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...Part of the perceptual problem I think is the starting point of 0/0/1 at 1st level; BAB is the only medium progression that doesn't start at 1 so it has a bit of the slow progression's stigma of "if you're not getting a bonus, you're a crip". I think a small shift is all folk really need to get over that mental speedbump.

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I'm not sayin' that's the best idea of the week, but it is the best on I've heard all day. 

For the record:  I am totally cool with X-Com also being a Rainbow Six type squad plan & first person blast to go along with the geoscape.

"Da.  Lookingk."  He paused for a moment. "Am findingk only keys to impact area.  Wait, have found chem light batteries too."

You think that's potentially bad on the civilian front... The 37th fleet in Macross 7 has at least 186 warships  with between 40 and 800 fighters (and hence fighter pilots) each.

Sounds like the quarian fleet.  Ships I can see taking as part of a name.  Fighters I would think would take the name of the parent ship, but now I'm just speculating.

This Dreadnaught's name is not Charlie.

...It's universal. Sure, some people don't have pride or identify with their home town or state or where they currently live, but most do. I don't think it's a particularly Japanese trait, especially since by the time of Frontier the fleets and planets were all independent states.

Manehattan in the hizzzouse!  I can easily see folks proudly claiming their home fleet or ship.

Speaking of 40k's "good-guy-enizing" of the Imperium, the adventures of CIAPHAS CAIN also put a less jackbooted face on the Commissariat, for better or worse, in a way that the Inquisitor books didn't make the Inquisition look more reasonable.

They're doing a second round.

Some author insertions downplay the author a bit, but that's neither here nor there.

MMO-Style upgrading hasn't done anything good for anyone.  At least with Star Wars you can keep upgrading some gear you like, but yeah, the MMO level and gear grind is something I'm tiring of.

Any illustrators or painters?  Or aspiring illustrators or painters?  This looks neat:  NeoLucida - A Portable Camera Lucida for the 21st Century

Shame they're sold out, I wouldn't mind getting one of those especially at just $45.  I'm pretty good at painting from eye, but that'd be a helpful little tool.

Wow.  That was quick.  I wonder if they will make more?  At least they plan on open sourcing the plans.

Krav's gatling arm had begun to spin as the story reached its conclusion. "Da, as painful as we can make their ends."  He looked down at his spinning arm and watched the rotation cease. "And am havink involuntary reactions with new body.  Innnteressstink."

Any illustrators or painters?  Or aspiring illustrators or painters?  This looks neat:  NeoLucida - A Portable Camera Lucida for the 21st Century

The mechanical Russian nodded, but said nothing.

Selfies never go out of style?

Who has a nipper that will be needing bedtime stories soon?  The Very Hungry Cthulhupillar

In 1789 "well regulated" meant "functioning properly," which in the context of a militia that exists instead of a standing army means that bans on military weapons are illicit.  EVERYTHING from steak knives and assassin pistols up to carrier killing ballistic missiles.  (Also APC up through aircraft carriers and aircraft.)