Maou_Tsaou

Then don't come by my place. I make my own wine. "Everything to excess! Moderation is for monks." R.A.H. as L.L. Your some kind of damed on either side of this one, and smack in the middle is so vanila that it must be that "luke warm" that gets spat out. Dan Fogelberg left us not long ago. For the yanks here 'Same Auld Lang Signe' will be especially poingient this year.

Okay, I think our friend Indianpartner means something like this (I don't mean to put words in your mouth Indianpartner, please correct me where I'm wrong): What were the possistions of the planets in the sky at the moment and place of your birth? Simplly because you don't believe that the question has any practical value does not address the question. Do you know? If not then the mathmatics involved in creating a "Birth Chart" is suffecent to answer this question. Not nessecary, but suffecent. Now are you ready for the lecture you asked for? Our ancesters had to play the hand they were delt. These people did not have the benifit of the knowledge we possess today. We DO have the benifit of THEIR knowledge. This is how we came to be here now. It's part of the story of us all, and in the long run that may be all we leave of ourselves in this place. And maybe not even that. I will assume that you have a basic working knowledge of Astronomy. I'm not asking you to have read Peebles here, but if you don't grasp the basic concepts of Cosmic Measurement then you'll be lost here. If you want me to open a thread for Equinoxes (do you have any Latin? What is Nox?), Solstices, the Ecliptic, or what it means for a Planet to be "In" a given consilation then holler, but else if I'm going straight to the Math asked for. You first require "quite" a collection of tables and charts. A breif and incompleate list: Standard Time Zones of the World Sidereal Times for the Sun at Each Degree of the Zodiac A section of Cusp Graphs (funny here is I've only got an Ausie reference book for this and it's all in the WRONG hemisphere for me.) Okay this is boiled down from "Your Planetary Personality" by Denis Oakland First you need information. Where and when were you born? Remember we are talking about EXACTALLY where in the sky was each and every planet, at THAT moment on THAT spot. The more exact your information, the more exact your answer. GIGO Are you begining to see what Indianpartner is refering too? Refer to the Ephemers Table which this source baselines as the Sun to Mars relation and pull the figures closest to your birth date on either side. Subtract the later figure frome the ealier one (given in military time) and convert to Greenwich. Add the number of days to prior Sun posistion. divide by 5 Since the table uses 5 day incriments this "adjusts" the Suns posistion on the Chart to the actuall Day of Birth. This figure can now reference the Sun-Sidereal Time Table to end up determing the Solar Noon Sidereal Time at your birth moment. There are additional procedures for refining the time from noon to your actual time of birth and actual place of birth. Is this sufficent to get the point across?

Lord, help me. Okay here it goes. I sus the question this way. If one is asking how too aquire the most money in the least amount of time within the IT skill set then there is one path. If one is asking how to earn a modest living in a field of their own choosing that is another path. And if one is asking weather one can survive in following their 'hearts desire' then that is the road less taken. So saying that you ask specificly about specific skills as opposed to generic skills. Well the choice is diaditic. Pick your poision. If you keep score of your life in money then pay strong attention to the wishes of the company. If the majority of us choose this method then, after the downsizing, it'll all shake out to "My shack is bigger than your shack". Else if you've got personal knowledge for personal fufillment. I learn because "I" want to know, not for some Company. Of course the good vs. evil model of looking at such problems sets up imediate conflicts. "Who's side are YOU on?" Can you find a more middle ground in your question? Douglas Adams had a bit where this "Great" alien society built the Earth as a giant computer who's program was to calculate an answer to the great question of the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. The answer was 42 GIGO What "IS" the meaning of life? Do you spend more time in a state of aingst in constant flux, trying to get bills paid to suport your life style? Or are you activly trying to follow the thing that you care about? If your putting those things off until later, after retirement perhaps, then I could see how this might generate angist. Take the wisdom of our fathers as you will. Perhaps the only purpose we have tword a "Meaning" in this life is caretakers. God asks us to "house sit" and "look after the animals". We got more intrested in rummaging through It's stuff, especally the stuff It specifically told us "not to mess with". Instead of apologising, we lie. < boot > out of the garden. I say that to say this. By this view, we were MADE to be caretakers. There is NO GREATER thing (imho) that we can take care of than our familes. Show me a species that dosen't protect it's women and children and I'll show you a species that's fixen to become extenct. Just don't get TOO enamared with the $ It's fiat anyway... MAOU

