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I read it based on the hype and wasn't disappointed. It has its flaws, sure; it tries so very hard to be different, but the end is almost a Scooby-Doo solution. With, y'know, cool creepy weirdness. The unique stuff comes off great, and the feel of it is very punk (with whatever prefix you...

It works, indeed. The lack of colour just makes it that much bleaker, always a good thing in the snow (in fact, my own webcomic's going into snowy lands soon, and I'd decided months ago to use monochrome instead of my normal colour). The art's great. And the story's interesting - it's nice to...

Always have, ever since the first thread going 'psionics suck teyh arent fantastic' that I walked in on. Honestly, change a couple of power names, take some of those neat psionic feats, you've got someone who runs up walls, breaks stone with their punch, and can go into a swordfight using one...

Don't stop. Digimon is one of my favourite TV shows ever. Although I shouldn't mention it because I haven't actually seen the movie... (sob sob) Ah, what the heck. Digimon is to Pokemon as Neon Genesis Evangelion is to one of those gameshows where they build battling robots. Season 3 was...

Well, encouraged by interest in my spell research system, I think I'll throw out half my notes and rewrite them in a format more geared towards creating aberrations. But I was going to do that anyway. And Templetroll will be pleased to learn that flux capacitors are possible, using a system of...

14: A distinctly unusual magical weapon, the s/LaSH is a mixture between a sword of dancing and a whip of wounding. It looks pretty stupid, like a sword with a ten-foot rope instead of a handle, but in practice it unleashes hellish malevolance upon the wielder's foes, whether wielded as a...

Can we dock him a level for dying of radiation poisoning that one time? Although maybe it doesn't count, because his future self came back in time to take over his life. Yeah. O'Brian is one of those characters whose timeline starts looking like a tangled ball of wool that starts off yellow...

Well, I've been jotting down notes for a very, very in-depth spell research system... let me know if any of this sounds interesting: The principle revolves around performing magical experiments with a powerful essence known as Flux. The cost of research is diminished or removed because of the...

http://www.lostskeleton.com "Do you realise what this meteor could mean for science? It could mean actual advances in the field of science." Beautiful. I've showed the trailer to friends and family, and they all think it looks wonderful. I am so going to see this puppy. I don't see how it...

I like. I'm not concerned about the sociopolitical commentary; that might be why I loved the TV show. I'll be keeping an eye out for this... As for the bugs and their armament? The speciation system is quite fine as it stands in the TV show. In addition to tankers and plasma bugs (some small...

Q1: What level do career soldiers come in at? Merchants or commoners? Or their own stage? I'm not sure what background such people had... they say if you want a longbowman, train his grandfather, indicating some sort of martial lineage. Q2: Personally, I'd do away with ECLing any culture. I'd...

To memory, drow have never been conservative in their dress. Every time you see pictures, it's leotards, tabards, weird dungeonpunk stuff that you'd wear in hot caves where sunburn isn't much of an issue. As the strong gender, the women are likely to wear utilitarian stuff, trousers and short...

One thing I've read about: Where is the seat of consciousness in the body? Probably the most important organ, the heart. That big thing in between your ears is used to cool the blood - why else would so much blood be sent there? This, of course, is why we still talk about thinking with your...

I see three perspectives on the 'is this slavery' question (reasoning that everything else in this thread has been said better). - Dominance for us: club the baby seal and take its pelt; the seals lose. - Dominance for them: feed and medicate the cows, propagate their population over the entire...

Xorn. Nothing says scifi like trilateral symmetry. Formians. "I was a mind-slave of the insect queen!" Trolls. You've got to have at least one large semihumanoid race that acts as the perfect unstoppable bodyguard. I'm thinking more the abilities rather than the illustration at this point...

Looking over my 3.0 MM: A vampire has certain natural advantages that many class abilities simply remove. Energy drain only applies to their slam attack, so you can't flurry-of-blows an archmage into negative levels. A monk who gets vamped can no longer gain monk levels, because of alignment...

Could work. Depends what sort of modern superhero books you're basing it on, though... Image-era modern, Silver age modern, even Golden Age. Silver or Gold influence gives you huge freedom in origins. Falling in a vat of thaumoactive bats, or what have you. A lot more fun in feel. Bright...

Yeah, I like completer rulesets. That way, if something unexpected comes up (and it will), you've got more examples of things from which to extrapolate, and my judgement calls will likely be very similar to your judgement calls. But plot freedom? Depends. Right now I like the drama that a good...

I may sometimes pause to consider what might happen if someone out of my head showed up at that point in the narrative. If this happens, I consider the book to be good, because it's provoked an emotional response from me (as mediated through one of my stable of godlike characters). Something I...

I don't have any pictures of Depp to hand (Google will be your friend - photo reference isn't just for traditional artists), but I'm sure it'd help if you included a frontal image too. Not all that helpful a response, sorry...