Is it just me or did anyone get the feeling of Spock telling a story to some young kids, aka first year cadets or something.

All right, the puns need to stop before they turn sour.

Yeah... they could get udderly ridiculous.

Stop all this bull!

Don't have a cow, man!

We'd better cheese it before they get mad.

These puns are getting really bad... we need to beef them up a bit.

I'm not sure we can steer them in the right direction...

This wasn't in a SC game but apart of a home grown Sci Fi game that I was in.

A few players had aquired some amp'ed up body armor, think mecha style, increased strength and the like.  One player, a captain, decided to slap a insubordinate ensign.   Just as the dice hit the table, the question was posed as to whether the captain had his armor on and if so which one.  As the die decided to stop at a natural 20, which in the system was critical success, the captain realized that he was in his super armor(big big big boost to strength).   Of course, we're all laughing with the image of the ensign's head, spinning around several times on his neck.   The GM being a nice guy, gave our medic a chance to save the ensign.   Medic rolled a 1(crit failure) as well.   GM sighs, Ok he's dead.

Personally I'm waiting for the MacGyver Special. Finally an answer to one of time's greatest unanswered questions: "All that crap MacGyver threw together can't possibly work in the real world, right?"

Ep 100 to Air 2/20/2008 according to the Discovery channel wiki for Mythbusters and the schedule. Also, Bond pt 2 will be Ep 98 2/6/2008.

As a side note, I do remember hearing/reading that Anderson wanted all the things Mac did to be real and doable.

Frag,

Frack,

Felgercarb

I know the Crafty boys have recommendations on books of both fiction and non-fiction, but I was curious as to what some of the board members have on their shelves as good tradecraft books, either on the basics or in-depth.

Reading some of the customer reviews at Amazon or Barnes and Noble, it's hard to know who to believe.  As most of the members here either have more then a passing interest in, or have done(i.e military experience) said things, I'd like to hear what you have and would recommend.    I know I've asked a couple people in threads, so I decided to make a single post for everyone to comment.

Also, if you could give a short why you recommend a book that would be great too.

TIA

It's on my "how to write a better espionage story" shelf.

Would you mind sharing what else is on that shelf, I'd be curious, I'm going to running some SC games for friends and I'm in the need to know things.

They also have one of the best recursive loop episodes ever w/ Jack and T'ealc (sp?) doing most of the comedic damage.

Window Of Opportunity(Ep 72) is the Looping episode. To me these two are the best espisodes in the entire series and have nothing to do with saving the galaxy.

Fav Quote
Jack - "In the middle of my backswing?!?!!?"

Based on his topic, the 200th Episode of Stargate SG-1.

But that's just a guess.

AH-64D Apache Longbow.

Man, if war ever breaks out, I'm taking shelter at your place.  Some of the people on this board have so much military knowledge it's scary! 

Knowledge and background.  If war ever broke out, I wouldn't be scared of the US military, I'd scared of all the retired/former members of the US military.

I'd be very interested.  Count me in.

I can say that if the 2 military books were redone as 2.0, I would buy them.  Since I'm looking at running a game with some friends ala The Unit. 

Just my 2 cents.

I have the 60's book, I'll have to grab it out again, but alot of the information there wouldn't change would it?   Other then stats.

Dark Star (god I haven't seen that in ages)


"Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?"

And I can't believe no one got Tango and Cash, am I the only one that finds that movie a guilty pleasure?

[H---:]

H---: P-------- ? P--------  what are you doing?
S---- P-------- : Playing with myself, I'm going in.

Probably one of my favorite Kurt Russell movies.

Escape from New York.

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R-- T----: When this is over, we have to pay Jabba the Hutt here a visit.
G------ C---: I'll bring the chainsaw.
R-- T----: I'll bring the beer.