The simpilest thing is to pull a sylabus from the net. Game Design is like film school in it's early stages right now. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ These will have all sorts of nice free and legal links to very valueable information. Next, think about games that you really admire. Who was the designer/s? The lead programers? Do they have a personal site? Do they Blog? It's not gonna slow down for you so jump in and start following the news. http://www.erasmatazz.com/ The above is one of the guys that really had an influence on my intrest in how games tic internally. Look for his PDF AoCGD (The Art of Computer Game Design). It's required reading for many courses, including the gatech class above. See if there is a project running curently to emulate a game you admire. Often the current source code will be released with the exe. See how they work the problems. Reverse engenear AMAP! http://www.freecol.org/download.html Finally I personally am an advocate of the old pen and paper games. IMHO a well written ruleset is a well written algorithem. At the idea stage it can sometimes be simpler to test principals of mechanics as pen and paper or board games first, before investing development effort on a "shaky" idea. http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/ Hopefully this is what you have in mind! Good luck! And bear in mind that if you treat your efforts like a part-time job, i.e. work the problems a little every day, even when you don't want too, and you work on a project that your passionate about, you can't REALLY fail. Unless you hang a $ expectation on it! Glad to add more if you'd like. Go Kiwi! Maou

The Regan White House wasn't above such matters.Also many of the Eastern augries such as the 'I Ching' can be seen as a way of focusing one's thoughts on the question, rather than as directions to be slavishly followed.Anything that makes a World Leader stop and think a bit before they act can't be all bad can it?FWIWMaou

To New Zealand? In a heartbeat! Without looking back! Dunedin please, one way! <sigh> Maou

Not trying to be a jerk here.... I promise! But have you seen population figures for Aisa? Europe seems to be postureing to feed China and the U.S. apears to be working on India. Of course the U.S. has Wal-Mart and if there actually IS an election in the U.S. in '08 then we could end up with another Arkansas Governor as President. However with '08 being an Olympic Year the curent administration may ride out the summer while the Commercial powers that be use their media outlets to tout our HGH infused athleets overly dramatised victories over nations with populations smaller than our least populace State. (Wyoming) Sometime in Sept. ? they strike again, only this time the Saudi Nationals are from Iran. The executive orders that went into effect in early '07 kick in making the excecutive branch soley in charge. In a speach Bush says that the Nation must "stand strong" and so will remain Pres. through this "crises". He then declaires War on Iran. Or am I just paranoid? Maou

Jung called the process in which people subconsciously look for something to happen that they've recently become aware of Syncronicity.Now as far as the planets posistions determining our destinies, my point is not that this is the correct belief but rather that the two concepts of planetary possision and the posistion of the planets at the time of ones birth determining an individuals destiny were obviously intermixed to begin with.It was only much later that these concepts became sorted out.Kepler, a truly underlooked individual in the History of Science IMHO, died from an illness contracted by walking a long distance to collect a debt owed for a horoscope drawn up for a nobleman if I recall properly.He didn't get paid.Einstine said that it had always pained him to know how shabbaly Galaleo treated Kepler.The man who made one of the most profound mathmatical discoveries ever concieved practiced Astrology.Newton got his clutzy Calculas from Kepler.I try to imagine pre-neolithic culture which was pretty stable for tens of thousands of years before the "Revolution".Have you ever seen "The Gods Must Be Crazy?"It is important to know the seasons.The easiest way is to check the sky.The shortest day of the year occurs during the coldest time of year.6 moons later comes a day with 12hrs day and 12hrs night.What would the tribe think of these times of year?Would that affect the way they view children born on these days?Again not that we should believe that way, but don't you think that some of the "silly" parts may actually have quite a bit to tell us about ancestors who could leave no other records?Maou

