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Agreed. Now off you trot, Pid. Come back in a few hours, as they say: with your rhino or on top of it.

You mean besides a common language, political stability, complimentary exports, and overall economic growth? Sports.

I don't know how tough a rhino's ear is. I did a quick google, and it would also appear to be a novel expression. I'm quite pleased with it. I don't know about the fire thing. I have certainly heard it in several places. My guess would be no-one in their scientific right mind would go about either lighting brushfires or annoying rhino. NB. Putting your junk into a rhino's ear will almost certainly annoy it.

And I apologise for being unnecessarily rude. Sore point, I'm afraid.

If only we Brits hadn't been such c***s about the Commonwealth you wouldn't have to.

I know. I have also decided that I won't curse our dwarf with sore knees unless he submits himself to the vigil to attain full cleric status and magical powers.

Great thinking, Gorth. I particularly like Matxin Josepe de Gorthoba. And the Maria-Anna Basajuan de Gorthoba is the girl's mother. I have also decided that she has an elder sister who - in true Philip Marlowe fashion - will be the spitting image of the dead girl Lyssandre. The beggar will fall in love with her eventually, as he fell in love with her younger sister. But he still won't be able to recall the events of that deadly night, or his part in them. It occurs to me that there might be a broader theme here. Why was Lyssandre blond? Was she the fruit of some illicit union? If she was then is her sister also? Who wants to know this? How would they prove it? Magic? Where is Numbers when you need him? I want a more Spanish feel to the plot and I don't feel like it's there yet. As for the PCs I think I may spin a broad theme of battling one's internal forces. Clearly our beggar has issues from teh past he would rather forget. but I think our cowardly dwarf may find it takes a brave manto be a coward in the service of Grungni. If he persist I think I shall drop his movement by 1 with stiff knees. But perhaps give him an outsized ist where he broke it and had it mended with Grungni's magic. A message from his god to fight and not flee.

Changing subjects I just had part of the back my head cut off in the name of science. No wI have stitches back there and I can't move my neck.

But Nemo, to do creative problem solving based on a small set of skills you'd need some kind of insanely clever general theory of systems capable of that degree of logical abstraction.

Thanks, Gorth. But I think it would be more fun if you chaps suggest the names.

And there's all the jelly.

Apparently someone decided to do (more or less) what I suggested. 4 days without food or water, apparently. Although the poor old fellah does look slightly banjoed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/...thout-food.html

My point is a broader one, which just occurred to me. When we talk of maturity in the West what we most often mean is 'what women think is mature'. Women have their own views, and are perfectly entitled to them. But by the same token, what makes male views intrinsically invalid? And hence the male view so often expressed in games, invalid?

ALL Baldur's Gate end battles should be fought with Yackety Sax playing in the background.

Can anyone think of a man who handles sex with maturity?

I've decided that the girl in question was promised in marriage to another house, and that the union of the two houses will bring peace a stability to the land, but the people who are doing it are wankers. Of course it's also true that the girl is dead now, so that's not going to help. But it will explain why the I need some spanish names for these noble houses. I also need some subplots to throw in the works of the main plot which will be a search for the dead girl. Got it! The opponents of the two families will be keen on 'rescuing' the PCs before they can divulge the whereabouts of the girl. Also, the main families may decide the dwarves have got the girl. This in turn may lead inadvertantly to a human army descending on the dwarfhold ... just as it is about to be attacked by goblins! Yes... yes...

The point is that if you've had dysentery for three months then the dysentery is no longer news. What is news is that you have still not done anything about it. At a time when we are collectively up to our eyeballs in debt, why the sainted f*** are we shelling out billions on all this pointless bureaucracy, that serves no purpose but the abrogation of our sovereignty?

If it wasn't for the US that incited Saddam to declare war against Iran, nothing would have happened. What absolute balls. So you're saying that only US aggression prompted Saddam Hussein to want to annex a portion of land containing a vast amount of oil wealth, not to mention a critical slice of arable land, without which his neighbour would be strategically weak, at a time when their military was felt to be in tatters after various purges and a chronic shortage of spares? I don't recall you talking such collossal arse before. Just stop digging.

Since you press the point, I shall be the first to observe that your ladyfriend must have a hooha like a rhino's ear to keep going continuously for that length of time.

It is now overcast again. You may disperse.

Monsieur Sawyer makes a good point. This isn't a person 'flight simulation'. This is a game. Realism is necessarily constrained and subordinated to gameplay. Having said that, my ten cents would be that the skill is used to determine probability to hit. Therefore what we're mainly interested in is the skill of controlling the projectile rather than the projectile thrower.

I would object that you can't do any proper work on an ipad, but of course MEPs don't do any proper work.

@gorth: actually, using his 100xp he applied the +1 toughness from his career path and now has toughness 7, which is equivalent to a giant or jabberwock @Oner: I like this. But I think it needs developing. I've decided that the girl who was killed was a daughter from a noble house. She was sent into the mountains to live with the realtives of a feudal retainer in order to protect her from enemies. BUt the enemies are not officially her enemies. Possibly a more ruthless branch of the same family? Her father's/mother's side? I can picture a band of horsemen turning up with a captain of the house at their head, demanding the girl. The locals will all say she's dead but of course the body will have been burned by the goblins in House 1. So they won't get any 'satisfactory' answers and will haul the PCs back for prolonged questioning. The dwarf's mates won't like this when they find out but they're going to be busy with a goblin invasion.