LibriumArcana.Games

I usually remember making these kinds of threads. But I've been away. And yesterday I went and started a thread over in N+P and didn't even think to look in the Great Hall.

Oh well. Happy belated fourth.

Higgs bosons fill space and cause particles of matter to have mass by interacting with them. So, to lose weight, get a Higgs boson repellant.

Apparently, you'll also lose inertia that way. I wonder what theoretical possibilities might appear when we learn more.

I think this is big enough to go here rather than Science and Logic, but if not, please move. :) (CNN) -- Scientists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new particle whose characteristics match those of the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in physics, which could help unlock some of...

One thing that bears thinking about: how reliable is magic in gaining information, stuff like scrying and such? Also, how easy/hard is it to block or fool them? Divinations are typical of classical ideas about magic, and they are often a highly undervalued in fantasy, both games and writing. As a re...

BTW: now we have a possibility as to why Girard might not like paladins very much, apart from him being Chaotic. Black dragons being in his family tree and all.

Ouch. So much for the possibility that the crazy theory was untrue. But something on the caliber of "Familicide" was bound to come back to haunt Vaarsuvius, and not just because of the fact that he's presumably going to come under the control of the fiends at some point.

I don't know what's scarier: the fact that a significant candidate is saying stuff like this, or the fact that it's almost become normalized to say stuff like this. People actually think that the founding fathers didn't want separation of church and state. That's just mind-boggling. I would frankly ...

Desalinating/irrigating large parts of the countryside is not a trivial task, though. Wouldn't it be easier to just make the food? Also, they would have to understand what's going on with the soil. Did the ancients understand how this stuff worked? :???: Either way, this is basically entropy-reversa...

SirNitram wrote:Well, I'm now part of the Herd.

Yay! Welcome aboard. ^^

Steve wrote:The madness spreads!

Must inoculate against this plague!

Only a matter of time. Resistance is futile, or something like that.

<goes back to check>

Nope, didn't see any. Though that doesn't mean that it isn't true.

Of course, if it's the leading theory, then the Giant might well go and change it to something else.

Minx, I would prefer you move away from the DnD spellbook. As I have outlined, the limit is you cannot create or destroy things. You can change them however. So a magic user could make a fire using heat in the air for example, his surroundings would get colder as a result though. You can turn water...

Link This is pretty outrageous, even for Iran. Is it due to the recent tensions over their nuclear program or is it just the theocracy showing its true colors again? (CNN) -- A computer programmer from Canada faces imminent execution in Iran for the actions of another person, which he had no contro...

This guy might have been the president of France.

Or at least a candidate.

A lot will also depend on whether the muggles are able to band together and deal with the mages, at least in principle. If the mages are so powerful that this would be impossible, or at least, very hard to do, they can set themselves up as gods. On the other hand, if magic is highly utilitarian, but...

841.

Whoops, that's not good.

Note the face markings - appropriate for who they're looking for.

Of course, it might all be an illusion, for all we know. But somehow I doubt it is.

That's something I've wondered about. But it is going to be enormously dependent on the details of what is possible with this, how hard it is, what resources it takes and so on. Few questions which will dramatically affect stuff. Fist, power. Is this magic limited to simple stuff like Prestidigitati...

Well, trap or not, at least it is trapped.

840

Moral of the story: it's not good to be a kobold when the Order of the Stick is around.

Roy's error in guessing which gate to go to next dates from his question to the Oracle. He asked which of the two following gates Xykon would go to next: Girard's Gate or Kraagor's Gate. The Oracle answered "of the two named, Xykon will go to Girard's Gate next", or something along those lines. Not ...

Yup, he's Neutral, so like Julia Greenhilt he swings both ways.

But here's a new update. Rich is really on a roll these past few weeks: 836.

Elan being Eland and over-thinking the rules of drama again.

But it's better than being taken by surprise due to genre blindness, I guess.

835.

You know, for all that Vaarsuvius and Belkar don't get along, they apparently do have some things in common.

So much for the kobold joining the Order, at least willingly.

Damnit! You beat me by minutes :p I like how Redcloak told Xykon just enough of the truth to keep everything going. Also, Xykon has an astral plane fortress... That's never a good thing. But thanks to Redcloak, the Order mostly likely won't have to storm it! Yay for evil's self defeating tendencies...

It seems that Belkar can track after all, if he gets the right environment.

834

Roy is probably right about not fighting at a tactical disadvantage, though. And he doesn't know that they have backup, so it's probably a good thing that he waited to get the whole team.

833.

Seems that Redcloak managed that pretty well, considering the situation.

Yes, I get that, but my post was more about the comments that he looked pissed. Maybe I just interpreted that too literally.

Xykon might not be happy about having Tsukiko murdered like that, but he himself provided the rebuttal "we play rough". I wonder whether Redcloak will use it.

His eyes are normally like that. But he'll sure want an explanation.

Redcloak had better have put some ranks into Bluff to pull this one off.