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That was clever. Very clever. Too bad you aren't clever enough to know better than to make a lenghty quote in order to make your tri-syllabic rebuttal. Incidentally, from the second paragraph on, my previous post wasn't directed at specifically at you, rather it was in a "if the...

What would that prove? Did anyone read what the illustrious MCA had to say during the roundtable at IGN on RPG storylines? Basically he said that what a game designer was doing was marketing a power fantasy to gamers. Well, it seems that people have decided to skip the middle-man and...

None of my female friends have stereotypical tastes, alas most of the women I meet seem to. :lol: I find that bit about your friend who's read the Gor books amazing. I'd say that I know some rather atypical females -- in fact, that term pretty much describes my circle of friends -- but...

Indeed. Issues like this aren't likely to be revealed in the near future, if at all, either. Personally, I'd love to run amuck in the archives of the major combatants w/a crack team of researchers (and...uh...linguists), but so much of it is still classified since we mere mortals aren't...

That's absolutely correct, Welsh. While the British were in some ways cow-towing at the conference table, they really had no illusions about not eventually going to war w/Germany. The more visionary among them knew this when they saw the Treaty of Versailles, but by the mid-'30s the British...

Miscommunication, as well as several figures in OKH getting antsy about whether or not the mechanized "wonder weapons" could actually do the job. The mechanized divisions that were in place to wipe out the pocket at Dunkirk were badly in need of rest and maintenance, which is one of the factors...

Nope, you sure aren't. I just turned 33 on last Monday. OTB

Doh! You're absolutely correct. Anne McCaffrey is Sci-Fi. Okay, pretend I said, Elizabeth Boyer. No wait, almost no one's heard of her. :lol: So you think that if tomorrow women went to the stores and there was one PA game for each Fantasy game that women would switch over in a short...

Interesting. Moreso even when you factor in that the reason I was so sure about it was that it was a study question for the Sergeant's board. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some truth to this protocol, but that's it's limited to only very specific instances and the error lies in...

If you're meaning that since High Fantasy is generally the gateway into roleplaying and females are relatively new to this area so most of them are still sitting at the gateway I'd have to say you may be onto something. On the other hand, I don't think that if all that was out there in the...

I'm not sure if that's a law or not, but I know that military monuments in the US follow that protocol. OTB

Personally, I think it might have something to do w/what type of films and other media have been set in that type of environment. Basically, the High Fantasy genre was for years pretty much an all-male domain. Not surprising when you look at some of the early works like Robert E. Howard's...

Mine's from the cover of the Heinlein novel Stranger in a Strange Land, one of the most subversive novels of the '60s, even if lots of people think it rather tame today. Getting the avatar was an epic quest involving a long march to the bookshelf, followed by some tomfoolery w/my scanner...

Yes, but also to other Heinlein novels where it was used like Time Enough for Love. While I was in the Army a fellow NCO turned me onto Heinlein and started calling me "Sergeant Johnny On-The-Bounce". When I went online years later I figured it was as appropriate as anything else...

On one hand I want to say, "These things only become wrong when people know about them." Also, that you're far more likely to regret the things you didn't do rather than those you did. On the other hand I really have to say that I can't see a teenager being anything more than a night's...

Basically, the problem w/this is that a poor attack roll will mean that someone other than the intended target is hit. This works in FO/FO2, also, even though the mechanics aren't quite as drastic in the RPGs. The reason that characters other than the one an attacker is actually shooting at...

Neither am I, actually. :lol: Precisely because it's a bastard medium that tries to do two things, and tends to do neither very well. If I like a period piece, it's because of what was done w/language, cinematography, etc. The Lion in Winter is a great example, which I love because of...

Sorry Katja, but I have to disagree here. There are plenty of movies that could be made that would be homogenous racially. It comes down to period and milieu. Simply working people of different races in on some sort of ethnic/racial quota system would seem to wrong. For example, how many...

Yes, indeed. This is why Dien Bien Phu is also known as "The Swansong of the S.S.", since apparently quite a few soldiers from it ended up in the Foreign Legion. OTB

I don't think that morale checks for NPCs would harm gameplay. I've played games on the table-top where the referee treated NPCs like expendable cannon-fodder and others where they were treated more like autonomous beings. I preferred the latter, even if it did mean that often things didn't go...