While I agree that the example dosn't show that circles don't exist, the above has me scratching my head for two reasons. First, a line contains an infinite number of points. Second, the only value math has as a formal system is it's ability to help us model "objective" reality, whatever "That' is. Goodel showed the limits of formal systems for capturing "Truth". I suspose what I'm trying to say is that I don't see how an equation equaits to proff. Anyway, Rucker used this as a springboard into Transfinite Numbers. Aelf-One and such. I didn't mean to imply no Circles. Sorry. Maou

This continues to naggale at the back of my thoughts all day. Quite intresting stuff really. Okay then, Your second quoted point first. (say "That" sentence three times fast and see if you still know what I mean...) Heinlein used a gyroscope that was pushed "inward/kata" on all three axises. "The Number of the Beast" It's 6^6^6 or six to the sixth and again to the sixth. In the story it was the number of Universes available.... at first. Now the paradoxes. I don't understand why the Universe would choose to act this way. I defently don't see how the Universe would cease to be. Then in moving back into nothing,... I suspose that answers the directional nature with a possability but what about Uncertinty? The Observer affects the Observed. This is almost the old "If a tree fell in the woods....." but backward. This is anonamous, I came across it in Russels "History of Philosophy" There once was a man who said God must find it increadably odd to find that this tree continues to be when there's no one about in the quad and the reply; Dear Sir your astonishments odd I am always about in the quad that's why this tree continues to be it's percieved by Your faithfully God Sorry not to wait awhile but like I said.... It's like having a bad song stuck in your head all day. Not saying your theorys are bad (quite the opposite) but that sometimes it's hard to shake it. So it seems that yes, I do see the world a bit diffrently Maou

This is hitting closer to the point. Pardon the pun Infinagons don't cut it as infininty is just a way of saying I don't know. If you wanna throw infinities into the thing then you can renormilize it afterwards. I believe the first time I ran across the little example for .9_ = 1 was in a book called "Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker. The one I liked better from the first chapter is this; Take a center-point. Extend a line of unit 1. Make the Circle r=1. Now back to the point bit. What is a point? Well we simplly say they are dimensionless. Something like ghostmarkers in space. There can be an unlimited amount. Inifinate amount. Okay then, what does this mean? Take center-point from above. Extend a line of unit 2. Make the Circle r=2 (congurent?) Now the questions are; 1 How many points make up the Circumfrence of Circle r=1? 2 How many points make up the Circumfrence of Circle r=2? 3 What is the ratio of the Circumfrence of Circle r=1 to the Circumfrence of Circle r=2? In other words how can these figures Circumfrence consist of the same number of infinate points (radi from center-point for proff) when r=2's Circumfrence is twice that of r=1? I found it a nifity read, Maou

There are plenty of traditions that espouse a view that whatever this experience is, it might have something to do with "the Universe discovering itself". Viewed in this manner such a "transitory material world" captures moments of beauty and light that are "Soully" for your experience and yours alone. IMHO this makes this "transitory material world" striking beautiful to me. When one questions one, I must ask "What is one?" Why can not my contomplation of the Universe find the same destination as the contomplation of my navel? Some thoughts.

Genesis is a very intresting collection of writings.Something that most Literalists fail to see about the Creation stories (2 of them) is that the second one is told from the point of the loosers of the Neolithic revolution.I find this important.Man decides he knows more than God.This takes Man out of the 'garden' state in which he formally had lived where the enviroment provided what was required, each to it's season.Shortly Cain kills Able, (the Farmers knock off the Nomads because they need the land for their agraculture) and we're into City building, which means our civilation.Gen4; "And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering".From this we get the Jewish and therefore the Christians strange fasination with blood IMHO. Things like ritualistic canabalisam, via communion. Or the whole Scapegoat concept.To state a belief and stick with it through faith is a respectable stance, but attempting to make others accept your views on faith is at best, totally misguided.A basic idea of Science is to not tear down a theory without having something better to replace it with. Also each and every claim in a theory must be falseafiable.This means that claims such as "The Earth was created with the appearence of age." are compleatly lacking in scientific merrit. Under those conditions any test would show the Earth to be older than 6000years. This isn't scientifc at all. This is someone telling me "I accept/grew up with/etc. that God created the Earth when Ulsher said He did. I require no further proff so neither should you." This is the fundamental problem between the aproaches in my opinion.A Litteral interpratation dosn't cut it.1 Kings 7:23, 23 ? And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.So if this is the literal word of God then He can't do math!Pi is 3.1415........But God aparently says it's just 3.Screw the decimal.I guess we were created in His image.Maou

