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A Treatise on the Force

2012-01-22T10:21:00.000-07:00

The Star Wars Saga has been one of the best series of movies that came out of Hollywood in the late 20th Century and part of the Early Twenty-first. The most important message of the Saga was the message about the Force.

If you remember the first movie, Episode 4, Obi-wan Kenobi introduced Luke Skywalker to the Force. He described the Force as an energy field generated by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the Galaxy together and started Luke on his path on becoming a Jedi and facing the two Dark Lords of the Sith.

As the stories of Star Wars continued to expand, we learned much of the Jedi and the Dark Lords of the Sith, the Republic, the Sith Empire, and the Galaxy. Recently, last year, Star Wars: the Old Republic Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG) was released. This game answers most of the questions of the Jedi and the Sith. Where did they start? How did they come to be? What actually happened? However, watching on-line Lets Plays reveals something of the players of the game. More people played as Sith Lords or as Jedi than as Troopers, Smugglers, Bounty Hunters, and Imperial Agents.

Understanding Star Wars

Star Wars sets itself apart from Star Trek in the basic idea that the premise of both are incredibly different. Star Trek presents a positive view of Science and the Achievement of Man. Star Wars is a Spiritual, almost religious, Myth. Both are the brain children of two men. One was a police officer, the other was a racer. The second, George Lucas, was in a car accident while racing. According to his biography, George Lucas was in the hospital when he came to learn of the Force. The Star Wars movies presents his beliefs about the Force. A lot of people believe that the Force is fiction. However, in the twentieth Century, Science has been done before the Movies had ever come out, that may prove that the Force is an actual reality.

Doctor Riche and the Force

Doctor Riche was a German Scientist who made an interesting discovery. He practically discovered an energy that is present in all living things -- he called it the Orgone Energy. What he found was that the Orgone came in two flavors -- Positive Orgone and Deadly Orgone. Positive Orgone -- which he called POR -- can heal and cause growth in an organism if properly accumulated. Deadly Orgone causes Dis-Ease (disease) and sickness in an organism and can eventually kill.

When he published his discoveries and experiments with Orgone, Doctor Riche came under attack by a vicious smear campaign. He was eventually found guilty by an obscure health law, imprisoned, and his books burned. His life destroyed, this gentle scientist died in Prison. But the discoveries he has made with life and energy was so significant that Doctor Albert Einstein was impressed. Not impressed enough to endorse Doctor Riche, but impressed.

Since then, we have Photographic Proof of the Orgone Energy. It appears as a blue glow around Astronauts, Galaxies, the Earth, and organisms in the Earth. The Force is real enough. So, as the Force is real -- as in actual photographic proof, what does that make us?

The Vibrational Being

As humans (and star children, and indigo children, you know who you are) we are vibrational beings. We are capable of altering the vibrations of Energy -- the Force -- all around us to produce results. This is either a determined result or a subconscious result.

In the movies, Force sensitives were able to show that they can control the Force, they were able to show that they can alter the Force, and sense the Force. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader could telekinetically move objects, see the future, and alter patterns in the Force to their desires. Even Darth Sidious was able to do this -- as he arrogantly bragged to Vader's son how everything transpired according to his desires.

Ironically, not many people know we can do the same. However, instead of telekinesis, and being our own seers, we alter the Force through creation. As vibrational beings, we alter Force patterns. However, to be able to do this, we also have to be beings of the Force ourselves.

In Episode 5 and the Episode 6 novelizations, both Yoda and Vader told Luke that we are luminous beings and not the crude matter that makes up our bodies. This implies that we are all apart of the Force, and therefore, connected to one another. This is the true message of the movies: that we are beings able to alter the Force. We are luminous, spiritual beings.

The Jedi and Sith, a Critique

One of the interesting things that came out of the movies is a new religion that has appeared on Earth. This religion is called the Jedi religion and it's been pieced together from the movies. However, I'd like to say that although the Jedi and Sith in the movies are on the right track, they have existed so long in that Galaxy that both have missed the mark as a Religion. Both Jedi and Sith are members of the same religion -- just that one side believes in strict monastic, or Aesthetic beliefs and the other indulges in the opposite.

What Happened on Tython
The MMORPG gets into what happened on Tython, the home planet of both Jedi and Sith, a little. From what is said on the Wookieepedia, those that followed Ashla and Bodan had a dichotomous disagreement over how the Force should be used. The Ashlar believed that strict control over one's passions is the key, while the Bodanists believed that unbridled emotion is the key to getting results. A fight broke out, and the result was a true schism. The Bodanists were eventually banished and the Ashlar, who became the Jedi, left the planet on their own accord, relocating on Coruscant.

The Bodan Jedi eventually found the Sith aliens and conquered them, becoming the Dark Lords of the Sith according to the Galactic Record. The Ashla Jedi simply became the Jedi. The two constantly clashed, but the two groups truly balanced one another. The Jedi can't exist without the Sith, it's impossible. If one group was destroyed, that group will eventually arise from the one who is victorious. So, the Galaxy was in balance because of the existence of both Jedi and Sith. However, both are wrong in their approach to the Force and the role of emotion.

I thought about what it would be like if Jesus Christ was born on Tython and how the Jedi and Sith would respond to his teachings. Jesus Christ, who would be the ultimate Force user, would probably put the Jedi Council and the Dark Council in a total tizzy. His teachings would bring both councils into an uproar as he probably would denounce both Sith and Jedi as hypocrites and taught the common people their secrets.

Jesus, a man of infinite love and compassion, would suffer death after their hands. Both the Jedi and the Sith would slay the Great Sage of Nazareth. So, I figure that there was probably a third group of Jedi on Tython, who strived to be one with the Living Force by neither denying emotion nor letting it run unbridled, but experienced emotion and were passionate enough to deliberately create from the Force.

Christianity and the Force

Most people don't understand that they are Children of the Force. However, all people on the Planet Earth has at least three fathers: the Father of our Intelligence, the Father of our Spirits, and our Earthly father make up the trinity that gives us our origins. Christians have a fourth father: Jesus Christ himself. All Christians -- whether baptized by proper authority or not, have taken upon themselves the name of Jesus Christ. But lets talk about these fathers, each in turn.

The First Father is our Earthly father. Our Earthly fathers have given us life by having sex with our mothers. When a father and a mother come together and become one flesh, they create new Life. Both must unite in this common purpose to create a body of Flesh and Blood so that we may experience Earth Life and learn from our experience. Through our Earthly father and mother, we are given a physical body so we can experience what we truly desire through our five senses -- Taste, Smell, Touch, Sight, and Hearing.

The Second Father is our Heavenly Father -- the Great Eternal. He is known by many names, but its most proper to call him Heavenly Father. The Jews call him Elohim, but in that, there is a strong problem. The word Elohim is plural. Our Heavenly Father is immortal, meaning that he has both Life Eternal -- a body of Flesh and Bones -- and Eternal Life. He is the father of our Spirit, or as the Psychologist would say, the father of our Consciousness. The process of creating Spirit bodies, however, is similar to creating a body of flesh and blood.

The Third Father is the Force itself. Our intelligence, our power and will to act, has to have an Origin. This is the Force, or more properly, the Holy Spirit. In ancient Hebrew the Holy Spirit is known as Ruach, which means wind, breath, mind, and spirit. We are all Children of the Holy Spirit. In a fit of Understanding Itself and seeking to be more, the Holy Spirit split a part of itself into infinite parts. These parts are us. All of us. Man, Animal, Plant, Mineral. All of us are a part of the Force or the Holy Spirit. Therefore, as a part of the Force, we are all connected to the Force, and through the Force, we are connected to each other. We are children of the Holy Spirit, and as such we are capable of having anything, doing anything, and being anything.

If we desire to lift an object without touching it, we can do so. If we desire to see the future and the past, we can do so. If we desire to leap high, cast Force lightning, and do other things beautiful, great, and terrible; we can do so. If we desire an abundance of goods, we will have them. If we desire to reject the message of Salvation, we can do so (and many have done so). The Force exists to grant our every desire, whether good or evil, bad or righteous, such desires are always granted by the Force.

The Fourth Father however, pertains to Christians. This fourth Father is Jesus Christ himself. As Christians, we have taken upon ourselves His name, and acknowledge Him to be the Father of our Salvation. Jesus Christ made it possible for us to come into Heavenly Father's presence. As Christians, we are to put our trust in Jesus Christ's sacrifice and live our lives according to how the Holy Spirit or the Force, directs us to live.

In this way, Jesus Christ is our Messiah, our Savior. He saved us from our sins, or our rebelliousness against the Holy Spirit. He saved us from an eternity of pain and suffering. Jesus also has another identity. Jesus, whose English name means NOTHING in Hebrew, was given the Hebrew name of Yeshua -- which is transliterated into English as Joshua. Yeshua, or Yahshua, means in Hebrew "Yahweh is Salvation."

This means that Jesus is Yahweh (pronounced "Yah-way"). This also means that Yahweh is Jesus. The God of the Old Testament, the God that commanded the Israelites to leave Egypt and to slay the Canaanites, is Jesus Christ of the new Testament. They are one and the same. When you speak of Yahweh, you are speaking of Jesus Christ. And when you are speaking of Jesus Christ, you are speaking of Yahweh. Jesus was crucified and was resurrected, meaning that he has a body of Flesh and Bone and is fully alive.

Jesus doesn't sleep, he is very aware of what is going on with the World and he has pleaded with His people in the latter days to repent and to believe upon Him and to forsake our vain quest for popularity and material things. Jesus has had enough with the wayward ways of His nation, and He will chastise His nation for our adulterous and slutty behavior. However, Jesus is full of infinite love and compass ion. He has sent a Prophet for those who want to live through his judgement of America, he will call those who will listen. These are His elect, and he will have them be prepared so he can have a nation of Priests and Priestesses, Kings and Queens once again.

In Summation

So to conclude the Treatise, the Force in Star Wars is an actual thing. It has been scientifically documented and experimented with by Doctor Wilhelm Riche. The Force is Orgone Energy, and there is photographic proof of the Force.

The Force is the father of our Intelligence. Because we are the Children of the Force, we are all connected to one another. We are also infinite as the Force is infinite, and we are capable of having anything, doing anything, and being anything we desire. We are truly the Children of God.

The Great Eternal, our Heavenly Father -- is the Father of our Spirits. The Spirit is the blueprint, or pattern, of our bodies. The Spirit gives our Intelligence definition and form. The Great Eternal, our Heavenly Father -- has a body of Flesh and Bones. Therefore, he was once a man liken unto our Earthly father. He was once mortal and had mortal children. Now he has an immortal body and has immortal children.

Our Earthly fathers are the fathers of our bodies. Our Earthly father, with the help of our Earthly mother, made it possible to for us to have a mortal body and to be able to experience Earth life. With a body we are capable of making manifest our desires, through the Force, into physical reality.

Our Father of our Salvation is Jesus Christ. As Christians, we have taken upon ourselves his name and promised not to be hypocrites -- saying one thing but doing another. Doing so is taking the name of Christ in vain. Vanity is a shallow thing when made manifest, especially as Christians. It is easier to be a Christian in vain, though -- than it is to be a Christian in reality. A vain Christian has the pride and popularity of the World. A real Christian is thought of as peculiar, strange, and weird by the World. Such a man or woman is laughed at, spit upon, thought of as crazy, weird, and eventually may find himself under physical persecution for his belief in Christ. He may even lose his life for the Father of his Salvation.

The Force is a real thing. We are real Children of the Force, or God. As such, we should do everything we can to Learn about ourselves, the reality of ourselves, and seek Atonement with God. We are to become one with God and eventually become as Exalted as the Great Eternal is.

If I were to run Star Wars SAGA RPG

2012-01-17T10:10:00.000-07:00

If I were to run the Stars Wars SAGA RPG, I'd set it during the Knights of the Old Republic Era -- the same as the current, and new Star Wars: The Old Republic Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game is set.

So, why STAR WARS SAGA?

Star Wars SAGA is the true 4th Edition of D&D. Really it is. Looking at the rules, it's easier to get. You've got five classes:

Jedi -- which covers the Jedi and the Sith.

Noble -- Star Wars nobles.

Scoundrel -- Han Solo

Scout -- Chewbacca (although his Scout role wasn't really all up on that. )

Soldier -- which covers Republic and Sith soldiers.

Next: you have feats and Talent Trees. The Talent Trees is where D&D 4e should have gone rather than use Powers set up in order to ease D&Ders into 4th Edition. In other words SAGA represents were 4th should have gone and 4th represents where 5th needed to go. By that time, we would be ready for 4th Edition as it stands.

But Alas, pathos, pathos, pathos.

So, why Star Wars: The Knights of the Old Republic?

KotR is the Setting of the Jedi Golden Age. Well, kinda. The Force was balanced by the Jedi and the Sith. Although to describe it as the Jedi Golden Age is laughable at best. Especially when I have the unnerving feeling that the Jedi will most probably try to kill Jesus Christ for taking the Jedi Secrets and teaching them to the common people.

The Brahmin Caste tried to do it when the Christ visited India. The Christ's only crime was to take the secret of the Brahmins and teach it to the Vayshas and the Untouchables. Then the Christ got kicked out of many places -- Athens, Alexandria, Persepolis, Rome . . . And the Shelahites finally crucified him. He didn't get kicked out of Britain, but he built the first version of Glastonbury church. Ahem.

Well, I would set the campaign during the Knights of the Old Republic. Player characters would be on the side of the Republic and fight the Sith Empire. Adventures would take them to Tython, to Coruscant, to Ord Mantell, and other lovely places in the Galaxy -- including Alderaan, Tatooine, and Corellia.

So, how does the MMO work?

Basically, it's based on the World of Warcraft model (a lot). In WoW, it's Horde vs. Alliance. In this case, its set in the KotR Aeon and it's Republic vs. Sith. Although in WoW, you can justify the Horde being good -- especially after the Horde has been cleansed by its blood taint and now they have two Paladin Orders -- the Blood Knights and the Sunwalkers to offset the Order of Argus and the Knights of the Silver Hand. In Star Wars it's not so simple.

Changing the Subject:
Although, in a fit, the MMO says you can set your own destiny by gaining Force points and Darkside points through certain choices. So it's possible to play a righteous Sith (although Ironically, you have to lie a bit to attain Righteousness among the Sith) and a wicked Jedi (which it makes sense that you have to lie and cheat to be WICKED among the Jedi). The problem is -- George tells us that the Sith are evil incarnate.

The Galaxy is very Dichotomous thanks to Ashla and Bodan. There is really no middle ground. So, what do you do? Gray out both sides. Corruption is in the Senate, and some of the Sith are actually good guys and they see the Empire as the way to spread law and order across the Galaxy. The only problem is --

All the Sith Lords are a bunch of backstabbing, half-brained, power hungry idiots who will sooner turn on each other or get their slaves to do their dirty work.

There are a total of 4 classes with their Dichotomy counter parts.

The Jedi Knight is opposed by the Sith Warrior.

The Jedi Consular is opposed by the Sith Inquisitor.

The Republic Trooper is opposed by the Imperial Agent.

And the Smuggler is opposed by the Bounty Hunter.

Advanced classes are these:

The Jedi Sage is comparable to the Priest in WoW. The Jedi Sage is about Force Healing and fighting purely with Ashla.

The Jedi Shadow has no comparison to a WoW class. The Shadows are consulars who are the James Bonds of the Republic. They wield double bladed lightsabers and have licenses to kill.

The Jedi Guardian is comparable to the Paladin in WoW. It's about protecting and dispensing Justice throughout the Republic and the Galaxy.

The Jedi Sentinel has no comparison to a WoW Class. They use the Force and they fight with two lightsabers, and they use the Force to exploit their enemies' weaknesses.

The Scoundrelous Smuggler is comparable to the Rogue in WoW.

The Gunslinging Smuggler is comparable to the Cowboy in all the Old West movies you used to watch. To get into the Gunslinging smuggler, you need to watch High Noon, The Shootist, and Support Your Local Gunslinger.

The Vanguard is comparable to the Warrior in WoW.

The Commando has no comparison in WoW, but if you have to compare it to a D&D class, the best way to compare it too is the ranger. The Commando is comparable to the U.S. Rodger's Rangers, who in the Revolutionary War, were a Crack Team of Elite soldiers of the Republic made up of rough and tumble Frontiersmen (and were one of the slights that turned General Arnold into a traitor).

The Power Tech bounty hunter specializes in using technology to his advantage. He has no comparable WoW class.

The Mercenary Bounty Hunter is the Sith Empire's answer to the Warrior Class in WoW.

The Juggernaut Sith Warrior is a Dark Paladin. Truly dark in every way, the Blood Knights -- although with a reputation for evil -- would find the Juggernaut to be a perversion of Paladin virtue.

The Marauding Sith Warrior is a highly aggressive Sith Lord that opposes Jedi Sentinels.

The Sith Sorcerer, an Inquistor that looks deeper into the Force -- is comparable to the WoW Warlock -- but not in every way possible. Some interesting parallels are the fact that they are also comparable to Shadow Priests in WoW.

The Sith Assassin are comparable to KGB Assassins in attitude. Maybe worse. They need no license to Kill. Wielding double bladed lightsabers, the Sith Assassin is something you don't want hunting you.

The Sniping Imperial Agent are comparable to snipers in Rainbow Six. The only comparable WoW Class is the Hunter.

The Operative Imperial Agent represent the Sith Empire's Impossible Mission Force. While the Republic relies on the Jedi Shadow to deal with impossible espionage missions, the Sith Empire is built on Lies, Secrets, and Intrigue. Thus it's fighting class -- the Imperial Agent -- is based on the WoW Rogue.

So, how do you put all this together in a Roleplaying Game?

The Jedi class represents Jedi Knights, Jedi Consulars, Sith Warriors, and Sith Inquisitors.

The Scoundrel class represents both Smugglers and Bounty Hunters.

The Soldier class represents the Republic Trooper, while the Scout class best serves the Imperial Agent. It's a little more complex than that. Bounty Hunters who are mercenaries are certainly Soldiers, while gunslinging Smugglers can certainly be Scouts.

The SAGA edition can certainly be used to replicate the ST:tOR MMO. Just remember that the SAGA game system and the MMO are based on different game systems (the d20 System vs. the WoW MMO system -- Advanced Classes get TALENTS!). You can't fully replicate one game with the mechanics of the other. However, with the RPG, you can go places were the MMO can't. The MMO is totally scripted -- in one Story, you are a Sith that gets involved with the Revanites in order to kill their leader and to destroy their religion. However in an RPG, you can get involved with the Revanites and not kill them but become their leader.

Kind of different way of doing things with the RPG than with the MMO.

What I want 5e to do.

2012-01-13T08:55:00.001-07:00

Simple. I want support, however measly that is, for interesting backgrounds that makes a character live and breathe.

Last night, one of my players had fun with Central Casting. It was Paul Jaquays' book on generating character backgrounds for fantasy characters, first edition. We spent more time on building his character's father's career than his.

As a result, we got an interesting background for a nezumi or ratkin, or skavin character. The results were simple. Here's a conversation between a 4e character and this Pathfinder Nezumi.

4e Character: "Hello, happy world! Hello, happy tree, hello happy bunny, hello happy squirrel!"

Pathfinder Character (who looks like a rat): "Hello, clueless one."

4e Character: "Oh hi! Can we be friends?"

Pathfinder Nezumi character: "Maybe. Tell me about yourself."

4e Character: "Well, my name's George. I'm a house Deneith Mercenary and I fought in the Last War."

Pathfinder Nezumi Character. "Well, you're certainly acting pretty one dimensional, what was your military experience?"

George Deneith (4e): "I don't know. I'm just a veteran of the Last War. But I have Intimidate as an associated skill!"

The Nezumi does a face palm. George. "What?"

"Your player is a gamist, right?"

"Yes."

"Thought so. My player took the trouble generating my background, but my exploits pale in comparison to my father's."

"Oh? What happened?"

"First of all, we were kicked out of Nezumi lands for being different. My father found work as a fisherman and joined the Home Guard so we can have some money. At first, he saw little action, ran away from some, and joined up to prove himself.

"There was a major war with a neighboring kingdom and his actions got him promoted to corporal. There was many battles, and he was finally decorated for his bravery and became an officer. He was so good that he signed on for another five years and was assigned to special forces -- in the Ranger division. Another war broke out with Drow and he kills one of their generals! There were major battles, where he lost most of his forces, but he proved himself and became a knight! A KNIGHT!

"There was another war that broke out, and his stint was increased. I never saw him but I knew he was doing well. When he returned, he taught me some of his swordcraft, and taught me sword fighting the soldiering way. Finally, there was a major coup on our kingdom and he led it. He slew the king and took over the kingdom."

