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I think "The Abyss" might still be taking characters. Edit: Scratch that. Sarachim asked for final submissions several days ago. Maybe there will be another when one of the older ones wraps up.

I made a bid to send the thread in a productive direction, using the content (not the style) of the original post as a jumping off point. However, I imagine that there's still a high potential for further conflict, so I could understand the logic of a lock, too.

Here is where I started for information. I'm new to the system, too, so that's about all I have. I'm sure the others will be along to help you shortly.

Originally Posted By: Reverse the molarity! Tarot could also be a kind of randomization before battle, but it would have to serve a purpose other than simple randomization, because that just causes unpredictable spikes and dips in difficulty. Do you mean something along the lines of "The Deck of Many Things" in D&D? Personally, I think a game with unpredictable spikes and dips could make for interesting game play and add replay value. Perhaps in a setting where something is fundamentally wrong with reality, and the fundamental physical laws are liable to change up on you at any moment. (...This has probably been done.)

I don't need Aran to figure out that even gaining on Alorael, much less catching up, requires at least 2000 posts a year.

That may be my favorite post since an Avernite Christmas.

Since Thuryl, or rather Lilith, HAS a custom title, you don't actually share your current title with anyone, right? Although I would enjoy seeing your post count next to an Initiate title.

What a lovely system.

Only five thousand more posts and they'll be obligated to change up the titles again (though I imagine the next game will probably do that first).

Isn't that, or shouldn't it be, true of most well run RPGs?

Revenge of the Nerds... and Freckles. And the person with the most crazy often ends up as the leader. It's that or the mercenary. Welcome to Spiderweb, Voyager. Leave your sanity at the door. Put on a golden record and enjoy your new home away from home.

As someone who is neither an engineer nor a physicist, I think you chaps both have good points. On one hand, there are too many factors for any model to be perfectly representative of real life. On the other, a sterile and theoretical system that ignores those things entirely isn't terribly useful, except as an exercise. Either way, you've managed to take a couple of frivolous queries and make them of intellectual interest. There is no reason to build a steel balloon when more suitable materials exist, and while there are real issues associated with obesity and space travel, we are not yet in a position to worry about them. While we're at it, we might as well consider how we could go about siphoning Venus's dense atmosphere off to Mars's nearly nonexistant one in an attempt to tereform them both.

I need to use the irony mark more liberally. I agree entirely, and am amused by the circumstance. I would assert, however, that such circumstances are terribly common in real life. A balanced party would never actually occur, short of an Ocean's Eleven style in-game roundup. Our party is, apparently, composed largely of nerds who, based on the intro, don't have enough experience to know when we might be getting fleeced. Hopefully, if it comes down to it, one of us can have a steep learning curve.

Cairo Jim has 2 in driving. And three pilots with a skill of level 1 is JUST as good as one of three! Or can you not assist another with a check in AIMhack?

I wondered if the quiet morning on Spiderweb had something to do with that. All of the top posters up in Alaska getting trashed on skribbane and sniping pedestrians.

I am confident that this community can make intelligent discourse out of practically anything (case in point).

Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S I'm tempted to respond to VCH's question by saying "You're right" and locking this thread. But you all know my bias against the sort of puns that have been showing up here, so that wouldn't be very fair. You could probably get a more pun-friendly mod to do it. I'm tempted to create a forum where we discuss the line between posting games and actual discourse, but I suspect it might not be quite meta enough to avoid closure.

Well, I'm in. You need people of intelligence on this sort of messy... quest... thing. (That's 500... I think I'll keep with the powers of two and celebrate at 512.) Edit: Alo said someone already had an editing gimmick? Who?

So many systems, subsystems, and mods... I'd accuse you all of intentional obfuscation, but I know how helpful it is to tweak the system to the campaign. With a simpler base, I would imagine it's almost obligatory.

And the daggers adjacent to some skills correspond to..? Trained/untrained? Obviously not class specific, since there are no classes.

... Wow. That IS quite the deal. Almost makes me wish I lived someplace with Black Friday.

So Perception = Wisdom and neutral is 0 instead of 10? Skills work normally, but with just ranks and not attributes? And, like everything else with AIMhack, there are no classes.

Originally Posted By: Excalibur ...I got the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy on DVD for six dollars. Theatrical or extended?

If I can figure out character creation under the AIMhack system, I'd love to participate.

... How many "What are you..." threads have their been? And why is it that the reading one is so much more successful than the others?