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How did the bald guy get so fat?
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Feb 12, 2010 15:16
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Hot, thirsty, and too poo for adequate protection from the sun. Brom's peons at least wear big round hats and goggles. Some even have most of their skin covered by robes! E: Squizzle posted:How did the bald guy get so fat? Knowing Athas, he was probably impregnated by Gith marauders.
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Feb 12, 2010 15:19
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Knowing Athas, he was probably impregnated by Gith marauders. ManMythLegend posted:"That's the wasteland for you..."
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Feb 12, 2010 15:24
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So I was looking though Dragon Kings again and came across this gem which I had never noticed before since I never played with the Battlesystem stuff. I'm talking about the bolded text in particular: Mekillot Ram posted:The enormous frame of the mekillot ram is built around its power source— a living mekillot. The 50-60' structure is made of wood and hardened leather, harnessed directly to the animal and supported on eight separate axles. The 16 wheels are wide, to support the vehicle’s great weight. The mekillot cannot be removed from the ram and must be fed and watered within its shell. ManMythLegend posted:"That's the wasteland for you..." ManMythLegend fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Feb 12, 2010 |
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Feb 12, 2010 17:25
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See also the silt skimmer, the interior of whose wheels are an "endless staircase" walked by slaves (or the reanimate bodies of dead slaves). An endless staircase that you walk until dead, at which point your corpse is revived to continue walking until it falls apart--all so that a merchant house can take a shortcut on a trade road. "ManMythLegend posted:"That's the wasteland for you..."
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Feb 12, 2010 22:03
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I really wish they would start releasing some of the new art. They've got to have some of it laying around already. I mean this is pretty sweet, even if it's not Brom:
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Feb 12, 2010 22:06
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I'm mad because it looks like they've changed the campaign setting art to this: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sun-Campaign-Setting-Supplement/dp/0786954930/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266009176&sr=8-1 And anyone know if they were able to get Brom to do a piece or two? I know they said he was on another project but he wanted to make time to get something done.
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Feb 12, 2010 22:15
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ManMythLegend posted:PeterWeller posted:I'm mad because it looks like they've changed the campaign setting art to this: At least it's still the cover for the Creature Catalog.
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Feb 12, 2010 22:23
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 I dont even know.
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Feb 12, 2010 23:12
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ritorix posted:
THIS IS DARK SUN
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Feb 12, 2010 23:14
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Tom "I'm just gonna make some poo poo up and draw thri-kreen wrong now" Baxa (The part about kreen being wrong is referring to pics in the '91 boxed set, not the Complete Gladiators)
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Feb 12, 2010 23:27
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ritorix posted:
I want to believe this was intended for Gamma World. I want to believe.
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Feb 12, 2010 23:40
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ritorix posted:
Maybe they're just a couple of psionicists who are really good at psychometabolism. Really good...
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Feb 12, 2010 23:42
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I think it illustrates understatement. The guy beaming in the main part of the picture is equipped with everything possible, including extra arms. He feels ready for anything. But lumpy down below has it right: He's got a sturdy mace for bashing, a nice punching dagger for stabbing, and his forearm has been cleverly converted into an axe for chopping.
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Feb 13, 2010 00:25
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It's like some sort of living, violent Vitruvian Man.
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Feb 13, 2010 01:09
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http://www.baxaart.com/ The best web design that 1998 has to offer.
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Feb 13, 2010 03:27
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Common fantasy is about being Mel Gibson. Dark Sun is about being the feral kid or the gyro captain or Humungus. I like Brom's art, too, and I hated Baxa at first, but as I got further into the setting, I thought that Baxa represented it better. People are dirty and ugly, with bad haircuts. Brom is really fantastic and he created some really iconic pieces for the setting, but overall I think his work is too ethereal. The Baxa art balances that out with something that tells you that life is cheap, short, weird and brutal. One minute you're a rich merchant with countless slaves and never need to walk on your own two feet, the next you're marching under the burning sun because your beautiful wife caught the eye of a templar who had you arrested and enslaved under false charges of bribery and avoiding tariffs.
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Feb 13, 2010 03:38
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if you don't hook all the local templars up with women and whatever else you can give them you deserve what you get
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Feb 13, 2010 03:53
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I like Baxa's art for inhuman creatures, but anything human or essentially humanlike ends up looking silly.
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Feb 13, 2010 03:54
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Come on, this guy looks mostly normal  
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Feb 13, 2010 18:01
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jigokuman posted:Common fantasy is about being Mel Gibson. Dark Sun is about being the feral kid or the gyro captain or Humungus. I'll give you that Baxa did some incredibly evocative pieces for the setting. On the other hand, it all has this comic element to it, and that often undermines the grim scene being portrayed.
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Feb 13, 2010 19:56
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Stuntman Mike posted:Come on, this guy looks mostly normal I can assure you that's just about how I'd look if I saw the creature depicted, too.
