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    These forums are read by many people and it is best to operate at the lowest common demoninator.


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    Gods what a horrible notion. Let's lower the bar to accomodate the least capable participants in a given community. Let's apply rules to everyone derived from the excesses of a few.

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    This means no profanity. If you cannot communicate without using profanity then you need to re-assess your value to society and your basic education.


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    Flick that for a game of soldiers.

    "I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. We should use all the words we've got."

    - Inherit the Wind

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    It is not your right to post here, it is your privilidge; that privilidge comes with responsibilities to adhere to the rules. The rules state that no profanity and no defamation would be tolarated. :


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    I personally feel that careless spelling should not be tolerated. But that is not in the sacred rules.

    Customers are not entirely serfs to be granted privileges at the sole discretion of the vendor.
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    Unfortunately rules are rules. They have to be enforced.

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    All of them? Even questionable ones, or questionable interpretations of them?
  3. Of course villains should use powers "above" their "level."

    Why on earth would we fight our inferiors or even equals, when we can fight enemies who are superior to us, and therefore whose defeat gives our glory greater luster.

    The vote thing is not likely to sway the villains (or even heroes, in CoV). Villains notoriously ignore the vox populi. And those fighting evil in the Rogue Isles must use any means necessary to overcome the menace of Lord Recluse and his minions.
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    Per person? OMG... That's a lot of free prestige.

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    Think of the Italian lira before Euros.
    Or the inflation in the Weimar Republic.
  5. Suddenly reminded of Poul Anderson's throwaway references to the football game in Operation:Chaos (world where magic operates in place of most technology, set in an alterate mid-20th century USA).

    The team with possession at the start of the game levitates off. A ball carrier transforms the ball into a greased pig and sends it scooting across the goal line. Two penalties for unnecessary roughness are mentioned. Once when Thorsson gets excited and hurls a thunderbolt, once when a program card blows onto the field and a player puts a cleat through the name of an opposing team member.
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    I want to see Troll League Arena Football.

    "You am go deep!"
    "Me am going to Disneyworld!"


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    An early Runequest article (I assume it was in Different Worlds...if that was Chaosium's house title) gave the rules ("real" and how to game them) for Trollball.

    Used a live trollkin for the ball - and the ball was called dead if it died. Memory fails at further details.
  7. From the title I expected a reference to the Science Mouse problem as illustrated in Top 10.
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    "War isn't about dying for your country, it's about making those other bastards die for theirs."

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    Usually attributed to George Patton. And in Discworld, we find Gen. Tacticus writing: It is good to fight an enemy who is ready to die for his country. It means that you and he have the same objective in mind.
  9. "Debt is a feather, duty a mountain." - CoX version of old samurai aphorism.

    "And heroes now abed in Steel shall think themselves accursed they were not here with us, and hold their spandex cheap, whilst any speaks that fought with us upon Task Force Volocity." - It sort of insisted on being typed as we were heading for the final showdown with Hopkins.
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    Your Opinion

    Same answer I give when people on the forums question how I choose to play the game: None of your business.

    The degree of abruptness in the answer depends on my relationship with the querent.
  11. Just some random thoughts...

    A blow on a shield still can shock, tire one out, etc. I agree its primary function is to have the blow hit something other than oneself.

    Anyone who has fought, or observed fighting, in the SCO (Society For Creative Anachronism) or other medieval combat recreations that work at realistic combat will be brimful of observations about shields :-)

    Dunno the current rules of the lists (I haven't been active in the SCA for decades) but in my day:

    - one had to be specifically authorized to use the shield offensively (since it was far more dangerous than the wooden weapons used to strike...and SCA combat is full contact)

    - shield snatching (using your shield to snag or pin an opponent's shield or weapon) was allowed, and shield punching/bashing (striking an oppoent's shield with the face of your own) was allowed. Striking with the edge of the shield was forbidden because it was so darn dangerous (which speaks well of using shield-edge strikes when it isn't a chivalrous sport that tries to avoid actual casualties on the field).

    - most experienced fighters (and certainly most of the Knights) can demonstrate offensive shield maneuvers that would make one's hair stand on end.

    A blow stopped by a shield still transmits shock (and even awe) though it ameliorates the lethality of the damage. It partakes of both parry and resistance - I think Force Field does too, doesn't it? On the other hand, I have cleverly parried head blows that were then slipped into my ribs by sufficiently skilled opponents (not that I was a very good fighter). Shields increase your defense, as it were, by tending to limits the available targets to a foe, like portable cover. Riot shields still have this functionality today.
  12. The new Pony power pool will be popular.

