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I haven't managed to beat expert yet.. I played with a rather good team, but we got so unbelievably unlucky that we had to give up in the end. It took us almost 2 hours to get to map 4 on No Mercy and by then we were totally exhausted. After that I've only managed to play with people either way better than me, so I felt like I was dragging them down, or much much worse and I felt like I had to keep the boat floating on my own. So now I stick to advanced - it's hard enough to provide a challenge and not so difficult that the entire team is raped if one player isn't doing his best.

I know 200.000 (or even 50.000) is unbelievable - so I wanted to tone it down to 10.000.. which means 750/1. I was thinking that since London functions as the defacto capital this could work (as blood would be imported etc to meet demands). overall there are slightly more vampires in the world I had in mind, but not alot more.. London is really the exception to the rule of 100.000/1 and 750 is too few for what I have in mind.. Thanks for the input Maria, I realize that my initial numbers were a bit overwhelming..

I have to agree with you kirottu, I'm a little scared about it too.. But this is obviously a scam, they realized that there would be a ton of money to be made if they claimed the 12 years old was the kid.. the 8 other teenage boy smelled the fat money cow (pun intendeed) and are now going for the price too.. How frakked up is that? that the media is actually partially to blame for this? Wierd world..

Maybe it was afraid that you would give it away... like you did.. it was probably just a very lonely bird. Anyway.. Walsh - good one!! You won the masculine way.

I actually thought the episode was a little weak .. My biggest problem was that it feels like the writers are stalling - sure there were some hints, like the guitar and Sayid being arrested, like Kate was originally, and so on. But they way they handled how the O6 got together was pretty weak - I mean: "don't ask my about Aaron... ever!" felt to me like they didn't really have a good answer for why Kate would come along and decided to stall until they can come up with a good explaination. Or maybe it was Evangeline's acting that put me off? Although I quite liked the twist with Jin at the end.

I wonder why true conservatives don't shoot this guy down - I wouldn't want someone like that on my team.. he's making the liberals look good with these very feeble attacks. I totally lost respect for him at this part.. How cheap is it, to try and rattle people emotions by bringing up things like child molesting.. and does he seriously think that anyone, except child molesters themselves, encourages that behaviour? .. idiot..

Also, the funtion -private messages- are there for a reason..

Why play GTA IV when you can just as easily go oustide, jack a car, kill 5 people, jump out of a helicpoter in midair and land on someones face?

You like this game just a little too much.. hehe The best I could do was kill everyone except New Zealand..

I didn't even kill one person and they went crazy to stop my spread. I'm deeply, deeply hurt. I just made a bacterial infection, called it "The Purple Death" - symptoms include coughing, vomiting, sores, diarrhea and necrosis. It's about half way up on the infectivity meter (necrosis was added last when more than 60% of the world countries were infected). It's carried by air and water. Later rodents would carry it and some of the islands of the world got infected. At present time it has killed of 5 billion and 625 million are still infected.. only 650 million are not infected and are located in South America (no countries there are touched), Madagascar and Indonesia. On average it infects 210 million/day and kills about 190 million/day. Thanks for the link DN - this game is great!! :D

It's all in a notebook - a really old battered notebook.. But you are right.. I have to write it in digital form anyway, so I'll share it here once I'm done.

A) Go inside, gun lit and with a smoke in hand.

I think he has the overall story made - as well as the main themes (like Polyhteism vs Monotheism), with that in place I'm also sure he's making things up as he go along.. And I'm glad they (Moore and the writers) are, because I think the writing is getting more interesting. In the beginning, the story would drag it's feet when it was trying to make a serious point - now it throws them around, sometimes without regards to the overall story (like Daniel).. Which is nice, because it leaves us something to discuss and think about.

Tried to watch Mutant Chronicles today - after 30 minutes I was bored out of my skull and had to turn it off .. they have CGI rain in the film all the time and it's really awful to look at.. It has some redeming qualities though - like almost being so bad it's funny.. but unfortunately it's just not so bad that it's good. The wierd part is that Thomas Jane, Ron Pearlman, John Malkovich and Sean Pertwee (okay Sean is quite often in B films, but at least he's usually ok in them) are in the film - the wierder thing is that I've never seen worse acting from either of them. That's 5$ and 30 minutes of my life wasted.. If you have masochistic tendencies, go see this film!