This is from, Magic Words, from a Netsilik shaman, Nalungiaq (as recorded in Jerome Rothenberg's Shaking the Pumpkin and in Robert Bly's News of the Universe), reproduced here from Bly's anthology:"In the very earliest time,when both people and animals lived on earth,a person could become an animal if he wanted toand an animal could become a human being.Sometimes they were peopleand sometimes animalsand there was no difference.All spoke the same language.That was the time when words were like magic.The human mind had mysterious powers.A word spoken by chancemight have strange consequences.It would suddenly come aliveand what people wanted to happen could happenall you had to do was say it.Nobody can explain this:That's the way it was."It kinda makes you wonder don't it?Maou

Balance of Power, by Chris Crawford.Late '80s I think.I don't coun't his Eastern Front cause that one was a Kobiashi Mairu.Some stuff never should have made the shelves.Maou

http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/ These guys have scans of old chit style games as well as a utility that allows you to create your own. Hit Points, Movement Allowance, etc. Anything you want really. Hope this is helpful. Merry Festivus! Maou

Are you intrested in fantasy concept?This is the working structure so far useing an old ruleset as a framework.The Fantasy TripMaster Table of ContentsIn the Labyrinth(Pts I & II)Table of Contents 2I. Introduction 31. The World of Cidri 42. Acknowledgements 5II. Role-Playing 5A. Creating a Character 51. Starting a New Character 52. Different Kinds of Character 6a. Fighters 6b. Other Heroes 6c. Wizards 63. Character Generation Tables 74. Selecting Attributes 75. Strength 8a. Advantages of Great Strength 86. Dexterity 87. Intelligence 88. Choosing Abilities 99. Character Type: Wizard or Hero? 910. Spells 911. Talents 912. Languages 913. Forgetting Old Spells (and Talents) 914. Character Record Sheets 1015. Experience Points 10a. For Combat 10b. For Casting Spells 10c. For Die Rolls 10d. For Time Spent in Play 10e. Game Master's Discretion 10f. Note to Game Masters 1016. Increasing Your Attributes 10a. Increasing Your Attributes without Experience Points 1117. Experience Points for Very Powerful Races 1118. Talents 11a. IQ 7 Talents 12b. IQ 8 Talents 12c. IQ 9 Talents 12d. IQ 10 Talents 13e. IQ 11 Talents 14f. IQ 12 Talents 15g. IQ 13 Talents 15h. IQ 14Talents 1519. Languages 1620. Learning New Talents and Languages 1621. Losing Abilities when Attributes are Reduced 17Advanced MeleeB. Weapon Combat 11. General Discussion 22. Turn Sequence and Options 2a. List of Options 3b. Changing Options 43. Movement 4a. Movement of Multi-hex Figures 4b. Shifting 4c. Moving Onto Other Figures 4d. Flight 4e. Crawling, Kneeling and Lying Prone 5f. Actions During Movement - Jumping, Etc. 5g. Hidden Movement 5h. Surprise 5i. Initiative 54. Facing 6a. Engaged and Disengaged 65. Attacks 6a. Weapons 7b. Peculiar Weapons 7i. Naginata 7ii. Boomerang 7iii. Bola 7iv. Net and Trident 7v. Sha-Ken 8vi. Cestus 8vii. Quarterstaff 8viii. Lasso 8ix. Whip 8x. Nunchuks 9xi. Spear Thrower 9xii. Blowgun 9c. Rolling for a Hit 9d. Rolling for Damage 9e. Armor and Shields: Protection From Hits 9f. Weapons Table 10g. Armor & Shield Table 12h. Other Weapons 12i. Pole Weapons 12j. Jabbing with a Pole Weapon 13k. Shield Rush Attacks 13l. Left Hand Attacks 13m. Thrown Weapons 13i. Thrown Spells 14n. Missile Weapons 14i. Crossbows 14ii. Prone and Kneeling Fire 14iii. Sheltering Directly Behind Fallen Bodies 14iv. Oversized Targets 14v. Flying Targets 15vi. Missile Spells 15o. Hitting Your Friends 15p. Hand-to-Hand Combat 15i. Pinning a Foe 15ii. Multiple HTH Combat 15q. Disengaging 18i. Disengaging from HTH Combat 18r. Defending and Dodging 18s. Forcing Retreat 18t. Reactions to Injury 186. Special Situations 18a. Adverse Conditions 18i. Broken Ground 18ii. Cliffs, Walls, Shafts, Etc. 