Walsingham

It's an old military gaming system. Devised for gaming hits on tanks. Or so I've been told. I don't know which country did it though.

WFRP was how I started. A great game. See if you can find Shadows Over Bogenhafen

It's true. That's why he leaves dirty socks all over the place.

I should have been more clear by stressing the fac tthat no-one would come looking for us for weeks. If you expect an immediate search then staying put is certainly wise. Unless you crash at teh bottom of a ravine or something. Problem solving with limited resources is rarely a question of repeating some paper formula.

*strikes commmissar pose and ratchets bolt pistol* We'd just better make sure it doesn't happen then, hadn't we?

The petrol can be used to signal an aircraft provided you have the strength to hoy it over the side and light it. I guess. I don't trust these any more since I participated in one where we had crashed in Northern Canada, fifteen people, five weeks before we were supposed to be coming back from our research station. The official solution was to spend five weeks in a snowdrift living on a gallon of maple syrup and whatever we could kill using a .44 magnum revolver containing six rounds. My objections to this orthodox solution of staying put were: 1) Bears 2) Hunger 3) Restlessness It being my observation that after the first week we would have certainly run out of food, have attracted a bear, and people would try to trek to safety (about 30km away). My alternative was to admit this was going to happen and to strike out on the 30 klicks while our strength was still good. I also observed that we had sufficient tools and raw materials to make a portage raft or two that would cut the distance considerably by allowing us to cross lakes. I got slated by the immediate exercise supervisor but passed the selection.

I doubt it would make much difference, even if the evidence were more convincing. And besides which there are people out there whose faith in the Book (as opposed to God) was unshaken by several hundred years of dug up dinosaur fossils.

Link doesn't work for me.

Can someone explain to me what an epic level is?

Better hope he packs silver bullets, then. But don't be surprised if later this year you hear news reports about a crazy Asian bisexual wearing a mask and night-vision goggles trying to assassinate the President. Which would be cool because we could turn the forum into an Eddo museum or something. We could sell tea-towels of the least successful presidential assassin. He'd fall out of the rafters at some charity dinner and drown in the fruit punch.

I don't know that education would necessarily provoke convergence, tho. I mean we're all pretty well educated, but we hardly ever agree.

You mean the chap I can see with the red bloomers is Cant?

Or spinning wheels.

Monsieur Sawyer has good suggestions. However, you may have more fun by making a target template and acetate overlay. The player puts the point of aim where they want it and then depending on skill the shot deviates in the X and Y dimensions. This makes it feel more real, and allows for more impromptu rationalising of damage. "OK you've just been hit in the... left nut by a 30mm cannon round."

I have to say I've always plumbed the skill points into killin' skills. The kit eventually turns up anyway.

Uni was where I got into it. I had no money to buy Microsoft office. I think Microsoft would lose a lot of its market if it could enforce anti-piracy the way it wants to. Because then we'd use alternatives.

I call dibs on the underground bunker. Meta, you bring the nachos.

You could dial by writing out the number ... *bounces* That would be awesome.

I'm reading with interest, but I don't really know enough to comment.

Well I agree there, taks, but I would also suggest that there are convergences in what people think of as optimal. A degree of predictability, the rule of common law, etc. Fostering these things will win more approval and 'optimality' than fostering other things. But I also think this is what democracy is about.

I'm more annoyed by someone putting on airs of eco-sainthood and failing, than someone more honest who makes an equal effort. But I'll confess I have a thing right now against hypocritical hippies. In fact I'd suggest that's why they're called hippies.

fwiiw I think it looks great.

Can't believe you're siding with the hippies. It's precisely about the fact that no one's perfect. These people are pretending that they are when they are manifestly liars and hypocrites.

My point, but far better made.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6380821.stm I've just read all the attached stories on this issue on the BBC website, and I can confidently pronounce these people contemptible fools. They lie to the locals about their planning permission and intentions then claim they didn't lie but 'kept things secret'. Then they claim to be whole earth but use gas bottles when their stoves won't light and chainsaws when chopping wood looks boring. I'd have little affection for them if they were doing it properly, but at least I might respect their commitment. I encourage you to read through the articles and enjoy.