George looked at the Nezumi with his jaw open.

"And you think you have problems. I've been adventuring in my father's shadow ever since!"

The difference between 4e and 3e is that 4e has little Roleplaying support. You get backgrounds and you get themes, so what? Tell me more about your character. Give him a reason that he's alive, that he fought in the Last War and returned a hardened veteran. After all, Roleplaying is ROLEPLAYING! 4e has little of that.

If you want to pick up a character sheet, write down some figures, and play; there's nothing wrong with that. Character creation in 5e at the start should be quick and easy and fun. However, if you want depth with your character, there should be options to build an interesting background for your character. Some of us don't want to pick up and play, we want to know everything about that character so we can just get started.

It's as simple as that.

5th Edition

2012-01-05T15:29:00.002-07:00

well, who wants to talk about 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons now that Monte Cook is working on it?

5e. . .

5e . . .

5e!

Stargate SG-1 RPG

2012-01-05T08:26:00.000-07:00

I just read the Stargate SG-1 RPG. So many possibilities in one little RPG. A far reaching Stargate network -- and hundreds of d20 and Pathfinder campaigns connected by that Stargate Network. So many possibilities.

At the end of the book is a list of possible Crossovers:

Dragonstar, Mindshadows, Nyambe, and Seven Seas were all suggested as possible crossovers. In fact, Dragonstar could be a replacement for the Goa'uld and the Ori. In fact, the game suggests crossovers. So, my mind went a thousand miles an hour and put together the following possibilities.

The Dragon Empire -- after the Goa'uld and the Ori were defeated, the Dragon Empire becomes the new problem. With Quesamet and Asamet -- the Tau'ri have to deal with dragons in the Milky Way Galaxy and the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy that has been intersecting with the Milky Way. The dragons are like the Goa'uld -- they become masters of all they see.

The two empires have been competing and now the Dragon Empire is expanding. Can the Tau'ri stop their expanse?

Forgotten Realms and Hârn: Both Faerun and Harn were linked to Earth. Instead of what the writers intended, I would use Stargates to link both Harn and Shavarash (Faerun) to Earth. The Stargate would be in an Earthmaster (Ancient) site on Harn (Melderyn) and on the Forgotten Realms, the Stargate is located on the Chessenta and Unther border.

The Goa'uld used the Stargate to seed Faerun with Orcs and Elves along with humans from Earth. Supreme System Lord Ra was defeated by the Goa'uld System Lord Gruumsh once, but Gruumsh was defeated by the Goa'uld System Lord Correllon Larethan. The Goa'uld are also the Imaskari, with most of the Imaskari fighting chaste being Jaffa.

Eberron: Eberron has a STARGATE! Built there by the Ancients, the Goa'uld seeded Eberron with humans from Earth -- taken from Troy or Greece. The Stargate is located in Sarlona, specifically somewhere in Riedra.

Yrth: The planet of GURPS: Banestorm has a stargate. The stargate is located in the island nations.

Plus, hundreds of other possibilities! You can do anything with a Stargate campaign. The possibilities are endless!

The Creation of the Earth

2011-12-30T11:10:00.000-07:00

What really happened with the Creation of the Earth? Did it happen by Accretion, or was their another method? Lately, new information about the Earth has fallen into our hands. First of all, we do know that the Earth is hollow.

There is a great many witnesses to the fact that the Earth is hollow. From Admiral Bird's flight, to a heathen Scandinavian, to visitors from the Hollow Earth. They are all consistent. There is a "sun" of sorts in the inner Earth and there is no horizon. It's bright, as bright as it is up here. And that the "sun" of sorts provides light to the inhabitants of the Earth.

Also, information coming from the Space Age completely challenges the assumptions that gravity is in charge of everything. From Dark Matter, to Dark Energy, to Dark Forces, the theory of Relativity used to govern the Universe has become something of a cart before the Horse. It has gotten so bad that those who follow the Big Bang Theory have become little more than Astrologers. They have created a religion where Intellect is worshipped and that the Universe was started by the Big Bang and that there will be a big crunch afterwords.

Lately, however, there comes along another Theory. This theory is the Electric Universe Theory. The Electrical Universe theory is pretty old. It really started in the Early 20th Century. It's the theory that Electromagnetism is the dominate force in the Universe and that gravity is basically the ashes of this force. So, what does this have to do with the Creation of the World?

If you notice, there is a "sun" at the core of the Earth. This "sun" is made of plasma. The core of the Earth isn't solid iron, it's plasma. And that the land it shines on is abundant and rich. So, if the inner core is plasma, what does that tell you about the Creation of the Earth? Are we interpreting Genesis in correctly?

The Book of Abraham expounds upon the Creation of the Earth. Abraham, the father of the Israelite Nation and father of a multitude of nations (the U.S.A., England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Georgia, etc.), was given an account of the Creation of the Earth. The entire account is in Chapter 4, verse 1.

"And the Lord said: Let us go down. And they went down at the beginning, and they -- that is the Gods -- organized and formed the Heavens and the Earth."

So, those who took part in the Creation of the Earth organized and formed the Earth. The Earth was brought into a paradisiacal state, and that Man was brought on the Earth to till the ground and transform it into a Celestial Kingdom.

So, lets look at the words organize and form.

or·gan·ize (ôrg-nz)

v. or·gan·ized, or·gan·iz·ing, or·gan·iz·es

v.tr.

1. To put together into an orderly, functional, structured whole.

a. To arrange in a coherent form; systematize: organized her thoughts before speaking.

b. To arrange in a desired pattern or structure: "The painting is organized about a young reaper enjoying his noonday rest" (William Carlos Williams).

3. To arrange systematically for harmonious or united action: organize a strike. See Synonyms at arrange.

a. To establish as an organization: organize a club. See Synonyms at found¹.

b. To induce (employees) to form or join a labor union.

c. To induce the employees of (a business or an industry) to form or join a union: organize a factory.

and now Form.

form (fôrm)

a. The shape and structure of an object.

b. The body or outward appearance of a person or an animal considered separately from the face or head; figure.

a. The essence of something.

b. The mode in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself; kind: a form of animal life; a form of blackmail.

a. Procedure as determined or governed by regulation or custom.

b. A fixed order of words or procedures, as for use in a ceremony; a formula.

4. A document with blanks for the insertion of details or information: insurance forms.

a. Manners or conduct as governed by etiquette, decorum, or custom.

b. Behavior according to a fixed or accepted standard: Tardiness is considered bad form.

c. Performance considered with regard to acknowledged criteria: a good jump shooter having an unusual form.

a. Proven ability to perform: a musician at the top of her form.

b. Fitness, as of an athlete or animal, with regard to health or training.

c. The past performance of a racehorse.

d. A racing form.

a. Method of arrangement or manner of coordinating elements in literary or musical composition or in organized discourse: presented my ideas in outline form; a treatise in the form of a dialogue.

b. A particular type or example of such arrangement: The essay is a literary form.

c. The design, structure, or pattern of a work of art: symphonic form.

a. A mold for the setting of concrete.

b. A model of the human figure or part of it used for displaying clothes.

c. A proportioned model that may be adjusted for fitting clothes.

9. A grade in a British secondary school or in some American private schools: the sixth form.

10.

a. A linguistic form.

b. The external aspect of words with regard to their inflections, pronunciation, or spelling.

11.

a. Chiefly British A long seat; a bench.

b. The resting place of a hare.

12. Botany A subdivision of a variety usually differing in one trivial characteristic, such as flower color.

v. formed, form·ing, forms

v.tr.

a. To give form to; shape: form clay into figures.

b. To develop in the mind; conceive: form an opinion.

a. To shape or mold (dough, for example) into a particular form.

b. To arrange oneself in: Holding out his arms, the cheerleader formed a T. The acrobats formed a pyramid.

c. To organize or arrange: The environmentalists formed their own party.

d. To fashion, train, or develop by instruction or precept: form a child's mind.

3. To come to have; develop or acquire: form a habit.

4. To constitute or compose a usually basic element, part, or characteristic of.

a. To produce (a tense, for example) by inflection: form the pluperfect.

b. To make (a word) by derivation or composition.

6. To put in order; arrange.

So those involved had organized, or arranged the materials of the Earth -- and gave it form -- a shape. Because of the core of the Earth is plasma, it means basically that the Earth was organized and formed from Plasma. In every case, those involved waited until they were obeyed.

So, was the planet composed in nothing around the Sun, Sol? Early human traditions and beliefs say that wasn't the case. Early astronomer priests among the Egyptians, the Babylonians, and the Greeks all held something in high regard: they called this Ra, or Shamash, or Helios -- or even Chronos or Saturn. So, like a ship isn't built without a shipyard -- the Planet wasn't built without a shipyard.

Those who were involved in the Creation of this Earth built the planet in the Planet Saturn -- Saturn was the shipyard in this case. And like every ship, there was a Christening and a Launching of this planet from the Sun, Saturn. Everything was prepared. The planet Earth was bathed in Saturn's Corona. On the Earth, the animals and plants (and humans) were subjected to a soft twilight of red. In the Earth, however, the plasma core had shined brilliantly allowing the plants and animals that were set there -- including Man -- to be subject to the entire spectrum. However, everything was eventually set up to fall.

Abraham goes into the same detail as the Genesis account, but we turn to Genesis. According to Genesis, there was light, and the light was divided from the Darkness. It is also interesting that the Sun, Sol, appeared on the Fifth Day of Creation rather than the first. So, what can we gain from this?

Scientifically, to stay within what Human Testimony has said over the years and to ignore the theory of Creation by Accretion, it leaves us with one alternative. The Earth and Saturn were captured by Sol!

First Day of Creation -- the Solar Wind assaults Saturn's Corona, blowing it away literally. The first sign was a brilliant light. God declared that this light was good, and the division is marked by Twilight at daybreak and at sundown. The darkness was called night, and the light was called day.

In the Second Day of Creation, the waters were gathered together to form an ocean or Sea, and the dry land appeared. Well, since Man had saw this happening, there had to be land on the Earth already. So, again, this is symbolic of what actually happened. The clearing of the Atmosphere is the best candidate.

On the Third Day, the atmosphere of the Earth had grown transparent. At first, the Atmosphere was dominated by a thick cloud cover. Not as thick as the Atmosphere of Venus, but thick enough to obscure the stars from view. On the third day, humans could see stars and nebulae. They could also see the first sun, the planet Saturn. The Planet Saturn was given the role of being in charge of time.

The lord said the Sun, Sol, was to rule the day and that the Moon, Luna, was to rule the night. Suppose if you were to transpose Moon with Saturn, you will get a better understanding of what ruled the night. According to the fifth and sixth days of creation, the animals and plants were brought forth abundantly on the Earth and man came to till the ground.

When did the Creation actually happen?

A. Presumptly after the Age of Virgo and at the beginning of the Age of Leo.

Q. Why are you using the Zodiac to keep time?

A. Because the Zodiac was placed in the Heavens to help us with the roll of years. This has nothing to do with Astrology rather than just time keeping. Each sign of the Zodiac has an "age" about 2,000 years. To find out what Age we are in, you just track which sign the sun rises in during the Vernal Equinox. We are currently in the Age of Pisces -- the Fish -- and are currently moving into the Age of Aquarius, or the water bearer. To ride through the full Precession of the Zodiac takes about 26,000 years.

Q. Are you equating Saturn with Kolob?

A. Yes, actually. Saturn is Kolob. Although it can be shocking to most Mormons since my dad bellowed that Kolob is actually close to God and that God isn't anywhere close like Saturn. However, if one takes a look at the scriptures intelligently and take human testimony immemorial into account, one has to come to the conclusion that Saturn is Kolob.

One revolution of Kolob is liken unto a day to the Lord. Or a thousand years. Saturn has an orbit of about 30 years. The polar revolution of Saturn hasn't been measured. Now it takes 26,000 years for the poles of the Earth to revolve one full circle. Perhaps Saturn's poles are much more energetic and only take a thousand years to revolve. Who really knows?

Q. Why haven't the Brethren (Thomas S. Monson and the rest) said anything about this?

A. They don't know. They just plainly don't know.

R. But they are prophets, they are supposed to tell us these things.

A. Would it change anything if they had? You can bring an Atheist to the Fountains of Truth, but you can't make him drink. If Thomas S. Monson knew what was going on, do you really think that he would tell us? Joseph Smith understood things that if he told the brethren, they would immediately turn on him and kill him. If Thomas S. Monson is a true prophet, he would be urging us to prepare for the Second Coming in a physical sense and prepare us to live in a Zion Society.

He can't expound on the doctrine in the Temple because it's too urgent now to prepare to survive to the Second Coming. Assuming that he does receive revelation and talks and walks with God (his talks never change, it's all the same sleeping gas. I have never heard anything edifying from Thomas S. Monson, his talks are about stroking the ego and making us feel good -- I had to turn to other sources to find the truth I so crave). This has been revealed to the World through other means than the Temple. So this means that we must have rejected the knowledge.

Q. How do you know that the Core of the Earth is plasma?

A. I haven't been to Agartha or the city called Eden, so I can't really give a testimony that what I said is true. I only have the testimony of others to go on. I missed an opportunity to go. I should have signed on board, but then I wouldn't be writing this blog because I most likely won't be connected to this internet. (Some people would probably say: "You should have gone!")

Q. Is the Earth truly hollow?

A. It has to be. When it was in the great constellation of planets, the Earth vibrated with sound frequency singing "eeeeaaaaooooaaaaeeeee," which is the Name of God. This is the music of the Spheres. You can't get such a beautiful sound with a perfectly solid sphere -- but you can get one from a hollow sphere. A hollow sphere acts as a sound speaker. A solid sphere acts as a buffer.

Q. How does Gravity work with a hollow sphere?

A. I don't know. A scientist named Rodney Cluff can explain this one better.

If you have any other questions, leave them in the comments section.

My Impression of Skyrim

2011-12-15T15:15:00.000-07:00

Skyrim is probably the best Fantasy CRPG that has ever been produced. You still don't Roleplay as well as you could around the table, on open RPG, or any other virtual table, but Skyrim has the best engine for generating characters for a computer for a 1 player CRPG.

Not an MMO, Skyrim is the next generation in Fantasy CRPGs. Based off of concepts made for Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim is not based on Dungeons and Dragons, or it's leveling system, or anything of that nature. Based on watching playthroughs on Youtube (which, if Anonymous has his way, will be illegal even though they are protected by the Fair Use Doctrine) when you create a character, you are no longer putting him in the straightjacket of a class.

Nay, for a one player CRPG, the straightjacketing of classed-based play makes absolutely no sense. When you play a game like Skyrim or Morrowind, you should be able to be immersed and given the chance to do anything you like. Pickpockets, learn some martial arts, or some magic.

As you level, specializations are handled by picking up perks, which grant you certain abilities (if you play 3e or 4e, think of perks as FEATS or POWERS). Some perks allow you to duel wield spells and weapons. Others allow you to summon more effectively, power up your spells, or block attacks more effectively, or be better at lock picking.

As you specialize in perks, you create your character's speciality. Play a warrior? specialize in weapon and blocking perks. Play a mage? Specialize in the schools' of magic perks, play a rogue? You can specialize in perks that allow you to sneak around, lock picks, and pickpocket. Play a knight? specialize in weapon and armor perks along with speech craft. Play a spellsword? Specialize in Armor, a chosen 1 handed Weapon of your choice, and blocking while you specialize further in Destruction, Alteration, and Restoration. Play a scholar? Specialize in lock picking, speech craft, mercantile, and possibly 1-handed weapon perks. Play a ranger? Specialize in Archery. Play a certain Dark Elf duel wielding 2 sabers? Make him and get the Dual Wielding perk in 1-handed weapons, need you ask?

Anything is possible. Even a pugilist. When you create a character, you just input your name and race, customize what you look like and have a blast.

Main Quest

In the main quest, you play a chosen of Akatosh. As a Chosen, you are one of the Dragonborn, a mortal who is capable of absorbing the memories and knowledge of a dead dragon. So, you aren't some half dragon that runs around looking like a human with a dragon's head on top covered in scaly skin. You are either human, elf, orc, kitty, or argonian that has this power.

It is your job to free Skyrim of the terrible evil that is Alduin the World Eater. Alduin, an ancient Dragon, has been awakening his children from their long sleep in pursuant of goals of his own. Along the way, you will learn the ancient language of the dragons in order to cast dragon magic, or shouts. You must do this order to cast Alduin back into the demonic world of Oblivion. Along the way you will gain both allies as well as make enemies. Some deserved, some undeserved.

Side Quests

Side Quests include:
* The Whitecloaks and the Imperial Legion, which gets you embroiled in the regions politics.
* The Companions -- which may turn you into a Werewolf.
* The College of Winterhold -- which is magic based and deals with the Lore of Magnus and the Psijic Order (who are a bunch of psions that have laid low all these years).
* The Den of Thieves called the Thieves Guild.
* The Dark Brotherhood that specialize in murder as a profession.
* The Bards College -- why not go learn how to sing?

There are the usual daedric quests, the divine quests, and quests related to the Forsworn. The Forsworn aren't as bad as it sounds, but it looks like they are bretons who settled in Skyrim anciently. There are the usual main city quests and village quests. And a few miscellaneous quests. You can even get married.

Like Oblivion, you can mod for the game. While body replacers haven't been made yet, you can get retextures -- just for females so far.

Q. What do you think of this Marriage in the Game Business?

I think it's great! Marriage has been missing from the Elder Scrolls game series since FOREVER! It isn't perfect, but it's wonderful that they are pushing this principle in the game. Marriage celebrates the coming together of two (or more people in the case of Polygyny and Polyandry) and the principle of union of the sexes. The main good thing about marriage in the game is that your character can have a traditional marriage or a gay marriage, or an interracial marriage or an interracial gay marriage. Whether this scares people away from the game matters little, the game celebrates something good and pure.

Q. What is wrong with marriage in the game?

Currently only one Temple, the Temple of Mara, performs marriages. All temples of all faiths should perform marriages.

Secondly, in the case of all, certain faiths have the right to marry certain couples. A priest of Akatosh won't perform interracial or gay marriages for instance. While a priestess of Dibella should be able to perform polygamous marriages and gay marriages, for example (as Dibella is the real Goddess of Beauty and the tender Passions).

You can marry anyone of any race except Khajiits. A Kahjiit should be able to be married in the game -- both a male and a female for completeness. It casts a bad light on the race, as to say: "all Kahjiits are promiscuous." Which isn't fair to the race as a whole. It's a gross generalization. While cats in real life are promiscuous does not mean that a race of living, breathing humanoid cats should be. This means that a PC Khajiit won't be forced to marry into an interracial relationship if he or she doesn't want to.

Q. Any sex in the game?

You will be able to have sex with your spouse when someone can craft some custom animations that shows two people performing this sublime and beautiful activity. Sex never was bad, but all sex is good and to see it performed in game between your character and his/her spouse would be a lovely thing in deed. I can see fellow Christians decrying this:

a. If sex is bad, then why would the Creator endorse the activity and create Sexual Reproduction in the first place?
b. Yahweh/Yahshua Messiah has placed sex in certain bounds in order to teach us certain truths.
c. A homosexual relationship is not good for the race as a whole (since a couple consisting of two males or two females can't reproduce the species), but is good for the individuals who are in love. Sex is never wrong as it produces positive emotions and positive energy between two people -- no matter who the two people are.
d. Yahweh/Yahshua Messiah decries homosexual activity because He desires Israel to be a nation of Priests and Priestesses, Kings and Queens. He told the Israelites (and incidentally, all peoples now living in America, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and parts of Italy along with Japan, parts of India, and Israel) to punish known, unrepentant homosexuals with a death penalty in order to remove the evil from Israel. A homosexual community that is active politically and culturally within a nation leads to national spiritual cancer.
e. It is the purpose of this game's creators to make Tamriel as living and as breathing as possible as within the computer. A large number of people play this game, and many are homosexual. It does not make sense for Bethesda to disallow gay marriages within the game, since Marriage itself is a living principle to be enjoyed by all -- black, brown, red, yellow, or white. Straight or gay.
f. Consequences, good and bad, comes with all choices. Making choices that draw you closer to the Father and the Son brings unpopularity. Making choices that draw you closer to the World brings popularity.
g. If you are gay and you marry someone of the same sex, then you must be able to accept the Consequences that come with that. Increased risk of homocide, increased incidence of parasites, and other nasty diseases comes with being in a homosexual relationship. However, as a homosexual you will be doggone popular today. Homosexuals are so popular that you can go to Walt Disney Company parties and see at least one. And Walt Disney says they are the family friendly company, go figure.
h. Certain ordinances of Marriage is reserved for those who want to be Kings and Queens, Priests and Priestesses. This type of marriage is not reserved for the homosexual couple, nonetheless, the ability to get married is not withheld from them by the Spirit (who trumps the Father and the Son in almost every matter). The reason why Sealing Ordinances are withheld from Homosexual couples is because the Son's House is a House of Order. The Title 'God' is reserved for those hetrosexual couples who want be as the Father and the Son, to create a family of spiritual beings that will gain their own bodies through sexual reproduction as immortals, and then to give them physical bodies as mortals. A homosexual couple is unable to sexually reproduce so their making into Kings or Queens would be fruitless.
h. In Skyrim, you are roleplaying an alter-ego (or a CRPG's definition of "Roleplaying"); so the Consequences are what you can imagine. (the game creates a world without many consequences. Sure, you can go to jail, but the game is only limited for a reason.) Skyrim isn't a perfect world for anyone, but it's the best that many can come up with so far. Especially with the addition of Marriage.

