h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi I`m Cybercat, Smilodons friend.
How are you?
Shes away on an art trip today so she won`t be here.
I thought I would introduce myself.

Twice, it would seem . Nice to meet you.

I am fine, if feeling a little mentally strained. How are you?

Pull up a chair, make yourself comfortable. No hairballs, please.

I won`t
I`m fine and you?

Its nice to meet Smilos friends.

I'm not sure I'm so much a friend as this creepy guy on the internet. A status I revel in.

Can I get you a drink? Some , perhaps?

Mmmmmmmmm thankyou
I wouldn`t call you that and neither would she!

Why not? It's nearly accurate. After all, I roleplay. According to some sources that makes me an unstable satanist in reality-denial.

Admittedly, I have just spent half the morning looking up really sick things to throw at my players later today...

Hehehehehe
I sure you haven`t

Hey, I was proud when I found the stats for a man-portable minigun. That'll chase them away from the stairwells. And the FAQ for the system. And the other list of big guns.

Good luck to them, say I.

Yeah!

Although, given that this is the Feng Shui system, they will probably walk up the trail of bullets and hose all the mooks behind them. Or cast sorceries up the stairs. Or just take all the damage and keep on coming. That's the joy of the game.

What better place for a fight in an action movie than in a rotating restaurant hundreds of feet in the air, with a bomb counting down in the background?

Hehehehe
You could imagine them spinning round

I'm hoping someone will try hurling a mook through a window; but of course the glass will be too thick. Until a few rounds of gunfire hit it, anyway.

Then there's the helicopter gunship; imagine the view rotating down to show that taking aim at you...

Ohhhhhhhh
You`re quite violent

Hey, it goes with the game. With characters at that power level you need something really special to put the wind up them.

Although the most frightened look I ever saw on a player was when they hit something with a fantastic roll, added up all the damage, added the bonus from the Fu power, then I said 'soaked'.

Do you roleplay then?

Try to

Lacking GMs? Lacking players? Lacking time? Lacking systems?

Time mostly

There's always time. You just have to compress non-essential activities like sleep, work and relationships.

To quote a friend:

"You always have time to MUD. The question is; do you have time do anything else?"

Good quote

I swore I'd never get sucked into MUDs. Not that I have any objection to them, mind, but because I really couldn't face another time-intensive hobby. Now, however, someone's roped me into helping him set up a MUSH. Aaargh.

What RPG systems do you like?