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I Really Should Modify That Description... |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 09-20-2002, 07:35 PM - Forum: IST/Supers
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I didn't write GURPS Supers -- just its last chapter and some of the powers. But I had a hand in some of the subsequent supplements.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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Forum timezone |
Posted by: jonathanlennox - 09-20-2002, 05:07 PM - Forum: Forums
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Timestamps on messages seem to be in U.S. Central Daylight (or Eastern Standard) Time. Which is odd, since ezboard's in San Francisco, and Bob's in New Jersey.
Any idea why?
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Good morning, merry sunshine! |
Posted by: jonathanlennox - 09-20-2002, 05:04 PM - Forum: Introductions
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Hi! I guess I'm the first non-prereader to register for the forum.
I'm Jonathan Lennox, I'm slowly working on a Ph.D. in Computer Science, I found out about DW from Bob's posts on the Eyrie Productions forums, I met Bob at AXNY and watched him play Munchkin...
I think that's all.
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Specialized songs |
Posted by: jonathanlennox - 09-20-2002, 04:53 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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I posted this about a month ago in the hostedscripts forum. Bob never replied to it, despite my nagging him about it at AXNY, so I figured I'd try again over here. :-)
I just read all of DW II yesterday and today -- I like it very much! (Found out about it from the Eyrie forum; Gryphon's pause in SoS has lead to some exploring outward...)
If I understood the mechanics of Doug's songpower correctly, the first time he hears the song he can tell whether it's going to trigger his powers, but he can't tell what particular power it's going to be. The second and subsequent times, the power activates.
However, it seems like there are likely to be a number of songs that trigger powers that are only useful in specialized circumstances. So does it sometimes happen that a song doesn't seem to do anything the second time it's played, but still is obviously triggering? How does Doug handle this?
I thought of this because it seems like there are a number of songs that could potentially help him (at least on a localized level, to his area of effect) with his goal of freeing Boomers. There are certainly tons of songs about "Freedom" or casting off slavery -- lots of Sixties stuff, traditional Black spirituals, Rush's "Free Will", etc. Many of these could also likely be useful in Doug's homeworld, as anti-mind control and whatnot. But in the absense of any such condition within Doug's area of effect, it's not clear if the songs would do anything.
Another song along the same lines -- "I Get a Kick Out Of You". Would likely cancel out the effects of intoxicants and other such substances ("I get no kick from champagne/cocaine") with, perhaps, a romantic side-effect.
Another interesting area is non-combat intellectual songs -- skills-boosters, effectively. I was thinking of this when I was going over filk music for songs that could generate powers. I don't know if you're familiar with the Oregon duet Echo's Children (www.echoschildren.org), but two of their songs, "Acts of Creation" and "The Word of God", seem like they'd have the interesting effect of boosting creative or scientific work, respectively -- though they may well be invoking a Power to do it, which I imagine Doug would be exceedingly unconfortable about.
It's out-of-period for Doug, but similarly Andy Eigel's Uplift (www.smacdonald.com/pegasus/songs/uplift.html) seems like a booster of technology/engineering skills, which could have interesting effects.
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Public Knowledge |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 09-20-2002, 02:29 PM - Forum: Future Steps
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Okay, just to start things off, I'll reiterate in one place everything I've publicly stated about future destinations in the Walk.
On Permanent Hold:
DW1
Being Written Right Now:
DW3: Sana-chan no Omocha, set in the series Kodomo no Omocha
DW5: Holy, Holy, Holy... Cow! -- set in Ah! My Goddess
Unnumbered: Angel Baby -- set in Neon Genesis Evangelion
Unwritten, but plotted out:
DW10: Walking Into The Storm -- Multi-crossover with Ed Becerra's Legion's Quest metaseries, the movie Zeram, and one other (fan) series to be announced when this is actually written.
In Embryonic Planning Stages:
A Fox In The Hina-House (really bad working title) -- Love Hina
Legion's Quest: Girls, Girls, Girls -- a possible followup to DW10, in collaboration with Ed Becerra
Started But Abandoned:
Harry Potter and the Man From Otherearth
Charmed, I'm Sure -- set in the TV series Charmed (before Pru's death)
An unnamed Step in the world of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
I'm not listing things that I haven't actually started writing in one way or another, as they're not guaranteed to actually go anywhere; things like the Slayers, Well World and Buckaroo Banzai Steps may end up simply being placeholders.
-- Bob
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The Only Reader-Customizable Superhero.. |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 09-20-2002, 02:11 PM - Forum: The Game Everyone Loves To Play
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...at least since DC stopped printing "Dial H for Hero".
Use this conference for discussion of Doug's songs-to-superpowers metatalent, and to ask about or suggest songs for use in future DW installments.
I expect this area will get a lot of use -- fully half the messages on the old hostedscripts board were "what would song X do" and "here's a great idea!" I'm always glad to see posts like that -- a few such suggestions made their ways into DW2, and more will probably end up in future Steps.
-- Bob
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Access Denied! |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 09-20-2002, 02:07 PM - Forum: Website
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If you're here, then you've almost certainly seen my website already. If not, you can reach it through the "Access Denied!" link at the bottom of any of the forum pages here. This conference is for telling me when things are broken, or stupid, or stupidly broken, or just to tell me to get off my butt and update the main page.
-- Bob
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Board Structure |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 09-20-2002, 02:05 PM - Forum: Forums
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Okay, to tell the truth, I threw this thing together yesterday at lunchtime with fairly minimal thought as to how to organize it. Do I have too many forum areas? Not enough? Is there something I missed? I considered adding an area for my campaign worlds -- Narth and Narth 2000, Greendale for TFOS -- but I decided against it; should I reconsider?
Let me know what you think. Thanks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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A Little Teaser From Chapter 12 |
Posted by: Bob Schroeck - 09-20-2002, 02:02 PM - Forum: Drunkard's Walk II: Robot's Rules of Order
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There was a flicker of shining skin and a whiff of ozone, and
Leon found his Earthshaker abruptly yanked out of his grasp hard
enough to leave his fingertips tingling. The silver woman
studied it for a moment. "Excuse me," she said in heavily-
accented Japanese. "Is not for a policeman with little gun to
fire on a Warrior." With quick, effortless movements, she
flattened the full length of the revolver's barrel between her
thumb and forefinger, then rolled it up against the cylinder like
a ribbon on a spool. Then she held the gun between her hands and
crushed it into a ball. A pair of muffled explosions and a few
wisps of acrid smoke from between her fingers announced the
detonation of the remaining bullets, but neither her grip nor her
expression changed.
"Here." She reached out to take one of his hands, turned it up,
and dropped the wadded mass of metal into his gloved palm. Leon
distantly observed that the Earthshaker's remains were noticeably
warm even through the leather. "Is *not* for a policeman with
little gun to fire on a Warrior," she repeated with grim
emphasis, then glanced over her shoulder. "Excuse, please, now.
Must play more with the blue girl." She turned, and with another
air-shattering blast she disappeared, only to reappear in front
of Priss, who was now on the ground, apparently tripped and
entangled by Sangnoir's scissoring legs.
-- Bob
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Ahoy there matey! |
Posted by: offsides - 09-20-2002, 05:00 AM - Forum: Introductions
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I be Josh Megerman, another prereader for DW, as well as bein' a MIB with me bucko Bob. Today be talk like a Pirate day, so reply smartly or I'll make you walk the plank!Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large
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