18iii. Darkness 19iv. Water 19b. Aimed Shots - An Optional Rule 20i. Waiting for an Opening 20c. Ambush 20d. Automatic Hits 20e. Berserking 20f. Clubs 20g. Combat with Bare Hands, Daggers, Cestus or Club 21h. Concealment 21i. Crippling Hits - An Optional Rule 21j. Dagger Marksmanship 21k. Death 22l. Delayed Actions - An Optional Rule 22m. Dropped and Broken Weapons 22n. Fine Weapons and Armor 22o. Fire as a Weapon 23p. Gas Bombs 23q. Gunpowder Weapons 23r. Gunpowder Bombs 24s. Height 24t. Narrow Tunnels 24u. Nonhuman Figures 24v. Long Range Missile Fire 25w. Poison 25x. Recovering Lost Strength 25i. Recovery from Injury 25ii. Recovery from Exhaustion 25y. Special Combat Talents 26z. Running Battles and Long Distance Duels 26aa. Slaughtering Helpless Figures 26bb. Sweeping Blows 26cc. Taking Prisoners 26dd. Trampling 267. Example of Combat 278. Quick Combat System 28a. Sequence of Events 28b. Movement 29c. Options 29d. Hitting Your Foe 29e. Who May be Attacked 29f. DX Adjustments 299. Mounted Combat 29a. Options for Riders and Mounts 29b. Movement and Weight Carried 30i. Engaged and Disengaged 30ii. Leaning - The Rider's Movement on hi Mount 30iii. Pulling a Rider from his Mount 30c. Attacks 30i. The Cavalry Lance 31ii. The Pike 31d. DX Modifications for Mounted Combat 31e. Armor for Riding Beasts 31f. Using Magic from Horseback 31g. Panic 31h. Aerial Combat 32i. Effects of Damage on Fliers 32Advanced WizardC. Magical Combat 21. Wizards on Cidri 32. How to Cast Spells 33. Types of Spells 3a. Missile Spells 3b. Thrown Spells 3i. Secret Protection 4ii. Control Spells 4c. Creation Spells 4i. Summoned Creatures 5ii. Images and Illusions 5iii. Disbelief by Animals 5iv. Limitations on Illusions 6v. Fire, Walls, and Shadow 6d. Special Spells 74. Continuing Spells 75. Iron Silver and Magic 76. Casting Spells from Books 77. Scrolls 8a. Cost of Scrolls Table 88. Magical Equipment and Laboratories 89. Gestures and Incantations 810. Wishes 911. Using Magic: A summary of Methods 1012. Learning New Spells 1013. Spell Tables 11a. IQ 8 Spells 11b. IQ 9 Spells 11c. IQ 10 Spells 12d. IQ 11 Spells 12e. IQ 12 Spells 13f. IQ 13 Spells 13g. IQ 14 Spells 14h. IQ 15 Spells 15i. IQ 16 Spells 16j. IQ 17 Spells 16k. IQ 18 Spells 17l. IQ 19 Spells 17m. IQ 20 Spells 1814. Inventing New Spells 2315. Chemist and Alchemists 23a. Chemists Table 24b. Alchemists Table 24c. Developing New Potions 2516. Magical Items 25a. The Rule of Five: Wearing Several Magic Items 25b. Creating Magical Items 25i. Weapon/Armor Enchantment 26ii. Lesser Magic Item Creation 26iii. Greater Magic Item Creation 26iv. Magic Item Creation Table 27v. Multiply Enchanted Items 31vi. Multiply Enchanted Items (cont.) 30vii. Exceptions to the "doubling" rule 30viii. A Note on Apprentices 30ix. A Note on Ingredients 30c. Cost of Magical Items 30d. Enchanting Objects w/ Immunity Spells 31e. Lesser Magical Items 31i. Spell-like Items (IQ 8 - 14) 31ii. Other Magic Items 32iii. Protective Amulets 33f. Greater Magical Items 33i. Spell-like Items (IQ 15 - 20) 33ii. Other Magic Items 32g. Researching New Magical Items 35h. Prices for new Potions and Magic Items 36 i. Cost for New Potions 36 ii. Costs for Lesser Magical Items 37 iii. Costs for Greater Magical Items 37i. Bizarre Magical Items 37j. De-Enchanting Magical Items 37k. Removing an Obnoxious Magical Item 38l. Destruction of Magical Items 38m. Finding Magical Items for Sale 3817. Gates 39In the Labyrinth (Pts III-V & Appendices)III. Creating a World 18A. Creating a Labyrinth 181. Stocking the Labyrinth 18a. Random Stocking 19i. Sample Stocking Tables 19b. Artifacts 202. Mapping and Map Reading 213. Map Example 22B. The World Outside 231. Building Towns and Villages 232. Outdoor Encounters 23a. Lost in the Wilderness 23b. Outdoor Encounter Tables 24C. Economic System 241. Money 242. Taxes, Banks, etc. 243. Moneylenders 254. Disaster, War