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Where do the rules say the scroll has to be s specific type?[br][br]Are there different types of scrolls, or is a scroll a scroll?[br][br]And since Divine types don't have to write down their spells to either cast nor learn nor pass them on; wouldn't scrolls detailing divine spells be more rare?[br]...

Oberoni believe that Mages can't create new spells, ever?

-Crissa

The last campaign that had magic items dripping from it I was in, was a 2nd ed campaign.

Want an item? Quest! Loot! Steal!

Half the party had a Cloak of the Bat!

Just because you couldn't make stuff yourself doesn't mean there wasn't tons of it around to get.

-Crissa

1128941899[/unixtime]] So, I see no reason to believe it. Actually, it's the correlation/causation fallacy, but it is fallacious. Assuming that there is, in fact, a lot of burglary in neighborhoods with high gun ownership, we still don't know from that fact alone whether one caused the other. [br]F...

1128464756[/unixtime]]Resale value-to-weight ratio has little to do with theft... [br]For comparison, 95 lbs of PENNIES are worth about $135. [br]Do you know how hard (expensive) it is to turn pounds of coins into cash?[br][br]Not sure what the rest of the story was supposed to mean... 95lbs? A 5lb...

1128378611[/unixtime]]Calm down, Crissa. Someone asking you to cite your sources, and expecting them to be credible, is not unreasonable. [br]Yes, but while I can say 'the sky is blue' or 'a liter of water fits in a coat pocket' I don't expect to be asked for sources.[br][br]Things get stolen. Thin...

1128360378[/unixtime]]Well, it's a poorly constructed causal argument, following the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. So, I see no reason to believe it. [br]Wow.[br][br]You have small pockets.[br][br]A snub-nosed .32 will fit in a pocket. It costs about $500 on up and takes the equivalent amount ...

Essence at [unixtime wrote:1128270849[/unixtime]]Source?

Police? Why?

They're mostly small, obviously portable, and worth more than the same volume in cash.

How is this hard to believe?

-Crissa

What does Ghost Touch do, then?

Essence at [unixtime wrote:1128205142[/unixtime]]Is it that areas with more gun ownership have more break-ins and theft, or that areas with more break-ins and theft have more gun ownership?

Being as guns are a major target for theft... Probably the former.

-Crissa

1128129208[/unixtime]]Honestly I'd never want to ever try breaking into a house in an area with a lot of gun owners. [br]That's possibly why you're not a criminal. Neighborhoods with lots of gun owners have more break-ins, theft. ...Guns are very valuable, as pointed out before.[br][br]How often do...

1127787156[/unixtime]]What events in New Orleans? Apparently, most of the reported violent crimes were urban myths. [br]Yes, quite.[br][br]None of the crime in those false reports was armed people defending themselves.[br][br]So, this helps your position how?[br][br]It does, however, supports my po...

He's never broken my nose ^-^

Be good, Frank. Brains and brawn are what they need. Prolly more brawn, but the brains help.

-Crissa

Of course, if the lock breaks, the house is invaded, what security does a gun buy you?

Most home invasions are against drug dealers and transporters. They're already armed.

Weapons make an already tense situation worse not better.

-Crissa

1126791166[/unixtime]] 1126742781[/unixtime]]Intelligence . . . [br]So nobody in your HERO games ever make Perception rolls or use about half of the skills in the game? [br]Of course they do.[br][br]But points into Perception and Intelligence Skills is cheaper than putting points into Intelligence;...

1126706360[/unixtime]] . . . and several of the stats don't really do anything. [br]Intelligence, Comliness...[br][br]I was thinking of tweaking intelligence somehow to make the points mean something more than one every five (maybe figuring it into ego combat?); and adding comliness as a lesser par...

I tried, really I did.

But it just seemed to be new-synonym for magic and items that's otherwise the same as the previous several books on magic an items.

-Crissa

1126671082[/unixtime]]I'm reasonably familiar with GURPS, so I'm curious as to what HERO does better than GURPS and how. [br]Mmm...[br][br]I'm a big GURPS fan, here. I have literally a hundred GURPS books, not including duplicates, or Fourth Edition (which faces some of these shortcomings).[br][br]...

Sir_Neil at [unixtime wrote:1126662054[/unixtime]]The deputy AG disagrees with you.

The Attourney General is an asshole.

And not a constitutional scholar or judge.

...So he could believe it was pink, for all it matters.

-Crissa

This all has a simple answer. And guns are not a part of it.[br][br] 1126605112[/unixtime]]If anyoen tries to take my guns, they'll be shot. That's it. [br]Such was the words of the first squatter in New Orleans to be arrested.[br][br] The second amendment is literally the last part of the bill of r...

50/50 chance that something usually lethal hits you, vs 50/50 chance something usually nonlethal hits you?

I wonder which I'm going to worry about.

-Crissa

I didn't say 'guns'.

But someone else did say guns.

...

On the flip side, I can run out the the range of a rock, or catch it.

I can't outrun a bullet.

-Crissa

See, this is why I didn't want to mention the Dominionists. Now all your suggestions are angels demons junk.[br][br]Look, the Dominionists are just why disaster flicks are popular right now. Not that I want to reward them with angels and demons junk![br][br]Dominionists believe the bible is literall...

The only persons arrested in New Orleans so far have been the nut-jobs.

An armed society isn't a utopian society, sorry.

-Crissa

1126287882[/unixtime]]No, actually it stil isn't quite clear to me.[br][br]You seem to be alluding to roleplaying in the Left behind series or something like it, where the events of the Book of Revealations are occuring throughout the campaign....I get that much. But I'm not quite sure about how in...