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Captain Obvious

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  1. Re: Orion Drive space battleship Imperial Star Destroyer as presented in the movies, or Imperial Star Destroyer as built using modern technology? Because the feasibility with modern tech is the Orion ship's strongpoint.
  2. Re: Populating and fleshing out Saltmarsh This should help with the numbers and types of businesses present. There was a 2nd ed AD&D product called the World Builder's Guide that's pretty useful, as well, and there used to be PDFs of it available on rpgnow, but it doesn't look like they're there anymore.
  3. Re: Orion Drive space battleship I would expect the overweight would be more interested than the average person in weightlessness...
  4. Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible?
  5. Re: Genre-crossover nightmares "My name is Inigo Skywalker. I am your father. Prepare to die."
  6. Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Well, you could call it a breakdown in the sense of scale, but it could just as equally be that galactic distances just aren't that big a deal with the technology they have. The Millenium Falcon managed to limp from Hoth to Bespin in a matter of days with a malfunctioning hyperdrive, after all. Poor writing by Lucas? Well that's no big surprise, but I've never heard anyone complain about it before. At any rate, it wasn't that long ago that the idea of a city with the population of NYC was ridiculous, and even more ridiculous was the idea of bringing fresh vegetables from California and fresh fruits from Panama to feed that stupid-big city.
  7. Re: "Neat" Pictures That's a pretty sweet way to clean your room. Make a golem to clean up whatever doesn't go into making the golem. Once that's done, the golem climbs into the toy box and breaks apart into its components.
  8. Re: Are single climate/habitat worlds really possible? Given the ease of FTL travel in Star Wars, a planet-wide city isn't a stretch. There aren't huge fields of wheat and cattle pastures in the middle of New York City or LA. Food gets shipped in from outside, often from farther away than was feasible 200 years ago. Just as railroads and non-sailed ships have made it a trivial matter to have tropical fruits and out-of-season vegetables on our tables on a daily basis, trivially easy FTL travel makes it possible to have food on the tables on Coruscant every day. IIRC, FTL travel in Asimov's Foundation universe wasn't too hard either, at least for the Foundation and the pre-fall Empire. The same therefore holds true for Trantor.
  9. Re: "Neat" Pictures This turn in the conversation reminded me of this song: http://www.thefump.com/side.php?id=651
  10. Re: Fiction resources for Solar HERO. Asimov's I, Robot is set almost entirely within the Solar System. Even if the robots are more advanced than you want for your game, there are still descriptions of space stations and mining colonies everywhere from Mercury to Pluto. By "everywhere" I mean a lot of places. The book's not long enough to account for everywhere.
  11. Re: The 5 Creepiest Unexplained Broadcasts That Max Headroom thing really isn't that creepy. It looks to me like a dude who worked for a while to get the equipment and technique down to jam/override a TV signal with only the vaguest idea of what he was going to do. Unfunny improv, basically. It's more pathetic than creepy really, IMO.
  12. Re: "Neat" Pictures That family tree is awesome. Nice mixture of wholesome and sordid. I always like to say that everyone is descended from both kings and slaves.
  13. Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Well it was a pretty good story. I remembered hearing that story from somewhere and went looking for it myself...I never would have remembered who told it in the first place.
  14. Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... The bunneh's friend, are you?
  15. Re: Jokes And the invisible blue trapezoid sleeps furiously.
  16. Re: Jokes I've seen that before. One version goes on to say that the space shuttle's boosters were designed to be transported by rail, so those horses' asses even pave the way into space.
  17. Re: Power that does less damage the larger the area My first thought was Spreading as well. It's been a rule since at least 3rd edition, so I know it's in 5ER, but I don't have a page reference handy at this time.
  18. Re: 10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist I'm not a physicist, so maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that without the combustive element, compressing air within the ramjet body will cause more loss of speed due to air friction than could possibly be obtained by the air jetting from the back. This looks like a perpetual motion claim to me.
  19. Re: battle Wear vs. Town Wear This is even summier.
  20. Re: The Singularity? I thought they already did. Everyone's playing video games now; most of them are pretending to be a dwarf or elf. All the big-time movies these days are comic-book heroes, except for Star Trek or reimaginings of such classic nerd-fare as Sherlock Holmes. Seems like all the pro athletes are disgraced if not actually going to jail. What purpose does this singularity still serve at that point?
  21. Re: Genre-crossover nightmares I'm sure it's on the Internet somewhere...
  22. Re: 10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist The only ramjet I've ever heard of that doesn't need fuel is the Bussard ramjet, which is a theoretical spacecraft engine. Other ramjets are desirable primarily because they don't have moving parts (which also makes them good for increasing bullet range, but they still need to carry some fuel along with them).
  23. Re: battle Wear vs. Town Wear Well, yeah, there are times and places where, even if you're dropping the hot, heavy armor, it still makes sense to keep the heavy swordbelt. Of course, all of this is kind of moot if the GM is running a constant campaign of breaking-and-entering at the inns and footpads in the alleys...if the cities are a battleground and leaving your stuff behind locked doors is essentially abandoning it to looters, then the PCs are justified in wearing their full kit at all times. If that's against the local law, well screw it. If it's against local custom, WTF are the locals thinking walking around unarmed when their home town is so damn dangerous? If the GM wants to occasionally catch the PCs off guard, then he needs to cut them lots of slack most of the time.
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