sorry for the cross post, but thought this might be of interest though I rememberit being kicked aroundbefore ... From: Brett Kruger <krugerbf@...> ...
I've seen stuff like this before. I can dig up the old papers and commentry If you like. I used them for a GURPS SF setting where FTL was based on current...
Sorry for the Cross Post, but I thought this was pretty interesting, and maybe very important, we are, by geology ( a human endeveor ) in a new age. ...
It's interesting to note that geologists making ice cores in Greenland discovered a high level of lead in the ice corresponding to the Roman period when a lot...
... Both together? Hmmm... trying to remember... I'd guess maybe $200 is about what that would generally go for, if they're in very good condition, altho of...
have seen it go on ebay for anything up to £180, I was lucky, I got mine (original 4 books and handouts only, not companion, no box, no dice) for £35 on a...
... This idea was pretty radical... back in 1848, when Karl Marx published /The Communist Manifesto/. Dressing communism up in Dilbert-esque "corporate speak"...
I got mine for $20 Australian about ten years ago, complete and near new. Searched for about eight more years and found a Companion for $10AUS <-----Original...
Wow, that was a good buy! I think my first Companion cost me around $20 US and $15 US in postage over here, years ago. My only negative comment on ebay came...
Adrian Sayle
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Aug 15, 2008 4:34 am
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not spam, but with all kinda of controversy about copyright etc I have been reading in groups I collected a couple sites for free rpgs and wargaming with also...
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=823710 could be used in a game, why orcs and humans and other races are in conflict, or explin difference...
... Someone needs to hit you with a "clue" hammer. The outmoded racial types of Caucasian, Oriental and Negroid were based on superficial and entirely...
Now wait a darnminute I did not say I beleived it I said an interesting idea, Â in a game like ringworld with the many species from one source it would be...
Now wait a darnminute I did not say I beleived it I said an interesting idea, Â in a game like ringworld with the many species from one source it would be...
it is rants like this that close down ideas, stop discussion, i dont believe in this crap at all, but we play in a game that relies heavily in evolution as a...
... Yes, and that's why I included two analogies which *would* be appropriate to study and discuss, as analogies for interspecies competition on the Ringworld....
A quick Google of "convergent evolution" turns up the following definition: "...a phenomenon when two distinct species with differing ancestries evolve to...
... Convergent evolution isn't relevant to Ringworld divergence of hominids into many widely varying species, and I can't right offhand think of any fantasy...
... hominids ... of any ... elves. ... No, convergent evolution doesn't apply to the variation of hominids on the ring, but it does broadly apply to other...
... That's a good point. I use lions as a real-world analogy of Kzinti. With lions, the males dominate several females in a pride, and spend most of their...
For whatever it may be worth, no matter what I perceived about the tone of your initial reply, I shouldn't have called you an asshole. It lacked class, and for...
Lensman, racism is horrible and I won't even go into it, but I thought it could be used by someone as a play idea, many younger people seem to have a lack...
Thanks Robert, Please don't take this wrong, but I have seen in gaming and on boards so many silly little issues, In gaming, especially with new gamers I have...
