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From: "Filksinger" <filkhero@pop.netaddress.usa.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 02:45:44 +0000
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> On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Filksinger wrote:
>
> > > Medieval plate will stop rounds from a .45 automatic, quite
> > > > consistently, and without the heavy bruising and broken ribs of a
> > > > kevlar vest.
> >
> > Small mistake. _Some_ late medieval "proof" plate, so heavy that only
> > the breastplate was normally worn into battle, could stop bullets.
>
> Uh, big mistake here. During the English Civil War, musketeers
> shared tha battlefield with men in armor. At the time, an armor
> would set up a new breastplate, stand aways off and fire a loaded
> pistol into it. Uponpresenting the dented armor to the buyer, it was
> decalred "pistol proof" (hence the name). It's also been proven
> that A: some people only used 1/2 powder charges and B: other guys
> did a good job faking it with a hammer.
>
> Now, I can beleive that there were thick 'bulletproof' breastplates
> out there, but not that many. Most armor of this era was
> 'munitions' grade, cheaply made and assembled and purchased in lots
> of hundreds to utfit the new armys of the time.
This is possible. I used a thesis paper that I know of as the basis
for this one. However, I have seen some less than solid
information in thesises before.
Since you agree that such armor existed, and I agree that I have no
solid evidence for its being in general use (I'm not even certain
that the paper actually said that it was in _general_ use, only that
it was used) , I think we've reached agreement on this one.
> > > Some how I doubt that. Medieval plate didn't always stop soft lead
> > > shot from a matchlock gun, how is it supposed to consistantly stop a
> > > modern pistol round traveling at a much higher rate of speed? Where
> > > was this documented?
> > >
> > > BTW: one of the local SCA people did some experiments with plate and
> > > guns. He makes armor, so he took an old breastplate and his replica
> > > wheel lock and prompltly blew holes through the armor all day.
> >
> > A local SCA member demonstrated a .45 vs his breastplate on a
> > number of occasions. Dented, but not penetrated. I believe it was 12
> > gauge steel.
>
> Different thickness of breastplate. The one being shot at was a lot
> thinner I think.
I'm sure it was. Considering that a breastplate for my admittedly
ample girth would be easily 60lbs+, I can see why one would prefer
something lighter.
> > > Keep in mind that armor of the middle ages was made from 16 to 20
> > > gague sheet still, similar to autobody sheet metal. Granted, this
> > > was often layerd and tapered to provide additional protection, but
> > > it isn't *that* thick. OTOH it did work well enouigh that by the
> > > late 15th C, armor was thick enough to dispense with the shield as a
> > > defensive item (which was handy since by now most people were using
> > > two handed weapons to cut through the armor anyway.).
> >
> > By the late middle ages, the heaviest plate was considerably tougher
> > than that. Not all of it to be sure, but the heaviest actual medieval
> > armor ever developed was nearly 150 lbs, and the breastplate_could_
> > stop bullets. In actual war (as opposed to a tourney), only the
> > breastplate (bullet-deflecting internal baffles and all) would
> > normally be worn.
>
> The heavest plate armors were *never* worn in any battles. There
> are suits of plate armor designed for the tourney in which the front
> armor is upto an inch thick, but this armor was ment for jousting,
> where the wearer only had to sit on his horse and aim his lance at
> his target.
>
> Now, some armors where made to be lared, so that you started with a
> basic breastplate and added over sections to it to make the armor
> suitable for the joust. But such a basic breastplate wouldn't have
> "bullet-deflecting internal baffles". Where woulkd such a 'baffle'
> go? The typical 16C and 17C breastplate tapers from the shoulders
> to the waist and has a ridge running down the center. This should
> deflect sword blows, spears, pikes and even arrows away from the
> torso, but I really doubt it would affect all but the most glancing
> of musket rounds.
I cannot recall the source on this one, though I think it may have
been the Guinness Book of World Records (only a vague guess). I don't
doubt that they got the nature of the baffles wrong. This was
confirmed for me at the same time and by the same person as mentioned
below, hence the confusion.
> > To correct my previous statement, and clarify. The heaviest medieval
> > plate was known as proof armor. This armor was the variety that was
> > described as so heavy that you could not mount a horse while wearing
> > it. In one battle, it left men lying around on their backs, with
> > their attackers unable to find a chink to kill them, and them unable
> > to get up off their backs. Eventually, they used a woodsman's axe to
> > chop them up at the joints.
>
> I have never heard of this armor. ANd what battle are you talking
> about? Do you have a name for it? I'd like to find an account if at
> all possible. As far as I know, no actually armor was ever made
> (for battle) that a man could not walk around in it. The image of
> knights being lowered onto their horses for an actually battle is a
> flase one. Yes, jousting armors were this heavy, but not anything
> one actually would werar. Consider what you have written, would
> *you* wear something so heavy you wouldn't be able to get up in it
> if you fell over?
Sorry about this one. A friend, who is a former SCA member and a
military historian, had confirmed this story for me. I contacted him
again, to confirm it and to see if he remebered the name of the
battle, and apparently he thought I had said something different. He
agreed with you on this.
To tell the truth, Ididn't believe this story at first, which was why
I checked with him in the first place. Ah, well.
> Now, at the Battle of Agincort, mud, exhaustion and the weather
> helped to mire a number of Frecnh knights into the field, unable to
> rise becuase of the morass the rain and fighting had turned the
> ground into.
I believe this was all he thought I was referring to, the first time.
Neither of us is certain, as it was about 9 years ago.
> > Proof armor was very tough. It was generally dispensed with after a
> > short time, only to be used in tourneys, because it was so very
> > heavy. For a time, breastplates of this design were still used in
> > battle, because it _could_ stop bullets.
> >
> > Such breastplates which could stop bullets reliably were developed in
> > the 14th and 15th Centuries, and were used into the 17th Century.
> > Eventually, complaints about their increasing weight caused them to
> > be phased out.
As you said, they undoubtedly existed, but were probably not standard
issue. The weight of a breastplate made of 12 gauge steel shows why
readily enough.
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I find myself rather embarrassed on this one. I wouldn't have made
these claims had they not been backed by my friend, who is quite
knowledgeable. Since it appears that his backing was a
misunderstanding, I must back off from a lot of what I said.
The worst of it is, until I thought he had confirmed that piece of
information, I more or less had my facts straight. I already knew
that such armor wasn't worn into battle, but I thought that he had
confirmed that it was, for a short period.
Very well. Let's try this again.
Breastplates which could stop musket balls existed, but were not
often standard issue. Tests of such plate were often faked. The
actual plate which could stop bullets was expensive and not usually
general issue. It was exceptionally heavy, and the few people who
could afford it eventually stopped wearing it as bullets gained in
their ability to penetrate.
"Proof" armor, as described, was used exclusively in tourneys,
though breastplates alone were sometimes worn into battle.
The battle described was incorrect. It was probably a distorted
account of the Battle of Agincourt.
Given that I like to be sure of my facts before getting into a
discussion like this one, I find myself quite embarrassed. I'll just
have to treat this as one of those stepping stones on my way to my
goal of being always right. After all, I can't learn to be always
right if I don't know when I'm wrong.:)
I'll do a much better job on my upcoming post on bullet-proof vests,
I assure you.
Filksinger, who really does try to get his facts right, but
occasionally screws up royally.
"Keeping in mind that the notes we sing (unlike our facts) are never,
ever wrong!"
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 20:15:05 -0700
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John and Ron Prins wrote:
> Pay attention - if you've been reading the thread, you should know that I've
> got Rifts and know this. But the alternative ISP/PPE system is stupid;
> especially given the fact that Ley Lines (PPE sources) augment psionic
> powers as well. Oh, and a lot of Psionics have low PPE b/c they've 'spent'
> it to develop psionic powers! In a background sense, the two seem the same.
> It's just another stat cluttering up the masses (like HP _and_ SDC, thought
> there's no real difference between the two - Palladium might _say_ there is,
> but they function pretty much identically - and the PFRP just used HP for
> characters...)
If you have a problem with the way it works, why don't send some E-mail
to Kevin Seimbeida himself? An option that is freely available through
snail mail or the Palladuim website.
> Of course, this is all showing the way Palladium works. Never, ever _remove_
> or _replace_ anything in the system. Just add a new statistic. They did it
> with SDC, MDC, PPE (once upon a time, spells were x/day, and psionics used
> ISPs, PPEs did not exist), Chi...
Hero is just as guilty in this field when it comes to powers and
consistancy.
> What did you do for Mega-Damage? Just follow the Palladium's 'optional'
> convert-it-all-to-SDC rules?
No. that would have made the PD of a converted character too
unreasonable. The difference is a level of Hardened Defenses. SDC is
converted to PD and ED. MDC to Hardened PD and ED.
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:24:13 +1000
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>I'm no kung fu champ myself (I have a black belt in Running Away), but I
>suspect "Real Martial Arts" and the TV/Film industry are mutually
>exclusive. If you think otherwise, I have just two words for you: Ralph
>Machio! Now are you gonna lightin' up, or are we gonna hafta go through
>all FOUR Karate Kid scripts LINE by LINE (yes, that _is_ a threat ;-)!!!
>
>-Kung-Fu Grip Eric (Batteries not Included)
>
>(Kung-Fu Grip Eric and Kung-Fu Grip Eric Sold Seperately)
>
well, i think jacie chan places back in an earlier era would fit the genre well,
plus, has anyone seen the second 'gyver' live action movie?
i would say it sux in places, but is a must-see for a good attempt to
deal with a superhuman character.
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>>>Don't discount it so easily. I was just too stubborn to quit. And after
>>>all the work I did, the final result ends up being quite abit easier to
>>>use than you seem to believe. The actual work involved is considerably
>>>less than what is needed to translate a 4th Edition character to Fuzion.
>>
>>What did you do for Mega-Damage? Just follow the Palladium's 'optional'
>>convert-it-all-to-SDC rules?
>>
>
>hows about useing damage reduction to represent mdc armour? shure it's
>completly the opposite effect, but it would work similarly in terms of game balance
>. . . .
>is precise convertion really that important?
>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:44:53 -0400 (EDT)
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>If you have a problem with the way it works, why don't send some E-mail
>to Kevin Seimbeida himself? An option that is freely available through
>snail mail or the Palladuim website.
Oh yeah, that'll work. I doubt I have anything to say that KS hasn't heard
before, a dozen times. And if Kevin harbored any serious thoughts in the
direction of revising Rifts, he'd have done it already. And to be quite
frank, Rifts _needs_ revision. It's what, 9 years old, still on it's first
edition? Robotech and the Palladium RPG notwithstanding (which would make it
even older), he can't say that 9 years hasn't shown where Rifts needs fine
tuning.
>Hero is just as guilty in this field when it comes to powers and
>consistancy.
There's some power overlap (for example, who needs Transfer?), but it's
nowhere near as strange as in Rifts. It seems odd that an incredibly
powerful Mind Melter is practically worthless as a PPE source...
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At 11:44 PM 7/12/97 -0400, you wrote:
>There's some power overlap (for example, who needs Transfer?), but it's
>nowhere near as strange as in Rifts. It seems odd that an incredibly
>powerful Mind Melter is practically worthless as a PPE source...
>
transfer is cool! and otherwise, wouldn't they have all wiped each other out
in sacrifices?
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 00:16:21 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Filksinger wrote:
> > Medieval plate will stop rounds from a .45 automatic, quite
> > > consistently, and without the heavy bruising and broken ribs of a
> > > kevlar vest.
>
> Small mistake. _Some_ late medieval "proof" plate, so heavy that only
> the breastplate was normally worn into battle, could stop bullets.
Uh, big mistake here. During the English Civil War, musketeers shared tha
battlefield with men in armor. At the time, an armor would set up a new
breastplate, stand aways off and fire a loaded pistol into it.
Uponpresenting the dented armor to the buyer, it was decalred "pistol
proof" (hence the name). It's also been proven that A: some people only
used 1/2 powder charges and B: other guys did a good job faking it with a
hammer.
Now, I can beleive that there were thick 'bulletproof' breastplates
out there, but not that many. Most armor of this era was 'munitions'
grade, cheaply made and assembled and purchased in lots of hundreds to
utfit the new armys of the time.
> > Some how I doubt that. Medieval plate didn't always stop soft lead
> > shot from a matchlock gun, how is it supposed to consistantly stop a
> > modern pistol round traveling at a much higher rate of speed? Where
> > was this documented?
> >
> > BTW: one of the local SCA people did some experiments with plate and
> > guns. He makes armor, so he took an old breastplate and his replica
> > wheel lock and prompltly blew holes through the armor all day.
>
> A local SCA member demonstrated a .45 vs his breastplate on a
> number of occasions. Dented, but not penetrated. I believe it was 12
> gauge steel.
Different thickness of breastplate. The one being shot at was a lot
thinner I think.
> > Keep in mind that armor of the middle ages was made from 16 to 20
> > gague sheet still, similar to autobody sheet metal. Granted, this
> > was often layerd and tapered to provide additional protection, but
> > it isn't *that* thick. OTOH it did work well enouigh that by the
> > late 15th C, armor was thick enough to dispense with the shield as a
> > defensive item (which was handy since by now most people were using
> > two handed weapons to cut through the armor anyway.).
>
> By the late middle ages, the heaviest plate was considerably tougher
> than that. Not all of it to be sure, but the heaviest actual medieval
> armor ever developed was nearly 150 lbs, and the breastplate_could_
> stop bullets. In actual war (as opposed to a tourney), only the
> breastplate (bullet-deflecting internal baffles and all) would
> normally be worn.
The heavest plate armors were *never* worn in any battles. There are
suits of plate armor designed for the tourney in which the front armor is
upto an inch thick, but this armor was ment for jousting, where the wearer
only had to sit on his horse and aim his lance at his target.
Now, some armors where made to be lared, so that you started with a basic
breastplate and added over sections to it to make the armor suitable for
the joust. But such a basic breastplate wouldn't have "bullet-deflecting
internal baffles". Where woulkd such a 'baffle' go? The typical 16C and
17C breastplate tapers from the shoulders to the waist and has a ridge
running down the center. This should deflect sword blows, spears, pikes
and even arrows away from the torso, but I really doubt it would affect
all but the most glancing of musket rounds.
> To correct my previous statement, and clarify. The heaviest medieval
> plate was known as proof armor. This armor was the variety that was
> described as so heavy that you could not mount a horse while wearing
> it. In one battle, it left men lying around on their backs, with
> their attackers unable to find a chink to kill them, and them unable
> to get up off their backs. Eventually, they used a woodsman's axe to
> chop them up at the joints.
I have never heard of this armor. ANd what battle are you talking about?
Do you have a name for it? I'd like to find an account if at all
possible. As far as I know, no actually armor was ever made (for battle)
that a man could not walk around in it. The image of knights being
lowered onto their horses for an actually battle is a flase one. Yes,
jousting armors were this heavy, but not anything one actually would
werar. Consider what you have written, would *you* wear something so
heavy you wouldn't be able to get up in it if you fell over?
Now, at the Battle of Agincort, mud, exhaustion and the weather helped to
mire a number of Frecnh knights into the field, unable to rise becuase of
the morass the rain and fighting had turned the ground into.
> Proof armor was very tough. It was generally dispensed with after a
> short time, only to be used in tourneys, because it was so very
> heavy. For a time, breastplates of this design were still used in
> battle, because it _could_ stop bullets.
>
> Such breastplates which could stop bullets reliably were developed in
> the 14th and 15th Centuries, and were used into the 17th Century.
> Eventually, complaints about their increasing weight caused them to
> be phased out.
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:00:15 +1000
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At 12:16 AM 7/13/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> To correct my previous statement, and clarify. The heaviest medieval
>> plate was known as proof armor. This armor was the variety that was
>> described as so heavy that you could not mount a horse while wearing
>> it. In one battle, it left men lying around on their backs, with
>> their attackers unable to find a chink to kill them, and them unable
>> to get up off their backs. Eventually, they used a woodsman's axe to
>> chop them up at the joints.
this is a classic hollywood 'old wives tale'. It just isn't true, as this guy
sez, i just wanted to lend my support.
>
>I have never heard of this armor. ANd what battle are you talking about?
>Do you have a name for it? I'd like to find an account if at all
>possible. As far as I know, no actually armor was ever made (for battle)
>that a man could not walk around in it. The image of knights being
>lowered onto their horses for an actually battle is a flase one. Yes,
>jousting armors were this heavy, but not anything one actually would
>werar. Consider what you have written, would *you* wear something so
>heavy you wouldn't be able to get up in it if you fell over?
>
no. btw, the idea of knights vs bullets is silly- that's what horse archers
are for!
a medievil army, properly equipped fo gurilla-style warfare, INCLUDING a
contingent of knights, could tangle well with early 'musketeer' type units-
BUT, those feudal ]
types were just OBSESED with cavalry charges. . .
>Now, at the Battle of Agincort, mud, exhaustion and the weather helped to
>mire a number of Frecnh knights into the field, unable to rise becuase of
>the morass the rain and fighting had turned the ground into.
>
>> Proof armor was very tough. It was generally dispensed with after a
>> short time, only to be used in tourneys, because it was so very
>> heavy. For a time, breastplates of this design were still used in
>> battle, because it _could_ stop bullets.
>>
>> Such breastplates which could stop bullets reliably were developed in
>> the 14th and 15th Centuries, and were used into the 17th Century.
>> Eventually, complaints about their increasing weight caused them to
>> be phased out.
>
complaints? wow, those despotic monarchy's must have had really good feedback
from their cannonfodder-er, troops! *lol*
once again, there comes a time when things become obselete. I'll accept
'medievil armour vs longbow' or 'modern armour vs firearms', but not
'medievil armour vs firearms', or for that matter, 'modern
(kinetic/ablative) armour
vs longbows" .
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 03:01:32 -0700
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John and Ron Prins wrote:
> Oh yeah, that'll work. I doubt I have anything to say that KS hasn't heard
> before, a dozen times. And if Kevin harbored any serious thoughts in the
> direction of revising Rifts, he'd have done it already. And to be quite
> frank, Rifts _needs_ revision. It's what, 9 years old, still on it's first
> edition? Robotech and the Palladium RPG notwithstanding (which would make it
> even older), he can't say that 9 years hasn't shown where Rifts needs fine
> tuning.
Palladium has 5 people active on its staff. There just isn't any way
they can hope to keep the pace they have tried to. I know this for a
fact, because I contacted them myself. They can barely handle the
projects that they put out, and they are hurting very badly for writers.
I know this because I chose to talk to them. Which they are quite
willing to do. You just have to ask. I did, and it works.
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Grr... messed this up.
>>>>> "F" == Filksinger <filkhero@pop.netaddress.com> writes:
F> Close, but no cigar. The Federal Reserve _distributes_ the money, but it
F> is still printed by the Federal Treasury Bureau of Engraving and
F> Printing.
The Treasury makes the plates, but then they provide them to the various
Reserve branches for actual printing.
F> Additionally, the Federal Reserve Bank is not truly private. It is a
F> corporation wholly owned by the Federal Government, much like the Post
F> Office.
Nope, the Federal Reserve Bank is not owned at all or in part by the
Federal Government. This is why it "works" the way it does: one cannot
borrow money from oneself, because if one needs the money then one does not
have it to loan.
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>>>>> "F" == Filksinger <filkhero@pop.netaddress.com> writes:
F> Close, but no cigar. The Federal Reserve _distributes_ the money, but it
F> is still printed by the Federal Treasury Bureau of Engraving and
F> Printing.
The Treasury makes the plates, but then they provide them to the various
Reserve branches for actual printing.
F> Additionally, the Federal Reserve Bank is not truly private. It is a
F> corporation wholly owned by the Federal Government, much like the Post
F> Office.