Inspite of the problems, Marriage is a step in the right direction that makes Skyrim a more complete living breathing world. Skyrim isn't a perfect world, the world here on Earth is a perfect world.

The Case for Open Access in China (and indeed, everywhere)

2011-12-13T10:12:00.000-07:00

From QuestionCopyright.org:

It is amazing how the Internet makes it possible for people to connect with one another in ways that were not possible a decade ago. Jennifer Howard published an article "What you don't know about copyright and should" in The Chronicle of Higher Education in May 2011. As a research student on copyright from China, I was naturally drawn to this piece and quickly added a comment suggesting that any introduction to copyright would be considered incomplete without a few words on the free culture movement such as Open Source Software and Creative Commons. My opinion was echoed by Mr. Karl Fogel at QuestionCopyright.org, who later invited me to write about "how people feel about copyright in China, especially focusing on the general public's attitude toward copying and sharing and attribution" for QuestionCopyright.org. This article is a result of that fortuitous interaction between Karl and me, which would have been unthinkable if access to Ms. Howard's article were restricted by copyright. This anecdote illustrates the first point I want to make about copyright in general: the copyright regime restricts the distribution of creative works and stifles the conversation that creative works may generate. The Internet has emerged as an antidote to this restriction, as Karl and I could read and discuss Ms. Howard's article online and work together for new articles on the same topic.

Earlier this year, I ran into a book named "Uncommon Sense- Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism" when browsing Douban.com, one of the most popular social networking sites on books, movies and music for young people in China. Authored by two leading scholars from America, the Nobel economist Gary Becker and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner, the book was translated into Chinese by a leading publisher and received a high rating from users at Douban.com. But the Douban users also grudged about the relatively high price of the book- RMB 56 (the monthly stipend for a PhD student in China is about RMB 1,500). A Google search quickly located for me a free e-copy of the book, which was uploaded by some netizens to Sina.com, a major web portal in China. The e-copy I got was the original English version, which I could read without worrying about the errors or loss of meaning in translation.

More importantly, I found one essay in the English version that has been expurgated from the translation- "Google in China" discussing how Internet companies like Google deal with censorship of Internet by the Chinese government. It was ironic that the article was knocked out even though both authors expressed certain degree of sympathy with the Chinese government's censorship policies for the sake of social stability. Yet, this removed article on censorship illustrates a paradoxical situation in which many Chinese readers find themselves. On the one hand, our access to information is constrained by the infamous Great Firewall that blocks Facebook, Youtube, Blogspot, as well as by the General Administration of Press and Publication that regulates paper-based publication. On the other hand, the copyright regime restricts what we could read based on what we could afford: no doubt I have violated both international and domestic copyright laws when I downloaded a free e-copy of "Uncommon Sense" from Sina.com. Here comes my second thought on copyright in China: unauthorized copying and distribution of materials from abroad may enable at least some Chinese to access information that is not otherwise available and thereby help build a more open and democratic China in the long term.

Under international pressure, the Chinese government is doing everything it can to promote copyright education. Every year, events are organized all over the country to educate the public about the importance of respecting copyright. But there is a general confusion over the distinction between unauthorized copying and plagiarism. It has to do with an obscure principle in copyright laws, namely, the idea-expression dichotomy or the merger doctrine. Because copyright originated from publishing, it is is primarily concerned with protecting the expression of works – whereas the ideas expressed are not copyrightable. In other words, it is illegal to copy or reproduce a work without authorization, but perfectly fine to borrow one's ideas by paraphrasing. Yet, if you talk with any scholars or professors in China, you will find that most authors are more concerned if others borrow their ideas without giving them credit. It is not a big deal if their papers or journal articles are posted online by others without their authorization. Some of the authors may even be pleased to know their ideas are more widely circulated so long as the works are attributed to their names and are not altered without their permission. Copyright advocates often argue for more protection to produce stronger incentive for authors to create their works. But scholars in general do not get paid for publishing academic papers. In fact, many authors in China have to pay the publishers to get their work in print. But publishing one's works is considered a means to an important end: to get one's works scrutinized and recognized by the academic community. With certain number of papers published in leading journals, the scholars will get a tenured professorship and other opportunities to advance their career, e.g. providing consulting services for commercial companies.

So what can we do with plagiarism which is technically not illegal under the current copyright regime? Recently, a software system similar to Turnitin has been adopted by many Chinese universities to check all master's and PhD thesis against plagiarism. Yet, it is fairly easy to outsmart the system by paraphrasing the papers one has to copy so that the software cannot find any verbatim copying. In fact, a more straight-forward solution for plagiarism in China is simply to abolish all copyright protection for the academic works. According to Linus' Law, all bugs are shallow given enough eyeballs. The mechanism of debugging for open source software can also be transplanted to the context of academic writing in China. By removing all obstacles of accessing the academic papers, any incidents of plagiarism will be easily detected by the public.

In fact, the public has every right to access the scholarly works. Recently, American scholars are making efforts to remove copyright restriction on their works on the ground that many research papers resulted from research studies sponsored by taxpayers' money. It makes little sense if the publishers appropriate the works' copyright and charge the public again for access. An even stronger case for free access to Chinese journal articles can be made considering the fact that most major research universities in China are funded by the central government and most papers with academic merit are based on research projects sponsored by the government.

Since the open door policy was adopted in China in early 1980s, the Chinese economy has taken off and Chinese people have enjoyed dramatic improvement of living standards. Yet, many people are worried that the Chinese have become increasingly obsessed with material goods but ignored the equally important spiritual lives. We spend more time watching TV and less time reading literature. One important difference between TV programs and literate works is that while TV programs are freely accessible in China through sponsorship of the advertisers most books are copyrighted commodities that have become increasingly expensive in recent years. The advent of the Internet may offer new opportunities for the Chinese to access more quality literate works under business models alternative to conventional copyright-based model. With the help of new technologies, we the Chinese may find ways to circumvent both the government censorship regime and the copyright regime to forge a collective readership that is constructive and beneficial for all.

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Raised in Mainland China and Hong Kong, Ho Simon Wang received his undergraduate education from Washington University in Saint Louis, USA and a Master degree in education from Oxford University, UK. He is currently living in Wuhan, China working as an English language teacher at Huazhong University of Science and Technology while pursuing a PhD degree in intellectual property rights at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.

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New Story set in Skyrim

2011-12-12T19:15:00.002-07:00

I finished Oblivion, and now I'd like to play Skyrim.

Here's a new story to show I'm interested.

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UNFORSEEN ALLIANCES

Part 1

By Elton Robb

It’s happened to be one of those days in the Bee and the Barb. Talen-Jei, who is an Argonian from Black Marsh, was tending to the floor with a broom. Like all Argonians, he has the look of a lizard with green scales and a lizard like head. He had two yellow eyes, and a head full of spikes.

“Just what I need,” said Talen-Jei cheerfully, “another great day for the Bee and the Barb.”

Keerava, his partner and also an Argonian, replied, ”Yes, we took in quite a lot today.”

“You think you can sleep this time?” said Talen-Jei. “You’ve been running the inn non-stop. I think we can get some help to keep the inn running at all hours.”

Keerava, who was of a lighter color, just nodded. Unlike Talen-Jei, she didn’t grow the spikes on her head. Her head had spikes on it in a circle pattern, which was what you could expect from an Argonian. She just yawned, “Lets hire some help tomorrow and see where this goes. I could use the rest.”

Keerava then shuffled to her room. She wore a dress made of green and tan velvet, which shined in the light. The dress had a mid cut, which showed her cleavage. Her shoulders were bare except two shoulder straps. Her dress didn’t have a bell, which was the craze of the upper class, but the fabric moved with every movement. Her dress was cut so that her tail could be free. Her tail swayed lazily, betraying her state of alertness.

“I’m going to bed,” said Keerava. “You just clean up and lock up.”

Talen-Jei nodded as she went to her room. He was happy to mind the tap while Keerava handled the business side of running the Bee and the Barb. He finished cleaning up and putting chairs up when there was a knock on the door. Rap-Rap-Rap.

“Hmm?” asked Talen-Jei. “Who could be rapping on my door at this hour?” Talen-Jei opened the door and in fell through a human being. Wearing white, pure white; he wore a long coat like a duster. His hair was dark brown, long and curly, and his eyes were baby blue. His skin was reddish white and the shape of his face betrayed that he was from High Rock – a Breton. Maybe from Daggerfall or Wayrest. His pants were made of canvas, also pure white, and his boots – white except for the dark brown soles made of tough leather. He had a brown leather satchel slinged around his shoulder and neck and resting on his right side. His shirt had some color, white with a blue trim.

“I’m so tired, I came such a long way,” he said. In Tameriel, most humans were white; except for the people of the desert country of Hammerfell and probably the settlers in Elsweyer that eventually became the Khajiit. Talen-Jei grew up in Black Marsh, and unlike his brother, didn’t mind the humans.

“Okay, my name is Talen-Jei,” Talen-Jei said. “But you can call me Talen, it’s easier. You speak Cyrrodillic with almost no trace of accent.”

“Really?” said the human. “Do most humans speak it with no trace of accent?”

“No. Everyone has a slight to thick accent. Even those from the Imperial City,” Talen explained. “Let me get you a room for the night so you can be well rested.”

“Thank you,” said the human. “You’re too kind.”

Talen led the human up into a room and set him on the bed. He then returned to lock the door to the Bee and the Barb and retired to his own room. For as long as he could remember, his crèche-mates – and especially his brother Haldan-Kai; didn’t like humans or trusted them. However, Talen traveled and his travels took him to Skyrim. He settled with Keerava and both of them went into business with each other.

Talen, however, went to bed with the strange events of the day. A human, speaking Cyrrodillic with no trace of accent, wearing white . . . A strange event, a very strange event indeed.

* * *

The next morning didn’t start becoming busy until 9 AM. The human, however, looked rested as he came down dressed in the same manner. He sat down and opened his satchel, removing a book to read. The book was bound leather, and when one of the waitresses arrived, he ordered his breakfast. Which was shepherd’s pie with some strawberries and a good mead to wash it down. Talen, however, was busy mixing one of his famous drinks when the waitress, a buxom busty Khajiit, returned with the human’s order.

“Coming right up,” said Talen. Talen poured cream into this drink – a White Gold Tower, which was a popular mix of his. He served it up and took the order. He then got a cut from the shepherd’s pie and put strawberries and mixed a good mead. Although he wished he knew what the human preferred in a “good mead.”

The busty Khajiit served the shepherd’s pie while the human read and compared notes. “Here you go, sir,” she said. “Boy do you read a lot.”

“Thank you,” said the human. “And I am a scholar, it’s my duty to read and to report on what I read.”

“Oh, what can you read?” asked the Khajiit.

“Ancient elven script, human Hieroglyphs from Hammerfell, ancient Ogham, anything really,” the human replied as he took a bite from his shepherd’s pie.

“Oh, does this make you a magic user?” asked the Khajiit.

The human looked up with a startled look on his face while he chewed. The Khajiit wench just said, “oh, nevermind.”

The human just went back to his books and got out a map after he ate the pie. Talen was surprised at how attractive he looked, but then, he was engaged to Keevava. Well, at least he should ask his name. When he had a free moment not mixing drinks, and adding that special cream to his beers and ales; Talen went to the human.

“Hey, what is your name?” Talen asked.

The human looked up from his maps. “Call me Yôhanan, or John if that is easier for you.”

Talen then said, ”Alright, Yohanan. Nice to know your name.”

“Likewise,” said Yohanan. “So, is there anything else?”

“What are you reading?”

“Ancient Skyrim texts,” said Yohanan. “I’ve been trying to trace the original homeland of the humans. It seems that I’ve hit a dead end when I studied Redguard texts and all I have to go on is ancient legends and folklore.”

“Sounds like a hard thing to do.”

“It is. This land used to belong to the elves or mer, the khajiit, and the argonians respectively. We humans must have immigrated from somewhere else.”

“I hope you come to a discovery,” said Talen.

“Well, already, ancient legends have described a creation – the end of the old world and the beginning of ours. The last of the emperors was slain more than two centuries ago, bringing the empire into another phase,” said Yohanan. “As far as I can tell, this may be the fourth Age, but usually the turning of an Age is apocalyptic. The turning of the fourth age wasn’t all that apocalyptic. I’m trying to find out why.”

Talen looked like everything went over his head. “Okay, whatever,” said the argonian. He left the weird young man to his scholarship. He often wondered why the attractive young man was so single. No hard guess as to why he remained a bachelor. The young man was just too smart for marriage.

Yohanan tried the mead, and finding nothing wrong with it, continued to drink it. He was trying to make some corellations between the legends of the Nords and the map of Skyrim. However, sources were scattered and often the legends didn’t agree. Yohanan just made an audible sound of grief!

“Of all places I have to go visit some tombs!” he wailed.

Talen was taken aback. “What, you aren’t an adventurer?”

“Most of the time you have to do research,” said Yohanan. “Now I have to go dig!”

“Where?” Talen asked, curious.

“Darkwater Pass first, and then Septimus Signus’ Outpost,” said Yohanan. “The first may have some snow elf writings, and the last contains an Elder Scroll.”

Talen just shrugged. Yohanan was going on a dangerous mission poking around falmer caves like that. And then even an Elder Scroll, it was just too much. Since the troubles started with the last of the Septims, the Elder Scrolls were kept in the royal University of Magic. Talen thought that Yohanan was chasing after legends. Someone ordered another of his signature drinks – the Cliffracer. Still, if Yohanan was going on a fool’s quest he should need some help. Fortunately, he may have some contacts. He thought if he could talk his brother into helping the unfortunate scholar, everything would be easier. He didn’t want Yohanan to become falmer food.

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Spider-Man, Superman, and Ms. Marvel

2011-12-10T08:57:00.000-07:00

One of the things that is good about Nuclear War is the destruction of the Copyright Law via the Destruction of the Supreme Government of the United States. Nuclear War will wipe out those who abuse Copyright, but will allow some new storytellers to take the folklore of our age and finally have the ability to comment.

Now, I hear that some people are scoffing at Nuclear War, but you've got to know that man is stupid. When man invented a weapon, they will use that weapon. ITS INEVITABLE!! Now, Yahshua stopped Global Thermonuclear War once. Now, he won't stand in the way. If you want to live, move out of the city, build a fallout shelter, and have 1 to 3 years of food storage. Ahem, once Global Thermonuclear War is declared, Seattle will be covered by a mountain of sludge. Los Angeles will fall into the Sea. Washington DC will burn off the map. New York City will be ruins, and Salt Lake City will be under a very large lake.

Ahem, that's not even the worst of it. But the best of it -- We will be converting into an economy based on sharing. We will have a barter economy for a while, and certain laws will not be enforced. The best of this is the Copyright Acts of America from 1913 onwards will have no one to enforce them.

I can write a Spider-man, Superman, Ms. Marvel team up without nary a Breach of Copyright Notice. In the new landscape, these three characters will just be men and a woman with super abilities. They won't be worshipped as gods, but they will have super abilities that they can put to use.

Superman, Ms. Marvel and Spider-Man rescuing survivors is a good story to write. In my story, Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel turn to each other and become a couple, while Superman -- with Black Canary and Lois Lane being cared for -- does what he does best. Sees to it that other survivors are safe and well. So, why Spider-man and Ms. Marvel?

Didn't you like Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson being together? Well, yes I did. In fact, they were a perfect match made in Heaven. However, Joe Quesada had their marriage annulled in a brief moment of insanity. Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel are also perfect together, however. The two of them may not have a perfect compatibility score, but no one on Earth is perfectly compatible. Even Yahshua had marriage problems (his wives -- yes, wives -- had to travel with him and I'm sure some of them didn't like to travel).

The possibility of a relationship is explored in Ms. Marvel #47, and the two of them bonded over fast food. And I thought, why didn't Marvel run with it? A permanent team up between the two would be wonderful (it would be tres awesome if Spider-man was Polygamous. Mary Jane Watson wouldn't be incredibly worried when Spider-Man is out there, fighting crime and risking his life because her sister wife: Ms. Marvel -- would be there to protect him).

So my story would go like this:

Having survived in underground shelters, the Kents and the Parkers teamed up. Superman would be taking care of Black Canary, making sure she was safe and then he would team up with Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel to find survivors and to bring them to a place of safety (there are several counties in America that are designated as places of safety).

All three Superheroes will be tested at the limit, and their god-like status revoked as they find irradiated victims. Kal'el would not be dressed in his super suit, and the job he has to do is so big that he can't save everyone at once. Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel are in a similar vein. The non-powered Mary Jane Watson and Lois Lane would be organizing the survivors and when Superman and Spider-Man bring in the last of them, they would be organizing a mass exodus to a place where there is food (i.e. Utah) with the three of them protecting the little band.

Once they reach Utah, Superman, Ms. Marvel, and Spider-Man enlist in the war against the Russian Invasion. They would be fighting Omega Red (yeah, Omega Red) in altercations against the Russians. However, they won't be decisive in defeating the Russians. A group of American Militia will perform a Gideon Maneuver that will defeat the Russians once and for all.

After that, Kal'el will retire from Superheroics and Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel will protect those who immigrate to Zion, and then they too will retire from Superheroics and live out their lives happily.

:)

Ally Reports: The Psion Force! Update

2011-12-06T13:46:00.000-07:00

The Psion Force is going in for a rewrite (revision). After running 3 M&M scenarios for friends of mine on Open RPG, I have better grasp of the rules and how they work.

It is the d20 system, but its rewritten to handle a 4-color Comic World. If you recall, the Psion Force is a comic book superhero team of heroes who aren't mutants like the X-Men, they aren't experiments like Captain America, and they aren't metahumans like Superman or mutates like Spider-man. They aren't results of accidents. They are designed to represent the human potential in extreme ways. And they all had a common origin -- an experience that drastically changed them.

Nucleon used to be an ordinary man who lived day to day. But he changed for the better and now lives for eternity.

Doctor Psi found his true fear, loss of popularity. A follower of what is popular in Psychology today, Doctor Psi is increasingly feeling distant after his origin experience, and it scares him.

Hammer wanted a normal life. After his change, he is thrust into the role of a superhero, and he didn't want that.

The Golden Alacrity is the "Speedster" and "transporter" of the team. She has accepted her awakening because it gives her a new lease on her old life.

Aletheia was a Jewish domestic terrorist. Since her change, she is no longer involved in domestic terrorism, but wants to repair the damage that she had done.

Stilletto is a U.S. Agent who can't quite leave the CIA. Her change just enhanced her abilities and usefulness to the CIA.

Major Force's status in the U.S.M.C. changed from an ordinary ground pounder to a curiosity that is hidden away in Area 51.

While Lioness and Icon are at odds with each other. Her emotions spark her power, and his power is at his best when he is at an emotional balance.

Their powers maybe outside the realm of what we see everyday, but they could be probable.

First Issue of Dynamic Duo released

2011-12-05T10:00:00.001-07:00

Whoa, what a DC Adventures session! Set in Keystone City, the Duo defeated their first Supervillain -- which isn't a real Super Villain anyhow, just a kid with flame powers he hardly knows how to fully control yet.

So, I need to make a list of villains. First of all, I need to make a list of the Flash's villains.

Here are a list of the Rogues --

Abra Kadabra • Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness) • Captain Boomerang (Owen Mercer) •
Captain Cold •Golden Glider • Heat Wave • Mirror Master • Pied Piper • Top • Trickster • Weather Wizard

Then a list of the Reverse Flashes
The Rival • Professor Zoom • Zoom • Inertia

Then a list of the general vileness that the Flash deals with on an ordinary crime stopping spree.

