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Well, the forbidden topics is a different issue entirely. I understand why non-RPG stuff is off-topic, and it only barely intersects this particular issue (such as when someone aviods discussing a game-relevant political idea because of fears of getting in trouble. On your other points: 3 is...

I haven't tried integrating it in actual play, but, on paper, it doesn't look any harder than integrating, say, Blue Rose and D&D3E. If that's your idea of 'hard', then, yes, it'll be hard. I'm one of those people who snags bits from ShadowRun to use in my W:tA game, without doing any conversion...

More radical weather, in all seasons. Large masses of water have much greater thermal mass than large masses of land, and thus cut down on rapid/large weather changes. It's why Boston and Seattle have much less seasonal variation than Milwaukee & Minneapolis (respectively), despite being at...

Um, you can have volcanos without tilt or moon--tectonics causes most of them on our planet, frex. Also, weather patterns are largely driven by the difference in day-night temperature, the difference in solar energy at different latitudes, and geography. Eliminating tilt and eccentricity would...

In theory, yes. In practice, though, the mass just wouldn't be there. Think of it like this: the entire asteroid belt, spanning well over a hundred million linear miles, and with a width in the hundreds of thousands or even millions of miles, has a total mass thought to be less than that of...

Actually, wouldn't the tropics and arctic (as climactic zones) shrink, and the sub-arctic and sub-tropical regions grow? Right now, everything between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn get direct sunlight at least one day of the year. But that's also the reason where the lowest angle of...

Actually, the weather wouldn't so much be absent, as more localized, and driven by geographic features. The primary drivers of Earth's weather patterns are thought to be, in no particular order: climate-zone temperature differences (hot air in the tropics rises and is displaced by cool air...

It did? Point me to some sources--i was under the impression that we didn't know what happened more than ~1bya (approx. formation of Rodinia). [btw, that's info-seeking, not authority-challenging] Anyway, how does what you're saying here interact with the idea that more polar land mass promotes...

You need a copy of Medea: Harlan's World. Last i looked, i found several copies at Abebooks and Alibris for <US$10. It describes the creation of a collaborative world for scifi stories, and then a dozen or so stories set in that world. Some of the foremost speculative scientific minds of the...

Well, if we just assume there's a mechanism to drive the water cycle, and therefore there are rains and rivers and so on [perhaps increased volcanism means more particulate matter in the atmosphere, maybe just on a seasonal, or at least cyclical, basis, and thus clouds condense more easily?], my...

Magical Society: Ecology and Culture has some of this stuff Medea: Harlan's World is several hundred pages exploring the creation of a hard-science scifi world After Man: A Zoology of the Future has some really cool stuff in the introduction on th eevolution of life and interactions of geography...

That doesn't pass simple sniff test. Southern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun at the same time that the Earth is closer to the sun. Northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sunwhen the earth is farther from the sun. So, if eccentricity were the factor, you'd expect the Southern hemisphere...

What do you want? I think BESM [Tri-Stat] is far and away the better of the two. But it's also less crunchy, less "realistic", and less D20 System than BESM D20. Frex, in BESM your basic combat values are calculated equally from all of your stats (though you can modify them in any number of...

Wisconsin is still #1 for cheese. I believe CA surpassed WI for total dairy production (mostly milk) a couple years back--but, hey, they've got us out-landed by, what, 3:1?, so it's hardly a fair contest.

That's Over the Edge. On the Edge is the TCG. Also, i'd say that ShadowRun had gotten the dicepool meme out there quite handily before V:tM came along. It's just that, generally, those who were interested in V:tM weren't interested in SR, and vice versa. Anyway, i'd say you're odd-man-out on...

D&d3E PH & DMG? Nope. Precisely because i don't enjoy reading them--bad organization, bad writing, bad layout. But, big fat rulebooks that i consider readable? I'll read the whole thing. I read all of the AD&D1&2 PHs & DMGs, not to mention all the Complete... books that i bought, and a whole...

Immortal (at least the 1st edition) is a variation on type 3: each aspect of difficulty requires rolling a different die. If it were D20 System-based, it would be a bit like this: If you want to hit someone, there's a certain DC, and you roll your attack ability [BAB]. If theey're more skilled...

I know it looks impressive, but it's really only ~30 shelf-feet (36 if you use the top). Or, roughly 2.5x one of those $40 Target shelves (like you see sagging in Psion's first picture). Though i'm sure it's much sturdier than the latter. But, anyway, it's not all that much bookshelvage. I've...

So, how long have you had that Ikea shelf? I just went and read the product description, and it sounds suspect, as far as long-term durability is concerned (particle board and fiber board have a tendency to disintegrate and/or shatter under stress). Can it be disassembled and re-assembled, or...

Funny thing, that. I have a serious fear of heights. As part of a "teamwork" course i took, we did a climbing wall. And i did it blindfolded. It was the easiest time climbing i've ever had--it completely destroyed the fear of heights. [Of course, i did have others around to help direct me, so i...