As a modern day pagan (wiccan, witch, pagan wizard.. whatever title you want to assign to me) I have been thinking the same thing... funny you bring it up. Xians at first were killed and treated like outcasts for the first century or two until the first xian emperor came to power and made it the state religion and the tables got turned on the pagans. There certainly are some interesting similarities however like always moore and crew and making a bold statement though out the series. Making the, more or less, 'good guys' poly and the, more or less, bad guys the 'one true god' types. Implying to me hes taking a jab as all the negative and destructive things our mono/xian religion has done to our world and for every good it brings at least 1 ill. The wars and millions upon millions killed in our history over 'god', the suppression of truth, speech and science and so on. The parallels are indeed stark and telling IMO. This is why moore is the bomb, he writes current moral views into BSG and many folks I don't think even realize it. As you imply it's not like the polys are that good either.. But it's interesting the parallels he draws, I keep think about the Old Testament and the Exodus - the nebula that kills the Cylons serving the same purpose as Moses dividing the Red Sea so they could pass. And Cavil playing the role of Kain. There are more, but I can't wrap my head around them at this time. Another thing is that the Humans names and callsigns are mostly Greek and the Cylons are mostly Hebrew/Latin/Christian.. Like John, Daniel, Samuel, Simon, Sharon and Aaron.. With notible exceptions being Leoban, D'anna and most of the Final Five.

Wierd.. I never heard anything about it either.. How did you find it?

I'm currently running a rather huge campaign, with supercharged political atmosphere. I've rewritten much of the Camarilla and Kindred history. I've used more than 6 monhts to pull the story together.. Now I'm playing with another GM and 4 very experienced players.. But I'm looking for some input, I know most of you guys have a great deal of experience running PnP games, so I thought I could swing some ideas and concept at you. For starters I've made London the De Facto capital of the Vampire world and I want to have a very large concentration of Kindred here - at first I thought of something near 200.000 Kindred in the city - but that would probably cause alot of doctors to write their thesis about the apparent chronic blood loss symptoms that seem to prevail in Great Britain. I've never played a game where we had such a high amount of Kindred per capita, have any of you? Does it get too messy or are there too many masquerade violations (on average). I was thinking that I could tone it down to 50.000 Kindred, would you personally think that's a believable number? Secondly I'll try to make a complex manipulation system - where several factions, some within factions, are trying to pull both Kindred and human society in alot of different directions. I've tried that in AD&D with great succes, but Vampire is a different system that inheriently puts a great deal of emphasis on manipulation and covert actions, so I have to make it that much more complex - I would love if any of you could tell some anecdotes about campaigns you played, where either you, as the GM, or someone else were able to pull of a complex heist etc or fooled some faction into blaiming a different faction. In my campaign I'll have Ventrue be the ultimate power, due in particular to one individual - who is responsible for the very different power structure.. I've decided to introduce a more feudal system to the Kindred society, where princes answer to a King/Regent and Kings/Regents answer to an Emperor. At the very top of society The Council of Three rules supreme. The guiding principle is that every council has either 3, 5 or 7 members - or for instance 3 Princes and a King with 2 votes (effectively a system of 5) and so on. This allows the "young", but extremely influential vampires, to have some real power. Any input would be appriciated, even if you yourself have a campaign and want to have some input from me or others - I thought we could use this thread as a kind of GM to GM inspiration.

I'm actually a little interested in what you mean by this? Currently I'm running a game where we're two GMs.. It's a very different, but easier imo, way of doing it. Given that you know each other well, so one doesn't dominate, but rather play on each others strengths and use that to enhacne the game.

Yeah I'm sure most got that impression, since Christian goes to great length to tell Locke he was supposed to do it and that Locke shouldn't have trusted Ben, Christian even says "since when did listening to him, get you anywhere worth a damn".

What are you asking exactly? That the writers kept it "open" (so to speak) so they could use it to tie up some loose ends.. ?

I wonder how much of this the writers planned in advance.. Or are they simply good enough to spot opportunities and write in twists every now and then, plus keeping the current story open enough to be able to do it in the future.. I wonder..

Sorry .. I've just read some Calvin and Hobbs - guess that scambled my brain a bit.. heh - But why was Cavil real name John?

The symbols are pretty clear, that's quite true, but I can't fully grasp their meaning (as in what the writers are trying to say with the references). It can't be as simple as saying that Ellen is the Cylon Messiah and The Great Tempter togehter in one neat package. Although it fits well with Calvin playing the role as the established clergy who denies her role as Messiah (he started out as a priest on the Galactica no less). 12 Cylon models.. and a possible 13th.. that matches the number of Disciples .. and the text "one was sacrificed" fits well into that theory as well.. hmm

The whole monotheism vs polytheism has a frakload of references to classic scenarios. It's just funny that's it's "upisde down" as in the cylons who worship one God and the humans worship the old Greek Pantheon. Unless it's kind of a wierd retelling of Christianity, were Christians were secondclass citizens and prosecuted, much like the first cylons - who then later take revenge and perfoms genocide on every other religion in it's vicinity.

So Cavil murdered his brother, who his creator favoured - and out of jealosy none the less.. That's pretty much the biblical story of Kain.