Captain Obvious

Re: "Screaming Mummy" Is Murderous Son of Ramses III? Which is only to be expected. Shoddy workmanship and inattention to details yield more skeletons than mummies.

Re: Order of the Stick Now that's funny.

Re: Well, they had to name it something... :eek:I really need to replace these pants.

Re: Order of the Stick The best line of subtle dark humor in the whole series so far.

Re: Order of the Stick It's only fair if Rich fudges Belkar's die rolls a little. Other characters have been hogging the spotlight for months now.

Re: Money in Fantasy Setting Assuming the GM is ready for a huge influx of money into his game, I've always thought that the logistics of moving a massive treasure trove could make for a very interesting series of adventures.

Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu In the same vein, this came out last year. It was pretty funny, in a very cheesy way.

Re: Mammoth Genome Decoded -- Clones on the Way? What do you mean Canada gets screwed? Canada's right there to roll up their sleeves and punch the Russkies in the jaw, mammoth or no mammoth. Glory hogs!

Re: THE BOOK OF DRAGONS -- What Do *You* Want To See? Makes sense to me, and I agree completely. Also, I think it would be a good idea to build at least a few creatures with one of the established settings in mind...an Atlantean dragon or two, a Tuala Morn type dragon, a Valdorian Age dragon (a remnant of some Drindrish warband, no doubt). Maybe even a space dragon for Galactic Champions.

Re: Sword and sorcery That sigh is why I rarely sell my stuff...at least the stuff I have ever had any interest in. I can't get my wife to understand, though.

Re: Failure To Stop Drill Looks like a two phase action to me. If the entire point of it is to shoot the guy in the head, they would cut to the chase and shoot him in the head...but that's not the point. The point is to shoot him in the head if and only if he doesn't go down from two in the chest. Two phases gives the character the time to make that assessment. I would build this as a two shot Autofire attack, taken in the first phase as a single action. For the post-assessment head-shot, I would give PSLs vs Hit Location, limited so that they only apply in the phase after the Autofire attack, and only against the same target.

Re: Mammoth Genome Decoded -- Clones on the Way? I've heard that, but I don't remember ever seeing them in the comic anywhere. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Was that patient his mom?

Re: Money in Fantasy Setting

Re: Sword and sorcery Hwamgaarl is the capital of Pan Tang.

Re: Money in Fantasy Setting

Re: CthulhuTech

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares It sounds like one of those "you have six months to live" conditions.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I thought it was clerics that turn.

http://www.springsharp.com/ I haven't fiddled with this any, but someone pointed it out on Space:1889 mailing list I'm on, and it looks pretty interesting. It lets you design realistic ships that could have been built between 1850 and 1950. No weird science options, but that should be easily fixed. Anyway, it looked interesting enough to toss out there as a heads-up for the gearheads.

Re: The Western Havens, a frontier fantasy setting Nine Megabytes. By the way, anyone that wants it, be sure to PM me your email address, or shoot me an email through the board software. You can't add attachments to emails sent through the board, though, so I can't send it that way...I need an address to send to from Hotmail, and these two methods will get me one.

Re: Sword and sorcery Hmm...that reminds me...I never finished that Dungeon adventure path I was working on, and a new Mongoose magazine should be out by now with something for Conan too.

Re: Which Champion are you Another mighty member of the fantabulous Foxbattalion here.

Re: Sword and sorcery I was thinking of Yyrkoon from Elric and Thoth-Amon from Conan. Thulsa Doom could be a contender, but he seems to have mostly recurred in the comic books. There were a few minor recurrences in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, too, IIRC. But yeah, there's no Sauron, no Undying King, nothing like that, generally speaking, where the one villain is the focus of everything the main character does over a series of stories.

Re: Sword and sorcery There are plenty of big-time villains, but among the biggest tropes of S&S, IMO, are short, high-action adventures, generally with the villain dead at the end. There are a few exceptions here and there, where a villain will come back a time or two to antagonize the hero, but generally they end up with their head lopped off, or prey to their own machinations, or torn asunder by a howling mob.