and Other Nuisances 255. Jobs 25a. Finding a Job 25b. Changing Jobs 25c. Leaving on an Adventure 25d. Getting Back Late (or Hurt) 25e. Table of Jobs 26f. Raises, Bonuses, etc. 27g. Wills 27D. Cultures and Customs 271. Laws, Trials and Jail 27a. Trials 28b. Jail 282. Duels 283. Clothing 294. Guilds 29a. The Wizard's Guild 29i. Forgetting Spells and Talents 29ii. Checking Items for Magic 29iii. Magical Work / Consultation 29iv. Dues 29b. The Thieves' Guild 29c. The Mechanician's Guild 30d. The Scholar's Guild 30e. The Mercenaries' Guild 305. Religion, Churches, Temples and Cults 316. Other Social Structures 31E. Game Time 311. Aging 32IV. Going on an Adventure 33A. Setup for Play 331. Entering a Labyrinth 332. Making Up a Party 33a. Hired Help 33b. Slaves 34c. Finding an Employer 343. Equipment 35a. Weight Carried 35b. Armor Weight and Cost 35c. Weights of Characters 35d. Weight Carried by Pack Animals 35e. Weight Carried by Fliers 36f. Example of Weight Carried 36g. Equipment Table 36h. Hints on Equipment 37B. Playing the Game 371. Playing GM Characters 37a. Reaction Rolls 37b. Saving Rolls 37i. Saving Rolls Table 382. Nuisance Encounters 383. Time, Speed and Distance 43a. Walking and Running 43b. How Many Turns? 43c. Travel Speeds 724. Light 43a. Light's Effect on Combat 43b. Travel in the Labyrinth 435. "Did He See It?" 446. "Did He Recognize It"? 447. Mapping the Adventure 448. Doors 44a. Keeping a Door Closed 45b. Hidden Doors 459. Tunneling 4510. Traps 45a. Examples of Traps 46b. Detecting Traps 46c. Removing Traps 46d. Springing Traps 46e. Building New Traps 46f. Types of Traps 4711. Noise 4712. The Character's Do What the Player's Do 4713. Example of Map Narration: Playing the Game 4714. Partial Secrecy 49V. Flora and Fauna: The Creatures of Cidri 50A. Humanoid Races 501. Human 502. Orc 503. Elf 504. Dwarf 505. Goblin 506. Hobgoblin 507. Halfling 508. Prootwaddle 519. Centaur 5110. Giant 5111. Gargoyle 5112. Reptileman 5113. Merman 52a. Deep Elves 5214. Half-Breed 52B. Intelligent Monsters 521. Dragons 52a. Dragon Table 532. Demons 543. Demon, Lesser 544. Sasquatch 545. Wyverns 546. Wraiths 547. Troll 548. Octopus 549. Neanderthals 5510. Ogre 5511. Vampire 5512. Werewolf 5513. Ghouls 5514. Shadowights 5515. Hydra 5516. Basilisk 5617. Ghosts 5618. Wights 5619. Night-gaunts 5620. Revenants 5721. Mnoren 5722. Gods and Demi-Gods 57a. Apotheosis 57C. Magical Creatures 571. Elemental 57a. Earth 58b. Air 58c. Fire 58d. Water 582. Apep 593. Zombie 594. Skeleton 59D. Riding Animals 591. Horse 59a. Donkey 59b. Mule 59c. Unicorn 59d. Pegasus 592. Warhorses 593. Other Mammals 60a. Indricotherium 60b. Elephant and mammoth 60c. Oxen, Yak, caribou, water buffalo 60d. Camel 604. Reptiles 60a. Riding Lizard 60b. Saurian 60c. Walker Lizard 605. Birds 60a. Diatryma 60b. Roc 606. Gryphon 617. Dolphin 618. Other Riding Animals 619. Draft Animals 61E. Beasts 611. Wolves and Dogs 61a. Dire Wolf 612. Bear 613. Big Cats 61a. Sabertooth Tiger 614. Little Cats 615. Apes 61a. Great Ape 61b. Baboon 61c. Chimpanzee 61d. Monkey 616. Slinker 627. Dragonet 628. Trained Animals 62F. Giant Insects and other crawlies 631. Stone Beetle 632. Spider, Giant 633. Scorpion, Giant 634. Hymenopteran, 63a. Basic 63b. Spyder 63c. Low Render 63d. Termagant 63e. Phlanx 63f. Gantua 63g. Myrmidon 63h. Plunge 63i. Worker 635. Snakes 646. Lizards 647. Goo 64G. Water Creatures 641. Carnivorous Fish 642. Giant Snapping Turtle 643. Uncle Teeth 644. Clam, Giant 645. Kraken 646. Crocodile 65H. Plants 651. Bloodtree 652. Am bush 653. Mushrooms 65I. Nuisance Creatures 651. Slimes 662. Rats 663. Vampire Bats 664. Spiders & Wasps 665. Scuttles 676. Piranhakeets 677. Scorpions 678. Children 67J. Notes on Successful Game Mastering 67VI. Appendices 68A. Weapons Table 68B. The Village of Bendwyn 70C. A Map of Southern Elyntia 72D. Record Sheets 74BACK BLURBINDEXERATTACIDRI GAZETTE

