Captain Obvious

Re: The Morality of Sending In The Clones!

Re: Order of the Stick I have to agree that Yakyak would be a stupid name.

Re: Cool Guns for your Games Being able to quickly replace the antenna would mitigate the effects of a Sidewinder sized missile. It would also warrant the use of heavier artillery to knock out the jammer, and it takes no time at all to get a good fix on a transmitter these days. There's no way to run and no way to hide.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Beer-only fast ends with a bacon smoothie

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Why do the Red Lanterns vomit blood? I've gotten pretty worked up myself, and that's never happened to me.

Re: "Neat" Pictures There's at least a 96% chance of pirate treasure in the immediate vicinity of that picture.

Re: The Morality of Sending In The Clones!

Re: Kingdon-Level Napoleonic Setting You could avoid the snags, differing opinions, and second guessing of historical translations by going fictional. Use an alternate universe of your own design based on the Napoleonic Era of our world. No one can give you grief over your vision of Tabletopia or Hopcroftland.

Re: The Morality of Sending In The Clones! Assuming the clones have not committed any crimes, I fully agree with Marcus Impudite. If, being trained terrorists with none of the lovey mommy stuff ingrained in (most of) us from birth, they are compelled to commit terrorist acts, then they will be imprisoned and/or executed as befits their crimes, without regard to the issue of DNA. The thing to remember is that identical twins are naturally occurring clones. Being identical twins doesn't confer or withhold any legal rights other people have. The age difference between a DNA donor and his artificially occurring identical twins should make no difference.

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

Re: Dwarves with No Spirits Sociopathic behavior and effortless use of magic is pretty typical of elves and other fay type creatures in folklore. This is a pretty robust classification system apparently... Although, in most folklore, dwarves fall right along with elves, etc...

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... Interesting trivia tidbit: A fire can provide the same psychological comfort to a human as another human. A human with a fire is not alone. Although I doubt open flames would be the solution to the problem for a long spaceflight...

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... I didn't think having a robot to cook, clean, and otherwise act in ways your mom or sister might was too controversial. I only addressed the controversial aspect.

http://artofmanliness.com/2011/04/24/lessons-in-manliness-from-bass-reeves/ "Bass" is short for "Badass".

Re: The Morality of Sending In The Clones! The logical thing to do is to issue the clones new Social Security Numbers. They can even keep the original name, unless for some reason they want to change.

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... I don't see a companion bot as being fundamentally different from a fleshlight, except better for its intended purpose, and (as mentioned) harder to hide when having flesh-and-blood guests for the night. This does remind me of that documentary on the Real Dolls that got linked to a few years back. One girl was dating a guy when she found out he was into the Real Dolls, and had several (at least seven to ten(!)). Later in the documentary, it revealed that she broke up with him...it was too weird for her.

Re: "Neat" Pictures The Banana Dragon...yet another innocuous object trying to kill you in D&D.

Re: Dwarves with No Spirits If I'm not mistaken, historically speaking, your soul is what makes you you. It's what carries all your psychology (so connecting it to EGO is right on target). The spirit is what makes your body live (so tying it to END is pretty appropriate as well). It's not really intelligent, but can form habits. When a person dies, their soul goes on their final reward/punishment, but it's possible their spirit could still roam the earth as a ghost. This also explains ghosts of (dogmatically soulless) animals. Somewhere along the line, this metaphysical hairsplitting disappeared. It seems to me that, aside from being full sociopaths, elves, gnomes, and other soulless beings wouldn't have psychological limitations, having no real psychology to limit. If they have anything resembling a psych lim, it's a learned behavior more than a true obsession/phobia, and should be easily bought off when they learn other behavior. For example, if a soulless critter has a "fear" of fire, it's because it learned that fire is dangerous, but as they learn the proper handling of fire, the fear should fall away quickly. There used to be an RPG called Arrowstorm or something, that made some kind of soul/spirit connection to corporeal/non-corporeal undead, but I don't recall exactly how anymore...

Re: Are there any modular advetnures for Fantasy Hero? Aw shucks...

Re: Are there any modular advetnures for Fantasy Hero? Mongoose Publishing's free magazine Signs and Portents used to have a lot of Conan stuff that translates pretty well into the Valdorian Age.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine I kind of like the grey, but it's a little drab. Maybe grey overall, but with the gold visor and belt.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Who are all those people? I recognize Dexter, Velma, and Johnny Test's sisters, so I assume the others are not just nameless goons.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Don't ask how he knows what happened at that game session. The truth is too hideous to contemplate.

Re: Undead Labor: why not? It's kind of a gross thought. A skeleton would have to be pretty damn clean before I'd be willing. And I'm not sure a skeleton that clean can be animated.