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It's two years later... the 4E D&D is over, and we are about to begin a Starblazer Adventures! (FATE 3) game. Once again, we've got an empty chair that we'd like to fill. Please inquire within.

Allow me to distill (HAH!) your post down to two salient points... To which I answer... Lucky you. You found a great game, with great people. They you, you like them, and you like the game. Run with it. And if you are so inclined, just ask the DM if he'd mind you crashing on his couch...

Crazy Zeke. Crazy Zeke was a NPC I made up on the spot years and years ago when the PCs were looking for someone to guide them through the wilderness to a particular dungeon in a lost valley. I portrayed him as something like what you might get if Burgess Meredith was ever cast as a 19th...

For this... ...look here. It's designed for 4E, but is easily adapted to any game system. Don't miss that there's 6 pages to article. As for the game system itself... I've been on a FATE kick lately. It might be worth looking at Starblazer Adventures. It'd work pretty well, in this sort...

Oh, boy... You should watch more classic Westerns (note that quite a few of them are remakes of Kurosawa's samurai films). The showdown at high-noon? Pistols from 20 paces at dawn? A sharpshooter can show just as much honor and respect to his enemies as any sword fighter can. Take a...

His point is that sometimes people (and especially gamer-geeks) can come on pretty strong when someone shows interest in their hobby. It's easy to scare them off with an over-abundance of enthusiasm. And when the people are guys and the someone's a girl, the excess enthusiasm might be mistaken...

Our group has just about reached the same spot... Ran through half of Scales of War and we're just now finishing up Revenge of the Giants. After 20 levels of 4E and 10+ years of D20, things are beginning to drag. So, we're going to change tack, and try out FATE. We might end up playing "D&D"...

Guh.

Your Wizard rolls a critical hits against an enemy with Prismatic Beams, hitting all three NADs. How do you apply the bonus critical hit damage dice from his magical implement?

Oh, we know that... the prevailing joke around here is that some graduate student swapped out a 16ns cable with a longer 36ns cable, so he'd stop tripping on it every time he walked by. But, of course, that's why we're furiously digging through all sorts of our own data here, trying to see the...

Oh boy, I'd almost forgotten... About two weeks ago, the OPERA experiment in Italy announced that it had seen neutrinos from CERN traveling at slightly faster than the speed of light. Fermilab is trying to confirm using previously collected data.

Or to put it another way, you'd be looking at something that used to be 15 billion light years away, 15 billion years ago.

...or a scientist proves him wrong.

Though they often produce the same result and are used for the same reasons, there's a big difference between lying and not telling the truth. While there's likely very few of them who lie, you might be surprised at the number of journalists and scientists who don't tell the truth.

Maybe it's because of that time you sold your soul... :confused: ;)

I've discover a few over the years, most notably... I can move my eyeballs independently of each other, not unlike a chameleon. While I can't actually make myself invisible, I can achieve such a level of inconspicuousness that I am, for all intents and purposes, practically invisible. Given...

No, apparently, they're just thermo-electric... You apply a voltage and they heat up. It's effectively a big flat panel display that shows up under IR, instead of visible light.

Having watched the promotional video on the company's website, it looks like panels that are added to the sides of the vehicle, rather than replacing them entirely. Additionally, the panels don't necessarily cover the entire vehicle. On the tanks, for example, it seems as if they only cover...

Huh... I must have missed that sentence on the first read through. My mistake. You've got me... I suppose that's the big secret that they won't tell anyone. But they do have that before and after photo at the end of the article:

The tank doesn't try to look like something cool, but tries to look like something hot... So, using the example from the article, if the tank is operating in the arctic, it tiles would shift the heat around on the sink, so that the tank looked like a polar bear. Or, the tank could give itself...