BlackSword

Re: Star Wars licence news... I originally had a lukewarm response to the current Clone Wars cartoon, but began watching the recent season. Its pretty good, and some of the characters are well written and designed. Cad Bane is a much 'cooler' bounty hunter than Boba Fett ever was.

Re: Star Wars licence news... My first impression was that Lucasfilm wouldn't care and would not produce an in-house RPG, but looking at the "Essential Guides...of the Star Wars Universe," those are pretty well written and good quality for a niche market. I could see a person trying to use those books as leverage to write an RPG. I think the bigger issue with market saturation is that an RPG publisher is no longer the sole publisher of reference material for the Star Wars universe. Looking at the Ultimate Guide to Aliens in the Star Wars Universe, it is much better than WotC's alien species guide, the only thing the Ultimate guide doesn't have is the game rules for each species, but since its cheaper I can just spend some time guessing at stats for each species. Ditto for droids, ships, history, etc.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? What isn't beyond our comprehension? For the 3 trillion number you posited it would require nearly the population of the US living inside of Connecticut copy and pasted across the entire world? So I could have said it better, but I think you got the gist, numerically it is feasible, it is however that population density sustained across and entire planet is at the edge of comprehension.

Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Each tanker would provide for an area of ~4200 sq mi, an area slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut. But in that same area there will be 217 million people, which means they can probably find a few people capable of unloading and delivering the food from the tanker. It does go beyond what we can comprehend, and I imagine the bigger issue is dealing with waste and providing clean water for such a population.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Two idiots who have never had an independent thought repeating what Talk Radio told them say about Obama (and the Democratic Party). I hate cubicles.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Besides keeping up with a few regular TV series, and watching the NFL playoffs, I started rewatching Farscape from the beginning. Currently most of the way through Season 2.

Re: What Non-Fiction Book have you just finished?

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

Re: A Thread for Random Musings It was a bit strange to come back to work after a week off. The vacation did seem to speed by. There was a lot I wanted to get done that I kept putting off, and some stuff that I did get done. Also pulled out some miniatures and paints and got back into painting. Nearly finished four figures. Just need to complete the details (which traditionally I have been bad at doing the finishing touches). Now I have to get back into the swing of being at work and well, doing work.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I love blustery people. Just overheard a conversation at work. The phrase, "I'm going to sue..." was used at least half a dozen times, "The first thing I'm going to do..." followed by a threat of a Pyrrhic victory, was promised multiple times, followed by lots of other empty grandstanding, misunderstanding of banking, zoning laws, and HOAs. Is it time for winter break yet?

Re: If you Had to Pick, ONE (already) Setting, to Run in, What is it? I would go with Farscape, followed by Star Wars.

Re: A Storeowner's First Impression I believe both PS238 and Lucha Libre have the rules included in the book so that with only a single book someone could start playing that setting. No idea how well either did in sales, so I don't know if there is a market for it.

Re: HERO SYSTEM MARTIAL ARTS -- What Do *You* Want To See? Some rules, or suggestions for how to use the current rules for a type of showdown mechanic which could cover anything from Japanese iajistu and two master's drawing against each other, to a high noon quickdraw showdown. I know there is the obvious, segment 12, who has the highest dex, they win, but that seems a bit dull. Legend of 5 Rings and several of the western games have rules for such a showdown and it would be nice to see that style adapted into Hero.

Re: A Storeowner's First Impression Pretty much mirrors my opinion. At some point excessive text no longer helps clarify the issue, but further muddies the water.

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive Mine arrived on Saturday, looked nice, no external damage, but an indentation in the first chapter of the first book, hardly noticeable. The layout looks nice, but have some mixed first impressions about the rest of the book. Won't really get a chance to read through it for another few weeks.

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive Not even sure what I am waiting for anymore.

Re: Game Master Lament Actually with that I can understand a bit better why there was pushback, especially if you called 'homework.' First two nights a week are busy with gaming, and if every GM starts asking for homework, even if its just a movie, that would be an additional 16 hours a month going to gaming. For people with families I can understand the reluctance to starting that precedence. I tend to agree with some of the previous posts, make the first game session a character building session. Watch the movie, talk about the genre and how you as GM envision the game, make sure everyone is on the same page or find a compromise of styles, build complementary characters as a group. Discussing what you want from the game may be another big concern, some may be seeing your homework assignment as, "this is how the game is going to be played period," and be pushing back.

Re: Musings on Random Musings The cape.

Re: A Storeowner's First Impression I am not going to blame DoJ, but also not ready to put blame on the FLGS owners either. Being on the forums during all the development and discussion about 6E makes everything about the release seem obvious to the casual observer, assuming the casual observer has spent countless hours arguing over COM. I don't expect a storeowner to spend that much time on every company in existence. A quick look at the Hero Games home page today, and the only mention of 6E is 6E Champions. If you go to "What is Hero System," the page for "About Hero Games" has no mention of 6E, and "Hero System Basics" mentions it half way down the page, though it does explicitly say that it is two volumes.

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive waiting...

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Weird, are you my brother from another mother? I watched Blade of the Immortal the previous weekend (same impression, a manga about whipping ass and the animated fights were lame). Also caught up on House.

Re: Order of the Stick The Christopher Walken . . reference . . . wasgreat.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I went to Hooters to get away from the many distractions at home and get some work done. Here's to Hooters free Wi-Fi.

Re: Musings on Random Musings I use womyn on occasion. Primarily when I am being satirical about political correctness.

Re: Star-Trek-Gate-Wars 5 And an MP7 can't be set to 'stun.'