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IIRC, there is a great story hour called "Drunk Southern Women with Guns" that was very much like Dark*Matter.

Have to say, Mongoose sounds polite, while JMS sounds like an arse. In the big picture, it is completely irrelevant whether JMS is justified in his anger, because the way he addresses the issue gives the reader no confidence that he is acting in a reasonable and informed fashion. You can't...

Funny...but on with the adventure!

Don't forget "War Against the Chtorr" -- book series plus a good GURPS supplement. The Cylons in the new Battlestar Galactica use both human-looking biological constructs and cyborg spaceships. Anne McAffrey's "Ship Who Sang" is about ships run by human brains. That was also a factor in a...

Note that most of the season 2 episodes will be rerun on December 20th, so set those recorders if you've missed any.

Just reading the million dollar logo thread, and I have to say...it is great to have a hobby with a web site like this, where the founders, designers, business owners and players all contribute. I guess that is all I have to say on the topic. Thanks to all the folks who make EN World possible.

Anthropomorphic animal creatures fit in much better in fantasy than they do in science fiction, because the first is grounded in human mythology, while the second at least pays lip service to scientific plausibility. There is no reason to assume that alien life would follow the same patterns as...

1. Draw a map. 2. Treat it like a newspaper article, i.e., tell the players what they are most likely to notice or what is most interesting first. 3. Make sure YOU understand what it looks like and what all the terms in the box text mean. 4. Only go into rabid detail if the players take the...

Completely unexpected news like this is never well received, and with good reason. There is no way to anticipate what is going to happen next. I hope that WotC has the sense to offer some kind of information to their customers explaining the situation better than, "no comment." Sorry for the...

There is a disparity between the perception of characters as heroic and the limitations imposed by the system for the purposes of balance. If Arnie or Stallone or Vin could do it in that movie, then I should be able to! The reason these things require feats is because they are very hard to do...

In Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, rebels on the moon use mass drivers to bombard locations on Earth. The only implausible part is that: a) The moon has been sending ore to Earth this way for years, yet b) the Earth government is so clueless about this potential weapon that they...

Did anybody else notice that in his justification, Rich referred repeatedly to Varsuvius as "he," and confirmed that smite evil would work on Belkar?

Ok everybody, let's take a time out and relax. Breath. Good. Our favorite comic writer probably made a mistake in trying to "justify" his plot line. He doesn't usually do that, and this is precisely why. It is why Joss Whedon doesn't try to justify how fast his spaceships go. I am positive...

Haley: Elan, technically everything we do is an adventure. Xykon: Hey, that was your supreme leader, wasn't he?

My favorite Belkar quote is one he never actually said: "I have deep-seated emotional problems. Die, die!"

I stand corrected. That, however, was FUNNY. The saddest thing about Enterprise is that the people running the show thought that ending it that way was a tribute instead of an insult.

Sci-fi is all over the map on this topic. Stargate SG-1 had an alien threat called the replicators. They were immune to energy weapons, but slug-throwers turned them into confetti. Having said that, you NEVER saw an advanced race using firearms. They always had energy weapons. Even the...

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I agree with Haley's reaction.

Ah, you're making certain assumptions. If you have an active personal defense system, e.g., robotic shield drones, or a force field that only comes on when it detects a threat, then energy weapons would still beat ballistics. As for pulling the trigger -- any weapon that had an inherent delay...