Nope, the Federal Reserve Bank is not owned at all or in part by the
Federal Government.
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 10:34:50 -0400 (EDT)
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In a message dated 97-07-11 11:56:12 EDT, lizard@dnai.com writes:
> I have been thinking about souping up heavy artillery by buying an extra
> die or two of RKA, NND, Defense is being, in the GMs opinion, able to
stand
> up to heavy artillery. This would include troops in 'high tech' power
> armor, but not kevlar;superheroes, but not large animals;etc. A total
> kludge, basically.
Since most modern artillery shells are explosive, why not soup up the heavy
artillery by linking a few dice of Explosive RKA to the plain 5d6 RKA - say
5d6 RKA linked to 4d6 explosive RKA. This will do an average of 32 BODY on a
direct hit - enough to hamburgerize Joe Average, or to put Joe
15-Body-and-Kevlar down and bleeding. OTOH, Mr. Joe Bulletproof Superhero
with 20 rPD probably won't take any Body from this, although he'll get
knocked for some Stun.
Erol K. Bayburt
Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 11:24:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Surbrook <susano@access.digex.net>
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, happyelf! wrote:
> >I have never heard of this armor. ANd what battle are you talking about?
> >Do you have a name for it? I'd like to find an account if at all
> >possible. As far as I know, no actually armor was ever made (for battle)
> >that a man could not walk around in it. The image of knights being
> >lowered onto their horses for an actually battle is a flase one. Yes,
> >jousting armors were this heavy, but not anything one actually would
> >werar. Consider what you have written, would *you* wear something so
> >heavy you wouldn't be able to get up in it if you fell over?
>
> no. btw, the idea of knights vs bullets is silly- that's what horse archers
> are for!
It may be silly, but it happened. If fact, the standard Swiss 'fighting
square' consisted of lines of pikemen with squads of musketeers at the
corners. The usually added groups of men with halbers as well, for close
up fighting. The idea was that the pikes kept the horsemen away, while
the gunners cut down other units. Men with halberds (and two-handed
swords) would engage the enemy directly. When men with pikes engaged that
would stand and thrust at one another (you best tactic with a 16' to 20'
spear shaft). Men with two-handed sowrds (typcially the german zwiehander
[2-hander] made in the flamberge (flame-blade) style would march up
between the shafts and either hack the enemy pikes down or hack the enemy
directly. Due to the danger involved, these men received double-pay and
were called 'dopple-[German for pay] men'.
Now I'm not certain about 'horse-archers'. There were no real mounted
archers that I'm aware of in Western Europe during the middle ages.
English longbow men rode horses to battle, but dismounted to fight. Do
you mean 'archers vs horsemen'?
> a medievil army, properly equipped fo gurilla-style warfare, INCLUDING a
> contingent of knights, could tangle well with early 'musketeer' type units-
> BUT, those feudal ]
> types were just OBSESED with cavalry charges. . .
Guerilla warfare was a foreign concept through most of the middle ages.
Since one's honor was paramount, you met the enemy on the open field and
cut him down (or more likely captured him). The better to show your
prowess and increase you fame. Now, one the Swiss got their act
together, their pike/musket/halberd unit were unbeatable. If I remeber
correctly, in at late 16th C battle, a group of 1600 Swiss annihiliated an
army of (hmmm....) 6-8000 French and Burgundians using the exact tactics I
mentioned.
The Frecnh were real big on the honor and glory due a knight (sort of a
national psych lim at the time). This idea of knightly honor directly (or
indirectly) led to their defeats at Crecy, Poiters and Agincort. Mainly
due to their desire to close with the enemy and engae in hand to hand
combat. When faced (at Agincort) with 5000 longbow men, a wet, muddy
field and forest hemming in your troops om both sides... well, the results
weren't pretty. (Contemperory accounts say the piles of dead where higher
than a man's head. Improbably to be sure, but still...)
> complaints? wow, those despotic monarchy's must have had really good feedback
> from their cannonfodder-er, troops! *lol*
Heh, re-read your history. Despotic monarchys didn't last long. Look at
King John for a prime example (Richard III for another). At Agincort the
French did treat their troops (well, the common footsoldiers) as a type of
cannonfodder, riding *through* them in an attempt to charge the enemy.
But in many cases one could not aford to 'throw away' your troops, you
just didn't have *that* many. Most battle of the middle ages involved
numbers in the low thousands, not tens of hundreds of thousands.
> once again, there comes a time when things become obselete. I'll accept
> 'medievil armour vs longbow' or 'modern armour vs firearms', but not
> 'medievil armour vs firearms', or for that matter, 'modern
> (kinetic/ablative) armour
> vs longbows" .
Accept what? That one type of armor is proof vs a certain weapon?
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 11:38:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Surbrook <susano@access.digex.net>
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Filksinger wrote:
> > Now, I can beleive that there were thick 'bulletproof' breastplates
> > out there, but not that many. Most armor of this era was
> > 'munitions' grade, cheaply made and assembled and purchased in lots
> > of hundreds to utfit the new armys of the time.
>
> This is possible. I used a thesis paper that I know of as the basis
> for this one. However, I have seen some less than solid
> information in thesises before.
Agreed. There comes the problem of "well, they had A and they had B and
A & B can be used for C, so they must have had C". Using this theory one
can prove that denim blue jeans could have been made in the midle ages.
(They had denim, they had blue dye, they had rivets, they had flat fold
seams... volia! instant proof!)
> Since you agree that such armor existed, and I agree that I have no
> solid evidence for its being in general use (I'm not even certain
> that the paper actually said that it was in _general_ use, only that
> it was used) , I think we've reached agreement on this one.
Cool.
> > > A local SCA member demonstrated a .45 vs his breastplate on a
> > > number of occasions. Dented, but not penetrated. I believe it was 12
> > > gauge steel.
> >
> > Different thickness of breastplate. The one being shot at was a lot
> > thinner I think.
>
> I'm sure it was. Considering that a breastplate for my admittedly
> ample girth would be easily 60lbs+, I can see why one would prefer
> something lighter.
I doubt that. Henry VIII was a *huge* man, even my modern standards, and
I doubt if his *entire* harness would have weighed more than 80 lbs and
most likely was about 60+. A single breatplate, even for one of 'ample
girth' would probably mass 20 to 30 lbs.
[stuff about super-heavy armor snipped]
> Sorry about this one. A friend, who is a former SCA member and a
> military historian, had confirmed this story for me. I contacted him
> again, to confirm it and to see if he remebered the name of the
> battle, and apparently he thought I had said something different. He
> agreed with you on this.
Ah. I see. Well, I do now that the 'knights lowered onto horses' image
persisted for a *long* time. The used such a scene in the Henry V movie
form the Forties, and I remeber see such things in books from the 70s.
> > > Such breastplates which could stop bullets reliably were developed in
> > > the 14th and 15th Centuries, and were used into the 17th Century.
> > > Eventually, complaints about their increasing weight caused them to
> > > be phased out.
>
> As you said, they undoubtedly existed, but were probably not standard
> issue. The weight of a breastplate made of 12 gauge steel shows why
> readily enough.
Except no one in the middle ages really wore a 12 gauge breastplate. I
have a 12 gague bascinet that I'm sure *could* stop soime small caliber
rounds (like a .22). But the real ones are a *lot* thinner.
> Very well. Let's try this again.
>
> Breastplates which could stop musket balls existed, but were not
> often standard issue. Tests of such plate were often faked. The
> actual plate which could stop bullets was expensive and not usually
> general issue. It was exceptionally heavy, and the few people who
> could afford it eventually stopped wearing it as bullets gained in
> their ability to penetrate.
Fair enough. I should point out that bullet proof armors existed in the
American Civil War and WWI. In both cases it was not used due to its
weight. (Although I understand the WWI armor was given to snipers, who
*didn't* have to move around)
> "Proof" armor, as described, was used exclusively in tourneys,
> though breastplates alone were sometimes worn into battle.
Except don't call it 'proof armor', call it 'jousting armor'.
> The battle described was incorrect. It was probably a distorted
> account of the Battle of Agincourt.
Probably.
> Given that I like to be sure of my facts before getting into a
> discussion like this one, I find myself quite embarrassed. I'll just
> have to treat this as one of those stepping stones on my way to my
> goal of being always right. After all, I can't learn to be always
> right if I don't know when I'm wrong.:)
<shrug> Since joining the SCA, one of my prime fields of interest has been
the armor and arms of the period. Upon realizing how inaccurate the
material presented in AD&D, Fantasy Hero and other games I decided to try
and determine what was "real" for the time. There have been simialr
discussion before about the same topic.
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> > I'm sure it was. Considering that a breastplate for my admittedly
> > ample girth would be easily 60lbs+, I can see why one would prefer
> > something lighter.
>
> I doubt that. Henry VIII was a *huge* man, even my modern
> standards, and I doubt if his *entire* harness would have weighed
> more than 80 lbs and most likely was about 60+. A single
> breatplate, even for one of 'ample girth' would probably mass 20 to
> 30 lbs.
I meant a breastplate of the thickness described. That is, 12 gauge
steel. Assuming a breastplate length of 2 1/2 ft., and roughly
cylindrical armor with a circumference of 50", it works out to just
under 60lbs. Since that doesn't take into account that the armor
would not have been quite that tight, and that a true cylinder takes
up less material than a distorted cylinder such as a breastplate, my
breastplate, assuming 12 gauge steel, would be at least 60lbs.
That was probably more than I wanted to say about my measurements.:(
>
> > Given that I like to be sure of my facts before getting into a
> > discussion like this one, I find myself quite embarrassed. I'll just
> > have to treat this as one of those stepping stones on my way to my
> > goal of being always right. After all, I can't learn to be always
> > right if I don't know when I'm wrong.:)
>
> <shrug> Since joining the SCA, one of my prime fields of interest
> has been the armor and arms of the period. Upon realizing how
> inaccurate the material presented in AD&D, Fantasy Hero and other
> games I decided to try and determine what was "real" for the time.
> There have been simialr discussion before about the same topic.
>
That's certainly true. It is disconcerting, however, to discover
oneself becoming _more_ ignorant with time, about _history_, of all
things.
Filksinger
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> Grr... messed this up.
>
> >>>>> "F" == Filksinger <filkhero@pop.netaddress.com> writes:
>
> F> Close, but no cigar. The Federal Reserve _distributes_ the money,
> but it F> is still printed by the Federal Treasury Bureau of
> Engraving and F> Printing.
>
> The Treasury makes the plates, but then they provide them to the
> various Reserve branches for actual printing.
>
Not according to the Treasury Department website, or the documents I
downloaded from the Federal Reserve.
> F> Additionally, the Federal Reserve Bank is not truly private. It
> is a F> corporation wholly owned by the Federal Government, much
> like the Post F> Office.
>
> Nope, the Federal Reserve Bank is not owned at all or in part by the
> Federal Government. This is why it "works" the way it does: one
> cannot borrow money from oneself, because if one needs the money
> then one does not have it to loan.
The Federal government _doesn't_ borrow money from the Federal
Reserve. They borrow it _through_ the Federal Reserve.
The Federal government controls the Federal Reserve. They do not
directly "borrow" from it. Rather, the Federal Reserve issues Federal
Treasury bonds, which are invested in by banks, companies, and
private investors.
Roughly 95% of the money earned each year is turned over to the
Treasury Department. This is not a loan either. The Federal Reserve
is owned by the government, and thus any money it earns is the
government's.
Filksinger
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> >>>>> "F" == Filksinger <filkhero@pop.netaddress.com> writes:
>
> F> Close, but no cigar. The Federal Reserve _distributes_ the money,
> but it F> is still printed by the Federal Treasury Bureau of
> Engraving and F> Printing.
>
> The Treasury makes the plates, but then they provide them to the
> various Reserve branches for actual printing.
Incorrect. There are two varieties of money, which can be identified
by the color of the ink in the serial numbers. United States notes,
which were authorized for printing during the Civil War, have black
serial numbers. These had a maximum number in circulation of $300
million. United States notes were distributed by the Treasury
Department, and have not been distributed since 1971.
Federal Reserve notes, OTOH, had green ink for serial numbers. They
were authorized to be issued in 1913. The Federal Reserve notes are
distributed by the Federal Reserve Banks. Further, the number of
Federal Reserve notes printed and distributed is controlled by the
Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
However, according to the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, and my business class, the money is actually
_printed_ by the Treasury Department. From 1863 to 1877 National Bank
Notes were printed by private bank note companies under contract to
the Federal government. The Federal government took over printing
them in 1877, and has printed them ever since.
> F> Additionally, the Federal Reserve Bank is not truly private. It
> is a F> corporation wholly owned by the Federal Government, much
> like the Post F> Office.
>
> Nope, the Federal Reserve Bank is not owned at all or in part by the
> Federal Government.
The state Federal Reserve member banks are private banks which have
applied for membership, and which have at least 3% of all reserves
invested in the capital stock of the Federal Reserve Bank for their
district. However, the capital stock grants _no_ control privileges,
an the only financial privilege is a 6% interest on their
investment. It is an obligation on the part of the member bank, not
ownership. Roughly 95% of net earnings of the Federal Reserve is
turned over to the Treasury Department every year, so they hardly
need the investment.
The United States Bank was privately owned, as was the Second United
States Bank. The last of these lost it's charter in 1833, and ceased
to exist entirely about ten years later. The National Banks started
in 1863 and were privately owned banks with the authority to print
money backed by the United states, but they ceased printing in 1877,
and are not the Federal Reserve Banks of today. Federal Reserve
member banks are privately owned, and invest money in the Federal
Reserve Bank. These, however, are not the Federal Reserve Bank, they
are private banks which are members of the Federal Reserve system,
with no control over the Federal Reserve Banks.
Federal Reserve Bank itself is under the complete control of the
Board of Governors. The Board is considered a federal agency, and
answers directly to Congress. It is not a private agency, and the
Federal Reserve Bank is not a private bank.
Filksinger
"Keeping in mind that the notes we sing are never, ever, wrong!"
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 00:47:43 +0000
Subject: Re: Info needed on US Currency.
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> In a message dated 97-07-13 20:49:20 EDT, you write:
>
> << However, according to the Treasury Department, the Federal
> Reserve
> Bank of New York, and my business class, the money is actually
> _printed_ by the Treasury Department. From 1863 to 1877 National
> Bank Notes were printed by private bank note companies under
> contract to the Federal government. The Federal government took
> over printing them in 1877, and has printed them ever since. >>
>
> If the Treasury Dept is in control of the Currency Plant in Ft
> Worth, then you are correct. The only two places US currency is
> printed is at the Currency Plants in Ft Worth and Wash DC. I live
> near FW and have actually see them printing. I also work in the
> media (no throwing of rotten veggies, please), and a quick search of
> our archives showed that those two plants are the only places (as of
> 92) in the country that do the actual printing.
According to the Treasury website and past information, yes, the
Treasury does control the Ft. Worth printing presses.
One note that may have caused confusion before: the Mints, which
produce coins, are much more widespread.
> Later,
> 'Lynx
Filksinger
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:11:31 -0500
From: Joel Vallejo <jvallejo@bellsouth.net>
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This may have already been discussed, but I was wondering about using
guns with desolidification. Say our little ghost character is cruising
around with her two 9mm and she spots some baddies. She decides to pop
a cap into their sorry butts, but wants to remain desolid. She fires
her guns.... and then what? Do I need to purchase "Usable while
desolid" with my guns? Or do the bullets become solid upon their
leaving the guns?
I would appreciate any comments.
Thanks,
Joel Vallejo
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From: john.desmarais@ibm.net
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 00:26:55 -0400
Subject: Re: Desolidification attacks
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In <33C9A6F3.3D38@bellsouth.net&> on 07/13/97
at 11:11 PM, Joel Vallejo <jvallejo@bellsouth.net> said:
>This may have already been discussed, but I was wondering about using
>guns with desolidification. Say our little ghost character is cruising
>around with her two 9mm and she spots some baddies. She decides to pop a
>cap into their sorry butts, but wants to remain desolid. She fires her
>guns.... and then what? Do I need to purchase "Usable while desolid"
>with my guns? Or do the bullets become solid upon their leaving the
>guns?
>I would appreciate any comments.
You will have to build the power for the guns using the "Affect Solid"
advantage (+2). It's expensive (and should be). The specs on the
advantage are listed with the Desolid power.
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From: ludator@softfarm.com (Bryan Berggren)
Subject: Re: Looooooooong Arm of the Law
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At 11:13 PM 7/11/97 -0300, Trevor Barrie wrote:
>> > Try a more standard 50 AP Power... by taking it No Range and buying 2"
>> > No END Stretching, you save a full 10 points. Yeah, you lose 248" of
>> > Range... big whoop; how many of those inches would you ever use?
>>
>> I think it might be useful to nail someone without having to leave Slingshot.
>
>Slingshot?
Slingshot: the Champions' jet. Substitute any other means of long term
transportation appropriate to your campaign. :]
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 01:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
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In a message dated 97-07-13 20:49:20 EDT, you write:
<< However, according to the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, and my business class, the money is actually
_printed_ by the Treasury Department. From 1863 to 1877 National Bank
Notes were printed by private bank note companies under contract to
the Federal government. The Federal government took over printing
them in 1877, and has printed them ever since. >>
If the Treasury Dept is in control of the Currency Plant in Ft Worth, then
you are correct. The only two places US currency is printed is at the
Currency Plants in Ft Worth and Wash DC. I live near FW and have actually
see them printing. I also work in the media (no throwing of rotten veggies,
please), and a quick search of our archives showed that those two plants are
the only places (as of 92) in the country that do the actual printing.
Later,
'Lynx
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 05:04:49 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (insert)Info needed on US Currency.
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By the way, while all this is going on, does anyone know off-hand whose
face is on the 500, 1,000, and 10,000 dollar bills?
--------------------------DocWeird
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> By the way, while all this is going on, does anyone know off-hand
> whose
> face is on the 500, 1,000, and 10,000 dollar bills?
>
Currency Portrait Reverse
One Dollar Bill George Washington Great Seal of the U.S.
Two Dollar Bill Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence
Five Dollar Bill Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Memorial
Ten Dollar Bill Alexander Hamilton U.S. Treasury Building
Twenty Dollar Bill Andrew Jackson White House
Fifty Dollar Bill Ulysses Grant U.S. Capitol
One Hundred Dollar Bill Benjamin Franklin Independence Hall
Five Hundred Dollar Bill * William McKinley $500
One Thousand Dollar Bill * Grover Cleveland "ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS"
Five Thousand Dollar Bill * James Madison $5000
Ten Thousand Dollar Bill * Salmon P. Chase $10,000
* No longer printed and being withdrawn from circulation
>
> --------------------------DocWeird
>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 06:51:39 -0500
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Joel Vallejo
>This may have already been discussed, but I was wondering about using
>guns with desolidification. Say our little ghost character is cruising
>around with her two 9mm and she spots some baddies. She decides to pop
>a cap into their sorry butts, but wants to remain desolid. She fires
>her guns.... and then what? Do I need to purchase "Usable while
>desolid" with my guns? Or do the bullets become solid upon their
>leaving the guns?
>
>I would appreciate any comments.
>
This is exactly what Usable While Desolid if for. Depending on how lethal
you want her, you may want to just build the 2 9mm first (using whatever
campaign guidlines you use) and then tag on the Usable While Desolid.
IMHO,
a 9mm should be a 9mm, its just a lot more expensive if you want to use it
desolid as well.
PAX,
John
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On 07/14/97 05:04 AM, DocWeird@aol.com (DocWeird@aol.com) Said:
> By the way, while all this is going on, does anyone know off-hand whose
>face is on the 500, 1,000, and 10,000 dollar bills?
