... unlimited connect ... world, but I ... There is freephone access now in the UK, but the servers tend to be slower, and less reliable. Broadband isn't...
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Christopher Weuve
caw@...
Nov 1, 2001 2:55 pm
... Interesting, as my perception is that ISDN is all but dead in the US. (Let me add that I am no longer associated with that industry, so I haven't been ...
Hi, all! Just thought I'd step out of the shadows long enough to ask if there are any "Aliens" fans out there who would be interested in playing in a Colonial...
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Christopher Weuve
caw@...
Nov 1, 2001 9:19 pm
... _Exordium Tactical_ uses d12s exclusively. I really like d12s, because: 1) They roll better than d10s; 2) They stop rolling better than d20s. chrisw...
Outstanding. One more idle query before i pickup the kids at day care. We've all used d8 dice with dungeons and dragons, how come nobody made a d16? If one...
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Anthony Jackson
ajackson@...
Nov 1, 2001 9:42 pm
... Well, the original D&D dice correspond to the five platonic solids (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron). d10s were made later...
It isn't a Platonic solid (regular polyhedron). d4,d6,d8,d12 and d20 are the only five. d10 is the odd man out, shunned by the other dice in their Platonic...
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Joey Browning
jb@...
Nov 1, 2001 9:55 pm
ISTR that Lou Zocci (sp?) used to make and sell actual d100's...huge, almost round things that *never* stopped rolling, particularly when the low impact pieces...
The legendary Zocchihedron. Stopped about as well as a golf ball. I was able to find a website which had d16s (and d100s) for sale. I don't know what the...
... Because there are only so many regular polyhedrons (I can only think of 5) and none of them have 16 faces. The d10 is a bit of a jury rig, where all the...
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Donald F. McLean
dmclean@...
Nov 1, 2001 10:13 pm
... The math geek in me is reminded of the short novel "Flatland"; in which the society described exists in a universe with 2 physical dimensions. Each...
... IIRC, they knew that they weren't perfect circles, but were in fact polygons with so many sides that, for all intents and purposes... I think that and...
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Donald F. McLean
dmclean@...
Nov 1, 2001 10:22 pm
... Right. ... ROTFL! -- Donald McLean dmclean@... Space Telescope Science Institute http://www.stsci.edu AOL Instant...
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Anthony Jackson
ajackson@...
Nov 2, 2001 2:05 am
Has any sfconsim considered using something like the alcubierre warp drive as a manuever drive? There's nothing about the drive which requires it to be ftl, ...
... game. ... Dom: You can bounce this over to the TML; it's cut and pasted from archives on SFCONSIM-L, plus notes from me at the end, noting what's changed...
... Bones. Make as many equally sized facets as you need and round the ends. Anything from 1d3 on up can be fabricated. The D12 bone is handy in that it can...
Uncle Lou sells D16s (and d100s) at his booth every year. He tried to get them bundled with Blood Bowl at one point. And I love the Zocchihedron. It's a...
... The Italian CC-2 flew in August of 1940. It wasn't a turbojet, the compressor being driven by a piston engine, but a jet nonetheless. Unlike the secret...
... There was a guy on the NewtonTalk mailing list who would put his MessagePad 2100 in a ziplock bag and read his email while soaking in the tub. If he was...
New Scientist's parent just sent me some details on a new search engine they have - may be of interest to some of us here? http://www.scirus.com/?s Dom...
... Are you letting the RAF into orbit? In fact, can you give us an idea of content in 'Science Gone Mad'? Dom...
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shudson@...
Nov 2, 2001 1:28 pm
... They do, just not commercially? They're a good starting hack for either increasing granularity (d6->d12; e.g. many PW games) or speeding up attacks...
... were made ... generally ... Those icosohedra _were_ D10s, with each number 0-9 repeated twice; only later did they turn into D20s. I still prefer the...
... Headache." I liked them both a lot, to the point that I gave some thought to Kleinbottleland, in which around-the-world voyagers come back mirror-imaged. ...
