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I handle things by saying that heroes are special. They have some quirk that allows them to gain talent at meteoric speed by doing 'adventurery-type stuff'. Most people (in fact, everyone except plot-important people) don't have this ability; they gain ability by slow years of practice, being...

My DM is threatening to use zerglings on the party. Well, they're not called zerglings, but I don't have the book - all I know is the fiendish look of glee on her face when she does talk about them.

Indeed. Looks like fun.

Using post-Renaissance mathematical techniques to predict those parabolae, evidently. In the medieval times we're supposedly emulating, the scientific opinion was that an object lofted up went in a straight path until it ran out of energy, then fell. Of course, anyone who's ever used a bow will...

Yes, they exist, much the same way they do now. That is to say, I'm staring down the barrel of an electron cannon as I type; but I don't think 'damn, those're some nice electrons' at the time, nor do I ever really think that. In my main campaign world, physics operates just as you'd expect it...

I'm not as disturbed by the toys as by the advertising that goes along with them. At least here in New Zealand, I've seen one ad that is probably the worst of all time. It's advertising some sort of transforming Spidey series, which is utterly nonsensical but I'll forgive that as shameless...

Science is good, because it opens up incredible new ideas through the application of logic. Would we have mind flayers, displacer beasts, etc etc, without scienctific concepts? I doubt it. Plus there's the cool stuff like the old Basic D&D Immortals game, where you get to stand at the heart of...

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What came first: the chicken, or the egg? It's possible that the ability score does not allow the powers, but rather, the powers allow the ability score and they are both expressions of some deeper quality you don't write on the character sheet ('psionic power', say). So I'm bigg and strongg...

I read books... a good number, basically anything I can find in the city library that looks good. And is categorised as sf/f. But my horizons are not as broad as they might be, and I don't read many of the things mentioned here simply because I don't have time or exposure. So news about just...

I (who have only seen season 1) shall attempt to staunch the flow of Gibraltar (read: well-discerned holes) with the following cork (read: excuse theory): Superman is, on a geometric level, just a man. Under the laws of physics, an object of roughly human mass will go flying when you hit it...

Hinting at the fact that all the traditional dice shapes (except the d10) are of a particular type used in ancient Greek elemental theory. The shapes have been around and mathematically known for a few thousand years. I bet they didn't take long to write numbers on the sides. Very fond of...

For anyone who's played Quake all the way through, and then gone out and found Seal Of Nehara (an enginemod and something like 6-hour machinima intro to a suped-up gameplay experience). Would that work? Of course, you'd have to do something to make the setting better. Despite having...

Interestingly, the medieval military structure may be a historical anomaly. The Romans and Greeks had standing, trained armies, right? (I think the state of Sparta was nothing but army.) And yet it was in the medieval period that weapons requiring extensive training became popular - longbows...

I've heard it suggested elsewhere that someone else (ie not a core FF member) was caught up in the event as well as the FF and Doom, and that Man-Thing and Doom symbolise the opposing forces of nature and metal, much as the FF symbolise the cardinal elements. Which could work.

Closed with caveats. Everything I work up has a nice solid cosmology that certainly doesn't mesh with other cosmologies. That said, it is possible to move to other cosmologies, as they all exist as part of the set of infinite diversity (in my mind, hence in my worlds); it's just that navigating...

Which brings up a new point: Why wouldn't Marvel and DC want more readers? With today's best-selling comics selling barely one tenth of those ten years ago, who wouldn't want to buff their sales figures? You're saying TP wants to get more people buying its stuff, basically. The big companies...

Oops. Try it again. (I accidentally coded the date into the dawn of the 23rd century, when it was supposed to be last Wednesday.)

'Kamikaze'... should have spotted that as one of the few Japanese words I can remember. (And for those Dragonball watchers, note how they carefully didn't translate Kami.) Anyway, between reading the query and everyone else posting, I remembered the opening title for Neon Genesis Evangelion...

Take a look at this. That's my step outside the genre...