Most of these boills are out of circulation, and if recieved at a bank,
are to be captured and replaced with 100's. but I think there is a link
on the us treasury homepage to see the actual bills
<http://www.ustreas.gov/>
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At 05:04 07/14/97 -0400, DocWeird@aol.com wrote:
> By the way, while all this is going on, does anyone know off-hand whose
>face is on the 500, 1,000, and 10,000 dollar bills?
Actually I think everything except the 500 was taken out of circulation. The
reason I heard was to make it harder for criminals to transport large
amounts of cash.
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I don't remember for sure who is on the $500 (McKinley?) and never knew whose
face was on the $1000, on the $10000 it was some administration's secretary
of the treasury rather than a president, I think maybe it was Andrew Mellon .
. .
Carter Humphrey
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h > So much for a character with desolidification. But what about items
h > which
h > are desolid?
h >
h > Example:The Ghostblade, a longsword whose blade is desolid but which
h > has
h > Affects Real World. (The hilt is solid, so non-desolid characters can
h > wield
h > it) What would effects be?
HKA, with Affects Desolid.
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X-To: herolist@october.com (herolist) h > BG> At 01:46 AM 7/12/97 GMT, Opal wrote: h > >> It's only an interpretation on my part, but since Mental powers h > are h > >> L-O-S, I tend to think they only work with Targeting senses. h > h > BG> I tend to go with you on this, Opal. Does anyone on the list h > have a h > BG> strong argument to the contrary? h > h > Yes: IIRC touch is generally not a targeting sense with humans and h > humanoids, yet touch (no range) is often required for the use of th
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h > BG> At 01:46 AM 7/12/97 GMT, Opal wrote:
h > >> It's only an interpretation on my part, but since Mental powers
h > are
h > >> L-O-S, I tend to think they only work with Targeting senses.
h >
h > BG> I tend to go with you on this, Opal. Does anyone on the list
h > have a
h > BG> strong argument to the contrary?
h >
h > Yes: IIRC touch is generally not a targeting sense with humans and
h > humanoids, yet touch (no range) is often required for the use of the
h > stronger aspects of mental powers.
Touch isn't really treated as a sense in Hero - you can't be invisible
to it for instance.
However, I do not doubt that, if you are touching something, you
can hit it at no penalty and know exactly where it is.
So, if you're touching someone, looking at them, or scanning them
with Mind Scan, or using some sense bought targeting, you can use
mental powers against them. If you just hear something rustling in
the bushes, you can't.
Of course, this isn't spelled out in the rules - it's not possible
to spell out every possible circumstance - but, I think it's a
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h > >That's a good point: how would a kevlar vest protect against a
h > crossbow
h > >bolt?
h >
h > Well, you might get some protection from the heavy diamond heads
h > (diamond
h > shaped), but any edged weapon including crossbow bolts and arrows will
h > punch
h > right through a standard 'kevlar' vest. It's another story if it's a
h > kevlar
h > vest with alloy plates (police bulletproof vests). Kevlar just doesn't
h > deal
h > well with piercing damage at all - in fact, I wonder how it handles
h > the
h > low-deformation steel bullets used in warfare (as opposed to the
h > relatively
h > squishy lead bullets).
Kevlar is pretty tough. Cross-bow bolts, arrows, knives, swords,
etc, won't consistently *penetrate* kevalar. However, since kevlar
has little mass (unlike chain maile, for instance), the protected
character would still take a lot of damage, possibly even a rather
nasty penetrating wound, with the kevlar shoved into it <ik!>
Kevlar won't stop most rifle rounds, which is what I think you're
talking about. Come to think of it, the heavy, plate-armor penetrating
quarrels and heavy pull bows, probably would defeat kevlar, there
power is comprable to that of many rifles (but not the velocity...)
Hmph, now I'm not so sure. Thanks. :(
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At 05:04 AM 7/14/97 -0400, DocWeird@aol.com wrote:
> By the way, while all this is going on, does anyone know off-hand whose
>face is on the 500, 1,000, and 10,000 dollar bills?
Of the myriad disadvantages of doing one's mail from the public library,
there's still the advantage that, when someone asks a question like this,
one can always jump up and grab the latest reliable authority in such
matteres (in this case, the World Book Encyclopedia) and look it up.
The answers, for all bills in fact:
$1: George Washington (front)/Great Seal (back)
$2: Thomas Jefferson/Signing of the Declaration of Independence
$5: Abraham Lincoln/Lincoln Memorial
$10: Alexander Hamilton/US Treasury
$20: Andrew Jackson/White House
$50: Ulysses S. Grant/US Capitol
$100: Benjamin Franklin/Independence Hall
I don't have the information about the backs of the higher bills, but
here are the answers to the specific question you asked:
$500: William McKinley
$1000: Grover Cleveland
$5000: James Madison
$10,000: Salmon P. Chase
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At 11:11 PM 7/13/97 -0500, Joel Vallejo wrote:
>This may have already been discussed, but I was wondering about using
>guns with desolidification. Say our little ghost character is cruising
>around with her two 9mm and she spots some baddies. She decides to pop
>a cap into their sorry butts, but wants to remain desolid. She fires
>her guns.... and then what? Do I need to purchase "Usable while
>desolid" with my guns? Or do the bullets become solid upon their
>leaving the guns?
>
>I would appreciate any comments.
Per the rulebook, the guns would have to be bought with the +2 Advantage
"Affects Solid."
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At 04:12 PM 7/11/97 EDT, William W. Arnold wrote:
>Bob Greenwade writes ---
>>>2. What denominations are there?
>>
>> $1, $2 (currently discontinued and now rare), $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100
>>are in common usage.
>Actually, the treasury just recently ran out of the supply of $2 bills,
>and is printing a new supply. Therefore they can not be said to be
>discontinued. They are just unpopular and rarely used. You should be
>able to get them from any bank if you ask.
I did not know this. Thanks for the info. :-]
>> Just as a passing, related note (no pun intended), ATMs generally only
>>give $5 and $20 bills, and many (such as those in shopping malls) only give
>>$20s. (I have encountered a couple that dispense $10s; these are unusual,
>>though, and I don't even remember where it was.)
>
>That's interesting, I've never seen an ATM that gave $5's all the
>ones in my area give $10's and $20's. This may be a regional
>difference. I'm in richmond VA, where are you?
>
>>This mail was sent from the Corvallis Public Library
>yes, but where is that?
Corvallis, Oregon -- about 100 miles south of Portland. (I think
probably $5 bills are available from ATMs here because prices are so much
lower than in the hot urban areas like most of the East Coast.) ;-]
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At 11:08 PM 7/11/97 -0300, Trevor Barrie wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Bob Greenwade wrote:
>
>> >Also, it costs more to regenerate 5 BODY every week than to regenerate
>> >1 BODY every turn!
>>
>> This is the real problem with Regeneration; its structure is skewed.
>> This problem does need to be addressed. Unfortunately, I don't have a
>> solution.
>
>One previously-suggested idea is to base the cost entire off of the time
>chart. Something like 10 pts to bring your BODY recovery one step down
>(ie, 10 pts to recover your REC in BODY damage per week, 40 pts to recover
>your REC in BODY damage per hour, etc).
This works for me (at least, until someone debunks it). :-]
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At 01:46 AM 7/12/97 GMT, Opal wrote:
>It's only an interpretation on my part, but since Mental powers are
>L-O-S, I tend to think they only work with Targeting senses.
I tend to go with you on this, Opal. Does anyone on the list have a
strong argument to the contrary?
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The page is:
http://www.ustreas.gov/treasury/bureaus/bep/money.html
And the info is:
Currency Portrait Reverse
One Dollar Bill George Washington Great Seal of the U.S.
Two Dollar Bill Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence
Five Dollar Bill Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Memorial
Ten Dollar Bill Alexander Hamilton U.S. Treasury Building
Twenty Dollar Bill Andrew Jackson White House
Fifty Dollar Bill Ulysses Grant U.S. Capitol
One Hundred Dollar Bill Benjamin Franklin Independence Hall
Five Hundred Dollar Bill * William McKinley $500
One Thousand Dollar Bill * Grover Cleveland "ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS"
Five Thousand Dollar Bill * James Madison $5000
Ten Thousand Dollar Bill * Salmon P. Chase $10,000
* No longer printed and being withdrawn from circulation
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At 11:58 AM 7/14/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't remember for sure who is on the $500 (McKinley?) and never knew whose
>face was on the $1000, on the $10000 it was some administration's secretary
>of the treasury rather than a president, I think maybe it was Andrew Mellon .
I know Madison was on the 5000, but they dont print those any more.
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I just saw Face / Off this weekend, and was trying to think in Champions
terms the action of jumping and shooting at the same time. They seemed to
not miss very much while performing it and they never got hit.
So I was thinking it was a special skill which gave them OCV and DCV
bonuses. But then I started thinking, not a single person got shot as long
as his (or her) feet weren't touching the ground. Is this just a special
DCV bonus for not having your feet touch the ground, or is it a special
type of desolidification? ;)
Alex Rojas
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:53:56 -0400
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> Joel Vallejo wrote:
> >This may have already been discussed, but I was wondering about using
> >guns with desolidification. Say our little ghost character is
> cruising
> >around with her two 9mm and she spots some baddies. She decides to
> pop
> >a cap into their sorry butts, but wants to remain desolid. She fires
> >her guns.... and then what? Do I need to purchase "Usable while
> >desolid" with my guns? Or do the bullets become solid upon their
> >leaving the guns?
>
> Most have said that the guns need to be bought Affects Solid. But what
> if this were an uncommon occurrance? If the desolid chraracter had
> Affects Solid on her STR, and can normally punch/poke/grab/tickle
> objects, but decides to pick up a gun and fire it?
>
>
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Hi everyone!
I am trying out an idea on the web that I think has some fun potential, but would like to "beta test" it with any of you that are interested.
Please visit:
http://www.cyberhighway.net/~jd/cgk/acr
This is the Homepage for what I am presently calling the "Adventurer's Club Revisited" -- a webzine that will rehash some of the material from the old AC issues that are WAY out of print.
For example: If you have Classic Enemies, and are reading up on the Fox, you will see a reference there to AC#9 to an article called "Troubleshooters". But do you have AC#9? Well, if you don't, you should be able to get that info somewhere, right? Well, I plan to add a re-write of that Mini-Organization (this time with 4th Ed and Fuzion writeups, since the original write-ups are 3rd Ed.) and post it in the webzine.
The part of the webzine I want to "beta test" is its INTERACTIVITY. This webzine will be able to take LIVE submissions right over the web, and add them to the existing articles practically in real time! So, for example, if you have added a new NPC to the TroubleShooters in your own campaign, and would like to add the background and stats to the webzine article, too, you can do that by formatting the submission in HTML and pasting it into a web form on the submission page. Wham, Bang! It's added! (of course, I will accept email submissions that are NOT formatted in HTML - so I can format it - and add it later...it just won't be as fast).
For now, the "sample" article is a take-off on the old "Foxbat and Fandom" column that ran in early issues of the AC -- basically an "Insult Foxbat" column. Now the Fox of Crime has Usurped the webspace, and is challenging all heroes with attitudes to out-wit him with the written word!
Let me know what you think!
Thanks!
Jim
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At 01:53 PM 7/14/97 -0400, Dave Mattingly wrote:
>> Joel Vallejo wrote:
>> >This may have already been discussed, but I was wondering about using
>> >guns with desolidification. Say our little ghost character is
>> cruising
>> >around with her two 9mm and she spots some baddies. She decides to
>> pop
>> >a cap into their sorry butts, but wants to remain desolid. She fires
>> >her guns.... and then what? Do I need to purchase "Usable while
>> >desolid" with my guns? Or do the bullets become solid upon their
>> >leaving the guns?
>>
>> Most have said that the guns need to be bought Affects Solid. But what
>> if this were an uncommon occurrance? If the desolid chraracter had
>> Affects Solid on her STR, and can normally punch/poke/grab/tickle
>> objects, but decides to pick up a gun and fire it?
This being an unusual circumstance, I'd allow it as you describe. (If
the Desolid character wants to *own* the gun, however, that's a different
matter... well, you know what I mean.)
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>>> Most have said that the guns need to be bought Affects Solid. But what
>>> if this were an uncommon occurrance? If the desolid chraracter had
>>> Affects Solid on her STR, and can normally punch/poke/grab/tickle
>>> objects, but decides to pick up a gun and fire it?
>
> This being an unusual circumstance, I'd allow it as you describe. (If
> the Desolid character wants to *own* the gun, however, that's a different
> matter... well, you know what I mean.)
Having had players who sought to abuse precisely this rules point, I would be
a little more paranoid about what counted as "unusual circumstance" (for
example, if disarming NPCs became a regular tactic; or my favorite, if the
character wanted to start carrying knives). A lot of it depends on the player
in question, too...
Geoff Speare
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>$500: William McKinley
>$1000: Grover Cleveland
>$5000: James Madison
>$10,000: Salmon P. Chase
And last (but anything but least) on the $100,000 gold certificate, which was
printed only for official government use, we find a portrait of Woodrow
Wilson.
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> $10,000: Salmon P. Chase
Okay, according to my references, this guy is Salmon (pronounced sal-mon)
Portland Chase, Chief Justice of the US presiding when Andrew Johnson was
impeached, and was responsible as the Secretary of Treasury for creating the
national bank system.
Never heard of this guy until the money posts, how about that.
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>I just saw Face / Off this weekend, and was trying to think in Champions
>terms the action of jumping and shooting at the same time. They seemed to
>not miss very much while performing it and they never got hit.
There would have to be a whole new set of rules made for Woo Hero, including
the ability to NEVER miss if you are a main character, unless it is
targetting the main villain :)
Woos stuff is fun to watch, but as a game it would be unmanagable.
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:11:31 -0500, Joel Vallejo wrote:
>This may have already been discussed, but I was wondering about using
>guns with desolidification. Say our little ghost character is cruising
>around with her two 9mm and she spots some baddies. She decides to pop
>a cap into their sorry butts, but wants to remain desolid. She fires
>her guns.... and then what? Do I need to purchase "Usable while
>desolid" with my guns? Or do the bullets become solid upon their
>leaving the guns?
Affects Real World (+2)
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:02:12 -0700 (PDT), Bob Greenwade wrote:
>At 01:46 AM 7/12/97 GMT, Opal wrote:
>>It's only an interpretation on my part, but since Mental powers are
>>L-O-S, I tend to think they only work with Targeting senses.
>
> I tend to go with you on this, Opal. Does anyone on the list have a
>strong argument to the contrary?
LOS is not the same as 'only work with Targeting senses'
eg smelling someone upwind - round a canyon wall.
And what's the range on 'Mental Awareness'?
qts
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> On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:02:12 -0700 (PDT), Bob Greenwade wrote:
>
> >At 01:46 AM 7/12/97 GMT, Opal wrote:
> >>It's only an interpretation on my part, but since Mental powers are
> >>L-O-S, I tend to think they only work with Targeting senses.
> >
> > I tend to go with you on this, Opal. Does anyone on the list have a
> >strong argument to the contrary?
>
> LOS is not the same as 'only work with Targeting senses'
>
> eg smelling someone upwind - round a canyon wall.
Yes, but since Mental Powers work LOS, and the rules only state that
sight or Mind Scan can be used (nothing about other senses in 4th
Ed.), I would assume that means you can only hit someone you can see.
If anything, that argument is _against_ using other senses besides
sight and Mind Scan entirely, not an argument for using all senses.
I think that allowing targeting senses is the best answer, especially
since that used to be the official answer, and the only things that
reference it in the BBB state that sight is the sense, period.
> And what's the range on 'Mental Awareness'?
Treat it as any other Detect, with the same range modifiers.
> qts
>
>
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> Nitpick alert!!!
>
> Johnson was never impeached. He faced impeachment hearings on
> trumped up charges but managed to hold on to the presidency by one
> vote.
By definition, actually being charged while in office is the
definition of impeachment, not being convicted. Yes, he was
impeached.
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> At 05:21 PM 7/14/97 CDT, David W Toomey wrote:
>
> Actually, you could buy it as normal desolidification, except vs.
> living matter. The sword could then swing through walls, armor,
> shields, etc, and cut flesh. It would be useless against undead,
> golems, robots, and elementals, though.
That may be the special effect, but nothing in Desolidification
allows you to attack people with their personal defenses negated.
> (going strictly by the rules, it seems to me that to make a BLADE
> which is desolid, as opposed to making the wielder desolid, you'd
> need to build the blade as a character, prolly with the Spirit
> rules.
No. Characters with this ability might have this power description
special effect, but must buy the power to harm others in this unusual
manner independently.
> Maybe a good topic for discussion is building items with
> powers, as opposed to items which GRANT powers. A sword with 2 or 3
> points of extra rDEF is going to be hard to break,
Good idea. However, an _indestructible_ blade costs no more, under
the Focus rules, than a breakable but replacible blade. That is why
Independent items are often bought as Unbreakable Foci.
> or with Life
> Support:Can survive underwater would never rust.
Special effect. After all, a stainless steel blade or a ceramic blade
wouldn't necessarily rust. True, you can't get these readily in a
fantasy campaign, but that just means that they are more costly to
buy with money _in_ the game, not that the blade costs more
character points.
>A suit of chain
> mail with Invisibility to Sight and Hearing would be great to wear
> to the formal ball when you know Assassins are about. Etc.)
Armor, Inobvious Inaccessible Focus.
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> >>>>> "BG" == Bob Greenwade <bob.greenwade@klock.com> writes:
>
> BG> I tend to go with you on this, Opal. Does anyone on the list
> have a BG> strong argument to the contrary?
>
> Yes: IIRC touch is generally not a targeting sense with humans and
> humanoids, yet touch (no range) is often required for the use of the
> stronger aspects of mental powers.
You can create a character whose mental powers are more effective at
no range, but that is not an effect of standard mental powers. Thus,
it would only apply to your character.
OTOH, the description for why touch is not a targeting power is such
that I would allow it to be used for Mental powers, even if I
wouldn't allow normal hearing or smell.
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So much for a character with desolidification. But what about items which
are desolid?
Example:The Ghostblade, a longsword whose blade is desolid but which has
Affects Real World. (The hilt is solid, so non-desolid characters can wield
it) What would effects be?
One could argue, 'none' -- that since the sword can affect the real world,
anything parrying it, etc, would be struck. But that kind of takes the fun
out of it. I want a sword that cannot be parried and that ignroes armor,
but which cleaves flesh.
Perhaps a better way to buy it would be NND HKA (+2), Defense is anything
which affects desolid, or specially sanctified metal, or whatever. (I know,
NND HKA's "don't exist". But I have used them for years, mostly for
powerful spells in Fantasy games, and make sure the non-normal defenses are
easy to figure out and relatively common)
But while we're on the subject, since Hero has no rules for parrying per
se, how would you make a sword which cannot be parried? "Immune to Block or
Disarm"? Or a simple plus to OCV, to represent it must be dodged, rather
than parried?
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> That's a good point: how would a kevlar vest protect against a
> crossbow bolt?
Very, very badly. Without hardened plates, kevlar would do very
poorly. Especially if it used a war point, which was designed to go
through armor, rather than a hunting point.
Not that it would make much difference.
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> Example:The Ghostblade, a longsword whose blade is desolid but which has
> Affects Real World. (The hilt is solid, so non-desolid characters can wield
> it) What would effects be?
>
> One could argue, 'none' -- that since the sword can affect the real world,
> anything parrying it, etc, would be struck. But that kind of takes the fun
> out of it. I want a sword that cannot be parried and that ignroes armor,
> but which cleaves flesh.
