These damn genes. I should have gone with the +3 resistance to coffee-induced hypertension and taken the hit on flawed cholesterol transport... Reroll?
When I was 14 or so, I had a friend once with too much time on his hands... He made this RPG once that we all played, but I'd never seen anything like it before. It was actually quite fun too (pehraps more because of the people not the rules)...
Anyway, instead of traditional formulas/modifiers and dice rolls, he made tables. He had tables for almost any event you could think of in the game. Some for attacking, some for defending, for lock-picking, even for love-making (sad indeed).
On one side of the table was a die roll--usually d20, but sometimes d100. The top was some other factor (like your skill or attribute related to the action in question or another modified die roll, perhaps). And inside the table when cross-referenced was the result of that action.
This guy had pages and pages of tables he had drawn up on graph paper. It was mind-blowing! He had written down sometimes very detailed results in these tables, many of which essentially role-played for you. Like one of the attack results might have been, "The attack does x 10 damage. If killed, the target is decapitated, launching its head into the nearest wall or ground" or [for picking locks] "Your pick breaks and cuts your finger (Failure)". He had written up by hand hundreds and hundreds of these results within an indexed binder (before computers were affordable).
It was mind-numbing how much time he had apparently spent on it. I mean, I had made some basic RPGs in my day, but nothing like that...
What if MS deliberately failed to put up a good case for themselves, calling the 9 mil an "investment" into the efficacy of their patent portfolio? Set a nice precedence for themselves for what was already called a "pittance" wouldn't it?
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These damn genes. I should have gone with the +3 resistance to coffee-induced hypertension and taken the hit on flawed cholesterol transport... Reroll?
That "deletesectorzero" may do something exciting.
Sony spent big bucks on their protection too and a felt tip marker completely defeated it. Big buck does not equal big return.
When I was 14 or so, I had a friend once with too much time on his hands... He made this RPG once that we all played, but I'd never seen anything like it before. It was actually quite fun too (pehraps more because of the people not the rules)...
Anyway, instead of traditional formulas/modifiers and dice rolls, he made tables. He had tables for almost any event you could think of in the game. Some for attacking, some for defending, for lock-picking, even for love-making (sad indeed).
On one side of the table was a die roll--usually d20, but sometimes d100. The top was some other factor (like your skill or attribute related to the action in question or another modified die roll, perhaps). And inside the table when cross-referenced was the result of that action.
This guy had pages and pages of tables he had drawn up on graph paper. It was mind-blowing! He had written down sometimes very detailed results in these tables, many of which essentially role-played for you. Like one of the attack results might have been, "The attack does x 10 damage. If killed, the target is decapitated, launching its head into the nearest wall or ground" or [for picking locks] "Your pick breaks and cuts your finger (Failure)". He had written up by hand hundreds and hundreds of these results within an indexed binder (before computers were affordable).
It was mind-numbing how much time he had apparently spent on it. I mean, I had made some basic RPGs in my day, but nothing like that...
Didn't they say this when people started blocking popups? That was like 5 years ago, wasn't it?
What if MS deliberately failed to put up a good case for themselves, calling the 9 mil an "investment" into the efficacy of their patent portfolio? Set a nice precedence for themselves for what was already called a "pittance" wouldn't it?