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It's a little more than a hobby to some. I direct you to this page on Wikipedia. Specifically, read under UFO/Research and /Theory. And he more than speculates. To him, its real. Greg

I'm still waiting for Dungeon 145. I sent an email to customer service last week, but was told that because I live in Canada, I have to wait 6 weeks before declaring it well and truly lost. :\ I guess today is the day, then. If it ain't in my mailbox... Greg

For the exact same reason we have spread out as far as we can on Earth (and above!). For the space, for the resources, and for the scientific exploration. Greg

Well, technically it is an equation. It has mathematical properties (multiplication), and two sides of an equals sign. But that's semantics. Absolutely the contents of the Drake equation are, in some cases, purely speculative. Who knows how many years an intelligent society will last before it...

And this is exactly what I think the reason why people believe in UFOs. Not because of the evidence (there really isn't any, regardless of what Stanton Friedman says). But because it makes people feel good about life to believe in this. I agree that with all the number of stars and planets out...

True, but the problem is when you say "might". They might live for millenia, or they might live for an instant. (Fruit flies with interstellar flight anyone?) We just don't know. The fact is, the longest living creature we know about lives a little over a 100 years. (And yes, I know that's...

Unfortunately, it's those drunken pickup-truck drivers that get all the press. Its not the "plying the stars... and keeping ones presence hidden" that bothers me. I can understand that (although I still think we will get to insterstellar space without worrying about inventing a cloaking device...

Well, actually, no it doesn't go against my position. My position is that if we go to the stars, I really don't see any way that we would engage in the activities that these aliens that are supposedly here now are being accused of. So if I can't see why we would do it, then how can I possibly...

Of course, your right. But there are probably a few truths in the universe. Survival instinct being one of them. They would need to flourish as individuals and as a species. In order for an alien species to become as advanced as would be necessary to visit us, out here on this lonely arm of the...

Ok, this is where I have another problem. Why would they (aliens) "throw massive amount of resources" at a project like "fly across the galaxy and abduct sentient species to perform questionable medical experiments on them"? And before anyone answers "they're aliens, who says they will think the...

Ok, I see your point. I'm not an astronomer by trade so I'll concede those points you're making (although I have worked in the near-Earth space business for the last 10 years - and I do think that due to third-body perturbations they'd have to make some orbit corrections over a 60 year period)...

I prefer: We think they're searching exotic circumlunar orbits at the moment. Which is uncomfortably close to the truth, but it's a big sky." -- By Now, The Uzbekistanis Have Discovered The Disappearance Of Their Orbital Platform - The Onion :-) I agree in principle with everything you say...

Fair enough, there may not be comprehensive coverage at any given time. But after 60 years of "sightings" (Roswell was 47 wan't it?) to say that with all the astronomers, looking through pretty much the whole EM spectrum, with both ground based and space based instrumentation, looking both in...

But that would imply the existence of a "mothership". With the US and the Russians monitoring near-earth space so closely (looking for each other's re-entry vehicles) and astronomers covering anything further out, I think we would have seen evidence of such a ship already. Greg

Fair enough. My biggest problem as a DM, though, is consistency. When I make off-the-cuff rulings, I tend to forget them 10 sessions later when the same situation comes up. (I make horrible notes :) ) So I try to follow the letter of the law as close as possible, so that I know its repeatable...

I'm not sure I agree with the "using a powerful spell" reasoning. Resist elements is a lower level spell than fireball, but fireball doesn't automatically trump it. In fact, if the wizard is low enough level and rolls a lot of one's, then the fireball is completely useless. So I still want to...

Thanks for all the replies. I think I see where I went wrong. I think the problem is that asking someone to stop attacking is not against their nature in any way, regardless of whether they were going to attack or not. So I should have probably allowed that to go without the save. If it had been...

Hi, An odd combination of spells came up last night, and I would like others' opinions on it. We're running Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (still playing by v3.0 rules) and I'd inserted some Rogue Eidelons (from MM II) where some advanced wights were previously. The Rogue Eid's have a...