Please welcome our new member. John is willing to convert RWRPG to GURPS. I'd like the RW RPG website to become a onestop shop for RW and Known Space gaming...
... While I'll confess to a certain fondness for BRP, I'm not so much of a system snob as not to welcome anyone who participate by expanding the horizons and...
Thanks for the warm welcome, it was very exciting to find a list dedicated to this great game setting. ... That's a great attitude. I think highly of BRP too,...
John Wood
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May 5, 2004 9:45 pm
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DAmn, I just finally got around to getting GURPS core rules... <html><body> <tt> Thanks for the warm welcome, it was very exciting to find a list <BR> ...
I was reading the Journey of the Catseye scenario (Gamemaster's Book, p32) this evening and came across what looks like a silly error. Or maybe I'm not reading...
John Wood
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May 6, 2004 8:35 pm
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off course the engineers vanished the ring has got kinda untidy, errosion has created bare scrith patches and that soil went somewhere... Karl David Brown ...
There's topsoil on top of bedrock which is then on top of the scrith. Not sure of the dimensions of the depth of the ring - will need to check that. ... From:...
... That's a plausible explanantion, all right, but I can't escape the feeling that this was simply a mistake. Whatever, it's a minor quibble and it's such an...
John Wood
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May 7, 2004 8:57 am
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Here's another one for the list, apologies if you guys have discussed it before - I haven't had time to comb the list archives yet. After the fall of...
John Wood
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May 7, 2004 9:10 am
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Good one. I thought along a similar line (though not as extensive) when I read RW Throne. There is one suggestion - matter transmutation would provide the...
Yeah, the majority of our plastics do come from oil. However, plasics can be made that are in fact bio-degradeable and don't use oil. Oil based plasics aren't...
Hello everyone i have read your emails for a long time and this is my first reply. I play RW with 6 friends of mine on a biweekly basis. As to your ideas of...
tanngjost
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May 7, 2004 11:00 pm
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Sci Fi channel appears to have sent out a press release lately detailing upcoming projects. This press release found its way onto the pages of "Variety"...
It's true that major geology is moulded. However, I doubt that the topsoil is a uniform 20 meters around the ring. For one thing, weather conditions will...
... It all sounds logical to me Lawrence, thanks for the input. I think I'm too much of a nit picker at times....
John Wood
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May 8, 2004 4:41 pm
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... I didn't even notice the date on your mail, that was a long time! I guess that the Sasser worm had a lot to do with it....
John Wood
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May 8, 2004 6:20 pm
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Greetings: No rumor, I heard about this quite a while ago. I hold no hope of quality, given the run of the mill SkiFi Channel dreck. ===== Fred Kiesche (FPK3) ...
Sweet mother of Finagle! I've got the feed back!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just as a quick note (and having not followed the thread). In regards to the source of metal,...
Adrian Sayle
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May 10, 2004 5:41 am
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More on metals. From the description of the machine People on page 30 of the Creatures book, it says: "...are limited by scarce natural resources and plurality...
John Wood
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May 10, 2004 9:23 am
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* "Ringworld," from Larry Niven's books about four explorers who crash into an artificial world and discover alien beings. This sounds fantastic - a mini...
John Have you ever read the Deathworld Series by Harry Harrison? I think DW 2 or 3 had a world where technology was at that level, and where technology was ...
... Hi David, no I haven't read those books - my knowledge of Harrison only goes as far as the Stainless Steel Rat series. I'll see if I can get those on to my...
John Wood
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May 10, 2004 10:43 am
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Hi folks, I plan to do some maps of Canyon using Profantasy Software's Fractal Terrains Pro package and their Campaign Cartographer and City Designer packages....
I'm wondering how far below are the Kzin ancestors caught in Stasis fields beneath the hardened volcanic rock. Doubt anybody would be able dig towards them as...
I found I still have all the scans on a disk I made of the Ringworld RPG material that ran in various magazines that I made for Nessus of larryniven.org a long...
... material that ran in various magazines that I made for Nessus ... to do uploads. I'd love to see that material, Jay. What file format are your scans in?...
