Captain Obvious

Re: Was the BBB ever available in electronic fomat (PDF)? My 4E book is still in good shape. I just had to put some packing tape on the spine because the cover was starting to rip off, but no pages have fallen out. Of course, I haven't actually opened the 4e book in years now...

Re: Order of the Stick "As a reptile, I've gotten through my whole life without sucking on a teat, I'm not about to start with the government's."

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine The twins have to be Electro and Magneto in that case...

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Not an actual "story" story, but I just finished reading Green Ronin's "Damnation Decade", and now I want to play. The game's got a little bit of "Stepford Wives", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Every Which Way But Loose", "Jaws"...hell, more than can be easily listed. It's a great view of urban fantasy as seen through the pop culture of the '70s.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares The Savage Sword of Ziggy

Re: Armor Wars Every super campaign I've ever seen with power armor characters either has the armor invented by its wearer or stolen/confiscated from its inventor. While the inventor might be able to put it together for a few million dollars, he's an exceptional individual, just like the guy who doesn't die when doused with radiation or toxic chemicals. As to why a few exceptional inventors don't just mass-produce their creations, well, things get real un-comic-booky once you start down those lines.

Re: Reminiscing About Star Fleet Battles So, in Risk, do you play that the first set of Risk cards earns 5 armies and each succeeding one earns that plus 5 more, or do you play that the first one earns 4 armies and each succeeding one adds 2? And do you pick countries during set-up, or assign them randomly? And do you use the nuclear option, where any time someone rolls all 6s, one country gets nuked, killing all armies there, and destroying half of all armies that move through there for the rest of the game?

Re: Reminiscing About Star Fleet Battles There was a Star Wars version of Silent Death on WOTC's SW website back when they put out free stuff on a regular basis. Ah, Ah, here it is... Silent Death has always been primarily a dogfighting game, so the SW version only has fighters. I presume that's not a problem for you based on your comments about SW capital ships.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares BWAAHAHAHA! Where the hell did you find that pic anyway?

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Re: "Neat" Pictures It's in 1st edition Fiend Folio.

Re: Not D&D The Echoes of Heaven setting by Final Redoubt is strongly influenced by real world Christian theology, although it's fairly dark in tone...the world is more overtly corrupted and the forces of good have their hands full keeping Hell in check. Plus they have Hero System versions, so you don't need to convert anything.

Re: ET Stay Home Can't argue with the graph.

Re: Total NEWB gushing over how amazing this forum is

Re: Lucha Libre? I'm not a fan of wrestling myself, but the camp factor can be appealing to non-wrestling fans. Maybe you could talk your guys into a one-shot, pull out the stops with supernatural weirdness, and see if they'd be up for making it a two-shot...

Re: "Ode to Tito" - songs to play Star Hero to. Not exactly swing, but it's retro enough to fit...the theme song for any Alien Wars game I run.

Re: Another Successful Playtest Oh, you've moved away from MD then? I didn't realize that...it makes a lot more sense now.

Re: Another Successful Playtest What is it about Urbana, IL that you go all the way out there for playtesting?

Re: "Ode to Tito" - songs to play Star Hero to. Actually, the next Star Hero game I'm likely to run will be Alien Wars, and I plan on riffing on the strong retro vibe they went for in the game by having a lot of neo-swing in rotation on the mp3 player.

Re: "Ode to Tito" - songs to play Star Hero to. Space Oddity by David Bowie. Duh.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore The BOTTOM turned black. I didn't burn the bacon...are you crazy?

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore No, but the skillet I used turned black from the flames, and never would clean up no matter how much you scrubbed it.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore I've cooked bacon and eggs over a charcoal grill because the power was out.

Re: Mech warfare on a smaller scale Pretty cool stuff

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore My dad's pastor brought over a whole holiday pack of Jones soda one Christmas, with all the bizarre flavors (Brussels sprouts, turkey and gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, etc) and all the males (pastor, dad, me, two brothers) ended up sampling each flavor, knowing full well most of them would be absolutely foul. My son, who was about 5 at the time stood toe to toe with the rest of us. I was proud in a somewhat disturbed way.