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Doesn't require an action to load? (same as in 3.5)

I think the answer to this and all related questions is that this isn't the character generator - it's the character "visualizer", so what we see of the interface won't have much to do with the actual rules of chargen. I'm betting "superior weapons" just means all the weapon models that look...

Yeah, there were many games with primitive graphics back then, but 1998 was also the year of games like Half-Life and Metal Gear Solid. The computers of the day definitely wouldn't have been able to animate characters with this level of detail - at least not well enough for a playable game - but...

Even a low-end computer can easily render better models than these - and not only that, but animate dozens of them in real-time, with dynamic lighting, spell effects, etc. These are static, they require much less processing power. As a matter of fact, computers could do better-looking graphics...

I don't hate GURPS... I just didn't like 90% of the GURPS games I've been in. :) I might come off sounding like an elitist jerk, but in my opinion the big problem with GURPS is that the vast majority of players (and GMs, for that matter) don't know how to play it well and don't bother to learn...

He's going to create a time warp and drop it on Donnie Darko. ;) Seriously, though - use it as a modified turbine for electricity generation? Break it up as a source of high-quality metal? Or, it could just have been there because it looked cool. (even though there was no way in hell one...

The problem is that, to me, the difference between a high-magic and a low-magic game are the mechanics. Certain "effects" just don't work as anything other than magic, no matter what you decide to call them - especially if, in the move to the per day / per encounter / at will ability model you...

That, more than ever, just makes it sound like everyone has spells - they're just called something else. If you can play the game with just those classes without having to modify much of anything, then it logically follows that they're able to replicate the abilities / fill in the niches of...

This topic reminds me of my own reaction to 3.5 coming out. I was (broadly speaking) against it, most people I gamed with were for it. I found that annoying, because most of them had no reason to switch other than the fact they were happy to go with the flow - or so it seemed to me - but I...

The point is that the horde would be no threat to the tank, so it could keep on killing until it ran out of ammo, then head back to re-arm. Also, you might be right about the WWZ scene, but that'd be just one more example of the author assuming terminal stupidity on the part of the armed forces...

True, the scientific impossibilities really are the least of the book's problems - but I'm not sure we can talk about the other ones without violating the rules about discussing politics... Though I suppose it ought to be ok to mention that, for example, Cuba becoming the world's dominant...

If Miles is a "real" ghost-buster, it'll be interesting to see what he has to say about the weird guy in the disappearing cabin.

The problem in Somalia - such as it was, since all the evidence is pretty much anecdotal - was apparently due to the US soldiers being issued with "green-tip" 5.56mm rounds, which are steel-cored and at high velocity do tend to blow through soft tissue without deforming and expending much energy.

Most military ammunition is not designed to do soft tissue damage or bone damage, because of the simple fact that most military ammo is designed for ballistic performance and armor penetration rather than for what it does to the tissue it hits. That being said, most military rounds from assault...

Meh. I think it'd take a 20 year-old soldier with a gun roughly a minute to figure out those things needed to be shot in the brain. It's not that big a mystery - when you shoot at something human-shaped, you have all of two targets - center of mass and the head. Sort of going off on a tangent...

Writers of monster books/movies almost always eff-up their portrayal of military equipment and tactics, because the army needs to be slaughtered in order for the premise to work. You might lose tons of lives if someone blunders and lets infantry get overrun, but in the end, it'd just be target...

The Others are pretty much done as a "power" barring a major plot twist - they had a relatively small group of people who did all the dirty work, and almost all of them are dead now. It's actually funny how, with a new group of people coming to the island, the survivors are now the dangerous...

All those abilities are actually examples of things that make sense for "monsters" but not for humanoids, because generally speaking, humanoids lack the requisite anatomy. (and two of them - Trip and Improved Grab - are actually just monster versions of things that humanoids can also do - just...

I bought two sets of their dice at GenCon last year, and got a 50% discount on everything for speaking Polish. :) Really made my day, since I was shopping for dice because some bastard stole my dice bag the day before. (if you're reading this, I know what you look like and I'm coming to Gencon...

That's good, because that wasn't what I wrote.