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Feb 13, 2010 20:03
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Stuntman Mike posted:Come on, this guy looks mostly normal This is how I'm going to start dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Feb 14, 2010 04:00
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Stuntman Mike posted:Come on, this guy looks mostly normal "fuuuuuuuuuuuuck thiiiiiiiiiiis" that's an awesome picture. it represents what any sane person would actually do when encountering a creature like that. not "alright cover me I'm going to shoot arrows at it," but "welp, that's quite enough of that, I'm going to move across the country and settle down in the most boring place I can possibly find"
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Feb 14, 2010 07:11
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Darksun was the first setting i properly DM'ed back in 96 and ,boy, it was loving wonderful. The campaign went for like one year (yay highschool) only to end where half-elf fighter tried to mess with a very powerful psionic because he wanted to brown-nose groups elf preserver. It was a pretty legal trip from lvl 3 to 9 and people got attached to their characters so much that camp debates took more time than combat after some point. I still have Ivory Triangle Boxed Set in pretty mint condition (my first TSR purchase as well). We even used the calendar and trade route schedule thing that comes with it and now thinking that it was 13 god-loving-drat years ago made me all  Just dropped by to say "That's the wasteland for you..."
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Feb 16, 2010 03:20
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Speaking of that calendar, why does it have a goddamn kenku as a constellation? I am pretty sure Athas does not have kenkus, as a default setting assumption.
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Feb 16, 2010 03:56
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Squizzle posted:Speaking of that calendar, why does it have a goddamn kenku as a constellation? I am pretty sure Athas does not have kenkus, as a default setting assumption. Well not ANYMORE, no. That's the wasteland for you.
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Feb 16, 2010 04:05
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It's just kind of culturally curious that an extinct and forgotten species would be recalled by name in stellar constellation.
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Feb 16, 2010 04:11
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Squizzle posted:It's just kind of culturally curious that an extinct and forgotten species would be recalled by name in stellar constellation. We still have a constellation for pegasus.
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Feb 16, 2010 04:17
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ManMythLegend posted:We still have a constellation for pegasus. How many people could pick it out, though? Constellations of any kind in the real world aren't a good comparison because I would be surprised if the vast majority of people knew anything beyond the dipper.
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Feb 16, 2010 04:18
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Drox posted:How many people could pick it out, though? Constellations of any kind in the real world aren't a good comparison because I would be surprised if the vast majority of people knew anything beyond the dipper. The vast majority of people cannot pick out the Big Dipper, I assure you.
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Feb 16, 2010 04:21
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Everyone's heard of Alpha Centauri. Guess what constellation that's in?
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Feb 16, 2010 04:22
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Drox posted:How many people could pick it out, though? Constellations of any kind in the real world aren't a good comparison because I would be surprised if the vast majority of people knew anything beyond the dipper. But they used to be able to, when you could still see the stars. So far as I'm aware, no pegasi in the middle ages, either.
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Feb 16, 2010 04:22
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Drox posted:How many people could pick it out, though? Constellations of any kind in the real world aren't a good comparison because I would be surprised if the vast majority of people knew anything beyond the dipper. You mean Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Also, I don't how much thought the average Athasian puts into the name of constellations either. I would bet most of the city folks couldn't give a drat about them, and the farmers and traders who would use them would just call them whatever they were taught. The only people who would use that formal calendar like that would probably be scholars and stuff and they would certainly know that kenkus were real at some point in the past.
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Feb 16, 2010 04:22
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Also, the pegasus is neither an extinct--it's mythical--nor forgotten--She-Ra rode one!--creature. And in my own personally Athas, scholars certainly don't have any idea that kenku once existed. Athas's history has been eroded by sand and time and the struggle for life overriding any desire for learning. Edit: Also, it's odd that the name would be preserved instead of experiencing some linguistic drift. Like: "That constellation is called the kank." "It looks nothing like a kank." "That's the wasteland for you..."
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Feb 16, 2010 04:34
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Linguistics nerd represent. 
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Feb 16, 2010 04:55
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ManMythLegend posted:You mean Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. the big dipper is not the same thing as ursa major
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Feb 16, 2010 06:33
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Are you sure about that?
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Feb 16, 2010 14:20
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Wikipedia posted:The Plough or the Big Dipper is an asterism of seven stars that has been recognized as a distinct grouping in many cultures from time immemorial. The comprising stars are the seven brightest of the formal constellation Ursa Major.
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Feb 16, 2010 14:45
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Squizzle posted:Edit: Also, it's odd that the name would be preserved instead of experiencing some linguistic drift. Like: "That constellation is called the kank." "It looks nothing like a kank." "That's the wasteland for you..." Well it might experience drift but on the other hand it just as plausibly might not. For example here in Finland the Big Dipper is even today called by a name that originally meant a type of fishnet, but (as a linguistics nerd) I'm pretty sure that 97% of Finns don't have any idea what the name actually means. Pretty much the only use for the word today is in the name of the asterism. And it sure as hell looks nothing like a fishnet! So it's really not that far-fetched to think that (ancient) Athasian star charts or calendars would refer to a constellation by a word/name that bears no significance to modern desertfolk. "That constellation is called the kenku." "What's a kenku?" "How the gently caress should I know? That's the wasteland for you..."
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