Fiddler • Gorilla Grodd • Magenta • Manfred Mota • Murmur • Peek-A-Boo • Ragdoll •
Rainbow Raider • Savitar •Shade • Tar Pit • Thinker • Turtle

So . . . Opening Heroes and Villains, Volume 1 I need to pick out the best villains from this list.

Da Krusha is a Powerhouse (like the Hulk), and the Burst is a Paragon (like Superman, but his powers need a special chemical to activate.) So, the best way to find the right villains is to look up the Hulk's rogues gallery. The hulk deals with many other powerhouses.

So we have:

1. Abra Kadabra (Flash Villain)
2. Captain Cold (Flash Villain)
3. Flamester (Original Villain, based on Fire)
4. Gorrila Grodd (Flash Villain)
5. The Joker (Batman Villain)
6. Killer Croc (Batman Villain)
7. Killer Frost (Firestorm Villain)

if you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments section.

The Dynamic Duo, Issue #1???

2011-12-04T13:21:00.000-07:00

No, it's not Batman and Robin, it's Dragonburst and Da Crusha.

Sometimes, you give a copy of DC Adventures to a player and they are overwhelmed with what they can do with it. It shouldn't take a whole two hours to hash out a superhero that can beat up the bad guys. You got a concept, design some complications, and run with it.

Fox and Heather took about an hour to hash out their characters, but these guys were stuck at concept phase. Just create a character and go with it, that's what I always say. Being stuck at concept phase just grind things down to a halt. Ambush Bug not withstanding.

Anyway, they want to play, I want to run something where they aren't limited, and boom. They are stuck. To many ideas. So, will you see an issue of Dragonburst and Da Crusha? Maybe.

The First Appearance of Ferro Girl

2011-12-03T19:07:00.000-07:00

I GMed a second game based on the DC Universe using DC Adventures (M&M 3). The player was a Canadian, goes by Fox on OpenRPG.

Ferro Girl was designed so that her power would increase the more clothes she took off. Strangely enough, there is a scientific explanation for this sort of power. The human body produces its own electric current and magnetic field (some would equate this with the aura). When we wear clothes, our bodies' electrical currents are disrupted.

In the case of Ferro Girl, she has a bioelectric signature that is about as powerful as Magneto's. While Magneto's costume doesn't interfere with his power, Ferro Girl's does. Ferro Girl is PL 15 when nude, but the power level reduces the more her body is covered.

The first adventure is more cerebral than the last. Fox's character goes to college at a young age, and takes psychology. Both Heather (my first DC adventures player) and Fox (my second) approaches the world in different angles.

They were discussing the superhero community in the city where they were going to college when a bank robbery took place. Fox's character excused herself and turned into Ferro Girl, and zoomed in there to fight. She managed to stop three bank robbers, and one of them managed to blow his face up. Apprehending two of them, she returned, and changed. Happy, she bumped into Richard, an older student compared to her.

Polaris is not Ferro Girl, but Ferro Girl's costume is similar to this.

He talked about how Ferro Girl's first adventure had gone public and how it was a big success and an inspiration to Nudists allover the world. Even more elated the civic Ferro Girl returned to her dorm to see any of the news about herself.

Fox enjoyed it, even though I never referred to the books and played it ad hoc.

Next Issue: Ferro Girl meets the girl with super powered Prothesis. And what about Nucleon anyhow?

Rifts to D20

2011-12-01T10:15:00.000-07:00

Okay, so this yet another Rifts post. This isn't an actual conversion, but giving you some ideas on how to DIY Rifts to d20 by yourself. I bet there are tons of Conversions out there, all taken down after Kevin wants to steal his work back. After all, there is a Fanwork Ban. One of the most notorious ones in the RPG industry. Kevin (Hi Kevin!) forbids people from converting RIFTS to other settings and publishing the rules anywhere, and makes legal threats against people who do publish them.

Kevin, there is this thing, called an Internet. Did anybody ever tell you how it's architecture is set up? Give it up, you lost.

Ahem . . . On to breaking the Fanwork Ban! (The Defend IP Act must have a clueless fan boy with irrational man love for it somewhere in Michigan -- or wherever he lives now.)

RIFTS is something of a game where you take Tolkien's Middle Earth, World Mythology (I don't know why you would, the First Story is based on a Planetary Constellation anyhow), the tropes of Science Fiction, 4 color Superhero comics, the Old West, Anime, and Horror of all kinds. Put it all in a pot, add water, simmer and stew. What you get is the Chop Suey of all RPG settings. However, I say Chop Suey instead of Goulash because it actually tastes good and goes down easy.

The system is worthy of converting to d20, because d20 still has a lot going for it that makes the Palladium System look like it's 30 years old (actually, 40, but whose counting?)

The major problems are these:

Mega-Damage: Most fans say -- use SDC damage, it's much better. Convert everything over to SDC and use SDC weapons. However, I say use a rule in d20 that would work that much better. It's called Damage Reduction.

Some magic creatures have the supernatural ability to instantly heal damage from weapons or ignore blows altogether as though they were invulnerable.

The numerical part of a creature's damage reduction (or DR) is the amount of damage the creature ignores from normal attacks. Usually, a certain type of weapon can overcome this reduction (see Overcoming DR). This information is separated from the damage reduction number by a slash. For example, DR 5/magic means that a creature takes 5 less points of damage from all weapons that are not magic. If a dash follows the slash, then the damage reduction is effective against any attack that does not ignore damage reduction.

Whenever damage reduction completely negates the damage from an attack, it also negates most special effects that accompany the attack, such as injury poison, a monk's stunning, and injury-based disease. Damage reduction does not negate touch attacks, energy damage dealt along with an attack, or energy drains. Nor does it affect poisons or diseases delivered by inhalation, ingestion, or contact.

Attacks that deal no damage because of the target's damage reduction do not disrupt spells.

Spells, spell-like abilities, and energy attacks (even nonmagical fire) ignore damage reduction.

Sometimes damage reduction represents instant healing. Sometimes it represents the creature's tough hide or body. In either case, other characters can see that conventional attacks won't work.

If a creature has damage reduction from more than one source, the two forms of damage reduction do not stack. Instead, the creature gets the benefit of the best damage reduction in a given situation.

Overcoming DR

Damage reduction may be overcome by special materials, magic weapons (any weapon with a +1 or higher enhancement bonus, not counting the enhancement from masterwork quality), certain types of weapons (such as slashing or bludgeoning), and weapons imbued with an alignment.

Ammunition fired from a projectile weapon with an enhancement bonus of +1 or higher is

treated as a magic weapon for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction. Similarly, ammunition fired from a projectile weapon with an alignment gains the alignment of that projectile weapon (in addition to any alignment it may already have).

Weapons with an enhancement bonus of +3 or greater can ignore some types of damage reduction, regardless of their actual material or alignment. The following table shows what type of enhancement bonus is needed to overcome some common types of damage reduction.

There you have it, Damage Reduction. Damage Reduction can effectively replace Mega-Damage points. For biological creatures made with carbon-based chemistry. Vehicles and piloted Robots (Mecha) have something similar -- Hardness.

Skill System based on a percentile: Okay, there is a lot of skills. Only SpaceMaster and Rolemaster beats the number of Skills. However, they are based on percentiles and you have to roll low to succeed in your skill. However ICE was experimenting with Target Numbers with their Middle Earth Adventures RPG, and this became the basis of Shadowrun and other modern RPGs. Roll a die, beat the target number, and you succeed.

The d20 System uses a TN-based skill system, called DC.

P.P.E., ISP casting system: The spells can be cast by any wizard by any level. The psychics can cast psychic effects based on their effective power level. This is governed by Potential Psychic Energy and Inner Strength Points. This is basically to replicate book wizards. But Authors have one superiority over games. Rifts is a goal-oriented game (i.e. uses Levels). An Author can write a story about a befuddling wizard's Apprentice who can control the weather.

Pathfinder still uses the casting system based on Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, but there are ways to overcome this (Advanced d20 Magic anyone?).

Combat Progression: As you attain more levels, your combat experience increases. This isn't half bad, as the Palladium game system is rules oriented. And yes, you do get better at hitting and/or killing people as your experience increases in real life.

While combat systems in Rifts are leveled, however, the Pathfinder/d20 System uses feats -- leveled feats -- to achieve this. Fortunately, you can get feats every odd level or so.

O.C.C.s: Last point, the Occupational Character Class is blown up out of proportion in RIFTS. Great idea, poor execution. Similarly, the prestige class has been also blown out of proportion during Wizards' run of the d20 System. In Pathfinder, you don't have this problem, but you're getting into the problem of Class Bloat.

So, basically, you have to limit your class options.

For a Rifts conversion to Pathfinder you will need:

* One Rifts book, you might have several.

* Pathfinder RPG (Paizo)

* Pathfinder's Bestiary and Bestiary 2

* D20 Modern (WotC)

* D20 Modern Weapons Locker (WotC)

* D20 Mecha (Guardians of Order, defunct -- or Dream Pod Nine)

* Dragonstar Players Handbook or D20 Future (for laser and other energy weapons)

to go around the "Theme Park" of Rifts you might find these handy:

Rifts: England -- Pick up a copy of the Arthurian Legend for Pathfinder. I think it's made by RPG Objects. Sprinkle in a copy of (3e) Forgotten Realms -- especially the Dalelands and Cormyr; and simmer. Don't forget the laser weapons!!

Rifts: New West -- Deadlands d20 with D&D monsters, robot horses with carbines sticking out of their noses, and laser guns! :)

Rifts: Japan -- Pick up a copy of BESM d20 and you pretty much crossed the line into Rifts: Japan.

RIFTS: Dinosaur Swamp -- pick up a copy of Prehistoria d20 from RPGnow.

Superheroes: There are strong differences between Mutants and Masterminds and Pathfinder judging by DC Adventures. While you can have Superheroes in RIFTS (ala Heroes Unlimited), Mutants and Masterminds is the d20 System totally rebuilt around the 4 color Superhero Comic genre. Although you can solve some problems with RIFTS using Mutants and Masterminds 3rd edition, your best bet is to convert the entire game of Rifts to Mutants and Masterminds. And given Kevin Seimbedia's mindset while he wrote Rifts, you might be much more successful at doing so than by using Pathfinder as your base.

Yeah it's weird, but if you read Rifts, the whole thing is ridiculous when trying to apply Real World physics. And Mega-Damage makes sense, how? that kind of stuff. Judging how ridiculous the whole game is, Rifts is probably inspired by 4 color comics.

Since even Marvel and DC have "theme park" locations in their universes, they carry on certain antiquated ideas. And even their heroes are ridiculously overpowered (Superman, for instance, is PL 14, while Wonder Woman is PL 15, while Captain Atom might be misjudged by Green Ronin; while the Hulk maybe the most powerful being in either universe in terms of raw, muscular strength!).

Rifts is, quite simply, trying to stick a 4 color-universe made up of square pegs and putting it into circular holes and using a hammer to force them in. The game works, kinda, but you have to suspend your Disbelief when you are exposed to better games.

Everything Else: You're pretty much on your own.

Step-by-step-by-step:

Since Kevin is ridiculously backward in his thoughts about the OGL, you will never ever see an official conversion of Rifts to d20, or Mutants and Masterminds. There is a clause in the OGL that simply says that Wizards has the right to take your work (but everyone else has the same right). However, due to the amount of material that Palladium has published over the years, I can only focus on the classes in the main book. For the rest, you are on your own.

Borgs: There are no rules dealing with Cyborgs in Pathfinder or in Dragon*Star. In d20 Future, however, there are rules dealing with bionic enhancement (they were published in Dungeon once, I believe).

Coalition Stuff: d20 Modern Fast Heroes and Strong Heroes with the Soldier Advanced Class. SAMAS pilots, however, are Mecha Pilots.

Cyber OCCs:

Crazy -- You have Mind over Matter implants that supercharges your brain. I suggest either Smart Heroes or Charismatic Heroes with the MoM implant. Crazies also get a Sanity score and are governed by the Insanity rules found in Call of Chthulu d20.

Cyberknight: Psychic Warrior or Soulknife class with the code of Chivalry. They have cyberarmor bonded to their skin.

Glitter-Boy: Mecha Pilot class from BESM d20 piloting a Glitterboy! :D

Headhunter: Strong Hero, Tough Hero, or Fast Hero with cybernetics. Your typical Shadowrunner.

Juicers: the class that fits the Juicer best is the Fast hero. But remember, they are augmented by chemicals rather than expensive Cyberwear.

Adventurer types:

--- Body Fixer: Dedicated Hero or Smart Hero with medic advanced class.

--- City Rat: Punked hero -- can be replicated with any d20 modern class except Smart.

--- Cyber-Doc: Dedicated hero with medic advanced class specializing in using Cybernetics to treat injury and disease.

--- Operator: Dedicated or Smart hero specializing in mechanics. Might have some psychic powers, in that case, give the player a wild talent feat and pick 3 psionic powers that can be machine related.

--- Rogue Scientist and Scholar: Smart Hero yet again! One specializes in the Sciences and the other the Humanities. Both may overlap.

--- Wilderness Scout: Tough hero all the way with an advanced class based on survival.

--- Vagabond: Catch all concept, may be any d20 modern class.

Magic types:

--- Ley Line Walker: WIZARD class. Not witch, not alchemist, not sorcerer, and not magus! Wizard. Bar none.

--- Mystic: a PC who plays a cleric that has dipped into the Psion class and sorcerer class for a couple of levels.

--- Shifter: Summoner Class from Advanced Player's Guide.

--- Techno-Wizard: Alchemist or Wizard with item-creation feats. However, we all know that the Artificer from Eberron is a better fit. :)

Dragon Hatchlings: Entirely possible to play.

Psychics -- Psychics are given better treatment with the Rifts: Mindscapes supplement. Again, remember, I'm focusing on the main book so. . .

--- Burster: Psion with Control Flames power who has dipped into the Pyrokineticist prestige class.

--- Psi-Stalker: Psychic vampires who feed off of emotional energy. Psions for sure, but they have unique powers that need to be converted over. Telepath is suggested.

--- Dog Pack: There is a whole RPG supplement called Fursona that deals with this and is for Pathfinder.

--- Mind Melter: The PSION melts my mind! see PSIONICS UNLEASHED!

My First DC Adventures scenario

2011-11-30T08:51:00.000-07:00

. . . Was loved by the player.

The player was playing a heroine that is missing an arm and both her legs. She had cybernetic prostheses made for her arm and legs and went crime fighting with her boyfriend, Frosty. However, Frosty was lost in Siberia when she turned 18 and started College.

Now a Theatre Major, she was preparing for the dress rehearsal of A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. On the way there she bumped into Richard (a different version of Nucleon) who was carrying a lot of books. His important books were the Bible and a book on Quantum Physics and he was on his way to his car.

While at the theatre, she prepared the actress who is playing Philia by getting her into costume. The only thing weird was that the actress had a crush on Nucleon and she had a bandaged calf. The play had a run through and the Director was giving notes on the dress rehearsal, telling everyone that they were terrible. She slipped out and met with Richard again.

The two went out for ice cream, and they discussed the Justin Beiber fandom and compared it with Superman and Batman's fandom. He asked about Nucleon, and she couldn't deal with Nucleon's sense of out of date style. In fact, the player character said she would manhandle Superman for his outdated style.

Trouble, however, started in the Art Museum outside, and Richard conveniently went to the bathroom because he said he was a coward. The player stalked off to the Art Museum, talked to the cops which mentioned a Werewolf wearing a sports bra and woman's runners briefs (a.k.a. bloomers or bun huggers). She went in to take care of the Werewolf herself.

While in there, she met Nucleon, who asked if he could help. She grudgingly accepted and the two tracked the werewolf to the Renaissance Gallery where she was holding ten hostages and threatening to bite all ten of them in order to pass on her lycanthropy. The fight started with the player character making a gesture and the werewolf started attacking her.

Well she punched the wolf in mid-air and threw her to the wall. Nucleon put the wolf in a bubble of air while he went to see about the hostages. The bubble popped and the wolf landed on Nucleon's head. Which the wolf enjoyed way too much. After some attempts to grab her tail, the player character kidney punched the wolf, pulled her off and slammed her against the wall again. Knocked out, the PC strangled the werewolf until she passed out, and they delivered her to the police.

Nucleon dropped the girl off at the school Swimming Pool, which was insensitive as far as the PC was concerned and the PC went back to take a shower and get into bed. The adventure ends with her dorm mate telling her that she set up a double date with Josh and Richard for them.

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and the Player ate up all that.

What Would You Do if you had the most powerful copying machine in the world?

2011-11-26T23:00:00.000-07:00

Watch this film.

IT's a good film about copying, and control of information (monopoly).

Naruto and Hinata

2011-11-25T10:58:00.000-07:00

Besides that, I totally see this happening:

I am a big fan of a Naruto and Hinata pairing. But I totally see something like this scene happening in Kishimoto's series. Hinata really likes Naruto, and Sakura thinks Naruto is a jerk. I don't see Sakura changing herself to fit Naruto. But Hinata is more flexible. Therefore, I hope the two get together.

Should the Entertainment Industry go to Sharing?

2011-11-24T09:51:00.000-07:00

The Internet is a world wide copying machine. At the moment, the Entertainment Industry (which includes Hollywood, the Comic Book industry, the RPG "industry," and many others) represented by certain lobbyists, are trying to get the Internet censored in America.

So, after watching this video, it seems that the Intellectual Monopoly Model has been successfully challenged and found to be a dinosaur. So, what model is better for the Entertainment Industry? A model based on Sharing.

Although the word "Profit" is still being taught to children as a good thing, the best way to solve the piracy problem is dump the Intellectual Monopoly model for once and forever. Isn't it better to do this? After all, your computer doesn't know the difference between a Disney Logo and a Quantum Physics paper. It will download both without impunity.

If they shared their IM, they would be a RICHER industry. If people were allowed to write Superman and Spider-man stories without the threat of going to jail, it would generate more interest in the originals and people will read more DC and Marvel titles. All forms of Monopoly over information must be dumped if one wants to preserve the economy of Hollywood. :)

However, if you don't fight for the Internet, Hollywood would cease to exist.

PSION FORCE

2011-11-19T07:47:00.000-07:00

While trying to figure out what to do with my open source character, shaper, it hit me. Why not make a Mutant and Masterminds supplement of a Super Hero team based on the four classes in the Expanded Psionics Handbook, and also the six disciplines?

Meet . . .

PSION FORCE!

This is a team of nine members, all who are students who attended the same Wealth Building seminar. Each specializing in one of the six disciplines of Psionics, and three others specializing in other areas. The team's powers come from the same source -- their indomitable belief in the Potential of the Human Spirit. All of them received their powers after a dream that they had.

The Shaper -- Role: The Driving Force, discipline: Metacreativity. The Shaper has psionic powers that is comparable to Green Lantern's. The shaper can make constructs out of Matter and Energy. The Energy he uses to shape his constructs is Zero Point Energy. Sex: Male. Religion: Spiritual Christian.

The Kineticist -- Role: Raw Energy Blaster. Discipline: Psychokinesis. The Kineticist's powers has to do with energy. He can't shape energy, but he can project it, move objects in space with his mind, cause explosions of energy psionically, that sort of thing. Powers are like Phoenix of the X-Men, or Marvel Boy of the Avengers. Sex: Male. Religion: Hare Krishna.

The Seer: -- Role: Guidance, Discipline: Clairvoyance. A jewish radical activist for Woman's Rights, this woman had spent her energy fighting the patriarchy. She visited the wealth builder conference, and in her dream that night she learned of her true calling. To help guide people to spirituality and better choices. Her powers include clairvoyant powers. She is the sibyl of the team. Sex: female. Religion: Judaism.

The Egoist. Role: Strong Guy. Discipline: Psychometabolism. A body building nurse, this Egoist always wanted to help people. After the Wealth Building seminar, he had a dream and gained psionic healing powers as well as powers that augment his physical attributes. He can also psionically -- and physically -- fuse with another to form a dynamic fighting powerhouse. Sex: male, Religion: Protestant Christian.

The Nomad. Fast hero. Discipline: Psychoportation. Once a world renowned Athlete, this young woman had her day when she ran for the 2008 Olympics. She earned a silver medal for running the 500 yard Dash for the United States. Hard on her luck, she attended the Wealth Building Conference. She gained psionic powers of teleportation and movement (moving things bypassing space). Sex: female, Religion: Buddhist.

The Telepath. Director. Discipline: Telepathy. Once a psycho-analyst, this telepath had a successful practice as a psychiatrist. He attended the wealth building seminar out of curiosity. After all, all he believed in was tangible results and reason. However, in a dream that night, he had his disbelief severely challenged when he received the powers of Telepathy. Sex: male, religion: Atheist.

