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Re: When I Am the Benevolent Ruler.... Isn't that really for history to judge?

Re: What is the building in which a mason works called?

Re: When I Am the Benevolent Ruler.... Just as a gangrenous limb must be amputated, sometimes it may be necessary for someone to be permanently removed from the kingdom. This si not a step to be taken lightly and all alternatives must be considered first. When I am the Benevolent Ruler, once it has been determined that a person must be euthanized for the good of the country, they will NOT be publicly/painfully executed "as a warning to others." If already in prison they will be pardoned, in all cases they will be offered positions in the government, treated like family, and showered with gifts. Sooner or later they will develop a minor illness, at which point I will order my personal physician to treat them. Treat them to a fatal overdose of opiates. Their happy and painless passing should preclude any curse with their final breath, their death by apparent natural causes should forestall any heirs seeking revenge, and public displays of my grief at their elaborate funeral would prevent them becoming a martyr for the rebellion.

Re: Orbital Mechanics and stuff: Check my understanding of spatial relations

Re: Orbital Mechanics and stuff: Check my understanding of spatial relations

Re: Orbital Mechanics and stuff: Check my understanding of spatial relations The blue star probably masses more than Sol and the Centari system put together. Binaries can have a great separation, light years even, as long as there is enough mass that they are gravitationally connected. With an average orbital radius of 1 light year, arbitrarily assuming Yellow and Blue add up to ten solar masses, I get Yellow orbits Blue every half million years [edit:Woops! make that every 5 million years!]. But with any eccentricity in Yellow's orbit, Blue might not affect the seasons but it would affect the ice ages.

Re: Orbital Mechanics and stuff: Check my understanding of spatial relations

Re: Orbital Mechanics and stuff: Check my understanding of spatial relations Isn't that Uranus? South pole always points toward the sun?

Re: VPP Frequency?

Re: VPP Frequency? In the source material, seems like many characters have a VPP. That's how I would build, for example, Spiderman's web shooters. Most of the time he uses them for swinging, or as an entangle. But also has used them as a limited form of stretching to retrieve an otherwise out of reach object, or fired webbing into someone's eyes as a flash attack. Every once in a while will use them in a way he never has before, like the first time he made a parachute. Building powers as a VPP encourages the player to think about their Sx and push the envelops in entertaining ways (IMHO).

Re: Kung Fu Hustle That seems to me to be the defining characteristic of the character. He has to be able to shrug off the average roll of your PC's best attack. They need to get extra dice from some technique (using a megaphone with Lion's Roar, the Buddah's Palm) to have a chance of taking him out.

Re: 7 deadly sins That's how I've always seen her, the Nanny State gone monstrous. "Nanny knows what's best, poppets, so be good boys and girls and do as you're told. It's for your own good, and you don't want Nanny to be cross now do you?"

Re: Looks more dangerous than he really is.

Re: Looks more dangerous than he really is.

Re: Looks more dangerous than he really is. I'd call it a Special Effect, but if you want to cost it out, how about Reputation?

Re: More space news! One of the factors in the equasion is the number of planets (or moons) per star where life is possible, next factor is on what percentage of these does life actually appear. Attempting to draw a graph from one data point, I say our solar system has 4 life-potent worlds (Earth, Mars, Europa, and Titan), and life is known to have occurred on .25 of them.

Re: Boot Blade? HKA with invisible power effect (first attack only)?

Re: Jokes 3) The woman maimed by the hot coffee (her burns required surgery) got a fraction of the awarded settlement, the exact amount is the subject of a non-disclosure agreement.

Re: Ultra-Tech Punishments?

Re: Ultra-Tech Punishments?

Re: Ultra-Tech Punishments?

Re: More space news! And last I heard, we had not been able to replicate that process. We do not know the environment that DOES cause abiogeneisis, so it seems a little presumptuous to state categorically that a particular environment CAN NOT support abiogenesis. You may be right, but I really believe you are assuming facts not in evidence.

Re: More space news! If you can state that as a fact then I am absolutely in awe of your knowledge of biology. I would prefer to study a few more independent examples of abiogenesis and evolution before I offered an opinion.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Are Mind Flayers no longer psionic?

Re: Science: Particles seen moving at FTL speeds (CERN) (non-climate change thread)