> Perhaps a better way to buy it would be NND HKA (+2), Defense is anything
> which affects desolid, or specially sanctified metal, or whatever. (I know,
> NND HKA's "don't exist". But I have used them for years, mostly for
> powerful spells in Fantasy games, and make sure the non-normal defenses are
> easy to figure out and relatively common)
A way which freaks GMs out less is to buy extra dice of HKA, "only for
countering armor". If you buy as much damage as you are likely to face in
armor, then you get the same effect as an NND which does BODY, but in a more
quantifiable way. (Obviously, this won't work in a more "unlimited"
environment where defenses may be arbitrarily high.)
> But while we're on the subject, since Hero has no rules for parrying per
> se, how would you make a sword which cannot be parried? "Immune to Block or
> Disarm"? Or a simple plus to OCV, to represent it must be dodged, rather
> than parried?
Immune to Disarm is easy: make it an OIF.
Since parrying in Hero is a special effect, I would buy big OCV bonus with a
limitation: bonus varies based on special effects of defender. (Thus, you
would get the full bonus against Parry Man, and no bonus against Mr. Dodge...)
Geoff Speare
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>> It's only an interpretation on my part, but since Mental powers are
>> L-O-S, I tend to think they only work with Targeting senses.
BG> I tend to go with you on this, Opal. Does anyone on the list have a
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:15:28 -0700 Lizard <lizard@dnai.com> writes:
>So much for a character with desolidification. But what about items
>which
>are desolid?
>
>Example:The Ghostblade, a longsword whose blade is desolid but which
>has
>Affects Real World. (The hilt is solid, so non-desolid characters can
>wield
>it) What would effects be?
The way it sounds at first, a HKA that affects desol, with the special
effect of it being desolid itself. As a GM I would allow it to strike in
confined places, etc for free.
>
>One could argue, 'none' -- that since the sword can affect the real
>world,
>anything parrying it, etc, would be struck. But that kind of takes the
>fun
>out of it. I want a sword that cannot be parried and that ignroes
>armor,
>but which cleaves flesh.
>
Now THAT's a different situation. That should be incredibly expensive,
as it is incredibly effective. My guess would be:
2d6 HKA, NND(body, +2) def=??, invisible power effects(3 groups, only to
avoid blocks)
OR
2d6 HKA, APx2
+2d6 HKA, APx2, only to reduce armor(-1/2? -1?)
both with the invisible power above
BOTH very expensive, but lethal. As a GM, I'd be very careful about
allowing either one in.
David W Toomey
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At 05:21 PM 7/14/97 CDT, David W Toomey wrote:
>
>On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:15:28 -0700 Lizard <lizard@dnai.com> writes:
>>
>>One could argue, 'none' -- that since the sword can affect the real
>>world,
>>anything parrying it, etc, would be struck. But that kind of takes the
>>fun
>>out of it. I want a sword that cannot be parried and that ignroes
>>armor,
>>but which cleaves flesh.
>>
>
>Now THAT's a different situation. That should be incredibly expensive,
>as it is incredibly effective. My guess would be:
>
>2d6 HKA, NND(body, +2) def=??, invisible power effects(3 groups, only to
>avoid blocks)
>
> OR
>2d6 HKA, APx2
>+2d6 HKA, APx2, only to reduce armor(-1/2? -1?)
> both with the invisible power above
>
>BOTH very expensive, but lethal. As a GM, I'd be very careful about
>allowing either one in.
>
Why invisible power effects? I'd rather have it be a transulscent,
shimmering grey with the usual eerie whine.
Actually, you could buy it as normal desolidification, except vs. living
matter. The sword could then swing through walls, armor, shields, etc, and
cut flesh. It would be useless against undead, golems, robots, and
elementals, though.
Obviously, this would be a Legendary Artifact(tm).
Another way to do it would be to make it a 'Soulblade'...a weapon that cuts
across the soul itself. This would be an EGO attack which did BODY (+2? I
forget...), with No Range, based on OCV rather than ECV to hit, etc. It
would be useless on anything built with any of the automaton advantages.
How powerful this is depends on the campaign world. If it was a
one-of-akind artifact, lost for generations, now wielded by the Evil
Overlord, prompting Our Heroes to go on a Long and Dangerous Quest for the
Lost Armor which can repel the blade, it's pretty powerful. OTOH, if these
things are mass produced by the local mages guild, the odds are they ALSO
sell a salve which makes armor resistant to desolid blades for a
conveniently limited time. ("Buy an extra bottle -- just to be sure!")
(going strictly by the rules, it seems to me that to make a BLADE which is
desolid, as opposed to making the wielder desolid, you'd need to build the
blade as a character, prolly with the Spirit rules. Maybe a good topic for
discussion is building items with powers, as opposed to items which GRANT
powers. A sword with 2 or 3 points of extra rDEF is going to be hard to
break, or with Life Support:Can survive underwater would never rust. A suit
of chain mail with Invisibility to Sight and Hearing would be great to wear
to the formal ball when you know Assassins are about. Etc.)
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> > $10,000: Salmon P. Chase
>
> Okay, according to my references, this guy is Salmon (pronounced sal-mon)
> Portland Chase, Chief Justice of the US presiding when Andrew Johnson was
> impeached, and was responsible as the Secretary of Treasury for creating the
> national bank system.
>
Nitpick alert!!!
Johnson was never impeached. He faced impeachment hearings on trumped up
charges but managed to hold on to the presidency by one vote. An
interesting sidebar: the man with the deciding vote was a republican
(Johnson was a democrat) and he claimed that he got a message from God to
side with the democrats and not with the republicans who just wanted to
oust the prez.
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> complaints? wow, those despotic monarchy's must have had really good feedback
> from their cannonfodder-er, troops! *lol*
>
Actually, until the French Revolution, the "grunts" of armies were peopled
by mercenaries. I guess pre-revolution Prussia had manditory military
service, but they were the exception. Monarchies, despotic and otherwise,
got plenty of feedback for their crimes. Louis XVI (who was about the
nicest french king, and certainly a lot less despotic than L15 and L14)
ended up being killed, and having his wife and young son killed by the
people's noble revolution in the 1790's. A lot of heads rolled in 1848,
too. The recriminations were often far more brutal than the original
crimes.
> once again, there comes a time when things become obselete. I'll accept
> 'medievil armour vs longbow' or 'modern armour vs firearms', but not
> 'medievil armour vs firearms', or for that matter, 'modern
> (kinetic/ablative) armour
> vs longbows" .
>
That's a good point: how would a kevlar vest protect against a crossbow
bolt?
>
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>Example:The Ghostblade, a longsword whose blade is desolid but which has
>Affects Real World. (The hilt is solid, so non-desolid characters can wield
>it) What would effects be?
The blade would hit solid objects, but not be hit by them; in other words,
you could not block the weapon, disarm it, take it, etc, unless you hit the
hilt. But you would have to guy desolid on the weapon.
It also would cleave ghosts and such with ease.
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>But while we're on the subject, since Hero has no rules for parrying per
>se, how would you make a sword which cannot be parried? "Immune to Block or
>Disarm"? Or a simple plus to OCV, to represent it must be dodged, rather
>than parried?
Parry is simply a block, simple rules.
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>That's a good point: how would a kevlar vest protect against a crossbow
>bolt?
Well, you might get some protection from the heavy diamond heads (diamond
shaped), but any edged weapon including crossbow bolts and arrows will punch
right through a standard 'kevlar' vest. It's another story if it's a kevlar
vest with alloy plates (police bulletproof vests). Kevlar just doesn't deal
well with piercing damage at all - in fact, I wonder how it handles the
low-deformation steel bullets used in warfare (as opposed to the relatively
squishy lead bullets).
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Even more nitpicking!!!
>Johnson was never impeached. He faced impeachment hearings on trumped up
>charges but managed to hold on to the presidency by one vote. An
>interesting sidebar: the man with the deciding vote was a republican
>(Johnson was a democrat) and he claimed that he got a message from God to
>side with the democrats and not with the republicans who just wanted to
>oust the prez.
Johnson WAS impeached! He was simply found not guilty. The act of
impeachment is the bringing of formal CHARGES against the President (or other
official) before Congress, not the actual finding of wrongdoing. It is
suspected that Republicans felt that Johnson (Lincoln's compromise VP from
the opposing Democratic party) was being to soft on the South. Following the
impeachment procedures the South was much more severely treated. It is also
suggested by some historians that Booth, rather than being Confederacy
sympathizer was actually acting for a conspiracy that felt that Lincoln was
being too conciliatory to the South following the Union vivtory. If this is
true then the goals of the conspiracy were carried out even if the primary
actors were taken in to custody or killed.
Carter Humphrey
BeerCarboy@AOL.com
PS: Possibly useful if you choose to set your Hero campaign during or
immediately following the Civil War, otherwise please disregard . . .
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>>no. btw, the idea of knights vs bullets is silly- that's what horse archers
>> are for!
>
>It may be silly, but it happened. If fact, the standard Swiss 'fighting
>square' consisted of lines of pikemen with squads of musketeers at the
>corners. The usually added groups of men with halbers as well, for close
>up fighting. The idea was that the pikes kept the horsemen away, while
>the gunners cut down other units. Men with halberds (and two-handed
>swords) would engage the enemy directly. When men with pikes engaged that
>would stand and thrust at one another (you best tactic with a 16' to 20'
>spear shaft). Men with two-handed sowrds (typcially the german zwiehander
>[2-hander] made in the flamberge (flame-blade) style would march up
>between the shafts and either hack the enemy pikes down or hack the enemy
>directly. Due to the danger involved, these men received double-pay and
>were called 'dopple-[German for pay] men'.
>
u-huh? and how does this prove that knights were effective against muskets?
>Now I'm not certain about 'horse-archers'. There were no real mounted
>archers that I'm aware of in Western Europe during the middle ages.
>English longbow men rode horses to battle, but dismounted to fight. Do
>you mean 'archers vs horsemen'?
>
no, horse archers: those mid-east dudes would be highly effective in a
'hit and run' against musketeers ect.
>> a medievil army, properly equipped fo gurilla-style warfare, INCLUDING a
>> contingent of knights, could tangle well with early 'musketeer' type units-
>> BUT, those feudal ]
>> types were just OBSESED with cavalry charges. . .
>
>Guerilla warfare was a foreign concept through most of the middle ages.
>Since one's honor was paramount, you met the enemy on the open field and
>cut him down (or more likely captured him). The better to show your
>prowess and increase you fame. Now, one the Swiss got their act
>together, their pike/musket/halberd unit were unbeatable. If I remeber
>correctly, in at late 16th C battle, a group of 1600 Swiss annihiliated an
>army of (hmmm....) 6-8000 French and Burgundians using the exact tactics I
>mentioned.
>
like i said, obsessed.
>The Frecnh were real big on the honor and glory due a knight (sort of a
>national psych lim at the time). This idea of knightly honor directly (or
>indirectly) led to their defeats at Crecy, Poiters and Agincort. Mainly
>due to their desire to close with the enemy and engae in hand to hand
>combat. When faced (at Agincort) with 5000 longbow men, a wet, muddy
>field and forest hemming in your troops om both sides... well, the results
>weren't pretty. (Contemperory accounts say the piles of dead where higher
>than a man's head. Improbably to be sure, but still...)
>
like i said. . . . . .
>> complaints? wow, those despotic monarchy's must have had really good feedback
>> from their cannonfodder-er, troops! *lol*
>
>Heh, re-read your history. Despotic monarchys didn't last long. Look at
>King John for a prime example (Richard III for another). At Agincort the
>French did treat their troops (well, the common footsoldiers) as a type of
>cannonfodder, riding *through* them in an attempt to charge the enemy.
>But in many cases one could not aford to 'throw away' your troops, you
>just didn't have *that* many. Most battle of the middle ages involved
>numbers in the low thousands, not tens of hundreds of thousands.
>
*sigh* right! it's not like despots reigned right up 'till they were in the early 20th
century in some places. . . . try NOT watching so many disney movies.
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In <3.0.3.32.19970714111553.00853590@mailhost.cyberhighway.net&> on
07/14/97
at 11:15 AM, Jim <champion@cyberhighway.net> said:
>Hi everyone!
>I am trying out an idea on the web that I think has some fun potential,
>but would like to "beta test" it with any of you that are interested.
>Please visit:
> http://www.cyberhighway.net/~jd/cgk/acr
>This is the Homepage for what I am presently calling the "Adventurer's
>Club Revisited" -- a webzine that will rehash some of the material from
>the old AC issues that are WAY out of print.
While in general I applaud the idea, you probably shouldn't be posting
material that someone else holds the copyright on. Even though the kids
at Hero Games have been reasonably supportive of people publishing via the
WWW material using thier rules and background, its really not kosher to
flaunt the copyright laws quite so blatantly. I'd suggest getting their
permission (if they even hold the copyright - it may be ICE) first.
However, if you are looking to create a medium for the publishing of
original material, I'm sure the folks on this list would be willing to
provide you with a plethora of unique stuff.
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997 jonesmj@topaz.cqu.edu.au wrote:
> >>no. btw, the idea of knights vs bullets is silly- that's what horse archers
> >> are for!
> >
> >It may be silly, but it happened. If fact, the standard Swiss 'fighting
> >square' consisted of lines of pikemen with squads of musketeers at the
> >corners. The usually added groups of men with halbers as well, for close
> >up fighting. The idea was that the pikes kept the horsemen away, while
> >the gunners cut down other units. Men with halberds (and two-handed
> >swords) would engage the enemy directly. When men with pikes engaged that
> >would stand and thrust at one another (you best tactic with a 16' to 20'
> >spear shaft). Men with two-handed sowrds (typcially the german zwiehander
> >[2-hander] made in the flamberge (flame-blade) style would march up
> >between the shafts and either hack the enemy pikes down or hack the enemy
> >directly. Due to the danger involved, these men received double-pay and
> >were called 'dopple-[German for pay] men'.
> >
>
> u-huh? and how does this prove that knights were effective against muskets?
I never said it did, in fact, I was making the point that t's just the
opposite, knights (and other mounted troops) *can't* break a solid unit of
infantry (as long as the infantry holds it's ground). Look at Waterloo
for example. I was simply stating that yes,, knights vs muskets may be
stupid, but such things did happen.
> >Now I'm not certain about 'horse-archers'. There were no real mounted
> >archers that I'm aware of in Western Europe during the middle ages.
> >English longbow men rode horses to battle, but dismounted to fight. Do
> >you mean 'archers vs horsemen'?
>
>
> no, horse archers: those mid-east dudes would be highly effective in a
> 'hit and run' against musketeers ect.
Apples and oranges. I could easily say that Norman knights in ful armor
would cream any size Zulu army you cared to toss on the field. Units of
Eastern syled mounted horesmen would probably smear most units of
musketeers, but since such things never really happened (as opposed to
armored knights vs musketeers) what point are you tryin to make?
If you want to set up a game scenario that's valid you should try and find
a comparable historical occurance. So, if you are wondering how well your
Fantasy Hero knights would hold up to the introductiton of primitive
matchlock guns, look at some battles between the Swiss and French (and
Germans and Italians) of about 1450 to 1550.
> >> complaints? wow, those despotic monarchy's must have had really good feedback
> >> from their cannonfodder-er, troops! *lol*
> >
> >Heh, re-read your history. Despotic monarchys didn't last long. Look at
> >King John for a prime example (Richard III for another). At Agincort the
> >French did treat their troops (well, the common footsoldiers) as a type of
> >cannonfodder, riding *through* them in an attempt to charge the enemy.
> >But in many cases one could not aford to 'throw away' your troops, you
> >just didn't have *that* many. Most battle of the middle ages involved
> >numbers in the low thousands, not tens of hundreds of thousands.
> >
>
> *sigh* right! it's not like despots reigned right up 'till they were in
the early 20th
> century in some places. . . . try NOT watching so many disney movies.
Excuse me? Watching Disney movies? What exactly is *that* supposed to
mean?
I am not arguing the existance of despots, or that troops were used as
'cannon fodder', what I am stating is that the two don't go hand in hand.
If anything, a despot rules through military force and the troops
generally are better off than others. And speaking of cannon fodder, I
certainly wouldn't call England of WWI a despotic government, but they
still marched their men across no-mans land and right into the waiting
machine guns of the Germans in large numbers now didn't they? I mean,
what's the casualty figures for the first day of the Somme? 30,000
English dead? If not more? (Compare this to a grand total of 23,000
American dead (both sides) for Antietem).
I'm willing to discuss things in a rational manner, especially as how such
subjects relate to Hero and Fantasy Hero, but I don't care to be talked
down to or insulted.
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From: Firelynx16@aol.com
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In a message dated 97-07-14 18:09:14 EDT, you write:
<< Perhaps a better way to buy it would be NND HKA (+2), Defense is anything
which affects desolid, or specially sanctified metal, or whatever. (I know,
NND HKA's "don't exist". But I have used them for years, mostly for
powerful spells in Fantasy games, and make sure the non-normal defenses are
easy to figure out and relatively common) >>
I have a sidebar question about NND Killing attacks. Fantasy Hero says NND
Killing attack poisons are +2 "because none of these (appropriate immunity,
radically unusual metabolism, or receiving an antidite) are common defenses".
So that means that if the defense *was* common, it would be the regular +1
for NND. I don't think that's too strong of an interpolation since they're
making the very strong point that because it's different, ie not the norm,
it's +2... which means anything but this different area *is* the norm, ie +1.
A quick look at NND in BBB shows that NNDs don't do Body except with
"express permission of the GM", but doesn't say that they cost extra, so
they're still +1. So my question is why does everybody always place the +2
on NND Killing attacks automatically? Is this just house rules? Or does it
say elsewhere that NND Killing attacks should be +2, even with common
defenses? I know they're +2 for poisons in Eye for an Eye, but again, the
defense isn't common... just appropriate immunity. Also, does this translate
to mean that one could buy a normal Stun only NND with just one uncommon
defense and pay +2?
Thanx for your answers,
'Lynx
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> Kevlar won't stop most rifle rounds, which is what I think you're
> talking about. Come to think of it, the heavy, plate-armor
> penetrating quarrels and heavy pull bows, probably would defeat
> kevlar, there power is comprable to that of many rifles (but not the
> velocity...)
>
> Hmph, now I'm not so sure. Thanks. :(
Manufacturer's of Kevlar vests do state quite clearly that it is not
particularly resistant to puncture weapons, in fact, not much at all.
In fact, Kevlar is rather easily cut and abraded, as it is not nearly
as _hard_ as steel.
Filksinger
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> On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:15:04 +0000 "Filksinger"
> <filkhero@pop.netaddress.usa.net> writes:
>
>
>
> >> At 05:21 PM 7/14/97 CDT, David W Toomey wrote:
> >>
> >> Actually, you could buy it as normal desolidification, except vs.
> >> living matter. The sword could then swing through walls, armor,
> >> shields, etc, and cut flesh. It would be useless against undead,
> >> golems, robots, and elementals, though.
>
> <snipped>
>
> The only problem her is I DID NOT post this! My statements were
> the
> reply to this post. Please be careful when attributing sources,, as
> I stated almost the complete *opposite* of what was attributed to me
> here.
>
> Thanks
Sincerely sorry. I cropped the original badly.
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I could have sworn I posted this Sunday night.
After that medieval armor fiasco, I must assume that my mind is
slipping.
______________________________
I recently decided to see if I could properly translate real-world
modern body armor into Champions terms. Of course, one of the first
things I discovered was that, as always, translation in precise terms
was impossible. How good the armor was depended up a large number of
factors, including a number which defied analysis.
Factors that I left out included, but were not limited to: very wet,
non-waterproof woven vests have reduced capabilities, woven
vests "bunch up" after being shot, and if not patted down can be
reduced in effectiveness, smaller bullets that are not as powerful
can penetrate vests more easily, if they are small enough (.22), game
damage and penetration effectiveness were not always compatible,
angled shots were more effective vs woven vests, but less vs Spectra
Shield and hard armor, teflon coated bullets are more effective
against hard targets like cars but less effective against woven
vests, etc. Additionally, I did not take into account the varying
coverages of different vests. I assumed that all vests were long
vests, with full side coverage.
