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Awesome, but may I suggest a change of flavor text to something more like: R̢̞̠͍͍̭̱̲͙̭̳͇̠͚̹̒ͫ̇ͣͤ̈́&am...

And that's why you need to take short cuts. Grab an asteroid or smallish moon from Jupiter or something, terraform it and slap some rockets on it. Done. You think too small. I'd have preferred a better link, but the scientific note to this comic explains the technique pretty well. [edit] Schlock Me...

Nope. It'll just take them a few hundred years.

[edit] Simulpost for the win. [/edit]

You are correct. I fail at remembering what I read last week. :/ [edit] An idea that just occurred to me: you could still get dice rolls for cracking encryption. If the limits of encryption technology are exactly level with hacking tech, then you could reasonably have a percentage chance of reconstr...

Speaking as a medical student who does neuroimaging, I would never use my brain structure as a passkey to anything. First of all, it changes over time. Secondly, I couldn't share it with someone else. But in the Shadowrun world, it would make even less sense. To make a small argument, public-key cr...

Sorry to cut in on the conversation about gold, but this makes me die a little inside: Study Suggests More People Willing to Believe in ESP When Told It's Been Scientifically Disproven . Every day it looks more and more like we're getting ready to blast ourselves back to the turnip economy. (Note: I...

I assure you, MMOs have nothing to do with it. The people who get caught in that sort of thing would have found something else to catch them if MMOs didn't exist. Trust me on this one, I went to college before there was MMOs, and I, and a lot of people I know, had the exact troubles people attribut...

Honestly, WoW was a good idea for them, because D2 shows they have shitty design goals and skills for adventure clicky hack and slash games. By making it multiplayer they can get away with being less skilled. It's not just that. With WoW, they've actually turned their particular brand of horriblene...

RSS feeds for the win. I "follow" roughly thirty-five webcomics, maybe ten of which update on any reasonable schedule. Thanks to my RSS feeds, I just don't care about the ones that don't update. I just read what hits the inbox.

I like Caliborn's solution too (about AC reducing damage by a percentage compared to the to-hit). As for the numbers to use, just make it equal to the chance of hitting. Hit on a seven or lower = 7/20 chance = 35% damage. Averaged over all attacks, characters deal the same damage, but you don't have...

Even abortion is getting hedged out. Most hospitals don't provide it. Most teaching hospitals don't teach it. I'm not getting involved in this debate (other than to say that I honestly don't give a crap about what sex, gender, or combination or lack thereof that you prefer, either for yourself or f...

Why is it based on Perform when none of the abilities derive from it? I'm... not sure. Fixed. The 4 ranked abilities is very weak. The one ranked one can be very over powered since now you can just spam diplomacy. Swapped 1 and 4 abilities, depowered free influence ability (immediate action require...

Except when you instatutionalize those goals you make EVERY encounter with that monster the same thing. I never ever want to hear a player tell me "a griffon wouldn't do that." FUCK THAT. You end up having to fight to take back access to the monsters concept. The correct response is "...

Except that if you write one of those ecologies down in a rulebook it becomes cannon and then the second ecology becomes False in the eyes of the player base. That sucks. That means you end up with two kinds of giant eagles, the kind that eat fish and the kind that eat people. While that makes it e...

You said you wanted the monsters to have more information on their ecology. I think that ecology is crap you won't use when you finally decide to use that monster in the story. We have already come up with 2 ecologies for our giant birds just talking here. Why do we need the printed book to devote ...

This information should be specific to adventures, not the monsters, and just because that is the story of your campaign world doesn't mean it should even end up in mine. In my game the giant eagles normally eat humanoids so their homelands are only populated by small creatures that can hide well. ...

Campaign world write-ups should include shit like legal codes, regional imports and exports, national politics, guild perks, and loads of other background stuff that would make the world more immersive and create logical areas of conflict and motivation for PCs and NPCs. The economy. This has alway...

I've been reading I can haz cheeseburger too much today. This also probably has balance issues. It's also more than possible you're looking for feats for the kind of catgirl that claws things to death rather than the cute kind. Kitty (Skill: Diplomacy) 1: You have very expressive ears. You have tran...

Newest version is up. Still only have 23 speed tricks; I'm still trying to come up with ideas for at least 30.

The only thing I'm really unsure about with that one is "Hide in plain speed"; specifically, how much Slide Movement to make it cost.

triggering their effect at the beginning of the Spellherd's turn and on anything which enters their square or that they enter the square of. [quote="Vebyast]Any single object or character can only be affected once per round per spell effect, no matter how many Spellsheep from that spell effect...

Right, new Spellherd up. Replaced the Cooperative Spellsheep ability with an ability to improve the area denial abilities, and replaced improved spellsheep with Sheep Laz0rs. I think that I might want to switch Wandering Sheep down to 2nd level, and move Pulsesheep and Sheep Beams up to 3rd and 4th ...

The final step is of course to make a program that converts LaTeX into BBcode (limited by what BBcode can output, obviously). For right now, I have a command-line switch on the script that tells it whether to compile to LaTeX or to BBcode. That would be a really cool ultimate goal, though I'm prett...

...oooohhhh... yeah.... Uh, I just had it output the stuff as a single section. You'll have to insert it into the frame for a book or article document. It's been a long time since I actually did any TeX, and I didn't do that much of it (I'm more of a C and LISP guy), so I'm going to guess that your...

CatharzGodfoot wrote:This rocks my world.

Programming is awesome like that. Why do you think I got into computer science? ^_^

Oh, right, and tables. The basic idea is: \begin{tabular}{COLUMN_ALIGNMENTS} cell1.1 & cell1.2 & cell1.3 \\ cell2.1 & cell2.2 & cell2.3 \\ cell3.1 & cell3.2 & cell3.3 \\ \end{tabular} COLUMN_ALIGNMENTS is a series of letters, l, c, and r, one for each column, depending on ho...