Recent content by Lemnoc

Many of these early practitioners were originally called "alienists." If you believe that humors in the body call forth spirits, you could be a "humorist." :lol:

Hi. I think the USA locations on this list that came after Dallas TX got truncated about three iterations back. Sayin'.

I like this idea and it rather fits with what we know about all movie zombies from Romero onward—they're attracted to noise, activity, scent of blood and are prone (like sharks) to en masse feeding frenzy. In such situations they gain a kind of pack cunning. Absent this, they become lone...

I like the idea of variable movement rates for zombies; keeps them from becoming "background monsters," easily evaded, outdistanced and overcome. Not so sure about "intelligent zombies," as that seems almost a contradiction in terms. "Zombie" implies a mindless, will-less creature; and at some...

ICYMI: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/09/exoplanet_direct_photo_of_a_planet_challenges_formation_theories.html

Could it be related to the "jumping Jupiter" phenomenon? Formed inward, moved outward, as stated? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111110142102.htm

Agreed. Might quibble a little bit with Bones. He was always shown to be somewhat ill at ease and slightly incompetent at combat, and I don't recall him ever piloting anything ("I'm a doctor, not a moon shuttle pilot!"). I might spread those points around a bit more in the sciences and social...

Having lurked on those various threads, it seems the baseline objection starts with the assumption that “against a dark, featureless background under optimal conditions X can be detected from Y distance.” It grates against those of us who understand that conditions are rarely optimal or ideal...

Good answers, thank you. Condottiere probably strikes closest to my particular problem, which is the PCs here are troubleshooters for an agency. The agency wants a certain sort of plausible deniability alex_greene gets at, the PCs are expendable, but the agency also wants the job done. This...

Thanks for the civil answers. :D

An almost breathtakingly unhelpful answer that restates the question as though it is the answer. Putting this another way: How might one work out the matter of risk/reward and available resource equation that the Patron would work out, given—y'know—I am playing the Patron and am doing this work?

A wealthy Patron has a mission for my players. They’ve requested from the Patron some pretty pricey high-tech equipment to help them complete the mission. As GM I’m not sure I want them to keep this equipment or, really, have it on this mission. I know I can contrive to take this equipment away...

If you will take a deep breath and try to calm yourself, you will note I was among those criticizing the artwork six months ago. With the same basic thought as yours, which is it gives a haphazard feel to the whole and likely harms sales. Perhaps my word choice was poor; I still feel there is...

Well, again, this ain't GURPS; and if you're going to build to the Traveller standard you sort of have to build around the general klunkiness (some would say charm :P ) of that system. That means lots of tables that don't nest or interrelate to one another especially well, but—as you say—it...

+1 I think that RPGnet reviewer got a bit hung up on the tables thing, which is just a staple from the Old School where every list of suggested possibilities was paired with a dice number with no expectation that any GM would be so stupid or lazy as to just roll at random on it with out a...