send good vibes this way please?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
I just had to post this for posterity.
 
playing around with a graphing calculator I came up with this. The expression is: cos x^2 > 0. the graph produces a wonderful image attached (as best as I can get). If anyone can produce a better image, post it please.
 
edit: I've just squared the circle. :shocked:
 
edit no #2: So how much is this effect worth as an advantage to energy blast area effect? A ranged killing attack area effect?
 
(And tan r^2 >0 produces a similar but different enough image as well.)

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
I wasn't sure which thread to put this link in so I'll put it here:
 
http://www.1061rdu.com/AmericanBabes.html
 
Enjoy!

Re: Answers & Questions
 

 
Q: DAMN DUDE! Open a frickin' Window!
 
A: Future trading is strong.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
On a 1-10 scale of HERO geekieness, I guess I score quite high because I'm posting a here to mark the recent arrival of my second rep mark...

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Here is Enforcer84's "Lockdown".

Re: Musings on Random Musings
 

Re: The Last Word
 
sometimes my point of view doesn't amke any sense

Re: Answers & Questions
 

 
Q: What does Nostradomus say about the High schoolshootings?
 
A: A Feeble Weeble

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Mightybec And Hyper-man want to belatedly dance at your wedding.

Re: Superhero Images
 

 
Off the top of my head... Nick was a young olympic gymnast hopeful, but it was brought up that he pinged on mutant detection and was recruited into a special gov't program. With a bunch of other teens, they trained as a team, and he started developing superior senses (thus the code name). Enhanced smell, vision, greater hearing range. They determined that he had highly developed "reflex memory" allowing him to learn and master physical skills with great ease.
 
He doesn't actually show up on mutant detectors. It was a lie. He's not aware of that, though. I left a lot of the background hazy for plot purposes.
 
He doesn't have claws and he's not a martial artist, he just had some hand attack, lots of Dex and levels, dex skills, and the enhanced senses. Only 250 points at the time.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
On the second page again? Trying to tempt Ben to shut this down, eh?
 
Anyway, I found this site full of old commericals. How many do you remember.?
 
Download Old Commercials

Re: The Last Word
 
give him to the redneck tree

Re: Superhero Images
 
Colorized

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
I was sent this and thought it was funny.
 
> MOMMY TEST
>
> I was out walking with my then 4 year old daughter. She picked up
> something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I asked her
> not to do that. "
>
> Why?"
> "Because it's been laying outside and it is dirty and probably has
>germs."
>
> At this point, she looked at me with total admiration and asked, "Wow!
>How do you know all this stuff?"
> Uh," I was thinking quickly, "...all moms knows this stuff. Um, it's on
>the Mommy Test. You have to know it, or they don't let you be a Mommy."
>
> We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently
>pondering this new information.
>
> OH...I get It!" she beamed, "So if you flunk, you have to be the
>Daddy."
>
> When you're finished laughing, send this to a Mom who needs to hear
> it!

Re: The Last Word
 
I lost myself on a cool damp night
I gave myself to the misty light
I was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under the lilac trees
 
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in it's recepie
It makes me se what I want to see
And be who I want to be
 
I think more than I want to think
And do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you . . .
 
Edit: I knew I forgot something! This is a Jeff Buckley-text that's been rolling around my head all day . . . Sorry if you thought it was one of mine, but it's still damn good!

Work-In-Progress 3 of 3
 
Hey all
 
Wow, not a single reply to this thread all day...
 
Anyway, here is the finished'n'coloured version of this picture.

Re: The Last Word
 
Being somewhat of an expert on the subject I can safely say that you guys are weird!
 
 
 
 
 
 
I like weird BTW.

Re: The cranky thread
 
It annoys me that a thread you were enjoying reading and posting to one day suddenly turns into something else completely overnight, usually because one person took something out of context and ran with it. I don't mean your basic thread derailment of the Kara variety. I'm talkin' serious thread mugging and hijacking with only the barest hint of relation to the original topic. And it's not like the new conversation is stimulating. It's aggravating and trollish.
 
Feh!
 
It's not gonna affect my life in the grand scheme of things, but it's pretty annoying. It's downright irksome pre-caffeine.

Re: The Last Word
 
Welcome to MY post padding thread. My tax is 50% of all posts and 95% of your Rep.
 
PAY UP!!!
 