    Pony Poo: You get a magic pony who excretes influence/infamy.

    Pony Prance: Your magic pony can superjump to any spot on the the map in one leap.

    Pony Pound: Your magic pony can one shot minions, two shot lieuts, three shot bosses.

    Pony President: Your magic pony is elected President and because he is YOUR magic pony, everyone has to do what you say, all the time, or President Pony will call in a nuclear strike on them.
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    < :P > And shields are somehow better? How can that appeal to anyone but captain america fans.

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    The Guardian for another.

    There was The Shield, but his gimmick was a bulletproof shield emblem on his suit.
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    At this point I'll be happy if they just reduce the damage that AS does.

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    That cuts into PvE, though, and that simply isn't an option.

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    Ah - irony ;-)
  15. You will find out when you are flying along "30 days" from now and suddenly plunge to your doom when the thing disappears.
  16. Where's my dam curds and whey?

    The next line (And sat down beside her) is apropos, since Recluse and Co. are going to be sitting down "next to" Paragon City.

    And one could argue that ED will frighten various Misses Muffet away (or cause them to leave for other reasons).
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    I solo'd the envoy. It took a long, LONG time, but I did it, and it wasn't hard. It was, however, 2 levels below me.

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    One of my two most advanced heroes is MA/SR. She managed to solo Terra at -1: elude on, hit and run, massive insps, and keep snapping at her while waiting for Elude to recycle. Vindex was never perma-Elude, but could cycle it pretty quick. Took awhile to wear down Terra, and later AVs have massively stronger regen.

    But even at -2 can't solo the Envoy (SR doesn't cut it against an auto hit aura, when you have to melee the villain). And wouldn't be able to dent Nosferatu, Nemesis, et al.

    Strong ATs with specific foils to the AVs powers, working at ATs after they level to -1 or -2, can solo specific AVs. And I am sure someone has tales of taking an AV at same level. But it is very specific to the hero and the AV, and not the usual case.
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    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch

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    Coincidentally, this is also the reason why the Shadow Shard isn't ultimately themed on the movie Barbarella. Although it might have been cool if it ended up themed on the movie Flash Gordon.

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    THAT'S what was nagging me about that name. I heard it from a Welsh actor back in my salad days as a spear carrier in summer stock, but knew I'd run across it elsewhere.

    Up the revolution!
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    what would be much more awesome.... instead of gaelic names and such.....WELSH MYTHOLOGY!!!! ...
    too bad nobody'll share my enthusiasm for wales

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    Too many string pool overruns when they tried to code the tram station for Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch
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    Also, Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings.

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    Yes, that would be the Quarrymen.

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    Showoff ;-)
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    All very cool, but I have one quibble.

    Sonic Debuff? What a LAME name for a powerset.


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    You'll have to speak up! I can't hear you, as I've been sonically debuffed (acoustically challenged, resonantly reduced, catastrophically cacaphoned...)
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    I know there is artistic liscense and all, but I have read quite a bit of Irish history and while the Tuatha de Dannu were sometimes described as monsterous/powerful or demonized, most of the time they were described as human-like.

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    True, a lot of the I5 critters look more like the Fir Bolg.
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    Tuatha

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    Too-ah-that
    I think that is correct.

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    In Irish Gaelic it could as likely be pronounced Gesundheit depending on the day of the week and the direction the wind is blowing.

    I found one reference to TOO-ah-hah.

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    Indeed since Sidhe is pronounced "she"

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    More like "Shee!"
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    Tuatha

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    Too-ah-that
    I think that is correct.

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    In Irish Gaelic it could as likely be pronounced Gesundheit depending on the day of the week and the direction the wind is blowing.

    I found one reference to TOO-ah-hah.
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    Now, which book is Forest of Dread taken from?

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    Possibly, as Longfellow translated Dante:

    " Midway upon the journey of our life
    I found myself within a forest dark,
    For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
    Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
    What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
    Which in the very thought renews the fear.
    So bitter is it, death is little more;
    But of the good to treat, which there I found,
    Speak will I of the other things I saw there."

    He shortly passes through the gate inscribed: All hope abandon, ye who enter here.