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I don't see that. In Dark Matter you are investigating the unknown, but it doesn't have that horror and madness "man was not meant to know" feel to it that CoC has. Now granted, the Hoffman Institute is an Ahotti experiment to see how well humans deal with the unknown and that can be quite...

I've heard a lot about which spells are too powerful and which spells are nerfed, but I have yet seen anyone rewrite the spells to change their level. Where would you put specifically Core spells at which level and why?

I've never understood the Hive, and isn't the old one supposed to be locked before a new one starts?

Here is a rather incomplete conversion of Buck Rogers. The talented eye will see where I ripped off Alternity, Amazing Engine, Star Wars, and Pulp Heroes to put it all together. I never finished changing the flavor text for the Scientist.

a) The DragonDex - A complete index to Dragon Magazine b) Dragon Magazine Archive c) 10+ years working in various academic libraries

Dragon Magazine vol. 99 page 76 "Psybots and Battle Mechs" by Michael Breault.

Hey, its a Cybermat from Dr. Who. Where are the Cybermen?

Well, looking at the publishing history, probably 1984 did more to hurt Star Frontiers with too many books coming out. Both the Alpha Dawn boxed set and the D&D basic set were being sold at Wal-Mart at the time (but it wasn't the giant it is now), and when Wal-Mart pulled D&D because of the...

Actually, I checked Amazon.com for the product history (not complete) since I'm at work and can't check my library: 1982 Alpha Dawn Boxed Set (I saw a date of 1980, but I double checked it on WorldCat [working in a library can be cool]) Volturnus Planet of Mystery Starspawn of Volturnus 1983...

That meme was the generally consensus at the time and still floats around on SF messageboards and listservs. The general theory was that Lorraine Williams did it to garner tons of royalties from the sale of XXVc and that the Cyborg Rules from Gamma World: Epsilon Cyborgs and the Powered Armor...

No, a lot of it had to do with Nerdrage over the cancellation of Star Frontiers which was at the time one of the most successful Science Fiction games on the market. People were upset that their favorite game was being replaced by Buck Rogers of all things and that they weren't going to get...

I already have one floating on one of my computers somewhere.

So I can't have a sense of wonder and a bit of flair in my serious SF? I would suggest you go back and read some Heinlein.

After reading http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/252425-lorraine-williams-did-what.html and the comments on Buck Rogers XXVc I have to ask did you play the game? Honestly, except for the character cards you could play the entire game without seeing Kane, Deering, or Rogers. It...

Yeah I missed that. I think it could just be that spiders evolved too late in the game to take advantage of the heightened oxygen levels.

Thanks. I stand corrected.

There are some limits to change in morphology via evolution. Apparently, its easier for gill chambers to become lungs than it is for book lungs to become more efficient lungs. It can be a limiting factor. There is a theory floating out there (or maybe a hypothesis) that the higher oxygen...

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Yeah, just my personal axe to grind. And I know it misses the point about why science is important and how to explain why we study it to people. He hit the points I make to my students all the time in a very eloquent fashion.

I just want to know how it would taste with butter.