It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. - Mikhail Gorbachev
Before that I was reading one of John Birmingham's newer novels, Without Warning, where, on the eve of the 2003 war in Iraq, a massive energy field drops over most of North America and all the people caught in the phenomenon, called "the Wave" disappear: all of the continental US aside from northwest Washington State (Seattle and the surrounding area), much of Canada (aside from the Territories, much of BC, about the northern half of Alberta and a little bit of northern Quebec), most of Mexico, most of the Bahamas, and most of Cuba outside Guantanamo Bay. The novel takes a look at what happens after the US disappears and the results are not stellar. Birmingham apparently took his inspiration for the premise from a protestor in Australia at the time of the war who said the world would be better off if the US disappeared.
Just finished Australian novelist John Birmingham's Axis of Time trilogy, about the fallout from a 2021 (although some of the tech seems a bit more 2051, but anyway...) international naval task force being teleported back to 1942, with most of the fleet (American, British, Australian, even a Japanese vessel) joining the Western Allies but some other vessels of the task force ending up in the hands of the Axis powers or the Soviets and everyone trying to take advantage of the technology and, just as, if not more importantly, knowledge of the future to shape events as they'd prefer.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
447. Brazil and Argentina in the War of the Triple Alliance in the 19th century decide that merely defeating Paraguay isn't enough and conquer Paraguay completely, dividing the territory between them.
Dotting this thread to come back and read later.
Hey Zerzix how are things going?
Hmm...
I think I'd like to see a few more dinosaurs (with Jacobs that probably won't be a problem)
A few new types of true dragons
Some new fey would be reasonable
More cryptids would be cool
Some sort of dog-like humanoid and/or a 0HD lizardfolk analogue (medium size)
Might have more ideas later
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"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." - Niels Bohr, to Wolfgang Pauli, on Pauli's nonlinear field theory
439. A coin toss in 1845 results in the city of Boston, Oregon instead of Portland, Oregon.
344. A young computer programmer named Sid Meier never gets interested in video games. As a result the Civilization series, etc. don't exist.
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War is a matter of vital importance to the state; a matter of life and death, the road either to survival or ruin. Hence, it is imperative that it be studied thoroughly.
— Sun Tzu
As for the greatbow the stats there are basically identical to the version in Complete Warrior from 3.5 (which probably inspired the 4th ed version) while the mercurial greatsword (and a smaller version, the mercurial longsword) are found in 3.0s Arms and Equipment Guide. And it had the x4 crit then as well.
The Crag Hammer and the Execution axe both look reasonable. The reason I say that for the Execution axe is because I was looking at "what does this get over a martial equivalent" in this case the greataxe? Great axe is actually close to identical to the Execution axe see here. The only notable differences are: the Execution axe is three pounds lighter (not a huge issue for most parties, especially when magic storage comes into play), does 2d6 as opposed to 1d12 at medium (average damage will be slightly higher 2 x 3.5 =7 (or was it calculated 3.5 + 4.5 = 8, I can't recall) versus 6.5, but this is a very slight advantage) and gains the deadly quality, all reasonable trade-offs for the exotic prof.
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