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It is believed to have developed due to the necessity of following herds, and scouring a wide area for food. Perhaps. The thread on RPG.net got a much better response, maybe because I phrased it differently? There were still a few who pattered 'Humans are average because that's all we know!'...

Wraiths are nasty. Especially if, say, it landed in the commoners, would end up with three dozen of them in a single minute... Otherwise, it depends on the tactics involved, really. It could be a slaughter from either side.

This is fantasy, for one. If I were going to go the sci-fi route, I wouldn't have orcs or elves or all that jazz (except those who gengineered themselves to be that way) - rather come up with some truly alien types, which is another reason I've been doing this - but anyway... Are any of those...

To outrun a crocodile, just run in a zig-zag pattern. A croc cannot turn and run at the same time. There is supposedly a tribe in Africa whose members hunt lions with their bare hands. It is rather noteable though - our endurance is a predatory trait more than a survival one. Well, there...

The entire human genetic stock comes from an estimated two thousand people. I've linked to some sites in the RPG.net thread above. Genetic drift factors estimate this bottleneck occured about 70,000 years ago. Similarly, the y-adam is from around this date (~74,000 years) - this is the male...

Awhile ago, I posted a thread on RPG.net About Here regarding that I was tired of humans being the average. Considering that we got to the top of the food chain in the stone age, there ought to be something cool about humans. Genetic studies suggest that the human race has survived -multiple-...

Enemies and Allies. 38 point buy watchmen! What the heck!?

Re: Re: Re: Mensans, reveal yourselves 95th percentile represents the area around the mean - you are actually looking at the top 2% - 1 in 49, actually. Still, being online participating in a forum about a game that generally has an intellectually skewed population in the first place -...

I prefer being open with XP, but some people are rather sensitive and can't take it... And this is something that can happen :-( It can be a legitimate complaint at times (favoratism, etc.) Maybe he should ask what he did wrong instead? I give out hundreds to thousands of XP for...

Well, since there are nine recognized intelligences, and the g factor, you could claim to have 10 if you tested for all of them... Some are pretty hard though - how do you test moral intelligence? Myself, I play just about everything. Tend to stay away from paladins, and stick with elves and...

~4,800 Soldiers, ~59 Centurions, 6 Tribunes, 1 Legatus Legionis = 1 legion. But there were a lot of 'junior officers' - standard bearers, image bearers, recordkeeping offices, etc. as well as Optio (second in command to the centurion), praefectus castorum and primus pilus (overseeing various...

My hat of all things punk knows no limit.

I am generally of the opinion that they are of the 'munchkin' type, myself.

You know, this is another bit - Jeff's Outpost 2000 sits right next to a Pizza Hut. Those two businesses must love eachother to death.

Another Outpost Goer! Small world. Jeff is also good at sales and marketing, as well as not intimidating parents. I also routinely special order hundreds of dollars worth of books from him.

I knew full well that Poland existed when I made Polack jokes. Since I am 1/4th Polish, I felt free to do so with impunity. There was another Polish kid who went with it as well. Cretin comes from vulgar Latin through French. Ugh, I didn't really want to bring this up - but basically early...

Wow. I was in a group (playing various D&D and Cyberpunk campaigns) where the DM slept with one of the player's girlfriends.

I was well aware of that, thank you. That wasn't my point.

This is because - being the fricking Mall of America - prices are a lot higher their than they are elsewhere in the cities. And you aren't supposed to even bring a watch :-) Any potential Minnesotan ought to understand how they are going to cope with the Winter. If you don't like the cold...

Cretin is another word originally referring to a cultural group (Christians). I'm not defending the practice - but it is important to be aware that it happens, and some words get permenantly entwined into the language. Sometimes so thoroughly that they survive the next dominant culture that...