Okay I don't mean to offend your theories by saying this but I'm typing off the top of my head here so if I get a detail wrong it's probably me knocking the rust off. Edwin Abbot: Flatland late 1800s' I think, Boyia was a splash in tea circle conversation. Rudy Rucker: The Fourth Diminsion, Infinity and the Mind, Mind Tools Robert Heinlein: And he built a Crooked House, Stranger in a Strange Land, many others Madline l'Engle: A Wrinkel In Time (series) Martin Gardner I could go on http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php?noflash=1 Okay, I've been over this one for purposes of a game ruleset that incorporates timetravel. I'll mention this and see what you think. In Stranger In a Strange Land Mike the Martian (you grok?) sends an object into the 4th dimension in the middle of the room while surounded by cameras. No matter which cameras film was looked at, the object always appeared to get smaller, and smaller. Even when the cameras were directly across from each other. Let's call that direction kata (from Rucker) and then we know by analogy that there must be an opposite direction from kata. Rucker called it ana. That's a way of conceptually pointing to the 4th spacial dimension. That is "Not" the dimension of time. Time seems to be something of a monopole. It only goes in one direction. Also let's call your model a book. Where "Is" that book? Too much? I haven't even touched paradoxes. Maou

What ever gave you the idea that this was something you would/could be responsable for? I realise you mean well but isn't this atitude a bit arogant? If "I" get placed in the virus catergory then I've got news. Any white cell messes with me is in for a fight. What gave you the right to decide good and evil? Was it that fruit you picked? Would you be willing to restore a puppy to life by having a boil on the bottom of your foot? What about a rat? It's because one's furry and one's hairy, isn't it? Maybe Gaia Earth birthed us simply to take care of that BIG salad she ate in the carboniferous period? You get the idea, She's fealing a little backed up so She makes us to act as a kind of laxative. So we burn up all that sludgy stuff in Her bowels, She gets a little windy for a quick few Centuries (global warming), and wa-la! These pipes are clean! Of course, not needing mankind any longer, Mama Gaia "throws us off like a bad cold", as Carlin would say. This view dosen't say much for my species, but then again neither does my species. I think therefore I am only covers me, not you. In the end that's really all I have too work on. For what it's worth Maou