When trying to translate the vests into game terms, I noted that a
large number of the vests did not cover the vitals, yet in the game
even the shortest vests did. Instead, the shortest vests didn't reach
the chest in the game, which is exactly the opposi of the real world.
This is because in the Hero System, a .357 aimed at the heart cannot
kill your average man instantly with a single shot, but a steak knife
in the vitals can. I recommend using a house rule I have, that
bullets do x1 1/2 BODY in both the vitals and hit location 10 (upper
chest), and both use the Vitals Imparing listing. This helps simulate
the fact that your vitals are more vulnerable to normal attacks and
blades, but are not necessarily the best target for bullets. It also
helps explain why a real world vest doesn't always cover the vitals.
Lastly, it gives almost exactly the same average amount of BODY as
the regular way.
Purists will note that I didn't include Armor Mass and Real Armor
among the limitations. Partly this is because modern body armor is
between 1/2 mass and 0 mass, making conversions even more iffy, but
mostly because this was already getting to be a pain. You want them,
you do them.
There are several types of ballistic vests out there. Ratings and
effectiveness are listed below.
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Type Threat
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I .22, .25, and .32 caliber handguns,
.38 Special lead round-nose
II-A .38 Special high-velocity, .45s, low-velocity
.357 Magnum & 9-mm, .22 rifles
II Higher velocity .357 Magnum and 9-mm
III-A .44 Magnum and submachine gun 9-mm
III High-power rifle:
5.56mm, 7.62 mm FMJ, .30 carbine,
.30-06 pointed soft point,
12-gauge rifled slug
IV Armor-piercing rifle bullet, .30 caliber
(1 shot only).
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SOURCE: National Institute of Justice, 1987 [144] and 1989 [145].
Please note that armor of a particular rating will usually stop
bullets of the next higher rating, but not always. No vest is truly
guaranteed to stop any bullet. In fact, .22 rounds fired from rifles
have been known to slip through vests that stopped more potent
rounds.
Soft armor covers types I through III-A, and is not rated to stop
most rifles. Soft armors are made of one of three materials these
days- polyaramid fiber (aramid) weave (Kevlar(R), Twaron(R)),
extended-chain polyethylene (ECPE) weave (Spectra), and ECPE flexible
sheets (Spectra Shield).
Aramid is the oldest of the materials used today, and is not as
strong as the other two. It is _highly_ resistant to heat, however,
and is even used in protective clothing for firefighters in extreme
situations, much like asbestos.
Spectra is even stronger, though not as heat resistant. It may not
stop bullets any better, though, as bullets do not break most of the
threads to get through weave vests. They slip through the weave
mostly, breaking only a few threads. It does make for slightly
lighter armor, but has no real game effect. Thus, the fact that
Spectra is twice as strong per ounce as aramid may not matter to you.
The last of the flexible armor shields is Spectra Shield. Spectra
Shield is Spectra laid in one direction, embedded in a flexible
plastic. Shields have two layers, at right angles to each other.
Spectra Shield comes in at least three varieties, with varying
degrees of effectiveness and stiffness. The most expensive is both
effective and soft. It is more effective when wet than woven vests,
doesn't bunch up when shot (which reduces effectiveness), spreads out
impact much better, handles angled shots better, is so much lighter
that some vests can be used as life preservers, and is more resistant
to puncture from sharp instruments. Additionally, only Spectra Shield
can create level III-A soft vests. All other level III-A vests
require rigid plates, as do all level III and level IV vests. All
vests have multiple layers of whatever material they use. Some use
aramid or Spectra with embedded Spectra Shield.
Of all the manufacturer's of vests I was able to find, none produce
level IV armor. Thus, level IV armor is partly a guess.
So, lets take a look at what this all means in game terms.
Woven armors
Woven armors are the softest armors available, though not necessarily
the lightest. Woven armors are typically made from aramid or ECPE.
Level I is rarely seen these days, most such vests are Level II-A or
above.
ECPE makes for considerably lighter armor, because of it's increased
strength. However, the difference is minimal in game terms, and thus
worth no points. Additionally, the maximum effectiveness of both
aramid and ECPE are close enough together that no vests made from
ECPE without Spectra Shield or other plates are so much as one rating
better than the best aramid vests.
Woven armor has a poor effectiveness against sharp weapons,
particularly puncture weapons. Aramid cuts more easily than ECPE, and
is less resistant to abrasion. (I did not find the difference
sufficient to give different game effects, however; these things are
complex enough.) Oddly enough, the woven armor which (according to
its advertising) is best at stopping punctures is a variety of Kevlar
weave known as Prism. Prism is specially woven to stop puncture
weapons. This armor is expensive, and usually used by prison guards
and the like, who are more worried about awls and icepicks than
bullets.
Additionally, aramid has the advantage of being heat resistant to
extremely high temperatures. In fact, it was used in part of the
nozzle system of some Minuteman missiles.
Aramid
Type II-A
5 PD, 5 ED Armor, 1/2 Effectiveness vs STUN, puncture, and normal
physical attacks (-1 1/2), IIF (Concealed vest) (-1/4), Activates on
a 10- (-1 1/4) (Long vest). Active cost: 15, real cost: 4.
Type II
7 PD, 7 ED Armor, 1/2 Effectiveness vs STUN, puncture, and normal
physical attacks (-1 1/2), IIF (Concealed vest) (-1/4), Activates on
a 10- (-1 1/4) (Long vest). Active cost: 21, Real cost: 5.
ECPE
Type II-A
5PD, 1ED, 1/2 Effectiveness vs. STUN, puncture, and normal physical
attacks (-1 1/2), IIF (Concealed vest) (-1/4), Activates on a 10- (-1
1/4) (Long vest). Active cost: 9, Real cost: 2.
Type II
7PD, 2ED, 1/2 Effectiveness vs. STUN, puncture, and normal physical
attacks (-1 1/2), IIF (Concealed vest) (-1/4), Activates on a 10- (-1
1/4) (Long vest). Active cost: 11, Real cost: 3.
Spectra Shield
Type II-A
5 PD, 1 ED Armor, IIF (Concealed vest) (-1/4), Activates on
a 10- (-1 1/4) (Long vest). Active cost: 9, Real cost: 4.
Type II
7 PD, 3 ED Armor, IIF (Concealed Vest) (-1/4), Activates on a
10- (-1 1/4) (Long vest). Active cost: 15, Real cost: 6.
Type III-A
10 PD, 4 ED Armor, OIF (Vest)(-1/2), Activates on a 10- (-1
1/4) (Long vest). Active cost: 21, Real cost: 8.
Hard body armor. (Note: Hard body armor always requires a hard
surface (tungsten carbide, ceramics) on the plates for level III or
VI armor, even when Spectra Shield is the backing for those plates.
Thus, the increased ED.)
Type III
12 PD, 8 ED, OIF (Vest) (-1/2), Activates on a 10- (-1 1/4)
(Long vest). Active cost: 30, Real cost: 11.
Type IV
12 PD, 8 ED, Hardened DEF (+1/4), OIF (Vest) (-1/2),
Activates on a 10- (-1 1/4) (Long vest). Active cost:38, Real cost:
14.
Various possibilities include woven armor that is resistant to
punctures, Spectra Shield covered in flame retardants, and numberous
other possibilities.
Filksinger
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> In a message dated 97-07-14 18:09:14 EDT, you write:
>
> << Perhaps a better way to buy it would be NND HKA (+2), Defense is
> anything
> which affects desolid, or specially sanctified metal, or whatever.
> (I know, NND HKA's "don't exist". But I have used them for years,
> mostly for powerful spells in Fantasy games, and make sure the
> non-normal defenses are easy to figure out and relatively common)
> >>
>
> I have a sidebar question about NND Killing attacks. Fantasy Hero
> says NND Killing attack poisons are +2 "because none of these
> (appropriate immunity, radically unusual metabolism, or receiving an
> antidite) are common defenses".
> So that means that if the defense *was* common, it would be the
> regular +1
> for NND. I don't think that's too strong of an interpolation since
> they're making the very strong point that because it's different, ie
> not the norm, it's +2... which means anything but this different
> area *is* the norm, ie +1.
> A quick look at NND in BBB shows that NNDs don't do Body except
> with
> "express permission of the GM", but doesn't say that they cost
> extra, so they're still +1. So my question is why does everybody
> always place the +2 on NND Killing attacks automatically? Is this
> just house rules? Or does it say elsewhere that NND Killing attacks
> should be +2, even with common defenses?
They are stated as being +2, in all official sources in which they
exist. However, if the defense was common enough, they could be
bought down to effectively +1, like this:
2d6 RKA, NND (appropriate immunity, radically unusual metabolism, or
receiving an antidote) (+2), not vs people with red hair (-1/2).
>I know they're +2 for
> poisons in Eye for an Eye, but again, the defense isn't common...
> just appropriate immunity. Also, does this translate to mean that
> one could buy a normal Stun only NND with just one uncommon defense
> and pay +2?
That is a possibility. I have long thought that NND should have a
varying cost, dependent upon how common the defense is.
> Thanx for your answers,
> 'Lynx
No problem,
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 04:55:29 +0000
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> Is anybody from the list going to be going to GenCon?
Well, I live on the west coast, just got out of school, and am
looking for work.
However, if I win the lottery, I'll consider it.
Filksinger
"Keeping in mind that the notes we sing are never, ever, wrong!"
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How would one go about setting up a targeting radio listen/transmit? Range
modifiers? Only while source is transmitting? Any ideas?
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:28:28 CDT
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. I want a sword that cannot be parried and that ignroes
>>>armor,
>>>but which cleaves flesh.
>>>
>>
>>Now THAT's a different situation. That should be incredibly
>expensive,
>>as it is incredibly effective. My guess would be:
>>
>>2d6 HKA, NND(body, +2) def=??, invisible power effects(3 groups, only
>to
>>avoid blocks)
>>
>> OR
>>2d6 HKA, APx2
>>+2d6 HKA, APx2, only to reduce armor(-1/2? -1?)
>> both with the invisible power above
>>
>>BOTH very expensive, but lethal. As a GM, I'd be very careful about
>>allowing either one in.
>>
>Why invisible power effects? I'd rather have it be a transulscent,
>shimmering grey with the usual eerie whine.
>
Invisible, because otherwise it can be blocked. The blade is visible,
but the power effect would bypas a block, except w/Danger Sense
(oops....)
>Actually, you could buy it as normal desolidification, except vs.
>living
>matter. The sword could then swing through walls, armor, shields, etc,
>and
>cut flesh. It would be useless against undead, golems, robots, and
>elementals, though.
It would STILL require the +2 Affects real world, perhaps with a limit on
those points of "Not vs unliving (-1/2? -1?) otherwise it is Abusive in
most campaigns. As always, the GM may overrule, but this would be a
very potent power...
>Another way to do it would be to make it a 'Soulblade'...a weapon that
>cuts
>across the soul itself. This would be an EGO attack which did BODY
>(+2? I
>forget...), with No Range, based on OCV rather than ECV to hit, etc.
>It
>would be useless on anything built with any of the automaton
>advantages.
This works, and is properly hideously expensive (30 Act Pts/1d6 damage),
and mental def would still count against it (rare, but an option)
>
>How powerful this is depends on the campaign world. If it was a
>one-of-akind artifact, lost for generations, now wielded by the Evil
>Overlord, prompting Our Heroes to go on a Long and Dangerous Quest for
>the
>Lost Armor which can repel the blade, it's pretty powerful. OTOH, if
>these
>things are mass produced by the local mages guild, the odds are they
>ALSO
>sell a salve which makes armor resistant to desolid blades for a
>conveniently limited time. ("Buy an extra bottle -- just to be sure!")
If you want it as Plot Device (tm), how you design it becomes much less
important, of course...
>
>(going strictly by the rules, it seems to me that to make a BLADE
>which is
>desolid, as opposed to making the wielder desolid, you'd need to build
>the
>blade as a character, prolly with the Spirit rules.
To make a Blade desol, buy "Affects Desol", possibly with the limit
Desol only, not real world, if you want the blade to be truly desol, not
interacting with non-desol matter.
David W Toomey
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:15:04 +0000 "Filksinger"
<filkhero@pop.netaddress.usa.net> writes:
>> At 05:21 PM 7/14/97 CDT, David W Toomey wrote:
>>
>> Actually, you could buy it as normal desolidification, except vs.
>> living matter. The sword could then swing through walls, armor,
>> shields, etc, and cut flesh. It would be useless against undead,
>> golems, robots, and elementals, though.
<snipped>
The only problem her is I DID NOT post this! My statements were the
reply to this post. Please be careful when attributing sources,, as I
stated almost the complete *opposite* of what was attributed to me here.
Thanks
David W Toomey
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:54:28 -0500
From: Todd Hanson <badtodd@dacmail.net>
Subject: GenCon??
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Is anybody from the list going to be going to GenCon?
Anybody going to be running any games while they're there?
Looks like I'm going to be going if anyone wants to try and meet up or
anything...
Todd
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At 12:54 AM 7/15/97 -0500, Todd Hanson <badtodd@dacmail.net> wrote:
>Is anybody from the list going to be going to GenCon?
I will be most definately be going. I have my plane and hotel
reservations all set up and will be getting my badge soon. Look for me
hanging around either the GRG booth (I will most likely be working there)
and/or the Hero booth, pestering Ray Greer for a backrub. :) Oh, and the
Anime showings are a favorite of mine as well.. See you guys there!
Michelle
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> > Nitpick alert!!!
> >
> > Johnson was never impeached. He faced impeachment hearings on
> > trumped up charges but managed to hold on to the presidency by one
> > vote.
>
> By definition, actually being charged while in office is the
> definition of impeachment, not being convicted. Yes, he was
> impeached.
>
> Filksinger
> "Keeping in mind that the notes we sing are never, ever, wrong!"
>
Heh, that's two mistakes I made. I also mispelled my name at the
end of the message! Hot... day..., thinking... hard... <drool>.
-Eric (not "Erio")
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> >> complaints? wow, those despotic monarchy's must have had really good feedback
> >> from their cannonfodder-er, troops! *lol*
> >
> >Heh, re-read your history. Despotic monarchys didn't last long.
>
> *sigh* right! it's not like despots reigned right up 'till they were in the early 20th
> century in some places. . . . try NOT watching so many disney movies.
>
On a slightly related and somewhat bizarre note, has anyone else noticed
that Generalissimo Francisco Franco (20th c spanish dictator) looked
almost exactly like Walt Disney?
-Eric
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> >Example:The Ghostblade, a longsword whose blade is desolid but which has
> >Affects Real World. (The hilt is solid, so non-desolid characters can wield
> >it) What would effects be?
>
> The blade would hit solid objects, but not be hit by them; in other words,
> you could not block the weapon, disarm it, take it, etc, unless you hit the
> hilt. But you would have to guy desolid on the weapon.
>
> It also would cleave ghosts and such with ease.
>
This got me thinking: how would you build a power that would affect
desolid only, and have no effect on the physical world? For instance,
Jackie Wu, a martial artist, has no superpowers, but he does have a
Ghostblade as described in the previous post. But Jackie's Ghostblade
only effects desolid, and passes harmlessly through anything that is
solid.
Oh, and while we're talking about magic swords, I seem to remember a
character from the 2nd Alan Davis run on Excalibur (back when it didn't
suck eggs) who had this magic sword that cut through anything except
a good guy. He swung it at Nightcrawler (tm), who tried to defend
himself with a cane, and the sword cut through the cane but left
Nightcrawler unharmed. The same sword would cleave badguys in half,
though. The sword didn't ignore armor, etc. so I don't think this
would be a NND... basically it worked as a normal sword would (maybe a
little better) only Kluyn (the name of the guy with the sword) could swing
away at whoever he saw with the full knowledge that the blade would only
hurt evil people. Any ideas?
-Eric
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Eric Burns wrote:
> > *sigh* right! it's not like despots reigned right up 'till they were in the early 20th
> > century in some places. . . . try NOT watching so many disney movies.
> >
>
> On a slightly related and somewhat bizarre note, has anyone else noticed
> that Generalissimo Francisco Franco (20th c spanish dictator) looked
> almost exactly like Walt Disney?
That may be, but he's still dead.
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>While in general I applaud the idea, you probably shouldn't be posting
>material that someone else holds the copyright on.
[...edited...]
>However, if you are looking to create a medium for the publishing of
>original material, I'm sure the folks on this list would be willing to
>provide you with a plethora of unique stuff.
This is also a main thrust of this web format I am looking for. I will be more than happy to publish anyone's original material in this new forum. I just think the idea of "Interactive Webzine" is nifty!
If you, or anyone else on the list is interested in submitting an article, I'll even format it in HTML for them if they don't have the time or the means to doing it themselves.
Please send any submissions to me by email, and feel free to attach any files (like maps, art, or MS Word files), and I will publish it in the webzine!
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>This got me thinking: how would you build a power that would affect
>desolid only, and have no effect on the physical world? For instance,
>Jackie Wu, a martial artist, has no superpowers, but he does have a
>Ghostblade as described in the previous post. But Jackie's Ghostblade
>only effects desolid, and passes harmlessly through anything that is
>solid.
HKA, Affects Desolid (+1/2), Not Vs. Solid (-2) [I think it's worth -2,
unless you're always fighting ghosts...].
>Oh, and while we're talking about magic swords, I seem to remember a
>character from the 2nd Alan Davis run on Excalibur (back when it didn't
>suck eggs) who had this magic sword that cut through anything except
>a good guy.
That's Kylun, with his Mystic Swords of Zzrah (sp?).
> He swung it at Nightcrawler (tm), who tried to defend
>himself with a cane, and the sword cut through the cane but left
>Nightcrawler unharmed. The same sword would cleave badguys in half,
>though. The sword didn't ignore armor, etc. so I don't think this
>would be a NND... basically it worked as a normal sword would (maybe a
>little better) only Kluyn (the name of the guy with the sword) could swing
>away at whoever he saw with the full knowledge that the blade would only
>hurt evil people. Any ideas?
Well, it's sure the hell not a limitation. I'd go for this:
HKA, Trigger: Turns Off If Used Vs. Good/Innocents (+1/4), with
Detect Good/Innocence, Sense, Linked to HKA (-1/2) [you need the detect for
the trigger].
After all, there's no reason a Trigger couldn't be used to turn a power off.
If you want to get nitpicky about resetting the trigger, buy Continious and
Persistant and Always On on the Trigger advantage - it should be cheap.
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>> On a slightly related and somewhat bizarre note, has anyone else noticed
>> that Generalissimo Francisco Franco (20th c spanish dictator) looked
>> almost exactly like Walt Disney?
>
>That may be, but he's still dead.
<smacka-smacka-smacka-smacka>
I guess somebody had to say it...<groan>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:25:19 PDT
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Subject: Multipower cost - who's right ???
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Okay guys,
I started this thread about correctly calculating the cost of a
multipower slot and so far I have gotten "definitive" answers for two
different ways to calculate the costs involved. Who is right??? The
example in the book gives the result numbers but not the way they were
calculated.
Example based on 100 active point multipower with one -1/4 limitation
So far everyone seems to agree on the base cost for the multipower, i.e.:
Multipower base cost = 100 active with -1/4 lim = 80 real points
The slot costs are disputed however .....
