Just thought i'd post something that seems to be working really well within my group. After every scenario i hand out a collection of newspaper articles. Some...
... Interesting. I used to do something similar, in that for each game I'd write the front page of the "Globe Courier" broadsheet newspaper, detailing the...
... I've got about a year's worth of headlines up for my PBeM campaign on gh.avigne.org. I like the idea of letting the players write some headlines, though....
If anyone wants any copies let me know, more than happy to let anyone have news articles/scenarios if they want them. Only condition is that i get some...
I do a local newspaper that's intrinsically linked to the campaign containing a review of past events and info for the future. They players will know they've...
I did something similar, in that I often foreshadowed games via e-mail. I would send subplots, newspaper articles or just a kind of meanwhile paragraph, which...
... each ... Hello there Duane, could you please do me the favour of reposting this file in smaller pieces as my antiquated computer wants to take half an hour...
I was wondering if anyone would care to speculate on the amount of damage that, say...drowning would cause to a character without powers? Would any gruesome...
Hmm, drowning maybe 1d6 htc per frame once they can no longer hold their breath. Remember an ordinary human's stats are a lot lower than a super's. I do not...
If we assume that an average human can hold their breath for about a minute underwater (given they are likely to be thrashing around) and that i gave an...
If you want to be ultra realistic, here you go: http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1999/space_feel.html www.badastronomy.com is a cracking site to have a read of...
... about a ... and ... i ... 3 ... (yeah i ... quick n ... I assumed the width of the combat chart (8 rounds) was a minute, making one round approximately 7...
... While I'm on the subject of files has anyone got the White Dwarf article on the villain group called the Coven?If someone has would you please share it...
The 3 seconds came from the GH rulebook. Simon didn't mention time but Workshop added it in. The system I was implying would be that you could hold your breath...
Confused by the ref to CON - I assume you mean VIG. Good idea. My understanding is that space is a lot worse. not because of the cold or lack of oxygen, but...
Thought about this last night. A very healthy normal human can hold their breath for upto 2 minutes. (without moving about) Most of us cannot manage more than...
Many thanks to everyone that contributed to my question on damages and sent me stats for the coven!There's a lot of good ideas for me to think over.I'm going...
... Nice site but the part about the gas in your blood bubbling as the pressure reduced to zilch and the rupturing of your blood vessels in the vacuum seems to...
... vessels in ... That's because it doesn't happen. This has been experimentally proven. See, for example, "Barometric Pressure" by C.E. Billings in the...
A bit late maybe: Some degree of consciousness will probably be retained for 9 to 11 seconds (see chapter 2 under Hypoxia). In rapid sequence thereafter, ...
... Which is nowhere near as dramatic or even as noticeable as it sounds. Note the "perhaps twice it's normal volume" ... This doesn't make a huge heap of...
... vacuum would ... only a ... would ... The assumption isn't death within 10 seconds, it's *helplessness* within 10 seconds and it's not baseless -- it's an...
... When you're talking about a vacuum, that's the same thing. ... That's not the same thing at all. And we weren't necessarily talking about "sudden" or...
... *helplessness* ... Um... not if you've got a non-helpless friend with you. ... where humans ... talking ... few ... dead in ... actually ... sure. The ... ...
... My my I have let the cat out of the bag!There seem to be two conflicting opinions here.Either the abscence of atmospheric pressure either does cause the...
... If you have a non-helpless friend with you then technically you never reach the state of helplessness so the 10 seconds is redundant. ... NASA probably did...
... out,as ... Divers go from many atmospheres pressure to one atmosphere pressure, a much larger pressure change than from one to zero atmospheres. So I would...
... Agreed. And to be fair, though the bends is caused by excess nitrogen bubbles coming out of the blood. It's not unreasonable to assume the bends would...
