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leons1701

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  1. Honestly, the historical stuff was the best part of the book as far as I was concerned. The second book wasn't bad but I didn't like it as much as the first, never got around to the third.
  2. AC: 28 HP: 101/101 Focus: 2/2 Hero Points: 2 Perception: +12 Condition: Shield: Hardness 10 HP: 96/96 (48) Battle Medicine: "I suppose we can't expect to solve every problem by charging something and pushing it over." Boradur says with a slight grin. He glances at Wilder. "Is it just me, or does this have a bit of a fey feel about it?" Mechanics Hand 1: Hammer Hand 2: Shield
  3. AC: 28 HP: 101/101 Focus: 2/2 Hero Points: 2 Perception: +12 Condition: Shield: Hardness 10 HP: 96/96 (48) Battle Medicine: "Hmmm. I don't like the looks of that water either. Calls for the careful approach." Boradur glares at the disgusting swampland between them and the pillar. "I guess you'll want point. Well, good enough, but try not to get too far ahead. Only so much I can do after all." Mechanics Hand 1: Hammer Hand 2: Shield
  4. has it. Figured that one would either go right away or not at all.
  5. Pretty much. I've never even seen the movie, but it was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw Julia Roberts.
  6. As I recall it was pretty much abstracted. In the comics it was pretty clearly unpredictable, with the ability to deliberately trigger it with explosive results. It might have had something to do with how much one used the power, but I wouldn't say there was any really solid evidence either way.
  7. So this has been done before (big surprise, I know). Generally the Strikeforce characters can have pretty much any M&M powers. All Morituri have enhanced physical abilities to some degree, primarily strength and endurance. Various Morturi powers from the comics have included: plasma projection, EM-radiation projection, superspeed, super strength, telepathy, projecting fear, breaking down molecular bonds, hyper-intelligence and invention, creating drugs and poisons delivered by skin contact, sound nullification, density control, copying other powers, pyrokinesis, telekinesis, and more. I'd say any sort of magical character would be out of the question, but not much else really.
  8. True Names was to my knowledge the first to posit a virtual reality "cyberspace" and thus is one of the earliest precursors of cyberpunk. Within the SF community, he's probably better known for A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky and other related works.
  9. AC: 28 HP: 101/101 Focus: 2/2 Hero Points: 2 Perception: +12 Condition: Shield: Hardness 10 HP: 85/96 (48) Battle Medicine: Boradur turns from his own ablutions and frowns slightly at Cirmaran. "Now, now, the offer was well meant, if a bit rash." Mechanics Hand 1: Hammer Hand 2: Shield
  10. I'm let loose, from the noose, that's kept me hanging around.
  11. Baen gets a lot of flack from 'serious' SF fans, but they really do have a significant stable of entertaining authors. (Says the guy who at one time estimated somewhere between 25-30% of his bookshelf was Baen and that doesn't even count the whole Electronic Library).
  12. Watches: I think Boradur has the lowest perception in the party, so probably shouldn't pair with Pendergrast, who likely is even worse. Other than that, no real preference.
  13. So in the original book version of the Harkonnens, the Baron is a super camp gay pedophile and it is not in the least subtle, Herbert made him the most deliberately offensive caricature of a gay man he could think of. It's pretty well known that Herbert cut off all contact with one of his sons because he was gay, so it was definitely not a coincidence. Even the Lynch movie played with that a bit, with Sting prancing around in a leather speedo. The current movie drops all that, the Harkonnens are evil because they are psychopathic sadistic slavers, do you really need any more reason?
  14. This feels familiar, but I'm not placing it yet.
  15. Re Dune. Herbert had a problem that Villeneuve has managed to avoid so far. His basic message of heroes as flawed and dangerous kind of gets lost when you realize that Paul was acting to prevent the extinction of the entire human race. I assume Villeneuve has very deliberately avoided any mention of the "golden path", at this point it looks like Paul has launched the Jihad mostly for very human reasons which actually conveys Herbert's message better than the books did (at least at this point). He also pretty wisely removed the whole homophobic angle from the Harkonens.
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