Case 1:
ultra slot with -1/2 limitation = active points in slot / 10 ie. 100
/ 10 = 10, then apply limitations of -1/4 & -1/2, therefore, cost of
slot = 5.7 or 6 real points
Case 2:
ultra slot with -1/2 limitation = real cost of base multipower / 10
i.e. 80 / 10 = 8, then apply limitation of -1/2 , therefore cost of
slot = 5.3 or 5 real points
Okay who is correct???? If I have 5 slots in my multipower, it is
either going to cost me 5 more points or save me five points depending
on how you do it. Anyone from Hero Games out there care to take a stab
at it ?????
Just wantin' to know
...Dave S.
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> no matter how many forms of attacks you choose, "half effectiveness"
> should never be worth a -1 or more limitation.
>
> It should be easy to figure out why...
DOH! (High five my forehead.)
Uh, guys, it seems I need to recalculate a few things....
That's what I get for doing work on these things late at night. I
found a number of mistakes, but I was certain there was one left.
At least I know what it was.
Filksinger
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> Okay guys,
>
> I started this thread about correctly calculating the cost of a
> multipower slot and so far I have gotten "definitive" answers for
> two different ways to calculate the costs involved. Who is right???
> The example in the book gives the result numbers but not the way
> they were calculated.
Do the two systems_ always_ give _exactly_ the same answer? If so,
then " a difference which makes no difference is no difference."
Filksinger
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Subject: compilation of examples from published material
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:34:43 CDT
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A while back, I was discussing "cleanup" issues within the published
4th edition materials with various folks at a convention... In that
discussion, we brought up the ambiguity of the "limited power"
limitation, several disads, etc...
I proposed that several lists be compiled from all the published HERO
materials (supplements, Adventurer's Clubs, etc), and posted on the web,
to be accessible to as many people as possible.
Lists to include:
Published Power Advantages List
Published Power Limitations List
Published Disadvantages List
(feel free to suggest more)
Now, I've got a website, and am willing to start this (I'll be using
Microsoft Access, which allows for multiple tables, and has a web
publishing ability) if I can get a few people to help me out to cover
what I don't own, and a good bibliography of all published 4th ed.
materials (yes, including the other genre supplements).
Anyone who's interested in this project, please contact me!
DonM.
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At 11:00 PM 7/10/97 -0700, Lizard wrote:
>Is there an archive (or a FAQ) for this list? I'd like to avoid hauling
>forth zombie horses to be beaten.
>
I can't remember the exact URL but you can find one listed under Champions
in Yahoo! as well as a few other worthwhile sites.
Patrick B
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, John and Ron Prins wrote:
> >> On a slightly related and somewhat bizarre note, has anyone else noticed
> >> that Generalissimo Francisco Franco (20th c spanish dictator) looked
> >> almost exactly like Walt Disney?
> >
> >That may be, but he's still dead.
>
> <smacka-smacka-smacka-smacka>
"Thank you sir may I have another!"
> I guess somebody had to say it...<groan>
Well, yeah.
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At 11:21 PM 7/14/97 -0400, john.desmarais@ibm.net wrote:
>In <3.0.3.32.19970714111553.00853590@mailhost.cyberhighway.net&>
>at 11:15 AM, Jim <champion@cyberhighway.net> said:
>
>>This is the Homepage for what I am presently calling the "Adventurer's
>>Club Revisited" -- a webzine that will rehash some of the material from
>>the old AC issues that are WAY out of print.
>
>While in general I applaud the idea, you probably shouldn't be posting
>material that someone else holds the copyright on. Even though the kids
>at Hero Games have been reasonably supportive of people publishing via the
>WWW material using thier rules and background, its really not kosher to
>flaunt the copyright laws quite so blatantly. I'd suggest getting their
>permission (if they even hold the copyright - it may be ICE) first.
Well, it does depend on exactly how much the material gets "hashed" the
second time around. Remember, copyrights apply to expression, not content;
if he's typing in the articles word for word (or mostly so), yeah, he's
gonna open a can of lawsuit, but if he's just slapping up the information in
his own words he's okay.
Actually, though, the very title "Adventurer's Club Revisited" may be
trouble if anyone still holds a *trademark* on it. Of course, to hold the
trademark, they actually have to USE it on something (the law doesn't let
you "reserve" marks you're not using).
>However, if you are looking to create a medium for the publishing of
>original material, I'm sure the folks on this list would be willing to
>provide you with a plethora of unique stuff.
Most hearty agreement.
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At 12:54 AM 7/15/97 -0500, Todd Hanson wrote:
>Is anybody from the list going to be going to GenCon?
>
>Anybody going to be running any games while they're there?
>
>Looks like I'm going to be going if anyone wants to try and meet up or
>anything...
I'm going, though this is the first year I *won't* be running anything
(officially). If you see some dork running around with either a "Optos,
Horror from Space" or "Not the Target Market" button on his shirt, that
would be me (or someone who knows me).
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:02:17 -0700 (PDT)
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At 03:08 PM 7/14/97 -0400, BeerCarboy@aol.com wrote:
> >$500: William McKinley
> >$1000: Grover Cleveland
> >$5000: James Madison
> >$10,000: Salmon P. Chase
>
>And last (but anything but least) on the $100,000 gold certificate, which was
>printed only for official government use, we find a portrait of Woodrow
>Wilson.
I do remember about that one -- but wasn't there also a $50,000 bill
somewhere along the way, back inthe 60s? Does anyone here know?
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At 11:26 AM 7/15/97 -0400, Eric Burns wrote:
>
>Heh, that's two mistakes I made. I also mispelled my name at the
>end of the message! Hot... day..., thinking... hard... <drool>.
>
>-Eric (not "Erio")
Easy, guy. It's getting so hot, you're starting to talk like the Tick. ;-]
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At 02:59 PM 7/14/97 -0400, Geoffrey Speare wrote:
>>>> Most have said that the guns need to be bought Affects Solid. But what
>>>> if this were an uncommon occurrance? If the desolid chraracter had
>>>> Affects Solid on her STR, and can normally punch/poke/grab/tickle
>>>> objects, but decides to pick up a gun and fire it?
>>
>> This being an unusual circumstance, I'd allow it as you describe. (If
>> the Desolid character wants to *own* the gun, however, that's a different
>> matter... well, you know what I mean.)
>
>Having had players who sought to abuse precisely this rules point, I would be
>a little more paranoid about what counted as "unusual circumstance" (for
>example, if disarming NPCs became a regular tactic; or my favorite, if the
>character wanted to start carrying knives). A lot of it depends on the player
>in question, too...
That's certainly an important point. In particular, if the character
wants to start carrying knives, then the character should pay for those
knives, with the Affects Solid Advantage.
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At 11:25 AM 7/15/97 PDT, Salmon,David wrote:
>Example based on 100 active point multipower with one -1/4 limitation
>
>So far everyone seems to agree on the base cost for the multipower, i.e.:
> Multipower base cost = 100 active with -1/4 lim = 80 real points
>
>The slot costs are disputed however .....
>Case 1:
>ultra slot with -1/2 limitation = active points in slot / 10 ie. 100
> / 10 = 10, then apply limitations of -1/4 & -1/2, therefore, cost of
> slot = 5.7 or 6 real points
>
>Case 2:
>ultra slot with -1/2 limitation = real cost of base multipower / 10
> i.e. 80 / 10 = 8, then apply limitation of -1/2 , therefore cost of
> slot = 5.3 or 5 real points
>
>Okay who is correct????
Almost certainly, Case 1 is correct. If nothing else, it's how it's done
everywhere I can find in the published samples.
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In case anyone cares: a new scenario, "Invasion of the Gweenies," has
been added to Bob's Original Hero Stuff Page.
Warning: It's just what you'd expect from a Gweenie invasion.
The URL for Bob's Original Hero Stuff Page is:
http://www.klock.com/public/users/bobg/original.htm
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From: Earl Kwallek <earl@thewarren.mil.wi.us>
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At 11:25 AM 7/15/97 PDT, Salmon,David wrote:
>Okay guys,
>I started this thread about correctly calculating the cost of a
> multipower slot and so far I have gotten "definitive" answers for two
> different ways to calculate the costs involved. Who is right??? The
> example in the book gives the result numbers but not the way they were
> calculated.
>
>Example based on 100 active point multipower with one -1/4 limitation
>So far everyone seems to agree on the base cost for the multipower, i.e.:
> Multipower base cost = 100 active with -1/4 lim = 80 real points
>
>The slot costs are disputed however .....
>Case 1:
>ultra slot with -1/2 limitation = active points in slot / 10 ie. 100
> / 10 = 10, then apply limitations of -1/4 & -1/2, therefore, cost of
> slot = 5.7 or 6 real points
>
>Case 2:
>ultra slot with -1/2 limitation = real cost of base multipower / 10
> i.e. 80 / 10 = 8, then apply limitation of -1/2 , therefore cost of
> slot = 5.3 or 5 real points
>
>Okay who is correct???? If I have 5 slots in my multipower, it is
> either going to cost me 5 more points or save me five points depending
> on how you do it. Anyone from Hero Games out there care to take a stab
> at it ?????
>
I personally believe case 1 to be correct.... a limitation that is
applied to EVERY slot in a multipower can be applied to the control cost
AND the slot costs, a limitation that applies only to a single slot is
applied only to that slot cost.
In the case of your example, the "slot cost" is 10 pts with a -1/4
limitation (say IIF), and a -1/2 limitation (say no range), for a total of
a -3/4 limitation on the 10 points (final cost = 6).
Incidentally I also plugged this into HEROMAKER (tm), and it agrees with
me...
not that HEROMAKER is a definitive authority or anything, but the makers
generally new what they were about....
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F> You can create a character whose mental powers are more effective at no
F> range, but that is not an effect of standard mental powers. Thus, it
F> would only apply to your character.
"No Range" does not affect the targeting of a power, nor does it in any way
affect how that power functions aside from placing a maximum range
restriction upon it. It does not affect how standard or mental powers
"work" in any other fashion.
There is no advantage for using a mental power with a non-targeting sense.
Limitations are, on general principle, incapable of allowing a power to do
something it cannot normally do. Therefore I have to say that your
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mental attacks as the default case. If you want something different for
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From: "\"qts\" <qts@nildram.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 97 21:45:43
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:54:55 +0000, Filksinger wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:02:12 -0700 (PDT), Bob Greenwade wrote:
>>
>> >At 01:46 AM 7/12/97 GMT, Opal wrote:
>> >>It's only an interpretation on my part, but since Mental powers are
>> >>L-O-S, I tend to think they only work with Targeting senses.
>> >
>> > I tend to go with you on this, Opal. Does anyone on the list have a
>> >strong argument to the contrary?
>>
>> LOS is not the same as 'only work with Targeting senses'
>>
>> eg smelling someone upwind - round a canyon wall.
>
>Yes, but since Mental Powers work LOS, and the rules only state that
>sight or Mind Scan can be used (nothing about other senses in 4th
>Ed.), I would assume that means you can only hit someone you can see.
>If anything, that argument is _against_ using other senses besides
>sight and Mind Scan entirely, not an argument for using all senses.
I agree - I'm just drawing the distinction.
>I think that allowing targeting senses is the best answer, especially
>since that used to be the official answer, and the only things that
>reference it in the BBB state that sight is the sense, period.
Except in cases like the one I've outlined, yes. Basically I'm saying
that a GM should pay attention.
qts
From: "Larian" <vmsmith@execpc.com>
Subject: Re: GenCon??
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:36:40 -0500
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> At 12:54 AM 7/15/97 -0500, Todd Hanson wrote:
> >Is anybody from the list going to be going to GenCon?
> >
> >Anybody going to be running any games while they're there?
> >
> >Looks like I'm going to be going if anyone wants to try and meet up or
> >anything...
I live it Racine Wisconsin and will be there for at least one or two days,
but not all four. would like to meet others from the group.
write me back and we can arrange somthing.
LATER:)
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In a message dated 97-07-15 13:39:52 EDT, jprins@interhop.net (John and Ron
Prins) writes:
<< HKA, Trigger: Turns Off If Used Vs. Good/Innocents (+1/4), with
Detect Good/Innocence, Sense, Linked to HKA (-1/2) [you need the detect for
the trigger]. >>
Okay, but who decides who is good/innocent? This kind of limitation would
probably end up in more OOC arguments then it's worth...
Jason
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 17:11:43 -0700
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Legionair@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-07-15 13:39:52 EDT, jprins@interhop.net (John
> and Ron
> Prins) writes:
>
> << HKA, Trigger: Turns Off If Used Vs. Good/Innocents (+1/4), with
> Detect Good/Innocence, Sense, Linked to HKA (-1/2) [you need the
> detect for
> the trigger]. >>
>
> Okay, but who decides who is good/innocent? This kind of limitation
> would
> probably end up in more OOC arguments then it's worth...
It's a roleplaying challenge. It might depend on the character's
beliefs. If it's an intelligent sword, on the sword's belief. If it has
a very limited definition of good/innocent then it might be a disad.
Especially if the belief doesn't match the character's own.
-Mark
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:47:59 -0500
From: Todd Hanson <badtodd@dacmail.net>
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DocTough@aol.com wrote:
>
> Doc sez...
>
> I also plan to attend this year and would be interested in meeting up
> with any others from the 'list. I'll likely lurk around the GRG and Hero
> games booths, but will also attempt to participate in whatever HSR/C4 games
> available.
>
> With this year's Con having the All night gaming room it might be fun to
> meet for a game or even talk in person about the topics from this 'List.
An all night gaming room?
hmmm... anybody interested in getting together a game or two with the
other online geeks? (heh, like us online geeks will stand out amongst
all the gaming geeks at the convention)
Todd - a geek in every sense of the word ;)
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 02:49:47 +0000
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> Can you give sources for the ones you're talking about so I can
> show
> examples in print?
In the examples I was thinking of, it was almost always poison. If
you know of other examples, then (since it was never an official
rule), I'd say go with it.
BTW, killing attack NNDs can usually be simulated with a BODY drain,
with appropriate extended time and appropriate limits.
Filksinger
"Keeping in mind that the notes we sing are never, ever, wrong!"
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><< HKA, Trigger: Turns Off If Used Vs. Good/Innocents (+1/4), with
> Detect Good/Innocence, Sense, Linked to HKA (-1/2) [you need the detect for
> the trigger]. >>
>
>Okay, but who decides who is good/innocent? This kind of limitation would
>probably end up in more OOC arguments then it's worth...
The game master, of course. It all depends, I guess. Somebody like the
Harbinger of Bullets would probably be lying there after a hit, spurting
blood everywhere. While someone like Lady Blue would be going "Huh? Not a
scratch?"
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From: DocTough@aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 23:20:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Multipower cost - who's right ???
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Doc sez...
Costs are based on the ACTIVE POINTS of the powers, not the REAL.
If a MP has a Global Lim worth -1/4L and has 100 Pts available the
initial cost is 80 CPs. Every slot in the MP is affected by the -1/4L and
as such is allowed the point reduction for the Lim.
The Ultra Slot with the additional -1/2L that can use the entire 100
pool points would cost 10 (100/10) divided by 1.75L or about 6 CPs.
In other words, the application of the Lims occurs AFTER the reduction
for the type of slot (Multi or Ultra). However, the application of
Advantages occurs BEFORE the slot reduction as they are used to calculate the
Active point cost of the slot.
Hope this clears things up.
Doc Tough
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In a message dated 97-07-15 08:13:01 EDT, you write:
<< They are stated as being +2, in all official sources in which they
exist. However, if the defense was common enough, they could be
bought down to effectively +1, like this:
>>
What about European Enemies, where there are 3 or 4 characters with NND
Killing attacks, all bought as +1? I'm not trying to be difficult here, it's
just that it's come up in a game I run. I tried to find examples in print,
and every +2 was for an NND that didn't have enough defenses, or common
enough defenses. When they had the regular defenses, like EE, it was +1.
Can you give sources for the ones you're talking about so I can show
examples in print?
Thanx,
'Lynx
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In a message dated 97-07-15 23:10:52 EDT, icepirat@ix.netcom.com (Mark
Lemming) writes:
<< It's a roleplaying challenge. It might depend on the character's
beliefs. If it's an intelligent sword, on the sword's belief. If it has
a very limited definition of good/innocent then it might be a disad.
Especially if the belief doesn't match the character's own. >>
This type of limitation is just way to conditional for my taste. If the
player gets to decide, then the limitation is worth nothing. If the GM
decides, then what criteria would he use? Codes vs. Killing? Psychological
disadvantages?
You'll certainly run into the usual questions... J.J.J. might think
Spiderman is a "bad guy" so does the sword work on Spidey if J is swinging
it? On the other hand, Batman was viewed as a bad guy on and off for years,
so does the sword work on him?
Jason
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At 06:36 16/07/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-07-15 23:10:52 EDT, icepirat@ix.netcom.com (Mark
>This type of limitation is just way to conditional for my taste. If the
>player gets to decide, then the limitation is worth nothing. If the GM
>decides, then what criteria would he use? Codes vs. Killing? Psychological
>disadvantages?
An evil priest in a FH game I was in had a similar power: he could
give anyone whos is not pure of heart a heart attack/seizure. The game
mechanics of the pure of heart was that anyone with a total psychlim was
unaffected by the power, antony with a strong psychlim was usually only half
affected, and anyone with no/casual psychlim was toast.
>Jason
Travis
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>
> Todd - a geek in every sense of the word ;)
>
You bite the heads off of chickens???
-Eric
(sorry, I couldn't resist...)
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> << It's a roleplaying challenge. It might depend on the character's
> beliefs. If it's an intelligent sword, on the sword's belief. If it has
> a very limited definition of good/innocent then it might be a disad.
> Especially if the belief doesn't match the character's own. >>
>
> This type of limitation is just way to conditional for my taste. If the
> player gets to decide, then the limitation is worth nothing. If the GM
> decides, then what criteria would he use? Codes vs. Killing? Psychological
> disadvantages?
>
Well let's just, for the sword's purposes, define "good guy" as CvK >= 5.
It would be concetely defined in game terms when the player buys the
power.
>
> Jason
>
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At 06:36 AM 7/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-07-15 23:10:52 EDT, icepirat@ix.netcom.com (Mark
>Lemming) writes:
>
><< It's a roleplaying challenge. It might depend on the character's
> beliefs. If it's an intelligent sword, on the sword's belief. If it has
> a very limited definition of good/innocent then it might be a disad.
> Especially if the belief doesn't match the character's own. >>
>
>This type of limitation is just way to conditional for my taste. If the
>player gets to decide, then the limitation is worth nothing. If the GM
>decides, then what criteria would he use? Codes vs. Killing? Psychological
>disadvantages?
>
>You'll certainly run into the usual questions... J.J.J. might think
>Spiderman is a "bad guy" so does the sword work on Spidey if J is swinging
>it? On the other hand, Batman was viewed as a bad guy on and off for years,
>so does the sword work on him?
>
We could just make sure everyone defines their characters as Lawful Good,
Chaotic Neutral, etc....
(G,D,&R!)
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>
> Well let's just, for the sword's purposes, define "good guy" as CvK
> >= 5. It would be concetely defined in game terms when the player
> buys the power.
>
In my superhero campaigns, I usually follow the suggestion from
Champions that there is a built-in "reluctance to kill" disadvantage,
which you get free.
Thus, many of my heroes, some who have never killed, don't like to
kill, avoid killing, but would use a gun in a gun fight if they had
no other options, would be killed by your sword.
Filksinger
"Keeping in mind that the notes we sing are never, ever, wrong!"
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 12:50:52 -0700
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Firelynx16@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-07-15 08:13:01 EDT, you write:
>
> << They are stated as being +2, in all official sources in which they
> exist. However, if the defense was common enough, they could be
> bought down to effectively +1, like this:
> >>
>
> What about European Enemies, where there are 3 or 4 characters with
> NND
> Killing attacks, all bought as +1? I'm not trying to be difficult
> here, it's
> just that it's come up in a game I run. I tried to find examples in
> print,
> and every +2 was for an NND that didn't have enough defenses, or
> common
> enough defenses. When they had the regular defenses, like EE, it was
> +1.
