Captain Obvious

Re: 10 Lost Cities and Mythical Civilisations Cool stuff. And that Sodom and Gomorrah theory is damn interesting stuff. I will, once again, recommend The Lost City of Z by David Grann for anyone interested in real-life pulp style adventure.

Re: Order of the Stick We knew it was coming. I'm just surprised they talked so long.

Re: "Neat" Pictures That is one badass tree. The ground falls out from under it, and it refuses to go down.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares I smell a superdraft!

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore I'd be upset that my calamari isn't calamari, but it's not like I haven't eaten natural sausage casings before. Prefer natural casings for that matter.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore I'd be upset that my calamari isn't calamari, but it's not like I haven't eaten natural sausage casings before. Prefer natural casings for that matter.

Re: Cool take on the Golden Age: The Specialists [webcomic] Nice find, Baloo. Seems I must spread Rep.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Hmm...let's see...I've lived in Shasta, Tule, Big Thicket, Phoenix, and Tidewater. Not sure exactly whether I lived in Washington or Susquehanna, and not sure about Blue Ridge or Shenandoah.

Re: Using Hero System for Zombie Survival Horror The first issue can be resolved (or at least partially resolved) by giving the zombies a Complication to the effect that they are always "out of combat" for DCV purposes. That would put them at half DCV for all attacks, and halve the penalty for called shots. A head shot would still be -4, but that's a lot easier to deal with than -8. For the second, I would build the zombie bite with "must follow grab", giving the characters at least one extra phase to take out the zombie when they're about to be bitten. Making the bite do minimal damage would help, as leather jackets, boots, and gloves become viable armor, and you could even limit the bite by saying it only penetrates heavy cloth (like denim) on an 11- check. Human teeth aren't really the best for chomping through anything tougher than slightly unripe fruit.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW-QQhWETiQ

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares The Sicko Sense - a documentary exposing weaknesses in the health care system, including interviews with non-survivors.

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Re: "Neat" Pictures I like the velociraptors.

Re: Has anyone tried doing an Hyborian/Conan game using Fantasy Hero There's always overall skill levels.

Re: [Xenozoic Tales / Cadillacs and Dinosaurs] Lost technology idea needed. Lizard milk is kind of dry.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Cool, thanks. My daughter got all three books on Kindle and burned through the first one in less than 24 hours. They sound interesting enough that I'll definitely have to give them a go.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I've only seen the movie, but I have to ask: what are the other two books about? The first one seems to wrap up the whole Hunger Games storyline, and it seems unlikely that the same characters would compete in the next year's games. That pretty much leaves a whole world of story possibilities.

Re: "Neat" Pictures I looked up the 100 biggest US cities in 1880, and it's not there at all. Can't be gold rush. Probably has a lot to do with military bases there.

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Re: "Neat" Pictures That's not funny. That's very, very sad.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore I hope that's a pink bottle and not a clear one. I think bacon-doughnut ale still sounds better than pepto-bismol ale.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Death Race: Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch edition

Re: "Neat" Pictures Yeah, bullets don't throw people...that's Hollywood BS. I'm just talking about tipping someone backwards rather than the natural tendency to fall forwards. That probably wouldn't require a whole lot of energy transfer to pull it off. The next time I have access to a corpse, or at least someone so unconscious that picking them up and dropping them won't wake them up, I'll experiment and post my results here.

Re: "Neat" Pictures What did Mythbusters say? Because I've been active duty for 15 years, and I've seen a lot of people pass out in a lot of ceremonies that shouldn't be happening on such a hot day, and they all fell forward.

Re: "Neat" Pictures People tend to fall forward when they lose consciousness, but a bullet pushing backward at head level would probably alter that tendency, I would think.