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GONE MISSING Pt. 5 Ross placed his hand over the slide of Jo's gun and slid it back -- KA-CHUNK. The shell ejected and slide locked even as she pulled the trigger. He'd appeared just as she kicked in the door. "Sweetie, what are you doing?" "LOOK! LOOK!" Ross followed her gaze into the...

Ah, a classic setup. My own players have come to hate the marketplace, too. Nice place you've got here. And another classic campaign. Heroes. Freeing slaves. My players spent two hours tonight trying to figure out how to start up a casino in the Blood Steppes, God love 'em. Looking...

Get to it, man. And I haven't heard from you about GRIM TALES recently. I assume you're swamped from the move and work, not just having too much fun playing your blind shaman.

It's a joke. Based on something the JPL guys toss around (we even used it back when I was thrashing around for my degree). Whenever they need a theoretical but currently unobtainable by standard technology material for some hypothesis to work, they nickname the material "unobtanium" as a...

And, as my agent has warned me, one should probably never hear about. Ahem. Let's just say the last thing you want to hear in a development meeting are the words "I mean, nobody knows what's down there, right? Anything could be down there!" Uh-oh.

Yes, after a while -- that's the theory of one of the mechanisms which in fact keeps the reversal stable. The idea is that the normal process has been at least temporarily disrupted. Not long enough to terminally affect the planet -- but planetary time is a bitch compared to biologic time...

First, vis a vis xeriar's notion of "swirling" vs. "spinning" outer core, that's one of the things up for grabs in current research. We also make a point of saying it's not solid, as you know and point out in your post. It's also not transparent -- those are the imaging viewscreen views (one or...

I get the alternatives there, Dismas, but I just ran into the same thing. You shouldn't need special training in unarmed fighting to knock a guy out. The strongest guy in the world, with a +4 strength mod but only doing 1d3 damage, couldn't knock the average joe into unconsciousness? That's...

Spycraft -- Archer Sourcebook. Skills 'n feats psionics. SLide the DC's for all the effects up 5 to balance them a bit. Spycraft. So good, in so many ways.

I've found that treating the class abilities of SPYCRAFT as talent-tree options in D20 Modern does a bit of good. I'd say, having pulled the system apart a bit to see how it works, 1 1st level SPYCRAFT character's roughly equivalent to a third-level D20Modern. Check out my upcoming website --...

Fine, I missed the STARGATE boat -- but get a scientist clas, which makes me giddy. You don't let me work on any Pulp Spycraft concepts, though, and I will hunt you down ... I have an agent and stuff, you know. They do my bidding. I have minions. Minions who wouldn't return my call if I...

Although the first ideas on the website will be more X-Files-y and Dark*Matter-ish, there'll be regular Pulp ideas on my new company/website (opening in April, hopefully). For a half-way decent use of SPYCRAFT rules in a pulp genre, check out the Pulp Storyline in the sig below. I for one...

The THIRST mechanism from Spycraft's ritual magic system is pretty nice, although I'm not crazy nuts about the rituals themselves. The Hand of Glory sourcebook spiffed it out quite a bit, I have to admit. Anyway, rough and ready -- do magic, make a saving throw vs. DC + spell level + existing...

Who said it was supposed to open inwards? Jo just splintered the sucker. Shared credit for "HBSM" (hot-buttered etc.) must go to Chris Downey, fellow writer currently on KING OF QUEENS. I'll take the Fifth on the context it was created in ... This session, then the one Dreadnought played in...

Re: Aaagh! No, they were too focused on Malloy, Sully, and the awful, awful thing I was doing to Jo. THAT you'll start to see the full extent of next update ... I believe, as usual, Andrew tumbled to it first and announced his knowledge with a priceless in-game quote. So in respect to not...

Please, if you've guessed it, don't tell. It took the players a little while longer ...

GONE MISSING Pt. 4 Special Agent Diane Sullivan shook their hands. "Nice to meet fellow skeptics." The Agents exchanged puzzled looks, then suddenly remembered -- the public face of the Hoffman Institute was rigorous scientific fieldwork on the paranormal. They tended to report the false...

See, Curry's bit too campy, I think. I always tried to find that "regular actor playing weird part" image for him, like Alec Baldwin in so many great SNL appearances, but I never really landed. The persona was popular enough (and frankly too stinking fun to play) that another villain in my...

Yes, Argent is a PC. Stephen from the Dark*Matter D20 group. He just seems odd because he's burdened with scruples. He's a Cleric of Madriel, with the Domain Powers of Sun and Plants. "Plants? Who the hell chooses that Domain?" I asked the same thing. And damned if it didn't wind up...

Thanks as always for all the support, everyone. I just turned in my last overdue first draft (an adaptation of Rucka's Queen & Country for you comic geeks), and I should be able to stay on a once-a-week update schedule for a while. A few other updates that may be of interest: -- The Core...