> Can you give sources for the ones you're talking about so I can show
> examples in print?
European Enemies was very badly done in terms of editing. Nothing in it
should be taken at face value. They let a +1 stun mod apply on a normal
attack after all. I believe the official word is that there is an
additional +1 advantage to do body for those attacks that normally do
not. This is also for Ego attacks as well as NNDs. I thought this was
in the BBB. Page numbers anyone?
-Mark
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:33:53 -0400 (EDT)
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Ladies and Gentlemen I feel I most post about one of the most important
comic events to come down the pike in a *long* time.
Specifically the return of Matt Wagner's fantastic Authurian epic "Mage"
to the shelves.
Mage II (or more specifically Mage: The Hero Defined) looks to occur
several years after the events in the first series. Kevin is older, with
a receding hairline, but he still wears his trademark shirtand has his
beard back.
Mirth (aka Myrddin Auerelius Ambrosius ana Merlin) is gone, replaced by a
young black man by the name of Joe. Joe is an unusual character, he wears
glasses and dreadlocks, and seems to be able to literaly snif out evil.
He also seems to be able to run *very* fast.
Kevin talks about other people fighting evil like he does, it seems that
in Mage II Kevin isn't the only hero...
The nature of the mythos is still in doubt. We see a classic
English/Scandinavian troll (he hides under a bridge), but we also run into
harpies. And what do we make of the man seen at the end of issue 1, the
one with a cat's head tattoo and a cat's head logo on the back of his
jacket?
Personally I can't wait for issue 2.
BTW: Mage t-shirts are avalaible once again! Black with a white
lightining bolt down the center. Since the last of my three in that
design died *years* ago, I can't place my order fast enough.
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Surbrook <susano@access.digex.net>
cc: Women in Gaming Mailing List <wig@list.pitt.edu>
Subject: Game Review: Legend ofthe Five Rings
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I just picked up the RPG "Legend of the Five Rings" based on the CCG of
the same name. Now, I never played the CCG so I can't comment on that
acspect, so I'll stick with the RPG itself.
1) It's a pretty slick product - hardbound book, 250 pages, color plates,
color map, *nice* artwork, floorplans the works. My only complaint isthe
few pasteup errors which are amazingly glaring. One whole page is
duplicated in two places (wiping out the suggested reading list in doing
so), while several side bars are repeated as well (or not on listed page
numbers). OTOH - the spelling errors seem to be virtually nil. Of
course, one pays for such niceness, the book's $30.00 may be a bit steep
for many.
2) Nice universe - the writer does a pretty cool (actually a great) job of
presenting a mythical Japanese inspired universe. There are nice sections
detailing the origin of the game universe, the nature of gods and spirits,
magic, social standing, psychology of the natives and so on. I found a
lot of it to be close enough to actual Japanese mentalities to adapt what
I read to 1542 Sengoku game I'm in. Anyone considering playing in/
running any sort of Oriental mythos based game should try and pick this
book up, it will be a big help.
3) Nice source material - although they don't go into a great amount of
detail about certain items (like armor or martial arts), ther is more than
enough information on society, the make up of towns, house and castle
plans, arms, magic and what not for almost anyone to be able to set up a
similarly themed game using any sort of game mechanics.
4) Interesting magic system - L5R uses a magic system based on four
elements (water, fire, earth, air). This is contrary to the actual
Oriental listing of the elements (earth, metal, water, wood, fire), but
works well enough for the game (I guess). There is some nice stuff about
how sorcerers all have to use scrolls to cast spells and such.
Translating the magic system (and even the spells) into a Hero system
format looks to be pretty easy.
5) Cool monsters and magic items - the sourcebook (which I hope gets an
expansion soon)_ has an interesting collection of enchanted weapons and
oriental creatures. Possibly the best poart is the seection on Japanese
ghosts (aka yurei) which are bizzare enough to give probably any jaded
Fantasy Hero fan pause.
To sum up, I'd have to recommend this book. If you're interested in the
setting, and want something different for your next Fantasy Hero campaign,
try and spend the 30 bucks on Legend of the Five Rings, it's worth the
price.
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:57:08 -0700
From: Samuel.Bell@Eng.Sun.COM (Sam Bell)
Subject: Re: NND Killing (was Desolid guns...)
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-> From icepirat@ix.netcom.com Wed Jul 16 13:51:19 1997
->
-> I believe the official word is that there is an
-> additional +1 advantage to do body for those attacks that normally do
-> not. This is also for Ego attacks as well as NNDs. I thought this was
-> in the BBB. Page numbers anyone?
The 'Gadgets' book listed 'Does Body' as a +1 advantage for NND and AVLDs.
(I can't remember if they mention Ego and Flash attacks).
-Sam
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At 02:40 PM 7/16/97 -0700, Bob Greenwade wrote:
> The Ultimate Mentalist holds with this assessment, giving a +1 Advantage
> for Ego Attacks and BOECV attacks that do BODY damage. (And I tend to
> agree with it as well.)
While I agree with the extra +1 Advantage "Does BODY", I have to say that if
such a thing weren't found elsewhere, finding it in the Ultimate Mentalist
would be an argument AGAINST it. :/
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At 01:57 PM 7/16/97 -0700, Sam Bell wrote:
>
>-> From icepirat@ix.netcom.com Wed Jul 16 13:51:19 1997
>->
>-> I believe the official word is that there is an
>-> additional +1 advantage to do body for those attacks that normally do
>-> not. This is also for Ego attacks as well as NNDs. I thought this was
>-> in the BBB. Page numbers anyone?
>
>The 'Gadgets' book listed 'Does Body' as a +1 advantage for NND and AVLDs.
>(I can't remember if they mention Ego and Flash attacks).
The Ultimate Mentalist holds with this assessment, giving a +1 Advantage
for Ego Attacks and BOECV attacks that do BODY damage. (And I tend to agree
with it as well.)
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I'm really getting scared about the coming Millennium.
With the sale of TSR to WotC, and now the appearance of Mage II, I'm left
wondering what the other Five Signs of the Apocalypse are!
Richard
PS: It really is a great comic...and if you can pick up the original series,
grab it. The whole thing was re-issued in TPB format, which you might be able to
still find at your local comic store (if you ask nicely).
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Subject: MAGE!
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Date: 7/16/97 4:33 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen I feel I most post about one of the most important
comic events to come down the pike in a *long* time.
Specifically the return of Matt Wagner's fantastic Authurian epic "Mage"
to the shelves.
Mage II (or more specifically Mage: The Hero Defined) looks to occur
several years after the events in the first series. Kevin is older, with
a receding hairline, but he still wears his trademark shirtand has his
beard back.
Mirth (aka Myrddin Auerelius Ambrosius ana Merlin) is gone, replaced by a
young black man by the name of Joe. Joe is an unusual character, he wears
glasses and dreadlocks, and seems to be able to literally sniff out evil.
He also seems to be able to run *very* fast.
Kevin talks about other people fighting evil like he does, it seems that
in Mage II Kevin isn't the only hero...
The nature of the mythos is still in doubt. We see a classic
English/Scandinavian troll (he hides under a bridge), but we also run into
harpies. And what do we make of the man seen at the end of issue 1, the
one with a cat's head tattoo and a cat's head logo on the back of his
jacket?
Personally I can't wait for issue 2.
BTW: Mage T-shirts are available once again! Black with a white
lightning bolt down the center. Since the last of my three in that
design died *years* ago, I can't place my order fast enough.
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Subject: New limit:resisted normally?
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How much would the limitation 'Resisted by Normal Defenses' be worth? This
would apply to power which normally require power defense, mental defense,
flash defense, etc. I'm tihnking -1/2 to -1.
From: Eric Burns <burns@cug.dorm.usm.maine.edu>
Subject: Signs of the Apocalypse! (was: Mage)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 20:19:49 -0400 (EDT)
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> I'm really getting scared about the coming Millennium.
>
> With the sale of TSR to WotC, and now the appearance of Mage II, I'm left
> wondering what the other Five Signs of the Apocalypse are!
>
> Richard
>
Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
-----------------------------
>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
>2. The appearance of Mage II
3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
Does anyone know what the others are?
-Eric
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At 08:19 PM 7/16/97 -0400, Eric Burns wrote:
>Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
>-----------------------------
>>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
>
>>2. The appearance of Mage II
>
>3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
>
>
>Does anyone know what the others are?
Hero Games publishes a 5th Edition?
A supplement for SenZar that's enjoyable to read?
Vox and Rat actually agree in a rules argument?
A *successful* science fiction game from TSR?
L. Ron Hubbard stops publishing posthumous books?
A game is published that lives up to its own back-cover blurb?
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From: rambler@sowest.net (Eric Chaves)
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>> I'm really getting scared about the coming Millennium.
>>
>> With the sale of TSR to WotC, and now the appearance of Mage II, I'm left
>> wondering what the other Five Signs of the Apocalypse are!
>>
>> Richard
>>
>
>Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
>-----------------------------
>
>>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
>
>>2. The appearance of Mage II
>
>3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
>
>
>Does anyone know what the others are?
>
>-Eric
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:57:18 -0700
From: Nic Neidenbach <naneiden@iswest.com>
Subject: Mage: The Hero Defined
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Mage II has Kevin Matchstick, obviously. I learned a few extra things about
this second season by reading the comic book catalog Previews.
His first companion, Joe Phat, is refered to as "Cyote" in Previews, and
while he can 'sniff' evil, he's not the second mage.
His other companion, the one who appears with the cat head on his jacket on
the last page of issue 1 is refered to as "Kirby Hero" in Previews.
-Nic
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At 05:05 PM 7/16/97 -0700, Lizard wrote:
>How much would the limitation 'Resisted by Normal Defenses' be worth? This
>would apply to power which normally require power defense, mental defense,
>flash defense, etc. I'm tihnking -1/2 to -1.
>
If this helps, here's my house rules for the ALD Advantage:
Against Limited Defense: makes an attack go against some defense other than
its usual defense. To find the value for this modifier, use the chart below.
First find the attack's usual defense, and then compare it with the new
defense. For every 1 down the chart you move, it is a +1/2 Advantage, and
for every 1 up the chart it is a -1/4 Limitation.
- Normal PD/ED + Power Defense + Lack of Weakness *
- Normal PD/ED *
- Resistant PD/ED *, Mental Defense + Resistance, or natural defense (no
foci,FF,etc.).
- Focused DEF, Mental Defense
- Flash Defense[sight], Power Defense, Force Field
- Amount by which a Primary Stat is over 15
- Flash Defense[hear], Hardened normal PD or ED
- Lack of Weakness, Hardened resistant PD or ED
- Flash Defense[other], Resistance
- Hardened Mental Defense, Flash Defense, Power Defense, Force Field
Example: An Energy Blast(Normal PD/ED) that goes against Power Defense is
a +1.5 Adv. (3 down the chart). A sight-based Flash that goes against
resistant PD gets a -1/2 Limit.
If there is no change on the chart, for example a sight-based Flash that
goes against Power Defense, it is a +1/4 Advantage.
ALD attacks do not normally do BODY. However, if the final defense is
marked with an asterisk(*) above, then the attack does do BODY, assuming it
normally does.
Therefore, IMC, Flash and Power attacks working against normal defenses is
a -3/4 Limit, and for Mental Powers it's a -1/2 Limit. Oh, and IMC,
everyone gets Mental Defense of EGO/5, which is why it's higher on the
chart than Power Defense and Flash Defense.
Hope this helps. Comments from anyone on the list are welcome (I know
house rules aren't discussed much, but you never know)
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At 12:50 PM 7/16/97 -0700, Mark Lemming wrote:
>European Enemies was very badly done in terms of editing. Nothing in it
>should be taken at face value. They let a +1 stun mod apply on a normal
>attack after all.
That bugged me too, until I decided that you could put a extra Stun
Multiple on normal attacks. +1 Stun Multiple on a Killing Attack increases
the total Stun damage by an amount equal to the BODY rolled... there's no
reason you couldn't do that with a normal attack as well. For example, a
6D6 EB with a +1 SM rolls 22 Stun and 7 BOD. The +1 SM makes the total
STUN equal 22+7=29 STUN.
True, there isn't much point to it. It would probably be easier just to
define some of the D6 as Stun Only. But it's nice when an advantage can
apply to as many powers as possible.
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:18:34 +0000
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> A game is published that lives up to its own back-cover blurb?
Paranoia did.<G>
> Vox 25:17, Patron Saint of Gadflies
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science fiction conventions.
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Subject: Re: Signs of the Apocalypse! (was: Mage)
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Started by others...
>Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
>-----------------------------
>
>>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
>
>>2. The appearance of Mage II
>
>3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
4. A major rpg producer, with a loyal following, abandons them when they
completely rewrite their game system, saying "The setting sells...".
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A few words on the L5R RPG;
Legend of the Five Rings is based up the ideas behind The Book of Five
Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. The path of enlightenment via the blade created
by the famous ronin samurai.
The Five Rings include The Ring of Earth, The Ring of Water, The Ring of
Fire, the Ring of Air and the Ring of Void (Emptiness) thus, the magic of
L5R RPG is based on Earth, Air, Fire and Water rather than the traditional
Chinese elements.
-Nic
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BB> Ultimate Mentalist would be an argument AGAINST it. :/
Agreed... except that it exists in other places... sort of. "Gadgets!"
has, IIRC, a +1 that Does Body for AVLD, not NND. Fantasy Hero and one
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From: Eric Burns <burns@cug.dorm.usm.maine.edu>
Subject: Re: Signs of the Apocalypse! (was: Mage)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:59:40 -0400 (EDT)
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> 4. A major rpg producer, with a loyal following, abandons them when they
> completely rewrite their game system, saying "The setting sells...".
>
I think that's a bit unfair, Hero is still making Hero4 BBB's and
supliments after all. And until Fuzion gets a _much_ better power
system (advantages & disadvantages) it will never catch on the way Hero4
has, thereby gauranteeing that hero4 sticks around (knock on wood).
Actually, I think Fuzion might increase hero4's popularity (I bought
hero4 after I read the free fuzion pdf document, and since I liked the
hero4 rules much better, I've never even bothered to buy Fuzion).
-Eric
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:21:57 -0400 (EDT)
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>Date: 07/11/1997 14:09
>From: BeerCarboy <BeerCarboy@aol.com>
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>Subject: Re: Looooooooong Arm of the Law & Speedster Tricks
>
>>In the Golden Age comics it was quite common to see Flash or Johnny Quick
>>vibrate through walls. Would this be a good use of indirect on running for a
>
>>speedster???
>
>
>NIMCs, it is desolid with the special effect of vibrating one's molecules so
>fast that the solid parts pass through the vast empty parts of the molecules
>of other substances around you. Probably effected by any attack based on
>vibration as a special effect . . .
>
>
>
>
>Carter Humphrey
>
It gets a little trickier (and of course a little costlier) when you bring
that special effect into the current Flash comic. Anything Wally vibrates through
explodes. He isn't hurt by the damage, of course, since he's desolid. But try going
desolid to get through a mob of people around a crime scene and you got carnage!
This special effect only becomes remotely affordable (figuring the +2
advantage "affects solids" and the +1/2 advantage "explosion") if you use h-t-h
attack, at a normal cost of 3 points per die of damage. Of course, with the above
advantages its pumped up to 10 1/2 points per die, and a blast of any size will add up
quickly. Which is okay because in the comic the blast is usually pretty localized.
-Zephyr
From: Don McKinney <dmckinne@csci.csc.com>
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:56:47 CDT
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> > 4. A major rpg producer, with a loyal following, abandons them when they
> > completely rewrite their game system, saying "The setting sells...".
Besides, this already happened - GDW largely dumped its existing following
for Traveller in 1991 when they released Traveller: The Next Era, which
had a computer virus destroy the previous game setting...
PS - it didn't sell; T4 (Traveller as re-released in 1996 after GDW's
demise) turned BACK the clock 1200 years in their setting rather than
deal with the TNE changes.
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:07:43 -0700
From: mtelford@vancouver.net (Michael Telford)
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David A. Fair wrote:
>
> Started by others...
>
> >Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
> >-----------------------------
> >
> >>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
> >
> >>2. The appearance of Mage II
> >
> >3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
What might that be?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:18:32 -0700
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Michael Surbrook wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Nic Neidenbach wrote:
>
> > Mage II has Kevin Matchstick, obviously. I learned a few extra
> things about
> > this second season by reading the comic book catalog Previews.
> >
> > His first companion, Joe Phat, is refered to as "Cyote" in Previews,
> and
> > while he can 'sniff' evil, he's not the second mage.
>
> Hmmm... interesting. Kevin talk about meeting someone who fought
> monsters. And the letter page makes it sound like that there are
> numerous
> people wth unusual powers out there.
>
> > His other companion, the one who appears with the cat head on his
> jacket on
> > the last page of issue 1 is refered to as "Kirby Hero" in Previews.
>
> 'Kirby Hero'?
Now that would be the supplement to buy! Much better than the current
Image Hero...
-Mark "Currently being part of a sleep deprivation experiment by PG&E"
Lemming
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:43:47 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Filksinger wrote:
>
> > A game is published that lives up to its own back-cover blurb?
>
> Paranoia did.<G>
I'll second that.
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:59:20 -0400
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herolist wrote:
>
> From: ludator@softfarm.com (Bryan Berggren)
> Subject: Re: Signs of the Apocalypse! (was: Mage)
> To: champ-l@omg.org
>
> At 08:19 PM 7/16/97 -0400, Eric Burns wrote:
> >Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
> >-----------------------------
> >>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
> >
> >>2. The appearance of Mage II
> >
> >3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
> >
> >
> >Does anyone know what the others are?
>
> Hero Games publishes a 5th Edition?
Won't happen. Change it to Fuzion becomes an enjoyable and playable system.
> A *successful* science fiction game from TSR?
TSR who?
Change it do D+D once again becomes an enjoyable and playable system.
BTW, TSR does have a new SF game coming out supposedly. Don't know many
details but looks like a more mystical Traveller. B5 clone maybe?
> L. Ron Hubbard stops publishing posthumous books?
Inevitable.
> A game is published that lives up to its own back-cover blurb?
Done. Feng Shui, Castle Falkenstein. Both are what they claim.
Whether they are good is another story. (I vote yes.)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:18:40 -0400 (EDT)
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At 11:07 AM 7/17/97 -0700, Michael Telford wrote:
>David A. Fair wrote:
>>
>> Started by others...
>>
>> >Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
>> >-----------------------------
>> >
>> >>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
>> >
>> >>2. The appearance of Mage II
>> >
>> >3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
>
> What might that be?
>
>
They did do the Streetfighter game. :)
What sick person put an "S" in lisp?
From: Eric Burns <burns@cug.dorm.usm.maine.edu>
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> > >3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
>
> What might that be?
>
For a while now WW has had an "upbeat science fiction" rpg in the early
planning stages. It has not, to my knowledge, been released as of yet,
but it has been "on the way" for a couple of years now.
-Eric *****
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Date: 17 Jul 97 20:03:48 GMT
Subject: New limit:resisted normally?
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h> How much would the limitation 'Resisted by Normal
h> Defenses' be worth? This
h> would apply to power which normally require power
h> defense, mental defense,
h> flash defense, etc. I'm tihnking -1/2 to -1.
In earlier versions of Champions this was a -1 1/2 limitation (the
opposite of AVLD, presumably). In 4th Ed, *some* limitations are
half the value of the corresponding advantage. For instance,
'Continuous' is a +1 advantage, but Instant is a -1/2 limitation.
So, -3/4, might be a reasonable level.
