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The 100,000 was a Dutch figure, and like many European assertations can be a bit uncertain, but keep in mind this is rainforest, and they aren't necessarily nonproducers during peacetime. They didn't field it against one country, but all of their neighbors at the same time, thus the some 12-18...

IIRC the American armed forces totalled over 17 million at the end of the draft, out of a population of 120 million. Not all were in combat roles, obviously. I thought the Roman population closer to 10 million (around Augustus's time, anyway).

... Is that an invitation?

As far as I know, no 'civilized' nation in history has managed to field more than a sixth of its population abroad at any time, with that ratio being met by the United States in World War II. The Romans seem to have had around 3%, largely devoted to defending their borders and the occasional...

It's used all over the place. Given an impossible task, regardless of engineering feild, when asked by their managers why they aren't making progress 'we're waiting for the next shipment of unobtainium'. They have the same initial spin, I hadn't heard they could manage to seperate the...

Well, I was giving a thought off the top of my head, my knowledge of geology isn't that thorough. I know what you mean, it still seems a rather small amount of explosive, in my opinion (considering the attempt). Well, I ragged on Firefly a bit for having purple lightning in space, arcing...

I was under the impression that it was the Inner Core getting started again, my apologies. Wouldn't heat differences form between the poles and equator, and begin the process again with more energy than a measely thousand megatons ever could? Sorry, had to pick :-p The Armageddon quip is...

Then I want the computer they ran those calculations on. :-) Yes, I think I can pick out at least a dozen distinct levels of ability, even from where I stand, 'better than grandmaster' indeed. Well-timed tricks aside, of course. When I did it I was trying to teach them something, they...

The outer core does generate the magnetic field (I thought I hinted at that, or maybe we're in agreement), but it's not solid, not spinning so much as swirling, and it seems that every once in awhile (~100,000 years, give or take an order of magnitude, we're on 700,000 years now IIRC) the local...

It's a satire site, notice the term trailer review. The trailer gives the impression that a certain military experiment causing remote earthquakes caused the core (I would admit I'm assuming the inner core) currently spinning at a rate between .015 and 3 degrees per year (it does vary, of...

A bit? No offense to our local ENWorlder, but I couldn't even put up with the first trailer... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/02/review_thecore.html Doesn't say a tenth of it for me, I'm sorry.

Most tones in Japanese are by male or female speaker. It does not change meaning at all, or connotation normally, but is used for humor in anime... People who have strokes can lose all tone, there is definately a part of the brain that controls it, suggesting it is an inherent part of human...

This is called 'tonal' According to my linguistics professor, anyway.

It's from an Indo-European root word, so it's found all over. The English 'Demon' comes from Latin 'Daemon' from Greek 'Daimon' from Indo-European da- (I can't type that letter, lol)

The idea is that they are following their own path... why would they follow someone else? Unless the prestige class was about following that person, or their kingdom, but that's a different matter entirely.

Elite Following Your followers are more talented than normal. Prerequisites: Leadership feat, ability to attract level 2+ followers Benefit: You may recruit 'good' NPC classes (adepts and aristocrats) as followers as if they were one level higher, PC classes as if they were two levels...

In the ELH it says to have nonstandard NPC classes count as two levels higher, and PC classes count as three levels higher. I also made a feat that reduces this 'penalty' by one level. For extra cohorts, I'd probably swap out all of the followers for the extra cohort. Otherwise it just gets...

In an L5R campaign I played a kid named (Tsuruchi) Noname. In OpenRPG I wander around with Noname as my handle, people tell me to get a name :-)

Even building level-by-level quickly is better (a level a session, even)

What's the property tax rate where you live? Around here it's hovering around .75%, depending. Of course, it depends on a large number of factors - the government could probably tax up to 5% without breaking the business, but that can be counterproductive and sap funds from the economy and...