The Psychic Warrior. Weapon Specialist. A marine, his family fell on hard times after he came back from two tours in Afganistan. He left the army and sought to start a business starting a firing range. He went to the Wealth Building seminar for ideas on how to build wealth. That night, he gained a host of psychic powers. Sex: male, Religion: Protestant Christian.

The Soulknife. Assassin. A woman trained as a CIA assassin, this woman joined the Wealth Building seminar to spy on the speaker to get a line on the head of the business. When she woke up the next morning, she could form a weapon that is the distillation of her own mind. Sex: female, Religion: None.

The Wilder: Uncontrolled woman. A black woman, this girl has emotional outbursts and a troubled marriage back home. She joined the wealth builder seminar because she was seeking a divorce from her alcoholic husband. The next morning, she gained psychic powers. However, some of her powers are connected to her emotions. Sex: female, Religion: Wiccan (Egyptian Mythos -- worships Sehkmet).

Okay, that's all I got for the team right now. Since I got DC Adventures to make this team, expect the Default team to reside in a DC Universe. The Team is open sourced, however, and can reside in any Superhero universe -- DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, any of them. I'll be building a document with them empowered over the weekend. :)

The Church of Ba'al

2011-11-15T07:55:00.000-07:00

After reading Urban Arcana for d20 Modern, I noticed something that I dismissed. It was the Church of Pelor. In Urban Arcana, the Church of Pelor has migrated from the world of Shadow to the Modern World of 21st Century America. However, I realized that it has become very, very important. The Church of Pelor is utterly appropriate for Urban Arcana.

Pelor is Greyhawk's Sun Deity. Ba'al is Earth's Sun Deity.

The Church of Ba'al is alive and well in Modern America. Every Christian in America has been duped into worshipping Ba'al. The Ba'alim, or Priests of Ba'al, have infiltrated the Christian Church in almost every aspect, and have now infiltrated the Church of Christ in America in all denominations and sects. Ba'al worship has replaced Christian Worship and the Priests of Ba'al do good in the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ desires worship of the Most High during the Sabbath.

The true Christian Sabbath is the Lunar Sabbath, which in 2011 is on a Tuesday. Ba'al's Priests however has tricked the Christians into believing that Sunday, and Sunday only, is the Sabbath. They have tricked Christians into believing that since Christ rose on the Sabbath, and that the Sabbath is Sunday.

The Priests of Ba'al whisper good things into the ears of Christians. They proclaim them from oaken pulpits and tell the Christians that they can seek perfection. They tell the Christians that Pornography is a scourge and one must avoid it. They tell the Christians to rely on them for Salvation. They also tell the Christians that it's better to be spiritually prepared for the Second Coming of Christ than it is to be physically prepared.

These Priests of Ba'al have forbidden men and women to marry, they have given heed to seducing spirits, and the doctrines of devils. The priests of Ba'al speak lies in Hypocrisy, and have seared the consciences of Christians with a hot iron. Some of them command to abstain from meats, which was created to be received with thanksgiving of Christians.

Most Atheists have accused Christians of being hypocritical. The Atheists are right, when they are speaking about the priests of Ba'al. Most Christians, however, are in utter confusion. As a Christian myself, the worship of Ba'al is an abomination and must be stopped by Christians if we are to get the United States on Track. However, the priests of Ba'al infiltration into the Church is so complete that it will take a Divine Miracle to do just that.

So, who is Ba'al?

From Wikipedia (not the best source, but the one where you can copy text -- it comes in handy, actually):

Baʿal (Biblical Hebrew בעל, pronounced [ˈbaʕal], usually spelled Baal in English) is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning "master" or "lord"^[1] that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant andAsia Minor, cognate to Akkadian Bēlu. A Baalist or Baalite means a worshipper of Baal.

Ba'al is a title meaning "Master" or "Lord." The false god Ba'al is a canaanite deity from Tyr and Sidon. He is a Sun deity, meaning that the Ba'alim are sun worshippers. However, in Ancient Times, the children of Israel had begun worshipping Ba'al -- calling Yahweh "Ba'al" and offering sacrifices up to Ba'al instead of Yahweh. Eventually, during the reign of King Ahab, Yahweh sent Elijah to prove to the children of Israel that Ba'al was false and that He, Yahweh, was God.

The contest was over sacrifices. It was to see which God listened. The Priests of Ba'al would cry to Ba'al, they importune him, they would finally resort to self mutilation to prove themselves and gain Ba'al's attention. Through all this, Ba'al would not listen. After the Priests of Ba'al have let a lot of blood and exhausted themselves, it was Elijah's turn to call upon Yahweh.

Elijah then would have his bullock drenched with water and then he called upon Yahweh. Yahweh responded by sending "Fire from Heaven" which burned the sacrifice and licked up the water. The "Fire from Heaven" was an Interplanetary thunderbolt of plasma.

After the spectacular display, Elijah slew the priests of Ba'al and the Children of Israel had repented and started to call Yahweh by his rightful name -- YAHWEH and not "Lord." However, that wasn't the end of Ba'al worship. The Ba'alim went underground and infiltrated Judaism again.

After Yahweh came into his mortal form as Yahushua ben Joseph ben Judah and completed his mission, the Priests of Ba'al killed most of his apostles and infiltrated the Church. They've been stuck in the Church of Christ ever since. They have replaced Yahweh with Lord in the Holy Scriptures, and called Yahushua the Lord Jesus Christ -- giving Yahushua the name of another false deity -- Zeus (Iesous -- "HEY ZEUS!"). When the Christian Church was restored (as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), it was so that there would be a people prepared for Yahushua's return.

However, in the 20th Century, the Ba'alim have infiltrated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and have wickedly subsumed the worship of the Christ with the worship of Ba'al. The infiltration is so complete that now Yahushua has to set aside a people from the people he set aside. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was never meant to be popular. The people were meant to be "special" and "peculiar" to the people of the world.

We were meant to be persecuted while we quietly gathered those who would listen so that they will be physically saved for the Second Coming. However, all of this has been undermined. In our zeal to be popular, we have allowed the Ba'alists to infiltrate the Church and takeover the Church. So, the takeover is so complete that we have broken mostly every commandment. We have coveted, we have taken the name of Christ in vain, we have crafted graven images and bowed down to worship them. We do not keep the Sabbath day holy. We have children who speak ill of their parents and fight their parents, we have committed Adultery as a body -- having left the Christ and sought other gods -- the god of Money (Mammon), the god of Popularity, the god of Fear, the goddess and god of Christmas, the goddess Eoster, and the gods of Hallowe'en.

When I found out about our sins, I was shocked! But yes, in our Zeal we have allowed ourselves to go to sleep and not notice the corruption that has taken place. Ba'al is the most worshipped deity in North America. He is worshipped mostly because of confusion of Ba'al over the Christ. However the Christ promised that one day the Ba'alim will be overthrown and that his people will call him Ishi -- or Husband, instead of Ba'al, or Lord.

Merlin, inc.

2011-11-13T08:42:00.000-07:00

The Detective Agency with a little magic, Merlin, inc. is a d20 Modern campaign with a Pathfinder twist. You use d20 Modern to create your character, but Pathfinder rules to do it. Written in the style of a T.V. series, the PCs are hired by Merlin to investigate crimes of a Supernatural nature.

Set in West Valley City and Salt Lake City, the Urban environment, and both downtowns are the perfect place to handle crimes from Shadowkind and to investigate cases of the Unexplained. After all, as things get close, Quantum fluctuations the Ether bring shadowkind to our Earth and century and also magic. It's the PCs job to investigate these weird occurrences as Private Investigators of the Paranormal (no Department 7). The Campaign is an open ended type of show.

Formula: The characters are Private Investigators under Merlin who investigate unexplained phenomena and the Shadowkind culture in Salt Lake City and it's vicinity.

Theme: Should everyone be governed by the Rule of Law?

Tone: A mixture of The Real Ghostbusters, combined with Castle and Mr. Merlin. And, since yours truly is a Martial Artist -- with some of the Martial Arts world combined in. There is some seriousness combined with comedy.

Set Pieces:

Standard Optical corporate headquarters stands in for Merlin, Inc. headquarters. Merlin, Inc. is behind Standard Optical. It's located on 1901 Parkway Boulevard, West Valley City, UT 84119-2092.

The inside of the detective agency.

Other locations:

* Magic Shop

* Prancing Pony on Redwood Road -- the Bugbear owner is a contact. (Wendy's Restaurant is used as a stand in.)
* Draco Industries.
* The Spider's Haunt (Upscale Restaurant).
* Hunter Village -- West Valley City suburb as a home base for the PCs.

Campaign Episodes:

Merlin Inc. 101 -- Ensemble. Premise: The PCs pay a visit to the nearby Prancing Pony on 3500 S. and find that the cash register's takings for the day has been stolen. The proprietor, an elf, hires the PCs to find the missing money. Little do they know that Merlin the Magician, now a Detective looking into retirement, is watching the PCs.

102 -- Focus: PC #1.

103 -- Focus: PC #2.

104 -- Continuity.

105 -- Continuity.

106 -- Focus PC #1.

107 -- Ensemble.

108 -- Focus PC #3.

109 -- Focus PC #4.

110 -- Continuity.

111 -- Ensemble.

112 -- Focus PC #5.

113 -- Change of Pace.

114 -- Ensemble.

115 -- Focus PC #1.

116 -- Focus PC #2.

117 -- Ensemble.

118 -- Continuity.

119 -- Focus PC #3.

120 -- Change of Pace.

121 -- Focus PC #4.

122 -- Ensemble.

123 -- Focus PC #5.

124. Continuity.

125. Continuity -- Series Finale.

A Magical Detective Agency

2011-11-12T07:06:00.000-07:00

I had a dream last night about being apart of a magical detective Agency. I wasn't spell slinging (and who'd want to?) but the agency was a detective agency that dealt with dangers of a magical nature. I dreamed that we were handling an inner city crime. The imagery was inner Salt Lake City or downtown West Valley City in the industrial district.

We were investigating something, and Shirley McLane was in the dream. I explained to her that we called ourselves Rip Tide. This would make an interesting D20 Modern setting.

I had a dream

2011-11-10T07:20:00.000-07:00

I had a dream where Evil had come to my land and I was sent to find someone to battle it. Our valley was invaded by troops with an evil design. They killed all who stood in their way to fight for freedom. Those that were left retreated and they sent one of their own out on a Journey to find someone who can vanquish the evil.

The details were:

There was an Idyllic land, a modern city, and the journey took place over the mountains. The rest is spotty. But I didn't write it down as soon as I woke up. :) There were some symbols I had to step on, though.

Dragon Sketch

2011-11-09T08:31:00.000-07:00

This is a place holder for my dragon sketch, just a sec. Yeah, it doesn't look very good, but my first painting in photoshop with an accursed mouse.

I wish we were living the Law of Consecration so the makers of the Wacom tablets would just give them away! grrr . . . . I hate not having one for this class. Anyway, the mouse isn't the best way to do this, but it's the best I've got.

The dragon is mythological in nature and I am going to refine it the best I can with this mouse. Workflow so far: 1 hr. 30 mins. to do this sketch. I've included Venus and Mars in the picture to show that I'm doing an interplanetary comet made up of the two bodies.

Myth and Roleplaying

2011-11-06T08:12:00.001-07:00

Once there was a hero . . .

Who took up arms . . . .

To save the beautiful princess . . .

From the Dragon.

Thus begins the discussion in the video: "Remembering the End of the World." The video talks about a dozen or so Archetypes that exist in human myth: the Hero, the Princess, the Dragon, the Great and Wise King.

When gamers roleplay, they are taking on the roles of the mythic Archetypes in order to defeat monsters of Chaos -- both real and imagined.

Black Dragon by *BenWootten on deviantART

To say the least, we role-players which to relive the mythic archetypes. In a strong way, we are re-enacting the stories and the legends of the ancient Mythmakers. We are the Hero in the story, off to fight powerful chaos monsters such as the Dragon, or the Chimaera, or the Gorgon. Especially with her long, disheveled hair of snakes. We act the part of Perseus, Hercules, Achilles, Theseus, even Arthur and Saint George.

We relive these Archetypes. But where do they come from? Carl Jung however said that they were deep archetypes, a part of the human psyche that was in borne that couldn't go away. However comparative Mythologist David Talbot has other ideas.

What if the Hero in the story was actually a planet? The planet Mars.

In Roman Mythology, Mars was the God of War and Agriculture. Unlike modern representations of Ares -- as an Evil god who wanted perpetual war and conflict; Mars was was a hero god -- who saved the Princess from the Dragon.

Mars was the prototypical hero. As for the Princess -- what if she was also a planet? The planet Venus. But that still doesn't explain the Chaos Monster or the Good and Wise King. Let us reveal these archetypes for what they are: a planet and a comet. The Good and Wise King, the archetype for all kings here on Earth, is a planet. The planet Saturn.

The Chaos Monster, the Dragon -- a monster who has remained in man's imagination for a very long time -- is a creature that has no basis in the biological world. Part serpent, part bird, part tiger, part leopard -- the dragon is the combination of all life. But it has long flowing hair and is associated with Lightning.

To be fair, the Dragon or Chaos Monster is a comet. A comet of planetary size and proportion . . . once again, the planet Venus. How can the Planet Venus be both the beautiful Princess and the Chaos Monster? In ancient times, the Mother Goddess was also the Goddess of Death and Misfortune. In India, Khali is or was worshipped as the Goddess of Life and Death. The same is true of Aphrodite, who is the Goddess of Love and Death in Greek Mythology. According to the Egyptians, the planet Venus is associated with the Goddess Hathor -- who could turn into the terrible lioness Sekhmet. And the planet Venus is also associated with Isis, the queen of the Gods.

And as for Saturn as the wise and good king of Heaven? In a revelation to Abraham about the stars and the planets Yahweh (Jehovah) revealed: "These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is ^aKolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest."

--- Abraham chapter 3, verse 3.

Most Mormons, who have this revelation, believe that the star Kolob is in the Center of the Universe, or the Center of the Galaxy. However, this tradition is wrong and in error. Kolob is a planet. The planet Saturn.

The word kolob is related to the word qelb, an Arabic word that means to turn around -- to rotate. According to Yahweh, the planet Saturn was meant to be the lesser light (yes, Genesis says it was the moon). The star which was the nearest unto God's throne. It was to be used according to the times and seasons, as one revolution of Saturn's poles was to be as a day unto Yahweh -- one thousand years according to our reckoning here on Earth. In ancient times, Saturn was worshiped by astronomers who were heathens.

Saturn became Osiris to the Egyptians, Saturn to the Romans, Chronus to the Greeks, Huang-di to the Chinese, and Brahma to the Hindus. As the unmovable first sun, Saturn became the prototype for all kings on Earth. The good and wise king, who brought prosperity during Man's golden age -- the Garden and the Time of Perfect Virtue.

These are the archetypes that satisfy Roleplaying, but lets focus on the Dragon for a moment.

I'm interested in Astronomy and Mythology on how they relate. When David Talbot talked about the Dragon being a monster that has no place in nature, it clicked when he said that the dragon was a comet. In China, comets are seen as good luck. However, in Europe, comets were seen as things of dread. They are both these things.

I wanted to model my own dragon, my own representation of the comet Chaos Beast. Although I have the DAZ Eastern Dragon and can use it at any time, modeling my own would be a challenge. I thought I would base it on the paintings of this man in Nikko. He draws the dragon with only two arms and a long sinewy tail. How to accomplish this feat?

By using Pixologic's Z-Brush. Z-brush allows one to sculpt completely in 3D with an orb of modeling clay made out of energy. The program works in billions of polygons, allowing one to sculpt in fine detail. After the initial sculpture is complete, I can paint it (texture it). Afterword, one can export it to DAZ Studio 4 Pro and use the figure setup tools to set the dragon up and articulate it. After this is done, I can then save it in DAZ Studio (with DS presets) in order to prepare the model for sale in the Renderosity Marketplace (DAZ Studio only, however enterprising people should be able to set it up for Poser). Along with it's Maya and Vue counterparts.

The idea is to prepare a creature that represents a comet, seen in the sky. Although uniformatarists scoff at the idea of Cataclysm or Catastrophe -- these are what the archetypes represent. They represent stories of Catastrophe from days gone by.

Why I like the Sodium Attack

2011-11-04T10:01:00.002-07:00

This is why I like the Sodium Attack. :)

Man in Nikko paints a Dragon (re: Electrical current in space) in one stroke

2011-11-03T20:34:00.000-07:00

This is a way cool, way awesome video. Now, don't lie if you want a dragon like this when you go to Nikko.

The Voice from the Garden -- A Vision in Reverse

2011-11-02T11:37:00.000-07:00

Some Millennial Day poetry. Some of you Socialist Americans might dig this poem.

by Jesus E. Moses

I was in the mind of God.
Having communion with the father.
My body asleep.
My mind Quickened.
As though I was fully awake.
No words were spoken.
All was Peace.
I was as filled with Joy as I had never known.
I saw The north American Continent as it is now.
Then I saw My house here in Texas.
The the Ocean had risen to above the roofs.
Only the grain silo protruding from it's depth.
I was looking for My house.
For the water had covered it.
Then I felt that time itself was going back towards Present time.
The water began to recede.
I began to see the roof of my house.
It was leaning to the side.
Time moved more swiftly back toward now.
It came closer to now and slowed.
Then by my house I saw.
The ground was heaving to and fro.
It looked like the ocean as it heaves in a hurricane.
as time moved more I heard the Roar of a mighty earthquake.
I saw my house.
It was falling upright.
Back onto its foundation.
And the roar ceased.
I began to wonder.
I saw a Voice, which cried;
Look over here.

And I saw ALL the nations.
of the World under Christ.
The children were without words
Such as War, murderer, thief, hate,
betrayal, profit, weapons, because there parents did no longer teach them, for there was no longer a use for them,
You see that everyone who had,
Freely gave.
Those who would steal were not stealing
for it was free to take.
There was one law.
Love one another.
ALL of the rich of the old world had given back that portion
That was not theirs. That no one would have need.
I looked for the Voice which I saw.
And He said I was the Voice from the Garden.
I fell toward my knee. And before knee hit.
He lifted me up. And said.
I was That Voice In the garden.
Come you must rest in the library of Adam.
My body awakened.

That's it.
The way I see it.
We have got a choice.
Things aren't set.
We can change.

Energy, the Medium of 3D Computer Art

2011-11-02T09:52:00.001-07:00

27m 12s ago by ~Atlantean6
Journals / Personal

As 3D artists, we are dealing with pure electrical energy.  But that is the key, Energy.  According to Physics, Energy is the ability to perform work.  According to Spirituality -- Energy is the key to everything.  Everything is energy -- a quantum wave of unimaginable possibilities.

Human beings here on Earth (and other intelligent, thinking beings elsewhere in the Universe) all possess Intelligence.  They vibrate at certain frequencies and can change their vibrations at will.  When a human being dies, his or her consciousness jumps to a higher energy level, while their body becomes an organic sculpture that is readily decomposed.   Element are things that can be changed.  To put it simply, Intelligence are things that Act, and Element are things that are acted upon.  Basically, humans have the ability to collapse the Quantum Wave in an infinite number of patterns -- there is nothing a human being cannot do, cannot have, and cannot be.  They can do it Consciously (and become the thing that Athiests don't believe in), or they can do it Unconsciously (and become the thing that Athiests believe in).  Everything is in waves, we just change the unobserved into the observable.

Energy is infinite in the Universe, it's all around us, waiting to be used.  Computer 3D Artists sculpt energy into what they want to do with it.  That's all they do.

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So, I don't know why there is division among 3D Artists.  All 3D Artists work in the EXACT same medium and they use the EXACT same creation process.  Thought -> Visualization -> Emotion -> Action -> Manifest.  Some 3D Artists have a quicker workflow: their workflow from thought to Manifestation is in minutes to hours (they use models purchased from stores like DAZ 3D and Renderosity).  Other 3D Artists have a slower workflow (they do everything from scratch up and work in Maya, 3D Studio, Mudbox, ZBrush, and Cinema4D).  Their workflow from thought to Manifestation is in days (measured in months and years).

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Other artists use Energy as their primary medium, but they also work with matter.  Sculptors of Marble just take away the excess stone.  Clay sculptors just shape and mold clay.  Painters brush oils, acrylics, and watercolors on paper or canvas.  People who make bronze statues just need to pour the molten bronze into molds.  People who draw take pencil to paper, and on down the line.  Computer 3D Artists work in absolute pure Energy.  As long as there are electrons, and electricity (which is energy), we can create anything and have it with Artistic value.

