LordDemon

That I can understand...

I guess it´s "you are lovely and smart lady"

Although it´s translated to "you(plural) acre lovely and smart noblewoman."

In the quiet words of Virgin Mary, "come again?"

or something...

I hope you didn´t pay for the translation...

In the hangar, Andrew can see Richard sitting in the OTV, doing some calculations and modelling the flight path.

Richard doesn´t seem to have noticed him yet.

ALL HAIL THE NEW MEMBER!!!

Arvaa kuka...

The light is fading,

ending the spring of my life.

The fear is among us.

Suriel, do the counting, I have no idea how to count the syllables in english. (I´m "playing this by the ear" so to say.)

Hmmm. I think I have something about 350 songs on my playlist.

And they are pretty different, mainly finnish.

classical, hip-hop, rock, techno,heavy, finnish-music-that-is-too-wierd-for-foreigners, country...Anything I might like really...

Here´s few of my favorites:

Wagner - Ride of the valkyries.

Beethoven - Fûr Elise

SmashMouth - Allstar

NightWish - Deep silent complete

NightWish - Beauty and the Beast

Zen Cafe - Mies jonka ympäriltä tuolit viedään

Dingo - Nahkatakkinen tyttö

Yö - Tia-Maria

Yö - Särkynyt enkeli (?)

Shania Twain - Black eyes, blue tears

System Reset - Snowstorm (<- collectors Item... )

System Reset - Happy birthday ((<- collectors Item... )

Beatles - I´m a believer (?)

Hector - Kissojen Yö

Hector - Asfalttiprinssi

Wierd Al Yancowitch(sp?) - It´s all about the pentiums

Leevi and the Leevings - Teuvo

Imperial march (can´t remember by who)

Tapani Kansa - R-A-K-A-S

I listen most songs except for some metal, where they growl to the microphone, not too interested about that.

Yes, I´m wierd...

And your point would be?

I can drink pretty much with out much of an effect really. Being 190 cm, 125 kg and finn has propably something to do with this. (I know, I should lose weight )

Also, I don´t like beer, and usually don´t drink often.(so no throughout study) And I don´t usually count the drinks so I have no clue.

I don´t think I have never been really drunk, and I haven´t really tried that either. But I guess a suitable "pohjat" (something at home before going to bar incase you don´t speak finnish) would be a 33cl bottle of koskenkorva (38% alcohol) , and maybe few ciders/bunch/few additional drinks, if it takes some time to get to bar (if going with  a larger group)

This is subject to eating though, weather I have had some food or not changes the outcome lot.

Also, according to some calculations my body can get rid of one beer/cider/shot in an hour. (so keeping my self under influence takes some money. Fortunately I have usually much fun even if I were sober.)

Richard Takes intercom.

"Richard here. If one of the newcomers knows how to navigate the ship, that would be a lot of help. It would save me from wiring. I´m currently at the hangar. Should I go to look for tools, or wait here for a pilot?"

Q: What is the airspeed of a swallow?

Ok, no.

How about something from layering armor rules?

I´m just trying to get two guys to play, and that was one thing that came up when they made their characters.

For total Newbies, explaining what 3D6+1 menas might be good too.

Telling what munchism/munchkin is.

I´ll tell if I think of more.

Quote (psychophipps @ July 30 2002,11:34)

Of course, we'll simply forget that modern tanks are NBC resistant and have internal air supplies and/or intakes designed with such things in mind.  I somehow doubt that all these governments are spending millions per tank and forgetting to include resistance to the most famous resistance fighter anti-tank technique in the world, the Moltov Cocktail. Get a life? Mark(psycho)Phipps( HAHAHA! )

There are of course AT mines too.

They are cheap, and efficient (as far as I know, but I´m not a trained AT soldier so I may be wrong too). Do MBT´s generally have some sort of protection/defense against them?

Sometimes, it just can´t be done efficiently, so one has to accept certains risks. And situations vary (assume you are on a plain, and would have to throw a molotov cocktail on a tank.

You are a lot less likely to succeed, compared to if you had to do the same in a dense forest. Getting within a trowing distance is difficult at best.)

I think the finns were only people in the world crazy enough to attack a tank with a bottle of booze, handkerchief and a split log.

A SWEDISH STEALTH TANK?!?!?!

What is the world coming to?

What is next, Swiss aircraft-carrier?

How about some sort of "Wanted: dead" advertisement?

Say the enemies want the characters dead. They have good resources, couldn´t they simple promise a lot of money for their heads? Little like bounty hunting. Some adverts to the net, to right fixers, and right places (SoF magazine?)

Then your characters would be overrun by wannabe solos, low level street punks, and other bountyhunters (not to forget the professional bountyhunters, who might get interested)

A lot of different sort of peoples, who all want the [insert large figure]eb bounty that is offered from your characters.

The biggest problem is how the bounty is paid, as they can´t really put their own phone number/address there. Mob, or some other "middlehand" would be useful, or maybe even some corporation.

Propably not, unless it´s necessary

(ie. if I would go blind, I MIGHT go for optics)

I´m scared to death of needles...

Three lighters and only one pack of cigarettes?

Do your CP character carry 3 guns and one clip?

Well, to get serious, I did have a point here somewhere...

...here it is. Could someone wxplain "cargo pants"? Picture might be nice, as I´m not a fashion expert.

Richard heads to the hangar to see if there are any tools over there.

