Captain Obvious

Re: battle Wear vs. Town Wear Armor's hot. Armor's heavy. 99% of everyone that's ever lived would ditch it in a second if they thought there was a less than 50% chance of their dying in the next ten minutes. When I first came into the Army, it seemed like the major job of an NCO in the field was making soldiers wear their helmet, and that was way before we started wearing body armor. The helmet was the only armoresque thing they were wearing, and as soon as the NCO's back was turned, someone would have it off. And as soon as we come out of the field (ie back to "town") the NCOs can't drop it fast enough. I play most of my fantasy characters the same way. Some even leave behind their weapon-weapons (knives and daggers don't count) when in town. Unnecessary weight..always dragging you down on one side, throwing your back out of alignment... One of my favorite characters that I've played almost never wore armor. Once or twice, our characters were gearing up for some major carnage (taking part in an actual military battle, not a bar brawl or a back-alley rumble), so he put on a chain vest and a helmet. And this was before the idea of Combat Luck was common.

Re: 10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist It launches kitchen appliances?

Re: Math I bought a d30 a year or two ago. I found a free RPG on the internet that was at least intriguing, and it based combat around a d30, so I picked one up in case I ever decided to do anything with it.

Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority Paris Hilton's already proven that.

Re: Math And the only way to build a birchbark canoe is to consider birchbark a high-tech material.

Re: Firearms in fantasy? Laura Ingalls Wilder described her dad cleaning his gun in "Little House in the Big Woods". He used lots and lots of boiling water, making sure to heat the metal up really hot while doing it, so that any water left behind would evaporate faster. Once it was scrubbed clean and the rinse water came out clear, he let it dry a little and then greased it up.

Re: Math

Re: How can you make the stone age cool? Harry Harrison wrote a sci-fi series where dinosaurs only became extinct in North America, and by the time modern humans were around to worry about it, the sapient dino-descendants were colonizing. "East of Eden" I think...but it could have been "West of Eden". They're both valid names for books/movies/etc, but I forget which one is Harrison's. And since I've never seen Eden on the map, I couldn't guess based on geography...

Re: Firearms in fantasy? True, but generally if you have a loaded weapon, you don't worry about the bayonet. That's the backup weapon.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Mine too, but my inner eight year old said that TIE fighters don't turn into robots, pushed my inner six year old down and made him cry.

Re: Firearms in fantasy? I seem to recall reading something somewhere about needing to change flints every 20 shots or so, but as it's a seem-to-recall, I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Game statistics are an area that can generally be fudged on, though, so go with what feels right.

Re: Solar Systems Like Ours in the Minority Well heck, just figure out how many cubic feet a star system takes up and go from there. Easy peasy.

Re: The Singularity? Well, I'm looking forward to that infinite-bladed razor. That'll be one smooth shave.

Re: Beholder I thought Susano had one on his website, but I can't find it if it's there. Basics: Its armor doesn't fully protect the main eye, and its smaller eye stalks are OAF. Everything else is pretty self-explanatory.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Looks like a No Crossing sign with the red faded out.

Re: Effects of Drugs in Hero There were some drugs outlined in Danger International, but that won't be incredibly easy to find either.

Re: Paper Models for Fantasy Hero Yeah, speaking of, that Halfling Builders' link Curufea posted has some of your buildings for download, but they mis-call you "Fritz". Have you made any new models lately, Fitz?

Re: Another Lost World found! It's weird to think that there are still places like that on Earth...places that are only known by the locals, and that create such a stir in the scientific community.

Re: superuseless superpowers You mean this guy?

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine There are also cultural differences. In some places, bluntness isn't necessarily rude.

Re: HOW much is this lim worth Sounds kinda like the opposite of a Limited Defense. My first thought is to use a Limitation equal to the Advantage value of AVLD.

Re: superuseless superpowers Better than drawing flies.

Re: Help with plot My advice is to come up with something else to run, and keep this plot on the back burner for a little while. Eventually, bring the hooks out on this one again...maybe they have some business in Fomalhaut, maybe the ship is used in other attacks. Just like fishing...switch your bait for a while and be patient...they'll bite sooner or later.

Re: Hollow Earth --Not! Invent space travel early and let them go to Venus.

Re: Pathfinder Campaign book Do you see the way he's looking at that map? Get a room!