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Protein is useless if you aren't increasing muscle mass with power weight training; you'll just swap out existing proteins for new ones.

My brother was in an infantry division, and he used to "go bush" for six months of the year (and spent the other six months weight training twice a day), so he managed to yo-yo between musclebound and normal (very little food out on man

But that's exactly what I was going to post. "

... after dancing with her sabres and playing footsie with her apprentices.

Did you even read down this page? there is a topic on the first page about it! And how about using the arcane magic of the Search function? Must try harder ...

Interestingly, gaining a magic wand in Akalabeth:[can't remember the colonated subtitle] (the precursor to the Ultima series) and casting a shapechange resulted in (sometimes) your PC becoming a Lizardman! A Lizardman was a great PC race, because they had about ten times as many hit points as well as magic and poison resistence, and everything. Sadly, the magic wand was only found a couple of levels down in the dungeon, and one of the possiblities was being turned into a rat. They weren't, technically, from outer space, though.

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I blame man's inhumanity to man.

Madness. My eyes are starting to go. I was sure I typed an "a". Thanks Flatus, correction applied.

... SELF SCORE LOSS ... . A augmentation ... ... SELF SCORE RECOVERY Self Score loss can be rectified through the removal of augmentations and through psychological therapy. Therapy has a weekly Purchase DC 15, which the therapist has to succeed a Knowledge (Behavior Sciences) skill check which has the DC of the Self Score lost. If the check is successful the character regains 1d6 Self points. If the check has failed, not all is lost for the therapy still helped and the character regains only one point of Self. ... Does this mean the PC has to complete psychological treatments every week to maintain the abatement to their Self Point loss? And failure to do so temporarily / permanently restores the loss (i.e. decrements the Self Points)? ... INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL ... A failed Installation roll means that the cybernetic device has been rejected or was improperly attuned to the patient. The surgeon will needs to try again, but the patient suffers 1d4 temporary Constitution damage each time the Installation roll fails. ... How long is temporary? ... Cybernetics ... The four grades of quality are Gamma (base quality and cost), Delta (+2 Purchase DC), Beta (+4 Purchase DC), and Alpha (+6 Purchase DC). ... The first four letters of the greek alphabet are ∝ alpha, β beta, γ gamma and δ delta. I really like the biomods. I can see lots of thought has gone into them! With regard the talents, I have a general question. Are the offensive and defensive talents of combatants communitive? What I mean is, if an aggressor uses a talent that increases attack probability or damage, say, and the defender uses a talent that minimizes their apprehension and / or damage taken, then these two talents both work for each individual? I guess this is most obvious in defence, where an immunity to criticals would circumvent an increased critical attack: is there any way to override another talent, or are they just calculated in m

What's an "action point"? I assume it's some sort of offensive equivalent to the "hit point" defensive measurement. ... CLASS FEATURES ... Deadly Strike: Years of training in the combative arts have given the hero the ability to score a critical strike in more often than his peers. Whenever the character rolls a Critical Threat, he or she can spend an Action Point and turn it into a critical hit automatically without the need for the confirmation roll. ... Covert Operative ... ... Training Path 3 Precise Strike: The soldier can strike against an opponent are treated as touch attacks. Before making an attack on the soldier

... It's like being the best Formula One racer in Antarctica: lack of competition.

This is why it gets really difficult to seperate out genotype from phenotype ... after all how much of genetic material is necessary to be passed on for various traits? I do know that the stuff that has been researched on zygote twins seperated at birth is fascinating, though. They marry the same type of people, get the same type of job, etc etc. Or is it all just (today's word for the day is: ) apophenia?

130 pound squats? Jeez, I was doing 130kg squats, and I'm no heavyweight! Hey, I remember Karateka! That was a great game! Too bad about the testes thing, though (intestate); I guess that's why he only had one child (impotent). Now Chuck Norris,he was a dude! (Apart from that terrible film Walker: Texas Ranger 3 ... but The Octagon was great.) But mkreku, you are naughty: ... Once a martial artist reviews the reality of Lee's strength, aerobic capacity and personal character, a sober question must be addressed: should Lee's myth be actively deconstructed among novice martial artists? Perhaps not. That may be a function of maturity and be better emphasized in the later stages of training and spiritual development within the arts. Instead, people need a visual image to connect to and, until they begin to see their own selves in growing competency, may need the myth of Bruce Lee to sustain their training efforts.

... Anything to increment that postcount, eh Jodo?

So it was a failing of time management, not a lack of time? Hmmm, if I were less trusting, I might think you were trying to use semantics to redefine the issue ...

What happened to all the threads? There are a lot that just closed, without so much as a "Spammed" or "AoTS" post scriptum from the mods ... they must be busy. Er ... Fondest memory ... when our whole DnD party (except my eleventh level assassin, who was injured) got toasted by the second of a pair of dragons in a cave of the second Dragonlance campaign. Had the effecct of breaking up the playing community ... And my assassin is still wandering around waiting to backstab from out of the shadows ...

Volo, you've hit one of my pet peeves (I guess it comes from reading too many Mad magazines when I was a pre-teen): P.S. stands for Post Scriptum. It's latin and means "written aftewards", and the only permissable extension to the concept is PPS, as in Post Post Scriptum. There is not, and never has been a variant denoted PSS, nor PSSSS nor even PPSS. If you must carry the joke on, it must be PS, PPS, PPPS, ... etc. Normal services resume ...

Play Rome:Total War. That is a proper noun in the vocative case, i.e. a command!

You mean like comparing Jodo's posts with those of Calax? 'Cause that ain't pretty... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> and neither are you meta. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> How did I get the blame for that? Listen, infant, fight your own battles, don't drag me into them. Obviously you have a lot of people thinking very poorly of you, so it makes no difference whether you attack me or not. Clown. You know, the really sad thing is that their avatars are completely different, as are their signatures. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe he's sight-impaired as well as a juvenile?

This thread will just continue to grow as everyone keeps repeating the same things in it. I want better writing, not stupid hoods or holsters or grips. I want an ending. And a middle. And a beginning. And some interesting characters.

Um, I uninstalled it long ago, but the Force Mastery Forms are something like: economy: reduces costs of powers (by half) super-duper: improves potency (double) and cost (150%) and there's another one, but I can't think what it is off the top of my head ...

KotOR2: Lords of Greed This time it's pecuniary.

... It was hurried in an ungalant way.