So Phipp,s would your super vulcano concentrate only in US, or would there be other survivors?

I hope you add other parts of the world to it too.

One inreresting thing might be a total change in global/racial power structure.

For example: How about African countries benefiting from this?

If they could somehow protect themselves during the crisis, and maintain some technology (underwater colonies would be the easiest way to explain this), they would propably benefit the situation. I think ash is highly nutritious, so it would be good to grow plants in. The eruption would kill most insects/local fauna, so there would be lots of room for agriculture.

So, after the disaster, the world still has one super power:

USA (United States of Africa), and it´s fascist goverment, shouting "black pride" or something similat. Different, and propably interesting.

After getting a decker angry, they find out that a new (gay)porn movie is on the market, and they are the stars of it...

That should get them angry...

Besides, how could they get rid of the reputation? (biosculpt is one option, are there others?)

Hmmm.

I carry my cellphone, not that anyone calls to it though.

And wallet usually...

Nothing else, really.

MP3 player might be cool though.

Check the movement clips. It´s not like he can move around in it...

"Mommy, mommy, I wanna be a Storm trooper too!!"

I can see Barney and Teletubbies being replaced by company mascots in the shows. These are the more stable type of characters, that teach kids that the company will always be there (for them).

"Hey kids, mister camel is here to offer you a great show! And here he comes. Now who of you little kids want´s to give mister camel his ashtray?"

Also, the toy industry will be big. Even though collapse, there are still "normal" people who will buy their kids all the latest toys to get them to shut up. And diwth Disney producing 2-4 movies a year, there won´t be a shortage of kiddie heroes. These may create a short time TV cartoon/series, or sequels, but that´s it. No stability. Stability doesn´t pay as well as changing the toys every 4 months.

Another thing I´d like to know is how will the rest of the TV series evolve. I think the major propable TV program types in 2020 would be trash (Jerry Springer, Jack-Ass type shows), in-spotlight-for-15-minutes  (Survivers?), romance-drama-soap (bold and the beautiful, young and restless, all my children)

sport (although they will propably move to a more violent type), some sitcoms (too many to list), and porn (naturally).

I don´t really watch a lot of TV, so could you tell me if I missed something? Maybe do-it-your-self programs (bob-vila?)

In general, TV propably has a lot of movies the user can view, so the "normal" shows may not be so common anymore. On the other hand, people in general like familiar and routine, so it would be reasonable to assume the TV shows are still on.

Just that the user can choose something else, if they don´t want to watch the basic shows.

My two cents, anyone got a change?

Ask them where/in what form they keep their money.

1) If it´s cash, or valuables, it can be stolen. If it´s hidden somewhere, it may not be stolen, but something else.

(they hid some gold/jewels to a abandoned warehouse. Next time they go to check it (or use it), they find that the warehouse has been bought by a company, and is in use again. And heavily guarded...

2) If it´s in bank, the said bank will be in thwe news due to fixing their books: All accounts are frozen/lost untill further notice.

3) If their money is in form of gear, it can be stolen, or simple broken (or, considering the situation, dumped)

4) If their "money" is a fixer or two who own them favours, have the mob start looking for the fixers. Laying low and biosculpt. He may still be there, but he ain´t gonna talk to them (or, have the mob to follow characters incase the fixer contacts them.)

5) If they keep their money in something "stable" (govenrment bonds, what ever), offer them a awsome business opportunity. Fixer needs a lot of cash (assuming your players have a lot), and offers them a nice bounty. Too bad bonds are usually for a said time. If they manage to get their money out, they lose parts of it in process.

And always remember, sweet deals may suffer sime design plans. Or, the whole thing could be a con...

Then, when they are pissed about losing their cash, leak out info of who ever was responsible.

Check your mail.

I actually started with CP2020. Few of my friends asked if I´d like to try the RPG. I playd for one session. Then I borrowed the rule books, became a munchkin and took an advantage of knowing the rules the next time we played. They kinda left the playing soon after (maybe because of me, I don´t know)

I got interested in RPG:s in general, got to Rune Quest and played that for a while, before actually buying it (praise the local library...). I collected quite a few of those books, untill I got back to CP2020 again (by sort of "stealing" the books. I loaned them from my cousin, and kept them after he lost his interest to the game. I´d give them back if he´d ask thogh).

I also got few books of Rolemaster(I´m not sure if I translated it correctly, but that´s the direct translation), but I haven´t really played that much...

Quote (malek77 @ July 19 2002,04:35)

Yep - you're all right! That's what I wanted... Re: Sniping. While I'd let my players take careful shots at things...I think sniping should be its own skill, all on its own. Everything I read about it makes it quite different to normal combat use of firearms - you aren't rolling around dodging fire, quickly reloading or choosing fire modes - you're sitting in a hole, watching the weather, doing little drawings and then letting off a single shot. Sniping could probably be skill package you'll need if you want to play a sniper, with some tough pre-requisites. Cool:7, Endurance:4, Awareness:8, Rifle:7, Expert:Ballistics:3?? Thoughts? (Thanks!)

BODY stat would come in handy, not being big, but in good shape. (like endurance)

How about skills like stealth and Hide/Evade? I can see how they would be useful to a sniper.

Also, I´m not sure about this, but do snipers set up some sort of traps to cover their backs? What skill would that use, Demolitions for mines, but how about a basic pit with spikes? Or is it too much trouble to begin with?