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David Brin's stuff is pretty good, and he has the scientific background to know what he is talking about.

"Venusian Christmas Carol" - Part 2 Gustav's eyes flutter open. "Ach, mein aching head." He touches a hand to his face, then suddenly sits bolt upright. "Vot is this?" "My apologies, Doctor." Larathra looks up from where she is pensively examining the RIDE, which appears blackened and...

OK, but let's not leave the decision too late, or I won't have time to write a second game anyway :)

Wasn't Dungeon of the Fire Opal written by Jonathon Tweet? My favourite D&D module ever? Probably Old Man Katan and his Mushroom Band. Who doesn't love singing mushrooms?

For the Shokkutsuju's spell allowance, it looks like they are following the pattern set by items such as the ring of wizardry, so I think it is the text that is misleading, rather than the number of spells per day being incorrect. Though I wonder if it makes much difference when you have that...

I record our Q-Ship sessions. Only way I have any chance of keeping track of every clever thing the PCs say / do for story hour purposes. There's just too much going on to get it all by taking notes as we play.

Mavrick: If you can't come up with another DM I'm willing to drop out of Blacktarn in order to run an MnM 2e game during the morning.

The 'turtle' part has no impact on how hard you are to hit in IH, remember. In fact if you have a high Dex (though I don't know why an Armiger would) then heavy armour will actually reduce your Defence due to the Max Dex limits. At lower levels, the Armiger needs to seek out the toughest...

I can't take any credit for the "kill something or mate with a female" line -- that's a direct quote from the 'guest star' player who played Larathra. The whole table cracked up :) Gaming with ledded and the Medallions guys was lots of fun. Should anyone else make it to Birmingham, you should...

"Venusian Christmas Carol" - Part 1 "You're useless!" The Targ Head Scientist spits the words with vituperative hatred. Dressed once more from head to toe in her encounter suit, she dominates the screen as she lashes out verbally, thrusting an accusing finger right into the camera. "You're...

In lieu of a real update (since I haven't written one yet), I wanted to make a brief diversion to mention one of the things that makes running Q-Ship so much fun. You see, the premise of the game allows me to get away with stuff I could simply never do in a D&D campaign. Because my players...

It's kind of like early Image that way, only with better art and story. :)

Or do away with that pesky heart thing and post in the "Secrets of the Halmae" thread instead, where the PCs won't be forewarned of any nasty ideas you give Fajitas. Hey spyscribe! *waves cheerfully* :D

Hey! I broke PirateCat's game! :) Personally, I'm in the 'much ado about nothing' camp on this one. Galthia (?): "I grapple." PC: "Your hands slide right off." Velendo: "Greater Dispel Magic." Problem solved :) That said, I think either 2 or 3 would be a fine compromise if the issue is...

I am in. Sign me up for Grim Tales in the morning. I'd have bern happy to play Silvermoon's game in the afternoon, but since at least one person has asked for Iron Heroes, let's do that. :) Iron Heroes: The Landhammer (Special East Coast presentation of a Gencon SoCal game) The young...

I'd love to come, but there's really not enough time to get there & back from Quincy in a lunch break. Now if you made it after work, at somewhere like Redbones, I'd be all over that action :)

I don't get the impression that Quasqueton or his players have an issue with the way things are, so I don't really see a need for changing anything. As long as everyone had fun with it, I don't think it is a problem. We've had similar situations in our games, where a cohort has been more vocal...

That's Adam Windsor, actually :) I've run it three times as well ... playtest plus two times at Gencon.

Four pages in and I haven't seen anyone mention the steaming pile of garbage that was Dragon Mountain? The Grim Harvest trilogy for the Ravenloft setting was awful, too. We had fun with Baltron's Beacon until we got to the stupid puzzle corridor at the end, which was an enormous exercise in...

The bold text works fine for me. I wouldn't use italics (you use it for other stuff) or colors (as they are a pain to BBcode all the time ... though if the blade doesn't talk much they might work OK for you).