Energy is the ultimate plastic medium.  It can take any shape, any color, any shade, any value.  Matter, which is spent energy, has to be coaxed to be molded.  Energy can be readily molded, shaped, sculpted, cut, formed, kneaded, cooked, baked, rendered, and whatever else to take the shape you need it to be.

Marching towards the Master Rating

2011-10-30T09:07:00.000-07:00

I caught Kerry in a Sodium Attack (Na3 opening move). Seriously, though, Kerry Shirts is the best opponent to practice openings on. :) Chess is a fun game to play, once understand the fact that it's just a game to practice strategy.

It's not a waste of time to practice Chess. There are many openings and mid-games that can progress from the game and can teach you many things. The reason why I practice openings on Kerry Shirts is because he doesn't really sit back and ridicule your openings. I believe that all openings can lead to checkmate of your opponent's king. I proved that I can defeat Napoleon's Opening in the last three Napoleon's Opening games I've played.

enlarging the World of Warcraft

2011-10-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

Azeroth suffers from detailed 3D animation in World of Warcraft. It's highly detailed, but the world is so small. By comparison, the Game Daggerfall has a much larger world achieved with the Doom 3D Game Engine almost twenty years ago.

As a result, the World is miniscule compared to the world of Tamriel as presented in Daggerfall. So, what to do?

Well, one can expand the world and leave the rest small. But that would create a problem. Both continents of Kalimdor and Azeroth is about as big as the Hunter Village subdivision where I live (including the Orchard subdivision). This doesn't include the cities, which are as big as the Orchard Subdivision and part of the Subdivision that is west of us.

At the very most, the whole of Kalimdor and Azeroth is only 25 miles north and south, and 15 miles east to West. This is the dimensions of the Salt Lake Valley. Roughly. So you have about a dozen ecosystems jumbled together without rhyme or reason.

So, what to do? Expand the two Continents of course. A garden world should be as large as Earth to accomodate at least 2 billion people. The Eastern Kingdoms are about as big as Western Europe and a bisected Africa.

Kalimdor is as big as the Eastern United States and part of South America. Mostly a bisected Brazil.

Northrend is about the size of Canada. The gulf between the Continents of Azeroth and Kalimdor is the size of the Atlantic Ocean. Now, a planet as big as Earth will have run away weather and super typhoons if the continents are as big as Azeroth. To stabilize the Weather, there is as yet an undiscovered Super Continent in the Forbidden Sea the size of Eurasia.

Size Enlargements

Lodereon is about the size of France -- including the Western and Eastern Plaguelands. Lodereon is split in half between the Forsaken in the West, and the Argent Dawn in the East. The Scarlet Crusade controls portions in Loderon both West (The Scarlet Monastery) and East (the Scarlet Enclave).

The Forsaken control the Hillsbrad Foothills, which used to be the Nation of Daleran and the Kingdom of Alterac, and the Trisfal Glades. The Forest of Silverpine is a war zone between the Foresaken and the Bloodfang worgen pack. Undercity and Lordereon City is the size of Paris back in the 1700s.

The Hillsbrad Foothills has been taken over by the Foresaken. It's about the size of Austria. The Alterac Highlands are about the size of Switzerland. The Arathi Highlands, which is controlled by the collapsed kingdom of Stromgarde, is about the size of Germany. The Forsaken and the Orcs have two footholds there. But the major inhabitants of the Highlands are the Vilebranch trolls, the ogres, and humans of Stromgarde. Stromgarde itself is as large as Berlin during the 13th Century. Its split between the Syndicate, the ogres, and the Stroms.

The Hinterlands is the size of Hungary and is controlled by the Wildhammer Dwarves, a large population of High Elves, the Witherbark and the Vilebranch tribe of Forest Trolls. The Raventusk trolls help control the Horde's lands in the Hinterlands.

The Kingdom of Gilneas is the most advanced Kingdom in the region with Everburning Lamps, firearms, Victorian fashion, and carriages. it's roughly the size of England and Wales from the Coast of Dover to Hadrian's wall. The City of Gilneas is the size of mid-19th Century London. The Kingdom is a war zone, divided among the humans, the Night Elves, and the Worgen -- both the ravenous Moonrage pack and the shape shifting Greymane pack. The entire kingdom of Gilneas has been reinducted into the Alliance by the Night Elves.

The Kingdom of Quel'thalas is controlled by the Blood Elves. it's the size of Scotland (using Hadrian's Wall as a border again). This includes both Quel'thalas proper and the Ghostlands. Silvermoon City is about the size of Edinborough during the 17th Century. The neighboring Forest Troll kingdom of Zul'Aman is about the size of Poland. The Island of the Sunwell is the size of Orkney Island, and is mostly controlled by the combined forces of the Scryers and the Aldor. The village of the Sun Well itself is about the size of Skara Brae.

SOUTHERN EASTERN KINGDOMS

Across the Thandol Span, the Wetlands is about the size of Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana combined. The Wetlands is dominated by Bayous and mountains, with the Red Dragonflight based in the west. The Twilight Highlands is about the size of Austria. While Technically considered part of Khaz Modan by cartographers, the Twilight Hammer and the Black Dragonflight politically control the land.

The Dwarven Kingdom of Kaz Modan includes the regions of Dun Morogh and Loch Modan. It's the size of the Austria-Hungary Empire (Austria and Hungary combined). south of Dun Morogh and Loch Modan is a desert. The desert that comprises the Badlands, the Searing Gorge and the Burning Steppes is as large as the Sahara Desert. The Searing Gorge, however, is dominated by lava flows from 5 volcanoes. The Bio Diversity there is almost nil thanks to the Black Dragonflight and the Dark Iron dwarves. The Badlands has a biodiversity the size of the Sonora Desert, and the Burning Steppes is a bleak place that is like the Mojave desert and Death Valley combined.

South of the deserts is the Medieval English (early 15th Century) Kingdom of Stormwind. The bastion of human power, the kingdom stretches from Elwynn Forest to the Redrock Mountains, to Duskwood, to Westfall. The Kingdom is the size of Spain, and is technically a Nation with all of it's Armies fighting elsewhere (Alterac Valley, Arathi Basin, and Gilneas) and the Feudal Lords pre-occupied. it's mainly a forest kingdom ringed by Mountains. Since the Cataclysm, roving bands of human hunters in the forests have joined the fray. Duskwood is mostly under control of the Nightbane pack of Worgen. Recently, a number of Greymane worgen have come from Gilneas to reclaim the Nightbane worgen's reason and sanity. They have resettled Raven Hill. The Greymane pack's experiment with Nightbane worgen Sven Yorgen was successful, sort of. Duskwood is the size of Romania.

Beyond Duskwood are the Deadwood Mountains and Deadwood Pass, the Swamp of Sorrows which is a huge Bayou about the size of the Czech Republic where the first battles between orc and man were fought. South of that is the Blasted Lands where the Dark Portal is located. It's about the size of Iraq.

The final piece of the puzzle is Stranglethorne Veil. The size of Niger and Chad put together, Stranglethorne Veil is controlled by jungle trolls. Only the humans of Stormwind have a token presence here, where as the Horde took back a small part of the Darkspear tribe's ancestral lands. Southern Stranglethorne Veil is controlled by the Steamwheedle Cartel of goblins.

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KALIMDOR

Worgen Pathfinderized

2011-10-21T08:40:00.000-07:00

This page updates the Worgen to Pathfinder. Enjoy. :)

In the World of Warcraft The Worgen are an Alliance Race, the inhabitants of Gilneas. As the Graymane Wall kept people out of Gilneas, the Worgen curse had ravaged the inhabitants of Gilneas transforming them all into the deadly Worgen. These werewolves of Azeroth are the humanoid combination of humans and dire wolves, looking much more beastial than human.

The Foresaken fear and revile the Worgen, and the Foresaken Queen Sylvanas Windrunner has marched an army upon the Gilneans and the Greymane tribe of Worgen (at the orders of Garrosh Hellscream). To help fight the Foresaken, a secret druid sect within Darnassus had come to help the Worgen. The Druid sect bring Druidism to Gilneas, which a significant number of Worgen embrace.

With the fall of Gilneas to the Cataclysm, most Worgen and Gilneans escaped to Darnassus with their king, King Genn Greymane. Lord Crowley and a few stayed behind and made alliances with the Worgen pack in Silverpine Forest in order to free Gilneas from the horrors of the Foresaken.

Classes: In World of Warcraft and true to their humanity the Greymane Worgen can become mages, warlocks, warriors, priests, and rogues. The Gilneans also study druidism and know how to hunt. As hunters, their beastial natures can aid the Worgen in their relationship with animals. Especially wolves. A significant number of Graymane Worgen are barbarians because they give in to their animal natures, however not a few are Tinkerers (engineers).

Appearance: Greymane Worgen are the combination of humans and dire wolves. They look mostly humanoid, except with claws on their hands, a wolf's hind legs, and a wolf's head. They are also furred and the average Greymane worgen stands about seven feet in height.

Region: Gilneas. The Greymane Worgen are confined to Gilneas until the Cataclysm brought about by Deathwing. Like Duskwood, the kingdom of Gilneas is plagued by darkness.

Affiliation: Alliance. The Night Elves had come to induct the Worgen into the Alliance. Greymane is their rightful ruler, as they are attacked by the vile Foresaken. The Worgen are now the Alliance's wild, bestial race.

Faith: The Light and the Wyld. Some, or most of the Gilneans still belong to the Church of the Light. The Church of the Light thrives among the Worgen as part of the human heritage. However, Gilneas is the only human kingdom who had humans trained to respect nature. The Druidic Worgen embrace the Wyld and lead a good number of Gilneans to spiritual peace with Azeroth.

Names: the Greymane Worgen use human names or they may use Worgen names for their children. Worgen names include: Whitemane, Furyclaw, Scarpelt, and Greyhide.

Shapechanger Subtype: The Greymane Worgen are humanoids with the Shapechanger subtype.

Strength +2, Constitution +2, Charisma -2. Worgen are mighty, but their bestial natures detracts from their reasoning and their social interaction.
Medium: as medium creatures, the Worgen have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Worgen land base speed is 30 ft.
Shifting (Su): A Greymane worgen has two forms: human and worgen. The base form is worgen. As a standard action, a Greymane Worgen may shift from human to worgen or from worgen to human. This can happen at anytime of the day, thanks to druid Magic and Alchemy. The act of shifting from human to worgen transforms the human into a monster, and gives the worgen the barbarian rage.
Access to Shifter feats: A worgen may gain access to the Shifter feats presented in Races of Eberron and the Eberron Campaign Setting, and may take the Shifter traits of Longtooth, Wildhunt, or Dreamsight.
Claws: The claws that the Worgen has offers 1d4 pts of damage in an unarmed attack.
Low-Light Vision: In Worgen form, Greymane Worgen can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. They retain the ability to discern color and detail under these conditions.
+2 racial bonus on Balance, Climb, and Jump checks: the Worgen's bestial nature enhances many of his physical skills.

Also, the Worgen may take Worgen levels to tap more fully into his Worgen heritage.

GREYMANE WORGEN CLASS

Typically, a Greymane Worgen is a human who has been once bitten by the worgen that overrun Gilneas. The wound festers with active druid magic, changing the human and linking his spirit with that of the Wolf. There are three levels of the Greymane Worgen class that allows the human to tap the beast and gain some of the powers of the Wolf.

Greymane Level

1st. Base Attack: +0 Fort Save: +0, Ref Save: +2, Will Save: +2 Reactive Shifting, Worgen Instincts, +1 Intellect/Intelligence

2nd. Base Attack: +1 Fort Save: +1, Ref Save: +3, Will Save: +2 Wild Run, +1 Spirit/Wisdom

3rd. Base Attack: +2 Fort Save: +1, Ref Save: +4, Will Save: +3 Worgen Ferocity

Hit Die: 1d10.

Skills: 2 + Int. Modifier.

Class Skills: Climb (Str), Handle Animal (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (Gilneas) (Int), Perception (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), Survival (Wis).

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Greymane Worgen with levels in only "Greymane" are proficient only with simple weapons, firearms, and the ability to use light armor. This list excludes all crossbows.

Reactive Shifting: You can shift from human to worgen as an immediate action. This allows you to shift even when flatfooted or when it is not your turn.

Worgen Instincts: Tapping into your animal side grants you a +1 bonus on Perception and Sense Motive checks, and a +2 bonus on Initiative Checks while in Worgen form.

Wild Run: While in worgen form, you can run on all fours like a wild dire wolf and cover great distances. This increases your overland speed to 250 as long as you are on all fours.

Worgen Ferocity: Greymane worgen are tenacious combatants, and you are no different. While in worgen form, you continue to fight without penalty if you are disabled or dying. So, when reduced to 0 hit points, you can act as if you weren't disabled. You do not use one hit point for performing a standard or otherwise strenuous action while at 0 hit points.

When reduced to -1 or -9 hit points, you don't fall unconscious. You do not automatically lose 1 hit point each round when at -1 to -9 hit points. However, when your current hit points drop to -10 or lower, you immediately die.

Atlantis as History 2650

2011-10-18T07:43:00.000-07:00

Atlantis is a myth, the historians say, something concocted by Plato as a morality tale about his ideal Republic. However, so much evidence about the lost Adamic Civilization has come to light that we need to seriously question the mythic implications. Is Atlantis a myth or is it reality?

Many cities that have sunk during the last ice age have been recently found. Implicating high civilization during the Neolithic, or New Stone, Age. Although they didn't leave any records, except those in the World Wide Language, we must take into account that the accounts in Genesis and the Book of Moses are authentic and should be looked at.

The reason is, we are making the same mistakes as the Adamic Civilization did during the beginning of the Age of Cancer. Atheism is rampant, we are not challenging the demoniacs at Bohemian Grove. Our civilization is embracing women's liberation movements, gay rights movements (and even Gay Parades that proudly turn what is right into what is wrong); and we are fighting endless wars that benefit only the State and not the people.

Sexual perversion is rampant, and the State is bringing in Islam -- a vicious political ideology disguised as a religion of peace, to replace Christianity. This free e-course will introduce Atlantis as a viable plane of study. In order to fix the problems of today, we must study the past. This course will start the reader on an Odyssey that will take them into the ancient past. Introducing the Lost Civilization as a reality and challenge the status quo that our Civilization is the pinnacle of human achievement. We are in a position that we can't go forward until we look back, backwards into the Ancient Past.

This first video introduces the concept that Man is actually older than supposed.

My Golarion Campaign

2011-10-15T08:24:00.001-07:00

So, I started a Golarion Campaign last night that was just on the fly. When one of my players mentioned that a land was ruled by wizards that had a lot of Tech, I said -- the land is ruled by psychics. The land in is Numeria.

Numeria is a land where space aged tech have landed and the wizards there are trying to understand it. Actually, Numeria is a land ruled by an oligarchy of wizards who are trying to understand the tech that landed there. Well, never mind the details. I have the book of Races of Eberron and Secrets of Sarlona, it's the perfect time to actually USE them.

Adding five new races to Golarion is easy enough. The races are:
* Warforged
* Shifters
* Changelings
* Kalashtar
* the Inspired.

Warforged in Golarion

Warforged Juggernaut by *BenWootten on deviantART

The Warforged are an invention of the Taldans. Using creation forges, the Warforged were created for a war long ago and now only one Creation Forge is in operation. The Warforged come in many flavors, but the most popular are the standard model and the Scout model. Warforged are found everywhere these days, although the Creation Forges have gone out of operation in most states. The only known working Creation Forge is in Taldor, but there are rumors that Cheliax has a working Creation Forge, as their Warforged are often taught to serve the forces of Evil.

Pathfinder Statistics:

Warforged are a living construct. Use the statistics in Eberron Campaign Setting or Races of Eberron except for these changes.

* +2 Constitution, +2 Strength, -2 Charisma.
* Favored Class: None.

Warforged Scouts are halfing sized living constructs. Use the statistics in Monstrous Manual 3 except for these changes:
* +2 Constitution, +2 Dexterity, -2 Charisma.
* Favored class: none.

Shifters in Golarion

Shifters are found most every place in Golarion, but are mostly found in Nirmanthas. Mostly hidden in the forests rather in the villages, Shifters are seen as an aberration. The result of Lycanthropic mating with humans. Shifters have been able to breed true in the last thousand years.

Shifter Racial Traits: Same as found in the Eberron Campaign Setting (3.5 edition) or Races of Eberron. There is no change except:

* +2 Dexterity, +2 Constitution, -2 Intelligence.
* No favored class.

All shifter traits are present in Golarion. The Dreamsight trait is rarest of all, but Dreamsight shifters are usually the wise men and women of the village and scattered among all shifter communities. The Saartuk shifters in Secrets of Sarlona are found in the Lands of the Linnorm Kings and Varisia out on the isles.

Truedive Shifters are found mainly in Thuvia and atheist Rahadoum, living in coastal villages. Longstride shifters are found running the deserts of Qadira and Osirion; and Wildhunt shifters -- descended from werewolves, are found all over the northern Inner Sea region; while Razorclaw shifters -- descended from were tigers, are found mostly in the Mwangi expanse.

Changelings

Changelings are the result of humans mating with Dopplegangers. Like the Shifters, they've been breeding true for a thousand years. Changelings are found all over and not in great numbers. They usually worship Desna the Mistress of Dreams (becomers), or Norgorber the master of Secrets (Passers). The faction known as Reality Seekers actually worship Irori to follow a path of perfection.

Changeling traits: Use the traits listed in Eberron Campaign Setting or Races of Eberron except for the following changes --

* Natural Linguist -- Changelings add Linguistics to their list of class skills for any class they adopt.
* No favored class.

The Kalashtar

The Kalashtar have escaped the realm of Dreams and have come to Golorion. Well, a piece of their souls at any rate. The Kalashtar are the result of good aligned Quori that have merged with the souls of monastic humans. The place of origin of the Kalashtar is the continent Vudra -- but most Kalashtar have European traits, although there are some with a strong Indian background.

The Kalashtar worship their own religion, the Path of Light; which is considered to be an offshoot of Issaism as practiced in Vudra (which may or may not be true). In the Inner Sea, the Kalashtar are found all over except the Mwangi Expanse. They usually gather in cities, with the highest populations found in Taldor, Absalom, and Osirion. The Kalashtar are actively fighting evil in Cheliax and fighting for their right to worship as they please in Rahadoum. There are no Kalashtar in Qadira since they are persecuted for their religion in Qadira.

Kalashtar Traits:
As in the Eberron Campaign Setting or Races of Eberron. Note that the Kalashtar are naturally psionic. I use the Psionics Unleashed document so they have a full working mind link and access to psionic professions. If you use this campaign guide and do not have Psionics Unleashed Kalashtar can be sorcerers with the Dreamspun bloodline to represent psions.

The Inspired

The Inspired are a race of evil humanoids that have taken over parts of Vudra and created their own little Empire similar to Sarlona. The Inspired have infiltrated Rahadoum and Numeria.

My Dreams last night.

2011-10-15T06:25:00.000-07:00

I was setting up a campaign for Pathfinder that is really out of the fly without any preparation. Until my prospective players said some things that really got my mind going. But first -- my dreams.

It's not every night you dream a combination of a south pacific island with a progressive culture (New Zealand?), Bob Hope, monsters, frog people, jets, and conspiracies. For that actually happened.

I was dreaming last night that something weird was going on at an island on the South Pacific that has to do with frogmen that were trying to infiltrate the government using replicants out of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner) and themselves. Bob Hope found out about it and tried to convince the authorities, who brushed him off. He got me to investigate with him and we investigated a cave with higher tech inside it than normal. Of course, we were driven off by mechanical, monstrous bulls (or was it a dog?).

Still, the frog people revealed themselves and they tried to take over the world. We were going to fly some jets to find out what was happening but then . . . *shrugs.* I woke up.

Lady Robin Hood

2011-10-13T08:49:00.000-07:00

A poster mock up for a possible series on the BBC -- the British Broadcasting Company. If The Adventures of Merlin can mess with with Sir Thomas Mallory's Le Morte D'Arthur, they can go off the wall and do a series with the Earl of Locksley and Marion's Daughter.

Lady Robin Hood, Tuesdays on the BBC 2. :)

Don't worry, the American Broadcasting Company or the National Broadcasting Company will pick it up. haha! Done in Photoshop CS5 with MjRanum's Stock and a photo of the Japanese countryside.

A Tribute to Steve Jobs

2011-10-09T07:39:00.000-07:00

Done with a photo from Wikipedia and stock photos. Entitled:

"Steve Jobs Breaking Through"

Done with Photoshop CS5. Steve Jobs - 1955-2011.

