I realize that I post so infrequently that I should probably re-introduce myself. Rather than bore this list with trivia, the idly curious can check out the ...
How did you do the archiving? I would have loved to had know if possible for my old first humor list, when they moved over to the text only format, I lost alot...
... I did it the old-fashioned way. Lots of copy and pastes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs ...
... Egads, that sounds like an exercise in mind-numbing boredom! Not the messages themselves, but pulling them together one by one. Ick! But thanks for taking...
COMPLEMENTS: I normally would try to get all the lists posts, in digest or ... text, and then have a filter on my emails so that all emails from this list go...
Anyone know where the first idea for character advancement in an RPG came from? As I recall, the first RPGs were the off shoots of war games played with...
Brian Hook
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May 4, 2004 4:02 pm
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... Somebody just posted historical information, apparently written by TSR's Len Lakofka, to rec.games.frp.dnd: ...
Not really sure, since I believe the idea of advancement goes back to rules on how a unit can go from recruit, green, veteran, seasoned and elite or some...
Anyone willing to offer suggestions? The concept of Life Force, in FFRE, started somewhere in the mid 90's, when I read a letter in the Forum section of TSR's ...
elán or elán vital (French) moxie pep (a personal favorite; a very American term) pith tuck (a very British term) vigor (most likely of what you are looking...
You need a term for something you can have a limited number of but don't lose anything for having, except the ability to have more? Ties? Beads? Stones?...
How about promise or possibly potential - this way someone who has a store of points has "untapped potential," while someone using their's has "reach their...
... Sadly, the best I can think of so far is Chi or Ki, both of which are decidedly non-English terms. But I think they are often used in the form of...
From: "Bradd W. Szonye" <bradd-yahoo@...> ... Although this seems like a good fit, part of the reason I had trouble putting forward a term is that you ...
... Here's another thought- how about just calling it Energy? Kiz -- http://www.kizandjenn.com Nuclear Beasts Design Blog! http://www.kizandjenn.com/blog.php...
I've been working with this concept of a magic user whose magic is manifested though their body. Instead of waving a wand and tossing a fireball STS, these ...
I think the term you're looking for shouldn't sound like a regular attribute if you don't want people to think spending it is bad. My first thought was :...
... What they do is augment or magniny their abilities, so "Augmentor" or "Magnifier" would be reasonable terms, if somewhat non-romantic. You could also...
... I've seen the term "Warrior Shaman" used, but that depends on HOW they use magic to do this. Do they go into a trance, reach into the spirit world for...
... That's a rather uninformative term, as adept in modern English just means someone who is highly competent at what (s)he does. The origin "adeptus" was...
... IIRC, in Shadowrun it's actually "Physical Adept" with folks calling them Adepts for short (because there non-physical adepts are generally called mages or...
1. Agreed about mental speed, vs physical speed. A idiot savant or wiz-kid often has a fast mind, but is often loosy at sports, and is often weak of body. Some...
... Actually you can list a block of about 30 messages at a time from the yahoo group page. But you're right, it still took quite a bit of time. ... I've just...
... This project started after I switched over to my latest computer. I used to just collect the emails that interested me, sometimes just take notes and ...
Chi, sort of Chinese or like for life force, you do better, you focus your chi to do it.. But it is more than life force? And darn, you mention you are a ...
Fudge version of Orpheous After one gaming session using the White Wolf game called Orpheous I became enamored of the concept and setting, but not with the...
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