From booksfleamarket at yahoo.com Tue Apr 1 00:13:22 2008 From: booksfleamarket at yahoo.com (Ken & Juliane Murphy) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:13:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Rq-rules] *Big* damn centipedes In-Reply-To: <20080327033500.E6AA916067DF@mini.thinbits.net> Message-ID: <205060.8506.qm@web42101.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Thomas Zunder comments: >Wow. Do you get to get out much? :-P >No seriously, I know this is one of the things we all love to do with >game systems: use them to categorise the world and/or our fantasy >worlds..it's ship building in Traveller, character class writing in D&D, >endless GURPS Magic debates about the interaction between real-world >physics and sorcery.. >In RQ, it's the size of Giant Centipedes relative to the SIZ table.. Hiya Tom. As you can see, the SIZ table is my personal nit-to-pick in RQ. I realize its all fantasy, afterall, but, should I want a 12m long giant centipede to cause a few problem for the players (theoretically, since I haven't gamed proper for a year or so), I want to have the thing weigh what it is *supposed* to (you *know* what I mean here) ; Best, -Ken- -------------------------------------------------------------- "If I were a Sea Otter, I'd have to eat 200 Quarterpounders a day just to stay alive!" -An unattributed comment overheard while my daughter was watching Animal Planet- --------------------------------- No Cost - Get a month of Blockbuster Total Access now. Sweet deal for Yahoo! users and friends. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://localhost.localdomain/pipermail/rq-rules/attachments/20080331/05773328/attachment.html From booksfleamarket at yahoo.com Tue Apr 1 00:20:09 2008 From: booksfleamarket at yahoo.com (Ken & Juliane Murphy) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Rq-rules] Re: *Big* damn centipedes Message-ID: <925680.45670.qm@web42102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Note, my comment to Tom *should've* ended in one of those cutesy a smily faces, so my response wouldn't come across as *snippy*, but it was apparently shaved off by sloppy editing :) Best, -Ken- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When I say, 'Fetch beer!' you'll put your pennies together and pick up beer for Tiny. If I only get enough beer I'll be silky as a kitten. But if I'm out of beer" - he made a long pause and looked around him ominously - "may God Almighty have mercy on you!" ---Sven Hassel, Legion of the Damned--- --------------------------------- You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://localhost.localdomain/pipermail/rq-rules/attachments/20080331/74b5bf33/attachment.html From tom at zunder.org.uk Tue Apr 1 03:59:28 2008 From: tom at zunder.org.uk (Thomas Zunder) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:59:28 +0100 Subject: [Rq-rules] Re: *Big* damn centipedes In-Reply-To: <925680.45670.qm@web42102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <925680.45670.qm@web42102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <47F12680.7030809@zunder.org.uk> I didn't think you were snippy! I thought you'd think I was! It is quite normal that as we don't play we tinker with rules. What is problematic is when we can't stop tinkering and start playing again. At which point we remember that the rules are quite irrelevant most of the time. :-) From lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au Tue Apr 1 12:59:22 2008 From: lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au (Lev Lafayette) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Rq-rules] Shifting List: Don't Post for 48 hours Message-ID: <493985.78935.qm@web33503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hello everyone, The great move is happening! So PLEASE don't post anything for the next 48 hours (I know, you have to give up posting about RQ for 48 hours, it hurts me too!) I want to make sure that we have the entire archives (including the recent discussion on giant centipedes).. The new list will be hosted at rpgreview.net, a domain I've been hanging on to for a while and have done nothing with... I had plans for an online rpg 'zine, maybe they'll still eventuate :-) The new list will be runequest at rpgreview.net The info page is located here: http://rpgreview.net/mailman/listinfo/runequest_rpgreview.net I'll also put the archives here as well. I'll get all current subscribers (all 500+ of you!) added today. Thanks for your patience! Lev ____________________________________________________________________________________ OMG, Sweet deal for Yahoo! users/friends:Get A Month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. W00t http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text2.com