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The very fact it can be removed and replaced really does mean it's optional, just like every single other element of the game.

The main problem for Firefly at the moment is getting everyone back on the same page. There was news this or last week of discussions in that direction, for something like mini-arc stories done with 'who we can get back', or something similar.

Ice Miner - going out to the Belt and looking for that perfect gigaton chunk of ice and volatiles, put a low-yield engine on it and aim it back to the inner system, either for space colony water and fuel, or for terraformers to drop onto Mars. Postmortist - psychoanalyst for people translated...

I haven't the slightest idea -- I know Friday dealt with genetically enhanced people. It's an idea you find in a lot of modern SF. We should be doing that in about 25 years or so.

Ours is 'business casual'; dress or polo or collared shirt, slacks, belt, good shoes. Fridays is jeans and sneakers if you wish. There's some stuff in there about hair length on men, piercings, visible tattoos, earrings for men and some other stuff but since I have none of that, I've never...

That was it, and no, it wasn't.

This, or scout service dude. Be the 'first in' guy, the first to set foot on a new world, the first person to visit a star system, etc. Baby Designer: present people with optimal packages of genetically biased traits, and physical qualities, making sure that the parents genetic code won't...

Anything involving social work. I don't have the mental and physical constitution for that work. Anything involving a significant risk to life and limb. Debt collection (see above).

No real problem. Certainly. No reason not to. I doubt a significant number of car salesmen are liars. Probably not, for the hugely increased likelihood of a sudden and violent death, or years of imprisonment. If it was what I had to do to put food on the table, though, sure. Have no problem...

That last certainly figures into whatever I'd charge. Ballpark figure: $250 cash per session, $500 if done any other way.

It might be all that's needed. Depression is a major factor in a lot of things like this, because it eats at your self respect. When you have no self-respect, it's almost impossible to have respect for anything else, including stuff that belongs to other people. This dovetails into...

Baby steps... it's a significant one, though. I hope we can at least achieve sustainable ignition before I die :)

If you're talking about a magic without an underlying supernatural aspect, then it probably won't resemble any classic magic. Thus, your main problem here. Maybe, just like we have people that can do 16-digit math in their head in a couple seconds. They're going to be few and far between...

And 'Townsman' for the 'middle-class' townie who is not an urchin or a noble.

Gan is a devilishly-handsome 25 year old human burglar who loves beating impossible odds. STR 4 AGI 6 END 5 INT 6 WILL 3 CHA 4 MAG 0 GC 1 Running, Gaming, Climbing Urchin - +14 years Thievery Burglar +4 years Thievery Burglar +1 Year Stealth Caught Man at arms +6 years Melee Weapon Burglar II...

You might want to look at whatever incarnation 'Empire of the Petal Throne' is in, these days.

Well, you can easily have a 'super-nature' without gods - it's just another aspect of nature that people don't fully understand, yet. Yes, all magic can be said to start out as priest magic, but it really goes back much further than that. All magic is actually science, because it wants to...

Replicators by their very definition could churn out replicators; they're intrinsically Von Neumann machines. Another good example are the fabbers in Ringo's Live Free or Die; they can make anything they have a template for, up to and including another fabber. There, they are limited by the...

So, it happens now and again that your moderate level evil cleric pops off that massive thirty-foot-radius blast of negative energy in a globe around himself while in the confines of, say, a tavern or inn full of normal 5-10hp people who have the Will Save of a turnip. So they wind up taking...

Star Trek, in many ways, is a poor example to bring up because it's a TV show with a requirement for drama and adventure, and because too many cooks have long ago spoiled that soup since the original series closed it's doors. Roddenberry's original vision was that they'd gone past the need for...