My reply to a statement like this is something like; "What do you believe in?" IMHO, this shows in the least a myopic view of objective reality. At worst it's simple anthropomorphic arrogance. Let's give our ancestors, and this subject, the respect they deserve. Don't think that statement is true? Look up the latest info on Stonehenge. It matches the Solstices and Equinoxs with their Lunar Months. This is because at the time the Neolithic revolution was going on and mankind was shifting from a hunting/nomadic social model to a sedient/agracultural method. Laugh at the stars if you will but I live in the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. and the Elk follow the Moon. Of course if I stop hunting and start growing crops, the frist day of Spring becomes a bit more important to me. Still so smug? Then consider this. The average life span of a Neolithic farmer was probably no longer than the mid-twenties. So those ancient monuments were built by what todays socity considers children. I'll end this with a bit from a great comic writer (among many other things) named Tom Weller; So, having 6 steps instead of 5, deductive logic is better than inductive. Quid pro you go, you go. Talk to me when I can feal it,please. Hit me when I can understand. Maou Notice from rvalkass: Anything you copied needs to have QUOTE tags around it. http://www.besse.at/sms/smsintro.html Notice from Maou_Tsaou: Sorry, I'll remember for the future!

Intresting idea dampening the field w/Fe however Sol is on a lifecycle that ends in a white-dwarf last I'd read (some 10+ yrs so...). I'd guess that Iron would only hasten the pocess but even the theory boys don't have a total model. Problems like only 1/3rd the Neutrienos observed in nature than predicted in theory, etc. Now the term teleport is loosely defined at best. It is my understanding that "teleporting" of photons has been achieved (New Zealand?) useing partical corospondance, but that won't help us here. How about Tecerat? Of course Eddington's observations of Sol, helping to prove Einstines Specal Relativity, suggest that the deflection of a midlin-sized Star is not very large meaning that you'd probably have to burn quite a few Stars to make a "wrinkel" of any meaningful size. We may have those Stars in Glactic Centers, where 90% of a Galaxys Stars reside. The background cosmic radiation in these centers may be so intense as to render complex carbon chains impossable, therby rendering these system steril by any concievable Bio-chem standard. Else if, we may turn to theoritcal sources for the vast energies required. Perhaps vacume fluxuation. There is no limit to the possable energy/partical. Maybe something like membraine colision? Wiggins the only one who "really" gets M theory and even when he talks... It makes you feel like going home and watching an episode of the Telitubbies. Anyway, never say never. It'd be a bit less than five min. before we'd notice anything. If she actually did colapse catastrophacly into her Iron core she'd ring like a bell if there was air around to carry the energy. As the Earths atmosphere was being striped away perhaps it would do so with a resounding <RING!>. Just some thoughts for what their worth. Maou

This is my first post and I'm not positive it belongs here but while it's still on my mind I suppose this'll do.When reading the agreement while registering it mentions that Respect is frowned upon. I'd think from reading the text that Disrespect was meant.