Steve Jobs had Died

2011-10-06T05:26:00.000-07:00

Yeah, it's late, and it's not quite losing a surrogate father (E. Gary Gygax), but Steve Jobs has died. Steve Jobs had started Apple Computer corp back in the 70s. He was one of the flower children that had got Apple turned around in the 90s and finally become a company that can compete with Microsoft Corporation.

With Steve Jobs, Apple had always been on the cutting edge; like introducing the Macintosh a little early. Most of the world wasn't ready for the Macintosh computer when it first came out in 1984. And through the Nineties, Windows became king because most games were written for windows than the Macintosh. However, in the 2000's; Apple started bouncing back with the iPod.

Apple found that it could do better offering computer appliances rather than computers. Although this user doesn't have an iPad (whats up with that?), he is happy with this Macbook and Mac Book Pro. Although tablets are the future (good luck, next year is 2012.) The one thing I'm happy about Steve passing is that he doesn't have to deal with the troubles we are heading into. He's spared the terrible things that are coming and on the other side he can do a lot for the people on the other side.

Pornography

2011-10-02T12:46:00.000-07:00

If anyone out there thinks that they can ban human pornogaphy (photographs of women or men in revealing clothing, provocative nude, or actually performing sex); they have another thing coming. You can't get rid of it that way. It will go way underground and it will be easily found.

Understandably, a woman would feel hurt if she seen her husband viewing human pornography (see above). Nudists like myself understand what the cure is. Going back to an edenic society where everyone is nude. Principally, the added addition of Polygamy according to the Lord's Law will also be an added solvent to the problem.

Pornography isn't a simple violation of the Law of Chastity as people think it is. The man longs to look at other human beings in the nude to remove the mystery of the body. Purists want to keep the body a mystery, thinking that is what the Lord hath commanded when our parents was kicked out of Eden. However, the Lord said moderation in all things -- including covering of the body.

I think we are paying for it when we have gone to the extreme. How do you expel pornography from our society? The cures are laid out by the Lord. Nudism and Polygamy (note: the polygamous man has to be a righteous person to take care of all of his wives). Unfortunately, we the Latter-day Saints rejected both. The first came by the Spirit, so it became a reality among another people (the Germans). The second was a Commandment of the Lord and we rejected the second to gain Statehood. Angered, the Lord took away the priesthood of the Leadership of the Church. So, we have pornography as a persistent pollution until we come to terms that Polyamorous love is what is needed for the human race to progress.

Yahweh will have a humble, believing people; and he will get a humble, believing people even if He has to chastise us with nuclear weapons.

Book of Jubilees

2011-10-02T11:03:00.000-07:00

The Book of Jubilees is apocryphal. Meaning it is not accepted as scripture by any Authority. However, the Book of Jubilees has some details about the close of the Age of Cancer and the Age of Gemini.

For instance in the Book of Jubilees, Canaan was given as his portion the land of Morocco and Niger (West Africa). However, Canaan settled in Palestine instead because of it's richness and fertility. His brothers Mizraim (husband of Egyptus, the founder of Egypt) and Cush (father of the Black Africans) warned him about settling in Palestine. But he ignored them and his father, Ham. Ham cursed Canaan for not taking his allotment and instead usurping a small portion of Shem's inheritance.

This curse was not fulfilled until the Lord gave Canaan to Abraham and his descendants the Israelites. So, Canaan had a double curse upon him. Not only was he to serve the sons of Shem and the sons of Japheth, but he and his seed were cursed for usurping Palestine for themselves instead of settling in West Africa like they were supposed too.

Can the Apocrypha be trusted? not totally. Some of it requires personal revelation to read. Reading the passage about ham having discourse with his son about setting Palestine and not Morocco is telling of Ham's character. Ham loved his brothers. When Canaan usurped Palestine from Shem, he took part of Shem's inheritance (The Fertile Crescent and Americas comprise all of Shem's inheritance) rather than what was rightfully his.

Ham is worthy of his Celestial Inheritance and this passage in the Jubilees proves it. Ham was a prophet who cursed his son for stealing land from his uncle. From Canaan will eventually come the Hittites and the Khitai -- the people of Cathay or China.

If Canaan did settle in the land of West Africa, however, his sons will still settle in Turkey and then still travel to China. Although they will have built boats and sailed down the Mediterranean and into the Aegean Sea and settle Turkey. And then, they moved east.

The First Day of October

2011-10-01T07:40:00.001-07:00

and it has been quite a week.

This is the fourth day I used my new MacBook that I received from school. The MacBook is an old stock that comes loaded with some programs -- Adobe CS5 and Office 2008. As such, my old MacBook Pro still works satisfactorily and I networked both of them together.

As I use my MacBook for school and work, the pro has taken on a role for rendering. As I have them networked together, I can play my iTunes library on my new mac while using DAZ Studio on the other, just to show off.

Also, on this day, General Conference is supposed to convene. I am waiting for baited breath, not on what they say. But on what would happen. The Father or the Christ are going to cause the Salt Lake Valley to shake and shake violently.

The Parowan Prophet says its supposed to happen today, since its the third year of Obama's reign in the White House (yes, I say reign). I believe the Prophet, but I believe Christ. Christ has his own time table as to when this happens. Whether Salt Lake City shakes today or next year, it doesn't matter really on the Prophet's veracity as a prophet. His primary job is to warn the people of our sins and abominations.

1/10/2011 @ 4:35 am And not many days away and Salt Lake City shall shake violently and another river shall appear and flow into the valley. Not the Jordan River from Utah County. But a new river shall begin small and become a large river.
“Say that Salt Lake City shall soon be shaken back to its foundations. Waters shall flow forth from the mountains and the wise shall perish. The wicked to be burned as a new river will appear and grow the seasons. The temple destroyed with the new river of blood. Fire and floods shall make a man cry. Hidden valleys will bring new waters. Good trees will grow upon desolate lands. Fish will swim in the Great Lake. Fishers will search them. The last shall be the first. The deaf and blind will see and hear. The earth will shake and rest. The rest shall be shaken. Women will cry and be happy. And men will be happy to die. And the bees shall search for the fruits of the trees. What is written will be spoken that ye may read. Resist God and ye shall lose. Lose thyself and find God. Blind dogs will eat their own vomit. From ashes will come beauty. The Eagle will be plucked. The bride will show her jewels. So God will rejoice. I come in the fire. Tares in the fire will clean the earth. And trees shall rejoice when the orchard is burned. When smoke is gone. Then men will live. And brides will have a new song. The avenger will rejoice. Prepare for that day. Great stink in the desolate cities. As mountains are laid low. Egypt’s plagues will return.”

Yes, I know, it's heavy stuff. However, the Earthquake is to shake the people. The time of separating the wheat from the tares is now. Pretty soon, however, I should have a new comic to publish on this blog, or it's own blog, I haven't chosen yet.

Thoughts about Idolatry

2011-09-24T12:38:00.000-07:00

I just thought of something. All the paintings of Christ might be hindering us to seek his face. A picture of Christ is an idolatry because it gets in the way of seeking his face. We are commanded and privileged to seek his face so that we know without a doubt that he is the Christ.

Images and idols doth make us draw away from him. I now undersand why he wants to get rid of the Christus statue in the North Visitor's Center and to grind it to dust. If I were him, I'd be angry at an idealized statue of me too, when I want to reveal myself to my servants so that they know without a doubt.

The statue is idolized because we think it's an awesome thing. People worship it, they direct their emotions to the Christus. I understand that it's just a statue, a lifeless rock that is carved in the likeness of the Christ and it deflects the people's devotion away from the Christ. I asked myself, if I met him face to face and talked with him face to face, would I change? I would say that no one who has seen his face would not be changed by the experience.

I had a dream that my brother took on the likeness of Christ. Not his exact face, but a likeness unto the Christ (last night, my youngest brother). I came away from the dream, with my concerns about him relieved. My youngest brother will have Yah's name written on his forehead and that he will be taken care of.

As for any Atheists that read my blog, I have learned some interesting things in my philosophy class. So, my advice is for you to ignore this post and don't comment. If I hear one: "Are we to believe in unicorns, and fairies now?" I'll post an article about the Infinite Universe.

Design Thoughts, BESM d20 skills to Pathfinder

2011-09-22T07:35:00.000-07:00

To convert the list of skills in BESM d20 to Pathfinder, you have to start with Pathfinder and then add skills from BESM d20. BESM d20 skills are in red.

Pathfinder's List:

Acrobatics
Appraise
Bluff
Climb
Computer Use
Craft
Controlled Breathing
Demolitions
Diplomacy
Disable Device
Disguise
Drive
Escape Artist
Fly?

Forgery

Gamble
Handle Animal
*Heal*
Intimidate
Investigate
Knowledge (Arcana)

Knowledge (Architecture)

Knowledge (Biological Sciences)
Knowledge (Business)
Knowledge (Cultural Arts)
Knowledge (Domestic Arts)
Knowledge (Dungeoneering)Knowledge (Electronics)
Knowledge (Foreign Culture)
Knowledge (Geography)
Knowledge (History)
Knowledge (Law)
Knowledge (Local)
Knowledge (Mechanics)
Knowledge (Military Sciences)
Knowledge (Nature)
Knowledge (Nobility)
Knowledge (Occult)
Knowldge (Physical Sciences)
*Knowledge (Planes)*
Knowledge (Police Sciences)
Knowledge (Religion)
Knowledge (Social Sciences)
Knowledge (Streetwise)
Linguistics
Medical
Navigate
Open Lock
Perception
Perform
Pilot
Poisons
Power Usage
Powerlifting
Profession
Repair
Research
Ride
Sense Motive
Sleight of Hand
*Spellcraft*
Stealth
Survival
Swim
Use Magic Device

Combat Skills
Archery
Gun Combat
Heavy Weapons
Melee Attack
Melee Defense
Ranged Defense
Special Ranged Attack
Thrown Weapons
Unarmed Attack
Unarmed Defense
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The new skills from BESM d20 increase, as they are taken from d20 Modern. You will notice a few skills have asterisks around them. This is simply because they are subsumed into other skills. Heal is subsumed into Medical, and Spellcraft is subsumed into Knowledge (Arcana). Fly has a question mark because of the Pilot skill. Should it be subsumed or not?

BESM d20 has a skill called Wilderness Tracking. This has been subsumed by the Survival skill. If you notice, there is a skill called Controlled Breathing. This could work for Autohypnosis. Also, in Pathfinder Psionics, part of Spellcraft also have been subsumed into Knowledge (Psionics).

Skills are easy. Feats are the hard part. :)

Atlantean Technology, Continued

2011-09-21T11:00:00.000-07:00

Atlantean Sonic Pistol: A sonic pistol or gun has several frequencies that can be used for defensive or offensive applications on the battlefield. The pistol itself consists of a handheld speaker that is 6 in. by 6 in. It is constructed around a miniature ZPE converter for power. The pistol itself consists of a handheld speaker that is 6 in. by 6 in. A device constructed around the converter allows the user to adjust the frequency. The sonic waves can be concentrated to be comparable to a Glock 17 9mm autoloader pistol. The spell, Protection from Energy and the like can provide protection from the sonic pistol.

Knockdown Frequency
The sonic pistol delivers an attack that is comparable to the Improved Bull Rush feat on a successful attack. Range increment: 30 ft.

Stun Frquency
The Sonic Pistol can be calibrated to deliver an attack that stuns your opponent for 1d6 rounds on a successful attack roll. Range increment: 30 ft.

Suggestion Frequency
The sonic pistol can be technologically built to deliver a powerful suggestion per the spell or telepathic power suggestion (links to the spell). The suggestion is transmitted directly and only to the person hearing it, and has a DC equal to 19. Since it's technological and not magical, spell resistance is ignored. Range Increment: 90 ft.

Hurting Frequency
Damage: 2d6
Critical: 20
Type: Energy (sonic)
Range Increment: 30 ft.
Size:Small
Purchase DC: 18
Notes: Protection from Energy offers a bonus of +4 AC vs. the Sonic Pistol for 10 minutes.

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Atlantean Sonic Cannon
A larger version of the Atlantean Sonic pistol is the Sonic Cannon. It is placed in and on a car, van, or a truck the size of a Hummer 2. The sonic cannon consists of larger speakers that deliver powerful sonic waves that can be dangerous to buildings. Although not a weapon of mass destruction like a biological weapon, a chemical weapon, or a nuclear weapon; the Atlantean Sonic Cannon is a sonic application of cannon technology. It has two frequencies: Suggestion and Destroying.

Mass Suggestion Frequency
The Sonic Cannon can be surreptitiously used to implant a suggestion in a large number of people as per the spell or telepathic power Mass Suggestion (links to the spell). This effect ignores spell resistance and has a Save DC equal to 26. Range increment: 300 ft.

Destroying Frequency
The Sonic Waves can be concentrated into a frequency that will vibrate most constructions apart. The waves will knock down an army of men per the Improved Bull Rush feat.
Damage: 2d6x100
Critical: 20
Type: Energy (sonic)
Range Increment: 300 ft.
Size: Gargantuan
Purchase DC: 35

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Firearms: Atlantis has a large number of firearms. Rather than make up fire arms with Atlantean names, I suggest that the player pick up a copy of the Weapons Locker for d20 Modern and use the pistols and machine guns in that book for use. If the Weapons Locker is unavailable, then use the Firearms table in the d20 Modern SRD downloadable from Wizards of the Coast.

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Energy Weapons, Other

Other Energy Weapons are not beyond the Atlanteans' capabilities. However, to stay within the realm of our own possibility, you have to assume that only Ion Cannons and Laser Cannons are currently probable. Ion Cannons have been developed by Nikolai Tesla, so they aren't beyond 20th Century technology. Laser cannons, or the Heat Ray, have been in fiction since at least the publication of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

This is a 'good' use of a 5 million volt electron accelerator.

However, lets go beyond our capability and say that the Atlanteans had at least, energy rifles.

Laser Rifle: A laser rifle is able to fire a beam of light through Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation; that causes heat damage comparable to a Browning M2HB. The rifle is fully portable, and contains it's own miniature Orgone Converter. The generator is capable of generating 5 million volts and fires a concentrated beam of light energy. No backpack required. Sound is added for effect (chu! :) ).

Damage: 2d12
Critical: 20
Damage Type: Fire
Range Increment: 110 feet
Rate of Fire: One continuous beam
Power Source: Orgonite Energy Clip
Size: Large
Weight: 12 lbs.
Purchase DC: 22

Ion Rifle: An Ion Rifle fires a concentrated beam of electrons at your enemy (beta radiation). The rifle consists of a miniature particle accelerator, and the high energy electrons causes as much X-Rays and Gamma Rays as a bolt of lightning. The power source uses the same miniature Orgone Converter as the laser rifle. Sound is comparable to a crack of thunder, but not deafening.

Damage: 2d8
Critical: 20
Damage Type: Electricity
Range Increment: 110 feet
Rate of Fire: Single
Power Source: Orgonite Energy Clip
Size: Large
Wieght: 13 lbs.
Purchase DC: 24

Gauss Plasma Rifle: A plasma rifle that is lot a like the Ion Rifle, except its much more unwieldy. It uses magnetism to fire high energy projectiles at your opponent. The Gauss Plasma Rifle is more dangerous than the Plasma Shotgun.

Damage: 2d12
Critical: 20
Damage Type: Ballistic
Range Increment: 220 ft.
Rate of Fire: Single
Magazine: Linked.
Power source: Orgonite Energy Clip
Size: Huge
Weight: 50 lbs.
Purchase DC: 75

Plasma Shotgun: A weapon capable of firing a packet of high energy ions, like the Ion Rifle. It's a Guass Plasma Rifle toned down.

Damage: 2d8
Critical: 20
Damage Type: Fire
Range Increment: 30 ft.
Rate of Fire: Single
Power Source: Orgonite Energy Clip
Size: Large
Weight: 8 lbs.
Purchase DC: 17

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Vehicles of Peace and Vehicles of War

People laughed at Noah for building a ship that wasn't anywhere near water. So, the Atlanteans had ships to convey themselves across the water. They also had cars, trucks, vans, SUVs, and trains. But none of these depended on the Internal Combustion Engine, while Steam Locomotives would not use coal. All of these would use ZPE or Orgone Energy converters. There were jets too. And this is where we step off the realms of what is Hard Science and go into more realms of Speculative Science.

Conveyances

Atlantean Submarine: The Atlantean Submarine is much like the Los Angeles class submarine (links to naval-technology.com) in the U.S. Navy. It's packing 362 ft. of waterproofed steel, and displaces 6,818 long tons of water when submerged. Atlantean Submarines are self propelled by Orgone converters through independent crystal matrices.
Speed: 20 Knots (23 mph) on the surface, 20 Knots submerged with 33 Knots capable.
Purchase DC: 90

Atlantean Technology

2011-09-21T08:21:00.000-07:00

In my Atlantis Roleplaying Game, in which the adventurers go out and adventure in the Age of Leo, you'll come across tech that is not beyond our current possibilities. And some tech that is beyond our current possibilities (or too expensive to really develop). Atlantean technology depends on converting Zero Point Energy, or Orgone Energy --- the energy that is currently around us -- into electrical energy.

Although Stargate: Atlantis shows Atlanteans taking advantage of whole sub-universes in a Zero Point Module it is perfectly within 20th Century technology to make electricity from the air. This documentary tells how scientists: one within my own hometown. Thomas Henry Moray, of Salt Lake City, had managed to harness Zero Point Energy.

Atlantis used technology that is still within our ability to create. They tapped Zero Point Energy -- sometimes called Vril Energy, or Orgone Energy. Energy at the Zero Point is all around us. There is enough energy in your room to power your city for a while. And it never runs out. While Thomas Henry Moray figured out ways to tap ZPE directly, Doctor Whilem Riche created Orgone Accumulators made of organic and metallic materials that were alternated. These would accumulate and concentrate ZPE which could be used to accelerate healing and give a sense of well being. With this in mind, lets venture into Atlantean Technology.

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Power Production

The Atlanteans of the Age of Leo were able to tap into Free Energy. It is unknown whether they used petroleum products first or they just went after Zero Point Energy without tapping petroleum from the Earth; but they were able to use free Energy. They did it with Lemurian Seed Crystals -- or Quartz Crystals that are at least the size of your forearm; using Tesla Coils and probably a manmade substance called Orgonite; since Thomas Moray's technology hasn't been properly explained as the man was hounded when he developed his technology for the rest of his adult life.

The Crystal was set in a base of orgonite, and the Tesla coil was wrapped around it. The ZPE would accumulate around the crystal and cause it to resonate. Electrons would accumulate around the coil according to a particular resonance, say 432 hertz or 528 hertz, and transmit as electricity (yes, this sounds far fetched, but it's not impossible to test this claim). The generators were housed in pyramids, and power was transmitted through the air in order to power the area equal to 5 U.S. States. And you don't have to be hooked up to the power grid, a small generator could be used to power your home.

In fact, smaller crystals arranged in certain patterns could become computers, or if it is cheaper to create an integrated circuit, Atlanteans could create integrated circuitry and create computers that are not unlike the computer used to type up this Blog. Did the Atlanteans have movies and television? It's quite possible they did and they used them for both good and evil. Did they have radio? It's quite possible they did since Radio uses electrical patterns at radio frequencies to transmit information. Did the Atlanteans have an internet? If they had computers, they most certainly did have an internet. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that they had such devices. Although if the Atlantean Civilization had technology comparable to ours it is not beyond the realm of possibility that they would have movies, television, radio, and the world's largest copying machine.

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Metallurgy

By Anita Martinz from Klagenfurt, Austria, via Wikimedia Commons

The Atlanteans relied on a substance called Orichalcum. It's unknown what this substance is, although my Latin dictionary reports that its brass. Orichalcum is a metal that is not on the periodic table of Elements. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, and in the right proportions could theoretically become the red metal that is orichalcum. However, Plato could be wrong since the only real example of red copper is cuprous oxide (link to Chemguide UK).

The only other metal that could be strong enough to work, but isn't red at all, is Titanium. And there is another problem. Out of Place Artifacts from the era are made of alloys of the strangest combinations but there has been no examples of prehistoric brass that fit Plato's description. Probably there are properties of brass that we clearly don't know other than it's uses for decoration. Perhaps brass was used for orgonite, although makers of orgonite today prefer copper and steel.

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Weapons

It is all possible that Atlanteans used stainless steel and titanium steel to make their weapons of war. Out of Place Artifacts show that the Atlanteans did have knowledge of these metals and could smelt them and work them. But if their technology was comparable to ours, they would have sonic energy weapons as hand held lasers and particle beams are so far out of our range (but not impossible).

