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Spycraft and Stargate SG1 have specific critical successes (and failures!) for skills. While that system requires action points to activate crits, the results could certainly serve as a blueprint for this sort of thing. And I heartily approve of open-ended rolling. It's my fav'rit. About the...

Oh yeah, they have their own satellite dish and production company and everything, but Net access will cost, and I don't know how much. So in case my miserly instincts don't allow me to stay in touch: This thread! Ah, the sweet sorrow of greed.

I remember hearing that animals have more rights in some areas (legal/geographic) than people, especially in places like California. Strange. Anything suspenseful is going to have a box of kittens or something as the culmination for at least one 'dun dun dun dun daahh' scene. The 'fake-out'...

Well, the day draws close when I leave town and head to a much smaller town to study 'Advanced 3D Animation'. From this Sunday (0530, at GMT+13) I'll be away from keyboard indefinitely - I don't know whether I'll have Net access up there. So I'm saying a temporary So long, ENworld! It's been...

OK, you see my avatar? That's a derivative symbol created by writing my initials (BDR) in the same place, then simplifying and elaborating a little. Eventually, I got to the point where I'd scribble it down really fast. And start making little 'ching ching' noises in my head, like I was slashing...

It seems that druids are always interpreted as servants of nature. But their spell list is almost the exact opposite: they are the masters of nature. Whatever the source of their power (evil god seems well-established, but long-forgotten arcane mysteries, esoteric and delusional psionics, or an...

New Zealand (born and bred and live) Australia (aquired my exquisite posh accent on holiday there - imagine the exact opposite of an Australian accent, and you'll be imagining my voice) ... and that's it. Never even been to an embassy.

The 15th-level wizard who's been involved in vicious melee for most of his/her professional life, probably ambushed by thugs several times, likely caused some large amount of death just with a dagger, and spends most of his/her time hanging out with some of the most skilled warriors in the land...

I've got an adaptation of the image at http://dungeondamage.keenspace.com/d/20050109.html - which is one of mine. It's concept art for Soviet powered armour, and I loved the way it came out. Anyway, that's what it's supposed to be, but I replaced it with a series of arrows, outlines, and visual...

I've had no difficulties of late. I suppose I have to be using their central architecture to log on and visit non-local groups and the like, but I'm in New Zealand and they have localised functions for some stuff, like email. Confusing!

Thanks! Always intriguing to see a new vision of the weird stuff in my head. ... of course, you fell into my carefully placed trap, as inferred from your use of the word 'he'. Even I don't know what gender that character is supposed to be. But that's OK, I don't set these snares out of malice...

Uhuhuh, then he said 'head'. ...I'm so sorry.

If you're prepared to do some net legwork, you could always check out my webcomic: Dungeon Damage. I've covered a few monsters over the years, and always tried to make them visually distinct. And the art sucks at the beginning, so don't lose hope. Amongst other things, I've done unique trolls...

Just to cast more light on the original base pairs/personality question: Humans are something like 98% genetically similar to the chimpanzee. Therefore, it seems that 98% of a human's DNA is unrelated to their personality. Considering that both pools (that 98% and the 2% unique to our species)...

You'd think someone with no eyebrows might almost be more intimidating. "Shouldn't you be in hospital?" "No, I thought I'd rather enquire as to whether you'd like to lick my boots for a while." (Udo Kier accent optional - sinister mastermind Yuri from Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 has no...

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Or perhaps the creatures just shifted in there, or evolved to fit a niche. Most worlds are flooded with Ancient Civilisations Dead These Many Centuries, and so the city has probably been around a lot longer than our world (although I hasten to point out that irrigation and aquaportation have...

I'm fondest of Sisko. I came to this realisation when he poisoned a planet settled by humans/bajorans to resolve a conflict with Cardassian settlers. And there's all that other stuff too, that was just the point where I realised how cool he was.

Terrible thing, indeed. May recovery come soon to the devastated. There was an 8.1 three days ago somewhere between New Zealand, Australia, and Antarctica. If my geographic charts are right, that's pretty much on the south side of the big Indian/Australian tectonic plate... and Sumatra is on...

The benefits of having a large family: - Shiny blue dragon statuette... looks about six, seven inches tall. - King Kong on DVD. - Leather jacket that once belonged to a priest. - Chocolate-coated crystallised ginger. - The Princess Bride on DVD. - A DragonBall Z singlet which I'm wearing now. -...