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Sometimes it is useful to have a quote, piece of dialog or turn of phrase as GM when describing things. This thread is for them. To start, from today's Schlock mercenary: - So i'm to go under the knife next, then? - No knife. Just nannies [ ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-12-04 07:47 - 22 comments - 0 attachments

Here is a new synthmorph I am considering for my campaign: Quicksilver™ (alias puddles, 1000s and sandpiles) While the swarmanoid morph is intended to fly as a cloud and has great flexibility, it is still somewhat limited for manual tasks a ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-02-03 20:43 - 37 comments - 0 attachments

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/17/story-of-evolution-o.html A video about evolution that feels rather appropriate to EP. Besides, those hand-creatures are probably what biodesigners make in an empty afternoon to delight their podlings. ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-12-19 04:38 - 6 comments - 0 attachments

Why having AI everywhere is a problem: http://www.americanscientist.org/Libraries/images/2009316123907230-revised187pressuresuitcolor.jpg?st=11 Modern children's tales: http://www.americanscientist.org/Libraries/images/2010419138437889-2 ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-04-27 03:59 - 28 comments - 0 attachments

(Would love to hear suggestions for adjustments to really fit the game system - I have been thinking more about plausible physics and chemistry than game mechanics) Firewall guide to unconventional weapons Welcome to my humble armory. You ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-09-14 18:44 - 36 comments - 0 attachments

[My players are cordially invited to stay away from this thread ] In my game setting, the characters have become involved with the fate of Tanzania. A sizable fraction of Tanzanians are in cold storage, lugged around by a lobbyist representing ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-11-05 11:45 - 10 comments - 0 attachments

This post may be a bit of mathematical overkill applied to a simple idea. I'll start with the basic concept, and then run off into mathland to eventually arrive at some possible game system. Does rep decay over time? I couldn't find it in the rule ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-01-13 12:38 - 15 comments - 0 attachments

Here is an interesting story: Hackers blind quantum cryptographers http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100829/full/news.2010.436.html Basically, they found a really simple way to do a man-in-the-middle attack on a quantum encrypted link. Yo ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-08-30 06:38 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Skinthetic Beowulf morph The Beowulf is a wolf biomorph. They look like a great white or grey-pelted wolf with a shoulder height of 85 cm, length 160 cm and weighing 40 kg. While the body is entirely canid, the brain is human-compatible and intend ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-12-02 07:21 - 41 comments - 0 attachments

38 atoms of antihydrogen have been made and trapped: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101117/full/468355a.html Now things just need to be scaled up a lot of orders of magnitude. Re: First antihydrogen root@First antihydrogen ...

Forum topic - Arenamontanus - 2010-11-18 11:28 - 11 comments - 0 attachments