Oh, and cheese rules.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
When Antediluvians Attack (LONG!)
 
TREMERE: "Awright, Haqim! I have HAD it with you! You're gonna die!"
 
HAQIM: "Says you. Phbbbt!"
 
TREMERE: "Oh, yeah? Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames! I blow up Asia!"
 
HAQIM: "Celerity 10. I dodge. I'm now standing in the middle of the ocean."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Neptune's Might. I boil the oceans."
 
HAQIM: "Obfuscate 10. What ocean?"
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Movement of the Mind. I hit the remaining ocean with the moon."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag in! Obtenebration 9. What moon?"
 
TREMERE: "Auspex 10. *That* moon."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag out!"
 
HAQIM: "Oh crap. Umm... Quietus 10."
 
TREMERE: "Here comes the big ball of rock, baby!"
 
[HAQIM is squished]
 
BRUJAH: "Didn't Haqim just activate Quietus 10?"
 
NOSFERATU: "And it was a surprisingly quiet squishing. Stupid discipline."
 
TREMERE: "Lasombra..."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag, um, Tzimisce!"
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. Try that moon trick now, spellboy."
 
TREMERE: "Tag Ventrue!"
 
VENTRUE: "Dominate 10. Who's your daddy?"
 
TZIMISCE: "You're my daddy."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag in! Potence 10. Feel the pain!"
 
VENTRUE: "Fortitude 10! What pain?"
 
LASOMBRA: "Obtenebration 10! I hope you like small, dark places."
 
VENTRUE: "####."
 
[VENTRUE vanishes]
 
LASOMBRA: "I have ALWAYS wanted to do that."
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. Lasombra, you're now a small ball of cheese."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "WHY?"
 
TZIMISCE: "Ventrue still calls the shots. Read Dominate 10."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "Damn, he's right."
 
TZIMISCE: "Animalism 10. Horde of cheese-eating mice."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "Obtenebration 10. I am a shadow of a small ball of
cheese."
 
TZIMISCE: "Tag Tremere!"
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. Shadow of fondue, you mean."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: *fwoosh*
 
NOSFERATU: "Animalism 10. They're MY horde of mice."
 
TZIMISCE: "Animalism 10. Mine."
 
NOSFERATU: "Mine!"
 
TZIMISCE: "Gimme!"
 
BRUJAH: "Celerity 10 AND Potence 10. I crush Tzimisce and Nosferatu while they're still arguing about the mice."
 
NOSFERATU: "Urk." [dies]
 
TZIMISCE: "Urk." [reforms] "Love that Vicissitude 10."
 
BRUJAH: "Oh, dearie."
 
TZIMISCE: "Now the mice are MINE!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 appears from nowhere]
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "All of you shall die for consorting with our enemies! Or, in some cases, actually being our enemies."
 
ENNOIA: "Who the heck are *you*?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Oh, sorry. I'm early."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 vanishes]
 
TZIMISCE: "Not even the first Masked Avenger, whoever he was, can stop me!"
 
ARIKEL: "Auspex 10. What *can* stop someone with Vicissitude 10? Oh, diablerie."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy something or other. I weaken Arikel a generation."
 
ARIKEL: "You just made that up!"
 
TREMERE: "Trust me, you'll like it."
 
BRUJAH: "Potence 10. I expend a barrage of fisticuffs upon Tzimisce."
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. I can ignore them."
 
ENNOIA: "Animalism 10. My mice."
 
TZIMISCE: "Mine!"
 
TREMERE: "Quick, Arikel! Diablerize Tzimisce while he's distracted!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Necromancy 10, Bone Path! The dead have risen- and they're voting Republican!"
 
TREMERE: "Don't you guys *ever* stop worrying about temporal power?"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Umm. No."
 
MALKAV: "Dementation 10! Everyone goes absolutely crazy!"
 
[there is a pause]
 
[the pause lengthens]
 
BRUJAH: "You feel any different, Ennoia?"
 
ENNOIA: "Nope. You?"
 
BRUJAH: "Nope. Tremere?"
 
TREMERE: "Nope."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Me neither."
 
BRUJAH: "Nobody asked you."
 
MALKAV: "Well, THAT was a non-starter."
 
TZIMISCE: "Well, I *gurgle*..."
 