BTW, the 3rd ed -1 1/2 level was for Transforms that worked against
Resistant PD or ED - and attack that worked against normal defenses,\
might have rated an even higher limitation. I think this was mainly\
the product of having an explicit derivation of Transform from KA -
math was popular with the Hero crowd back then. :)
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From: Earl Kwallek <earl@thewarren.mil.wi.us>
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At 08:19 PM 7/16/97 -0400, Eric Burns wrote:
>Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
>-----------------------------
>
>>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
>
>>2. The appearance of Mage II
>
>3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
OKAY! We is safe, cause this will never happen!
(Unless someone thinks "streetfighter" was optimistic)
>
>
>Does anyone know what the others are?
Hero games does a REAL "Champions 5th edition"
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:51:07 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Earl Kwallek wrote:
> >Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
> >-----------------------------
> >
> >>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
> >
> >>2. The appearance of Mage II
> >
> >3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
>
> OKAY! We is safe, cause this will never happen!
> (Unless someone thinks "streetfighter" was optimistic)
Well, no, but Streetfighter was *way* more tounge-in-cheek than any of
that Vampire junk WW puts out.
> >Does anyone know what the others are?
>
> Hero games does a REAL "Champions 5th edition"
Man, I'd be willing to risk the end of the universe for *that*!
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 97 22:29:11
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On Thu, 17 Jul 97 07:47:07 -0400, David A. Fair wrote:
>Started by others...
>
>>Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
>>-----------------------------
>4. A major rpg producer, with a loyal following, abandons them when they
>completely rewrite their game system, saying "The setting sells...".
Hero, GDW (RIP), TSR (RIP)...
OTOH some of the settings out there are *wonderful* - I cite Krynn and
Glorantha.
Anyone done a Gloranthan Hero? I've doodled bits, but...
qts
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At 10:40 PM 7/16/97 -0700, Eric Chaves wrote:
>4. NT 97 works flawlessly, Bill Gates makes even more of a shit load of
>money, becomes president, and nukes Cupritino.
Well, actually, all but the first clause are pretty durn likely, and aren't
really *dependent* on the first clause. :]
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:57:33 -0500
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At 10:07 AM 7/17/97 +0000, Michael Gillespie wrote:
>That bugged me too, until I decided that you could put a extra Stun
>Multiple on normal attacks. +1 Stun Multiple on a Killing Attack increases
>the total Stun damage by an amount equal to the BODY rolled... there's no
>reason you couldn't do that with a normal attack as well. For example, a
>6D6 EB with a +1 SM rolls 22 Stun and 7 BOD. The +1 SM makes the total
>STUN equal 22+7=29 STUN.
>
>True, there isn't much point to it. It would probably be easier just to
>define some of the D6 as Stun Only. But it's nice when an advantage can
>apply to as many powers as possible.
Well, nice of you to "decide" such, but the fact remains that such a
construction is explicitly illegal. Says so right in the book: "Increased
STUN Multiplier has no effect on attacks other than Killing Attacks."
In this case, I'm fairly certain that the ISM+EB construction wasn't the
author attempting to create an "interesting" use of the rules, but rather an
author who just didn't know any better.
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At 12:59 PM 7/17/97 -0400, Eric Burns wrote:
>> 4. A major rpg producer, with a loyal following, abandons them when they
>> completely rewrite their game system, saying "The setting sells...".
>
>I think that's a bit unfair,
You're right -- it was completely unfair that they rewrote the system etc.
(he says, tongue firmly in cheek).
> Hero is still making Hero4 BBB's and supliments after all.
True, although IIRC, it's more accurate to say that Gold Rush Games is still
making BBB's and supplements, while Hero recycles them into floppies with an
indigestible format (I know, everybody loves the eye candy Acrobat can do,
but I think I can lose some art pieces for the ability to print faster than
one page every 5 minutes).
And I can't help feeling wierd when a friend tells me the floppy version of
Classic Enemies is going to cost more than the real book did.
> And until Fuzion gets a _much_ better power system (advantages &
> disadvantages) it will never catch on the way Hero4 has, thereby
> gauranteeing that hero4 sticks around (knock on wood).
Um, so now it's a credit to Hero Games that HERO will exist in spite, not
because, of them now? :/
>Actually, I think Fuzion might increase hero4's popularity (I bought
>hero4 after I read the free fuzion pdf document, and since I liked the
>hero4 rules much better, I've never even bothered to buy Fuzion).
Lemme get this straight -- you're a new player who prefers HERO to Fuzion?
But new players are supposed to wallow in Fuzion's simpler rules and spit on
HERO's massive complexities! ;]
* * * * *
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Okay, apologies if I tossed a bit too much vitriol above. I just recently
read an advert for the next C:TNM supplement in Pyramid that made me
physically nauseous is all. The world did not need a bad girl Solitaire.
Fuzion may not suck, but its ad copy writers sure do. :/
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Earl Kwallek wrote:
> >3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
>
> OKAY! We is safe, cause this will never happen!
> (Unless someone thinks "streetfighter" was optimistic)
The new science fiction game is called Aeon. And it definately fits the
description of being upbeat.
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At 08:19 PM 7/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
>-----------------------------
>
>>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
>
>>2. The appearance of Mage II
>
>3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
>
4. Rolemaster is voted 'best beginners game'
5. Mighty morphin rpg sells 1,000,000 copies.
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@topaz.cqu.edu.au@omg.org wrote:
> At 08:19 PM 7/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >
> >Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
> >-----------------------------
> >
> >>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
> >
> >>2. The appearance of Mage II
> >
> >3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
> >
> 4. Rolemaster is voted 'best beginners game'
>
> 5. Mighty morphin rpg sells 1,000,000 copies.
The last one is truly apocalyptic
6. Seeker is put on a Champions cover where he is kicking some major
butt.
7. The 30 rubber monsters will finally finish off Japan / or a case of
world peace will break out. (world peace is always going to break out
right before the apocalypse.)
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> >Actually, I think Fuzion might increase hero4's popularity (I bought
> >hero4 after I read the free fuzion pdf document, and since I liked the
> >hero4 rules much better, I've never even bothered to buy Fuzion).
>
> Lemme get this straight -- you're a new player who prefers HERO to Fuzion?
> But new players are supposed to wallow in Fuzion's simpler rules and spit on
> HERO's massive complexities! ;]
>
Yeah, well, I'm a computer science major, we're funny that way ;-)
> Okay, apologies if I tossed a bit too much vitriol above. I just recently
> read an advert for the next C:TNM supplement in Pyramid that made me
> physically nauseous is all. The world did not need a bad girl Solitaire.
>
You know, that's just WRONG. I can't help but be disgusted with some
of the modern age superhero genre mainstays. Particularly almost any-
thing having to do with Image (with a special exemption for Astro
City). Remember kids, superheroes and killing sprees don't mix! (are
you listening, Todd McFarlane?)
Golden Age -> Silver Age -> Tin Age -> Gunmetal Age
ugh.
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>> Okay, apologies if I tossed a bit too much vitriol above. I just
>recently
>> read an advert for the next C:TNM supplement in Pyramid that made me
>> physically nauseous is all. The world did not need a bad girl
>Solitaire.
Funny, from reading C:TNM, I didn't perceive a 'bad girl' Solitaire. I
read the ad, and was less than thrilled with it, but it does not reflect
the character write-up...
Having said that, I HATE the way they've twisted EVERYBODY's origin
around. Creating new characters with these new origins would have been
ok, that's how I'm actually using them in my game, but why throw out
everything???
David W Toomey
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Eric Burns wrote:
> You know, that's just WRONG. I can't help but be disgusted with some
> of the modern age superhero genre mainstays. Particularly almost any-
> thing having to do with Image (with a special exemption for Astro
> City). Remember kids, superheroes and killing sprees don't mix! (are
> you listening, Todd McFarlane?)
>
> Golden Age -> Silver Age -> Tin Age -> Gunmetal Age
>
> ugh.
HERE!HERE! Couldn't agree more. Image spelled the end of comics in
our lifetime! Sooner or later, the buying public is going to realise
that fluff doesn't last. If it did, Image wouldn't be recruiting titles
like Astro City, Strangers in Paradise, and other Story Driven Titles!
Why can't we return to a new age of champions!!!
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 09:31:13 -0700 (PDT)
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At 08:19 PM 7/16/97 -0400, Eric Burns wrote:
>Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
>-----------------------------
>
>>1. TSR gets sold to WotC
>
>>2. The appearance of Mage II
>
>3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
>
>
>Does anyone know what the others are?
How about, Stainless Steel Rat gives a rave review for an Ultimate book?
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> How about, Stainless Steel Rat gives a rave review for an Ultimate book?
Now wait a second, are you saying that "The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the
Blues"?
erm... sorry
-Eric
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At 10:38 AM 7/18/97 CDT, David W Toomey wrote:
>Funny, from reading C:TNM, I didn't perceive a 'bad girl' Solitaire. I
>read the ad, and was less than thrilled with it, but it does not reflect
>the character write-up...
That's okay -- since I don't own C:TNM or the new supplement, my complaint
was entirely with the ad (and whoever wrote it). Comparing this with the
infamous "blood-drenched spikey bits" ad on last GenCon's news flyer, I get
the feeling that the marketing department at R. Tal went up to a THREE drink
minimum. :/
>Having said that, I HATE the way they've twisted EVERYBODY's origin
>around. Creating new characters with these new origins would have been
>ok, that's how I'm actually using them in my game, but why throw out
>everything???
My guess is that they caught the same bug that Dan Jurgens did: "I think I
can out-Crisis George Perez".
You can't, don't try, you're only embarassing yourself. :]
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:33:47 -0400
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I have a question that may open the proverbial can of worms, but here goes.
I have in my possession copies of Champions I, II, II, IV, and C:TNM. I
also own Allies and Enemies: Assemble. I am on a very limited income and I
can't afford to buy new books without careful though. What I want to know
is what supplements you use, enjoy and would recommend. I have chosen to
stick with Champions IV as my base campaign. You may send answers to me
personally if you choose at absga@elbertonga.com.
The following is what I want to know:
Title, subject matter covered, what it has to offer a campaign and why you
enjoy it. this information will help me choose what supplements to buy.
Some that I am particularly interested in info on is the Ultimate Series,
Horror Hero, Dark Champions and anything else you might suggest.
I look forward to your answers.
Patrick B.
P.S. Does anyone have a copy of the Hero Bestiary that they would be willing
to part with. I have looked everywhere and cannot find one.
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At 10:29 PM 7/17/97, qts wrote:
>>4. A major rpg producer, with a loyal following, abandons them when they
>>completely rewrite their game system, saying "The setting sells...".
>
>Hero, GDW (RIP), TSR (RIP)...
1. When, precisely, did TSR completely rewrite their game system? That is,
are you referring to 2nd Ed. AD&D or SAGA?
2. More to the point -- since when was TSR RIP? Just because WotC bought
them out? That's like saying ABC went off the air when Disney bought
Capital Cities -- it just doesn't work like that.
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 18:40:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Surbrook <susano@access.digex.net>
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On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Eric Burns wrote:
> You know, that's just WRONG. I can't help but be disgusted with some
> of the modern age superhero genre mainstays. Particularly almost any-
> thing having to do with Image (with a special exemption for Astro
> City). Remember kids, superheroes and killing sprees don't mix! (are
> you listening, Todd McFarlane?)
I'd like to point out that Image is putting out Mage II, so they can't be
*all* bad.
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 21:53:06 -0400 (EDT)
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>I'd like to point out that Image is putting out Mage II, so they can't be
>*all* bad.
Drat!! Now I can't read it . . .
Carter Humphrey
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>> You know, that's just WRONG. I can't help but be disgusted with some
>> of the modern age superhero genre mainstays. Particularly almost any-
>> thing having to do with Image (with a special exemption for Astro
>> City). Remember kids, superheroes and killing sprees don't mix! (are
>> you listening, Todd McFarlane?)
>
>I'd like to point out that Image is putting out Mage II, so they can't be
>*all* bad.
Image carried Groo for a short period (before Sergio and Mark decided to
quit doing Groo for a while). That alone proves that Image isn't all bad
(hold up your hand if you're a Groo fan!).
Oh, and as for Spawn, it's biggest problem is the lack of motion in the
plot. He should have figured everything out by issue 50, then have the plot
take another direction. As it is, the last dozen issues have all been the
same...
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:52:26 -0700
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At 04:33 PM 7/18/97 -0400, Patrick Barden wrote:
>I have a question that may open the proverbial can of worms, but here goes.
>
>I have in my possession copies of Champions I, II, II, IV, and C:TNM. I
>also own Allies and Enemies: Assemble. I am on a very limited income and I
>can't afford to buy new books without careful though. What I want to know
>is what supplements you use, enjoy and would recommend. I have chosen to
>stick with Champions IV as my base campaign. You may send answers to me
>personally if you choose at absga@elbertonga.com.
>
My two favorite supplements for CIV are Dark Champions and Ultimate Martial
Artis, because both are what I call 'dense'. They are packed with ideas,
rules, odd and interesting ways of looking at powers and ads/disads, and
are likely to inspire ideas. (Also, I tend to prefer lower powered,
'heroic' games, which these books aim at)
If you are playing non-superhero Hero system, I also strongly recomment
Almanac I, which has the spirit rules and several nifty ways to extend the
magic system.
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 01:21:29 -0400 (EDT)
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In a message dated 97-07-18 19:05:26 EDT, you write:
<< P.S. Does anyone have a copy of the Hero Bestiary that they would be
willing
to part with. I have looked everywhere and cannot find one. >>
Try the Sentry Box... they're a fine outfit out of somewhere in Canada that
has everything you could want if it's still in print... games, books, mags,
etc.
http://www.sentrybox.com/
Later,
'Lynx
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 02:37:23 -0400
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herolist wrote:
>
> From: "qts" <qts@nildram.co.uk>
> Reply-To: "qts" <qts@nildram.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Signs of the Apocalypse! (was: Mage)
> To: champ-l@omg.org
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 97 07:47:07 -0400, David A. Fair wrote:
>
> >Started by others...
> >
> >>Seven signs of the Apocalypse (not the Marvel character)
> >>-----------------------------
>
> >4. A major rpg producer, with a loyal following, abandons them when they
> >completely rewrite their game system, saying "The setting sells...".
>
> Hero, GDW (RIP), TSR (RIP)...
>
> OTOH some of the settings out there are *wonderful* - I cite Krynn and
> Glorantha.
>
> Anyone done a Gloranthan Hero? I've doodled bits, but...
Can't give you any solid info stat wise, but I played in a Gloranthan Hero
campaign that worked well. We played the River of Cradles saga and had a blast.
From: Chuff78002@aol.com
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 07:29:21 -0400 (EDT)
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In a message dated 17/07/97 06:26:03pm, you write:
<< >3. White Wolf produces an RPG that is cheerful and optimistic.
What might that be?
>>
Err Changeling ! It gets played mostly for laughs and that certainly seems
the way it should be....I mean, teenagers armed with sneakers that stink so
much that a room full of Technomancers fall over choking/puking etc !
Or maybe it's just that we British saw the humour in it wether it's there or
not.. :- )
Chuff78002.
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 07:29:27 -0400 (EDT)
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I know that this isn't the Fuzion list, but as I'm fairly swamped with e-mail
from my two pbem's I'm now running plus messages from you guys, I will resist
the urge to subscribe to the fuzion list for a while longer !
Anyway, I'm hopeful that some kind soul out there can help me with two
queries I have. On the printed examples of character sheets at the back of
the C:TNM book it states base points 50 for disads, where the hell does that
figure come from ?
Is it standard or is it determined by the dm ?
Secondly, how DO complications provide extra points for
characteristics/powers ? I've checked the book through and cannot find clear
examples at all ! So far, all my Fuzion npc's have been converted over from
Hero with no trouble so I thought I'd create a few pure Fuzion characters and
then ran into the above stumbling block(s)..........HEEELP !
Yours desperately,
Chuff78002.
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On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:17:19 -0500, Bryan Berggren wrote:
>At 10:29 PM 7/17/97, qts wrote:
>>>4. A major rpg producer, with a loyal following, abandons them when they
>>>completely rewrite their game system, saying "The setting sells...".
>>
>>Hero, GDW (RIP), TSR (RIP)...
>
>1. When, precisely, did TSR completely rewrite their game system? That is,
>are you referring to 2nd Ed. AD&D or SAGA?
I'm referring to (a) the Complete... series and (b) to the Players
Options series.
>2. More to the point -- since when was TSR RIP? Just because WotC bought
>them out? That's like saying ABC went off the air when Disney bought
>Capital Cities -- it just doesn't work like that.
They're no longer their own masters. Nuff said.
qts
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>
> Having said that, I HATE the way they've twisted EVERYBODY's origin
> around. Creating new characters with these new origins would have been
> ok, that's how I'm actually using them in my game, but why throw out
> everything???
Personal theory: it's one of those "alternate universe" things.
You encounter ones with good/evil switched, etc. Welll, this happens
to be a dimension that would _really_ foul up travelers playing the
"Champs in 3D" book.
Daniel Pawtowski
From: john.desmarais@ibm.net
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 97 13:10:18 -0400
Subject: Re: My Favorite Supplement?
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In <199707182033.QAA27015@emerald&> on 07/18/97
at 04:33 PM, Patrick Barden <absga@elbertonga.com> said:
>I have a question that may open the proverbial can of worms, but here
>goes.
>I have in my possession copies of Champions I, II, II, IV, and C:TNM. I
>also own Allies and Enemies: Assemble. I am on a very limited income and
>I can't afford to buy new books without careful though. What I want to
>know is what supplements you use, enjoy and would recommend. I have
>chosen to stick with Champions IV as my base campaign. You may send
>answers to me personally if you choose at absga@elbertonga.com.
>The following is what I want to know:
>Title, subject matter covered, what it has to offer a campaign and why
>you enjoy it. this information will help me choose what supplements to
>buy. Some that I am particularly interested in info on is the Ultimate
>Series, Horror Hero, Dark Champions and anything else you might suggest.
>I look forward to your answers.
>Patrick B.
>P.S. Does anyone have a copy of the Hero Bestiary that they would be
>willing to part with. I have looked everywhere and cannot find one.
Since you mention it, "THe Hero Bestiary" is quite usefull. If you are
actually using Champions background then "Champions Universe" is good.
"Classic Enemies" has most of the class villians. "Dark Champions" is a
sub-genre that I never really cared for, but as a weapons and gadgets
supplement it's quite nifty. "V.I.P.E.R" is possibly the best bad-guy
book they ever put out (assuming that you like agents) with more VIPER
dudes and toys than you can shake a stick at. "Horror Hero" was a
disappointment.
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 15:29:05 -0500
From: ludator@softfarm.com (Bryan Berggren)
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At 03:19 PM 7/19/97, qts wrote:
>>2. More to the point -- since when was TSR RIP? Just because WotC bought
>>them out? That's like saying ABC went off the air when Disney bought
>>Capital Cities -- it just doesn't work like that.
>
>They're no longer their own masters. Nuff said.
i'm not my own master at the moment (unemployed, financially dependent on
another). That hardly makes me RIP. :/
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At 03:29 PM 7/19/97 -0500, ludator@softfarm.com (Bryan Berggren) wrote:
>At 03:19 PM 7/19/97, qts wrote:
>>>2. More to the point -- since when was TSR RIP? Just because WotC bought
>>>them out? That's like saying ABC went off the air when Disney bought
>>>Capital Cities -- it just doesn't work like that.
>>
>>They're no longer their own masters. Nuff said.
>
>i'm not my own master at the moment (unemployed, financially dependent on
>another). That hardly makes me RIP. :/
>
You're also not a game company. :)
Hey, I wrote off TSR when Gygax was ousted.
-Nic
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