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Django Reinhardt: Djangology OTB

Hi guys. Glad to see there's still some interest in FoT Modding. You're all welcome to use and abuse these maps to your heart's content. Incidentally, I think there may be a couple more laying around somewhere. I'll have to poke around more on my old backup CDs, but I'm pretty sure...

If you change a portrait file by replacing it with an identically named file it will be instantly changed in the game. You will not have to start a new game to have it take effect. If, on the other hand you're changing portraits by editing an entity to have a different portrait file you...

While I'll be the first to side with you one this one, Rosh, I do have to point out that this isn't anything new. In fact, it's been going on for about 20 years now. Ever sat down and compared the prose of AD&D to the same game's 2nd Ed? Notice all of the "i.e.'s", "q. v.'s", etc. had...

Is it my imagination or has the release of the Cthulu game sparked a lot of renewed interest in his works? Most books on Kursk really aren't. For one thing they tend to either very tepid re-tellings of the same, tired, old narrative, or they are so damned polemic trying to prove that the...

Tell me about it. With the exception of the short story Who Goes There? by John Campbell -- he was the editor of Astounding, the Sci-Fi mag of old -- which was the basis for the films The Thing from Another World and The Thing...erm...well, it's been nothing but Field Manuals, Training...

I'd concur with that evaluation. Reading Heinlein -- for all he did for Sci-Fi -- is more about reading dissertations on the soft sciences, cloaked in a thin veneer of fiction. He did have a novel approach to Sci-Fi in that he didn't give you a lecture on the mechanics of a sliding door, but...

And since I was just commenting on Starship Troopers in another thread, I'll respond to this: with: "...in symbolic logic." :D OTB

I'm with DDD on this one. Candide is an awesome book. It's only an evening's read so you don't have to slog through anything to knock it out a classic, and it'll have you in stitches, especially if you've a good grasp of the history of the period. ("...and Candide was flogged in time with the...

Would you throw away food that reached you via an "empty act of a machine" if you were starving? Would you wait for food that arrived from an act that was not? I thought not. The fact of the matter is that while one may have more metaphysical value -- and metaphysics are always...

Ah, I see, so it seems it's a legal advantage to go with d20 then. Gamma World goes back a lot farther than the d20 system, being a spin-off of Metamorphosis Alpha. Then again, someone with a screen-name that appears to be a reference to the D&D Expert module X2 Chateau d'Amberville...

Nope, it didn't increase 5%. The firing rate went from 10-15% in WWII to about 35-40% in Korea to 90% in Vietnam, that's a total increase of 75-80%. Personally, I'm not attributing this crime-spike to desensitization caused by the media. What I'm saying is that it could be a contributing...

Your solution would seem to work and is in the vein of what I was thinking about doing. I failed to take into account that you control which types of maps are in what areas. That makes it a whole lot easier. I'll definitely make a note of this in case I ever have the chance to get...

I agree with your position here. However, it's a simple political issue. While human factors may not be beyond human control we may simply not have the resources to make it a reality. Since I'm up to my gills in the Master Gunner course, I'm going to a parallel from it, and hopefully the...

It seems that the d20 OGL doesn't offer any advantages then, and I have to ask, "WHY THE FUCK AREN'T THEY GOING WITH GURPS?!" OTB

Well, different and unique opponents would be what I'm after. Using the example of the Morton Brothers, each of the three that could be encountered randomly had his own name (Newt, Toad and one other) and was encountered only once. This is an interesting idea that I will have to...

I don't. It was something I thought of while reading this thread. I threw it out there mainly as food for thought. However, I will say that people's attitudes seem to have shifted back to a more 1950s attitude when it comes to violence. That whole "Just War" idea is back with a vengeance...

What would that net him? I think IPLY has more equity than the Russian gov't these days... OTB

Yes, I understand that. I'm just not familiar with the exact mechanics, though. I gave up on AD&D back when it was 2nd Ed. and never looked back. Ergo I'm not up to snuff exactly what changes were made to the system when it became 3rd Ed./d20. Personally I wish someone would make a...

Something I've often wondered about: how much can Sci-Fi be credited with being a self-defeating prophecy? While there are some cases where Sci-Fi authors simply misinterpret trends or fail to factor certain issues in, e.g. Asimov's I, Robot where computers are rare and wonderous things...