ARIKEL (dropping diablerized corpse of Tzimisce): "*I* sure feel different!"
 
ENNOIA: "Well, that settles it. My mice."
 
ARIKEL: "I now have Animalism 10. Mine!"
 
MALKAV: "CATFIGHT!"
 
BRUJAH: "Mousefight, actually."
 
AUGUSTUS: "How droll."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Hands of Destruction. I kill the freakin' mice, already."
 
ARIKEL: "Waaahhh!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Zombie mice!"
 
ENNOIA: "Bastards."
 
[MASKED AVENGERS #1, #2, and #3 appear]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Prepare to meet final death at the hands of the Masked Avengers!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Especially you, Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "No, especially *you*, Augustus!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Augustus!"
 
ENNOIA: "Who *are* you guys, anyway?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "It's a secret. That's why we're wearing masks."
 
BRUJAH: "Speaking of which, why does your mask have three eyeholes?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "To be distinctive."
 
BRUJAH: "Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of wearing a mask?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "You always were a smartass."
 
BRUJAH: "Potence 10. I punch the first Masked Avenger."
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Ow." [dies]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "We other Masked Avengers are not so easily thwarted! We shall have our revenge! Especially on you, Augustus!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Augustus!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Can we get rid of these guys?"
 
TREMERE: "Sure you take care of the guy with the three eyeholes in his mask, and I'll take the guy who says he's my archenemy."
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "I, with the three eyes, am your archenemy, Tremere."
 
TREMERE: "Whatever."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Potence 10. I crush the guy with the three eyes."
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Fortitude 10. I soak."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. I obliterate Masked Avenger #2."
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Fortitude 10. I soak."
 
BRUJAH: "Like the guest that won't leave, aren't they?"
 
AUGUSTUS: "I can handle this. Necromancy 10, Ash Path. I summon the spirits of those who have died tragically."
 
SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY: "We are here."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Explain your tragedies to the Masked Avengers."
 
[The SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY do so]
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Oh, the Angst! I cannot *bear* it!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #3 commits suicide]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "How fascinating. I wish to learn more."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Spirits of those who have died tragically, return to the Shadowlands."
 
[The SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY do so]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "I must follow them to learn more."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #2 commits suicide]
 
ARIKEL: "Well, *that* took forever. But now it's done. Now what?"
 
TREMERE: "Auspex 10 and Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. I incinerate Set in that corner he's been hiding."
 
[sET turns to ashes]
 
AUGUSTUS: "Letting everyone else do the fighting and taking out the winners? I am shocked, SHOCKED."
 
BRUJAH: "Shocked that you didn't think of it first."
 
AUGUSTUS: "And I *deeply* deplore that."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 appears]
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Prepare to meet final death at the hands of the Masked Avenger!"
 
BRUJAH: "You ever have the feeling of deja vu?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Constantly."
 
ENNOIA: "Enough of this. Protean 10. Welcome to the sun, boys!"
 
TREMERE: "Hah! Thaumaturgy 10, Invulnerable Weakness!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 goes *fwoosh*]
 
[bRUJAH goes *fwoosh*]
 
[MALKAV goes *fwoosh*]
 
[ARIKEL goes *fwoosh*]
 
AUGUSTUS: "Hah! You've played perfectly into my master plan! No, wait."
 
[AUGUSTUS goes *fwoosh*]
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Neptune's Might. I extinguish Ennoia."
 
[ENNOIA goes *fwoosh*]
 
TREMERE: "Woo hoo, I won!"
 
RAVNOS: "Forgot me."
 
TREMERE: "You? Where the heck have you been?"
 
RAVNOS: "Keeping a low profile."
 
TREMERE: "And you didn't burn up in the sun?"
 
RAVNOS: "Fortitude 10, baby. And I'll thank you not to kill off my mice."
 
TREMERE: "PREPARE TO DIE!"
 
RAVNOS: "Not so fast! Chimeristry 10!"
 
TREMERE: "Chimeristry 10? You mean..."
 
RAVNOS: "Yup. ''Reality.'' I'll turn us all into a roleplaying game."
 
TREMERE: "You wouldn't!"
 
RAVNOS: "I just did."
 
TREMERE: "NOOOOOOOO!!!"
 
[RAVNOS, TREMERE, and the corpses of the other antediluvians are replaced by a series of hardback and paperback game supplements]
 
THE END