A weapon that could concentrate and deliver a high energy sonic pulse is not out of range of our technology as long as the generator could be portable and there was a range of frequencies one can choose. A laser rifle cannot be hand held nor can a particle beam rifle could be hand held. These were used on vehicle mounts.

While swords were certainly used, a sonic hand-held pistol can concentrate enough force to knock a man down or cause internal damage within the body depending on the resonate frequency

Sonic Pistol

Is Roleplaying a Geeky activity?

2011-09-15T13:46:00.000-07:00

Quite simply put. . . no, not actually. Roleplaying is not a geeky activity, it's a social activity. While you don't see roleplayers getting gold medals during the Olympics, Roleplaying Games harkens back to the Olympian Games and the Pythian Games where stage actors actually competed.

Not there is any competition in playing Dungeons and Dragons anyway. But the value of roleplaying is the fact that you get to create a character and actually roleplay that character through problems and situations that the gamemaster presents.

So far, in my Pathfinder Game, I have been presenting problems to my players that they would have have to solve. The problems have been different and provides them with opportunities to solve these problems. So far, only one character is overpowered (it's our ranger) in regards to the rest of the group. the GM, me, has been so far unable to defeat her. Lucky me.

So, if playing roleplaying games is geeky, then lets say that playing football is geeky. Roleplaying is a form of amateur dramatics that harkens back to the Olympian and Pythian Games. You are put on stage in Hamlet, where you have no script to play -- just that the Director just gives you the problem and have you work it out through Roleplay.

it's a lot like Who's Line Is It Anyway? and similar television shows. Without the audience. :)

Why Leo? Understanding the Signs of the Zodiac

2011-09-14T15:11:00.000-07:00

So, why the Age of Leo for setting a Roleplaying Game? Why not Virgo the Virgin, or Cancer the Crab, or Pisces the fish? To understand that is to understand precession. Every 26,000 years or so the Earth wobbles on it's axis. It goes through a slow wobbling. 1 degree of precession equals 72 years, the approximate age of a human lifetime.

Each Sign is significant to the Age of the Earth. When the Earth was created and born from the God Star Saturn, like a baby is born from it's Mother, you could say that each age or epoch was counted through that time. Every Ancient Civilization from the Chinese to the Indians, to the Aztecs and the Romans and even the Israelites look towards a golden age of Myth and Wonder.

The Bible itself has two accounts of Creation, and the Latter-day Saints has three. One of these accounts was witnessed by humans, the other two accounts were not witnessed by humans except through second hand account -- witnessing the creation by revelation after it had happened. In ancient records we see that humankind is recorded through the precession of the Zodiac in the Ages of Virgo, Leo, Cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Aries, and Pisces -- with the Age of Aquarius coming up in a few years (next year?).

The Age of Virgo -- 14,000 BC to 12,000 BC.

The Age of Virgo is the Mesolithic Age on the Earth. Many humans recorded what they saw on the caves. Such as Lascaux Cave in France. They were realists, depicting what they saw and the hunts that they participated in.

In Eden, the Colony of Elohim was first established. It was a golden age, an age when the Elohim were still Gods, but working to create themselves into mortals by eating of the trees in Eden. For however long it took them, the transition between the Age of Virgo to the Age of Leo was a powerful Cataclysm. Suddenly the realists of the Mesolithic Age found themselves in the Age of Leo. This Cataclysm was marked in the Bible as the appearance of two great lights in the sky. The first to rule the day (the sun) and the second to rule the night (Saturn).

The Age of Leo -- 12,000 BC to 10,000 BC

The Age of Leo is marked by a sky of Wonders. Adam and his wives were expelled from Eden because one of the wives had relations with something, or someone, vile. They came out and started a colony. The Age of Leo, although officially became known as the Neolithic Age, was marked by 2,000 years of invention.

The Wheel. Domesticated crops. Domesticated animals. Stonemasonry. Crime and War (Cain slew Able). Atheism(?) (Cain again). Devilishness (Satan coming among the Children of Adam). Metallurgy (Cainites). the building of some Megalithic sites (the Sphinx, Baelbek, possibly Stonehenge). The first cities (Nod, Jericho, Ain Gazal, Catal Huyuk, etc.). Adam died(?) during sometime in the middle of the Age of Leo. During the last half of the Age of Leo, the City of Zion was founded.

Zion is an American Socialist's dream. No poor among the people of Zion. They were of one heart, and one mind between one another. There was no division, no poor or inequality. Everyone had what they needed. Sooner than later, the World came against Zion to slay the people -- every man, woman, and child. Eventually, Zion was taken up into the Heavens.

Neolithic Artists, however, changed their focus from Realism to Surrealism. They recorded wheels, etheric sites, and many others. The Age of Leo came to an end when Zion was taken up, and people reported that Zion had fled.

The Age of Cancer -- 10,000 BC to 8,000 BC

The Age of Cancer is marked by Cataclysm. During the Age of Cancer, Noah was warned to build an Ark. During the building of the Ark, people laughed at Noah.

People would say he is crazy. However, the Earth had filled with violence. The Earth ranged with people who made war as easily as anyone who can really count. People were killing each other.

Noah and his 3 sons built the Ark. They had help from the Giants, but speed wasn't important. He would spend time warning the people about the Great Flood that is coming. People would laugh at him and say he's just a crazy old man building the Ark so far away from any water (the people knew about Navigation). But Noah and his sons continued. At the end of building of the Ark, Noah shut himself up in the Ark along with baby animals of every kind and seeds of every kind (not species, kinds).

Then the Flood came. Through the flood, the Earth separated from Saturn and came to it's present orbit over time (some years were counted as 250 days, for instance). The people were surprised, but they were caught up in their own destruction.

After this, Noah and his children, the animals, and the plants recolonized the world. Noah's sons colonized the world soon after that.

Anti-Gravity: used by the Ancients

2011-09-11T14:28:00.000-07:00

Our Ancient forefathers were smarter than we give them credit. Anti-gravity we tend to think of as impossible. However, magnetic fields can either be strong enough to suspend a frog, or magnetic polarities can be altered.

We know that every time the Earth flips its poles, cooling lava will orient it's magnetic bits towards the North pole. When the North pole is at Geographical North, the orientation will be towards Geographical North. When the pole is in Geographical south, the orientation will be towards geographical south. We are also learning that gravity has nothing to do with mass, but electrical currents. There were several times in Earth's past when the gravity was smaller than it presently is.

One time is recent, it is said, when the Olympic Games were inducted at Olympia (mythically, it is said, by Herakles). Humans could jump higher and faster during that time circa 800 BC than they could now. The Olympic Games was inducted to celebrate these seemingly Superhuman feats.

However, how did the Ancients ever build the megalithic structures we find around the world? The temple at Yonaguni, the Pyramids at Giza, Ba'albek, and many other sites (including Stonehenge)? Did they just use simple pulleys, A-frames, and other simple tools? Or did they use the mysterious properties of magnetism and electricity? How was the Coral Castle built and how did a thin framed man did it with only simple tools?

Simple. He used magnetic levitation. We do it expensively in physics labs, however he did it inexpensively, proving that you can create a megalithic structure by simply levitating the blocks and putting it into place.

The Ancients used magnetic levitation to place all the blocks. Although there were giants in the land, to be sure, magnetic levitation was the main way of lifting multi-ton blocks and placing them precisely. They did it by changing the magnetic polarity in the stone so it would repel the Earth at a certain rate. All the ancients had was pulleys, cables (made from copper or iron, depending the availability of these ores), a teepee frame, and ropes.

The applications of Antigravity is endless. It can revolutionize the construction industry. One can use magnetic levitation to lift large concrete slabs using cheeper cranes instead of expensive ones designed to last. You can also use magnetic levitation to lift vehicles. In fact, this is already happening in the event of the maglev trains found in Germany and Japan. You can use it for airplanes as well.

Here is a special on the Coral Castle, linked from Youtube, that should explain everything.

The Order of Enoch, is it Socialist?

2011-09-10T11:50:00.000-07:00

So it would seem that many scholars are proclaiming the Christ to be socialist. These are noteworthy scholars in many Christian universities, even in BYU.   Christ does state many ideas in the New Testament that seem socialistic in nature. However, do you notice anything about the Master of Masters?

People say he hated the rich. He actually loved the rich. If you read his encounter with the Young Rich Man -- he bade the young rich man to sell everything he had and to give to the poor and to become a disciple. The rich man couldn't, he loved money more than he loved God. This is exactly the same as Christ asking a certain Mormon to take off his underwear. Christ was asking the young rich man to give up what he loved the most.

Christ said that it's harder for a Rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven for the camel to go through the eye of a needle. It was this statement that Christ is often quoted for being a socialist. Why? Because socialists believe the Rich should pay their fair share so that poverty can go away.   However, if socialists would watch the original movie Sabrina where Bogie describes the reasons why he was creating a plastics plant in Puerto Rico was so that little kids could have shoes and go to school. He was creating jobs (profit can be either evil or good, depending on how you look at it).

So, lets talk about and compare two systems of Economics. The Order of Enoch and Marxist Communism. Now people get these two mixed up, but one has to do with Central Planning and Collectivists calling the shots, the other having to do with the Individual.   They are both as far apart as the geographical poles.

The Order of Enoch will be in blue, Marxist Communism in red.

Property: Privately Owned under the Order of Enoch, except for certain community services. These would be public utilities that will be operated by co-operation efforts.

Under Marxism, the property is state owned and state regulated. The state owns your house, your bathroom, your toilet, and your computer.

Profits: Your rewards for your accomplishments are retained by you according to the Order of Enoch. It is retained, "according to his family, according to his circumstances and his desires." Surpluses are then to be voluntarily donated to the common treasury of the Order (Scriptures paraphrased by me -- and his desires actually reads his wants and his needs).

Under Marxism, you aren't allowed any sort of a reward for your hard work. The rewards are taken away and doled out to everyone, even if one's lazy. In other words, you are forced to donate to the common treasury of the People.

Participation: Voluntary under the Order of Enoch. Each man owns his individual stewardship and may discontinue at any time by withdrawing his stewardship from the order. (See D&C 51:5).

Forced. In a Socialist Amerika, for example, the penalty for attempting to leave the system and flee from the country is death.

The Family: Is made the basic social unit of the Order of Enoch. It's fixed upon family members the reciprocal obligation of looking after their material needs for one another. The order took over only when the family had failed for some reason.

Marxists advocate abolition of the family. They want marriage and familial relations outlawed. They want children to be raised by the state from "cradle to grave."

Personal Security: Made paramount in the Order. You will have the right to possess title to all property held in a stewardship permitted to each man to enjoy full independence even to the point of taking his stwardship out of the system if so desired.

The marxists will completely subborn your personal security. You will comply and work for the state or you will have no place to live and no property of your own. It's that simple. Oh wait, under marxism you won't have any personal property. Sorry about that.

Competition: Encouraged! Each man or woman may attempt to prove himself. Say you built a plant that creates antigravity vehicles. Under the Order of Enoch, your friend can build a plant that builds antigravity vehicles cheaper and faster.   And the anti-gravity vehicles they have are of much better quality. This is competition. Can you build them faster and cheaper than he can? Sure! Will the government step in and impose regulations? Absolutely not.

FORBIDDEN under Marxism. No one can be better than anyone else, the government regulates and centralizes everything so that if you have a better idea or can do it better, you can't do it.

Supervision: Highly decentralized, the Order of Enoch is individualistic. So, each man is given a wide latitude as to the manner in which he will develop and progress. The judgement is on the bishop of the Church on the final results.

Under Marxism, supervision is highly centralized and set up so those who have certain advantages can't get ahead of those who don't.

Morals and Religion: These were the Foundation of the Order of Enoch. Respect for God and his priesthood was paramount of the Order of Enoch. Respect for other religious beliefs go hand in hand. Under the Order of Enoch, if you are Wiccan you can be Wiccan. Accordingly, if you worshipped Buddha or the philosophy of the Jains, you can retain your beliefs. You can even be a Flat-Earth Atheist in the strongest possible way imaginable.

Marxists believe that "Religion is the opium of the people!" The notion that Christ came to Earth to save us from our sins and our death is superstitious claptrap. No, you can't be a Wiccan. No you can't be a Buddhist. No, you can't be Muslim. No, you can't be a Jain. You can be a Unitarian.

The reason why so many scholars have confused the Order of Enoch with Communism is because so many people misunderstood the economic order of the Early Christians and have assumed that Christ is now teaching Communism. Really this is a misconception. Jesus Christ is an Individualist. He wants us to work out our own salvation with Him. Communists and Marxists are Collectivists, they want a short cut for everyone to get back to heaven -- even if they deny heaven in the first place.

Communists say everyone is saved, whether they want to believe or not; do it or not. For the Individualist, salvation is an Individual, personal responsibility.

Does Random Mutation add to the Genome?

2011-09-09T08:23:00.000-07:00

The human body has 42 chromosomes arranged into 23 pairs.

Wheat has 42 chromosomes, arranged into 23 pairs. Sugar cane has 80 chromosomes, arranged into 40 pairs. However, the question is, can random mutation and random selection add information to the genome?

This is a question that requires experimentation. But are we allowed to experiment? Can we even ask the question first that invites experimentation? Neo-Evolutionists say that over time, through natural selection of random mutations, we changed ourselves from primordial soup into this -- a living human being. But the question is the same: can it be proved through experiments that the genome can be added upon by random mutation?

Experiments on evolution must be done in order to prove it. The Fossil record isn't enough, or the theory isn't theory. The Scientific Method is a tried and true way of proving any hypothesis as theory. I would like to challenge any serious Scientist to apply the scientific method into evolving a species into another species by random selection.

The genome of the species to be evolved must be counted: chromosomes must be counted in pairs and then the species must be selected for random mutation. Careful observations must be made as to whether or not the number of chromosomes has changed. will the species chosen advance to a higher order of life without the invervention of man?

If an experiment can be successfully done, then Evolution can be proved as a Theory and that random mutation can add to the Chromosome count of a species and change it to a higher order of life. :) Perhaps its time to work on a new wild grain to make it domestic. Again.

My Rifts Campaign

2011-09-08T10:52:00.000-07:00

Alright. I don't claim that I wrote Rifts, I couldn't write it the way that Kevin has even if I tried. He put everything in it, including the Kitchen Sink. So, if I ran around saying that I wrote it, everyone would know that I didn't and I'd look like a fool.

But then I think Siembieda is a fool anyhow for instituting a fanwork ban and a ban on Rules Conversions. He lives on a planet with an Internet. He lives on a planet with a copy machine so efficient and so undiscriminating that his attempts at preventing everyone from using his world their way makes him look foolish anyhow. But who's counting? Putting a trademark on everything in the book is really stupid anyhow since Copyright Law does not cover rules on how to play a game. (Sorry, Kevin. But at least you wised up and release PDFs when WotC went DUMB!)

And creates a good case to get rid of Trademark Law. It's an abuse of the Trademark Law to trademark everything in your game system. Duh! Thus here is my version of Rifts.

Too play in my version of Rifts you will need:
* One Copy of Rifts
* One copy of Rifts World Book 2: Atlantis
* One copy of Macross II: The Roleplaying Game
* One copy of Rifts World Book 14: New West
* One copy of Rifts World Book 3: England
* One Copy of the Macross II Sourcebook with the VF-XX on the cover.
* One copy of Robotech II: The Sentinels RPG

Okay, I think that's everything you'll need. Since in the Shadow Chronicles, the REF goes out to find Rick Hunter to bring back the SDF-3, you can expect the SDF-3 returning to the world of Robotech Earth. Doesn't mean that some of the Izacuchi space carriers defolded outside Rifts Earth. Along with their counterparts in the Macross world.

Players would be members of the REF or the UN Spacy, which merged together as one organization at the Time of Rifts Earth. They built a new Moon Base which to stage patrols around Earth Space. The REF and U.N. Spacey will establish bases on the Earth as well to face the new threat -- Atlantis. There are four major bases in North America and one major base in what is now Argentina. Yes, Mutants in Space is totally ignored and Earth Space is defended by the U.N. Spacey and the REF.

The four bases are located in --
* The Adirondack Mountains. This is a U.N. Spacy Base. Here, U.N. Spacy Mecha are manufactured at a secret location. The base is actually located around Hurricane Mountain. Mecha produced is the Variable Fighter VF-2JA Atmospheric Fighter and the Valkyrie II VF-2SS Standard Space Fighter.

* The Uinta Mountains in Utah. The U.N. Spacy took over the old Flaming Gorge Dam and got it operating again. The base is located outside Vernal, Utah in Dinosaur Country. Here, in a secret factory, REF Mecha (the Alpha and Beta Fighters -- VAF 6C, VAF 6J, and VAF 6R, along with cyclones) are mass produced and tested over the Salt Lake Desert and the Salt Lake City Radiation Zone.

Salt Lake City suffered two earthquakes within fifteen days of each other before the time of Chaos Earth. After two megaton bombs fell on the city, wiping out millions, a third Earthquake happened and covered the valley with water from underground. The People of the Desert don't exist in this campaign. The REF found the old Dugway Proving Grounds -- used by the USAF for testing production jet fighters -- perfect for testing production Alpha and Beta fighters.

The U.N. Spacy only has a presence in Vernal and Park City. Beyond this, the code of the New West reigns. However, the U.N. Spacy has been working to unite the State. But the State, let alone the region, has been hard to bring law and order to.

* Anchorage, Alaska Base. Anchorage Alaska was destroyed during the nuclear exchange. 300 years later, the U.N. Spacy has taken the city and built a base here. Here, the Metal Siren Valkyrie, the VF-XX Zentran Space Fighter, and the Mechanized Robot Infantry (i.e. Destroids) are mass produced. The better looking part of the base is used as an embassy to deal with Lemuria and Agartha.

* Prince Edward Island base. The U.N. Spacy has set up a Deployment Base here against Atlantis. Here, the U.N. Spacy deploys against Atlantis in order to defeat Atlantis. In order to be more effective, the U.N. Spacy built two Aircraft Carriers designed after the new U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers dubbed the UNS Enterprise and the UNS Intrepid. Wierdly, the USS Ticonderoga leaves the Enterprise and the Intrepid alone.

* North Argentine Base. The U.N. Spacy has set up another base for Staging Operations against Atlantis. This is the second base where the Enterprise and the Intrepid go to refuel and for repairs.

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Player Character Guidelines of the Rifts Earth U.N. Spacy:

Allowed Races

The U.N. Spacy recruits only those races who want to defend the Earth and are able to pilot U.N. Spacy mecha. The races include:
Human -- see Rifts.
Zentraedi (Zentran and Meltran) Macross II RPG
from Conversion book 1
* Canine: Wolfen
* Elves
* Orcs (especially of the World of Warcraft variety)
* Faerie Folk: Most Faeries are very angry with the Spluggorth (spluggies) taking their people and enslaving them for PPE batteries. Faerie Folk who work for the REF tend to be --
** Common Faeries
** Green Wood Faeries
** Night-elf Faerie
** Silver Bells Faeries

They make for great reconnaissance for the UN Spacy, and are typically equipped with miniature radios. An UN Spacy/REF Faerie that signs up are used for reconnaissance and espionage.

* True Atlantean

Allowed OCCs

Variable Fighter Pilot (Macross II RPG page 96)
REF Military Specialist (Invid Invasion and Robotech II: Sentinels RPG)
REF Biomechanical Engineer
UN Spacy Communications Engineer
REF Cyclone Rider (Infantry)
REF Destroid Pilot
UN Spacy Field Scientist

Ley Line Walker
Shifter
Mystic
Technowizard

Psychics
Nega-Psychic
Psychic Warrior

OCCS from Atlantis
* Rogue T-Men

Technological Revolutions of the Age of Leo

2011-09-06T14:50:00.000-07:00

Although I discuss the technology of the Stone Age, there are a couple of technologies from that time that are worth noting. Especially the Agricultural and Domestication revolutions, and the wheel!

Domestication -- was it God or was it You-Know-What?

Scientists say that the Agricultural Revolution occured in the Middle East and then spread to Europe. The problems with wild cereals and our domestic cereals are often brought up in Television programs about that time in History. Most notably, Stories from the Stone Age. How did we get from wild cereals to domesticated wheat and barley?


Corn. Where is it's ancestral grass?

Simply, we are the victims of a shell game if we are led to believe that humans did a process of selection with the gardens and wheat fields they planted and we somehow got domesticated varieties from their wild predecessors. What is worse that corn, or maize, ancestral plant has never been located. And maize depends entirely on humans in order to grow. This is a scientific fact. Every botantist knows that maize is a cultigen -- a domesticated species entirely dependent on humans to grow and flourish.

Our scientists have not been able to find the wild variety of maize. So how can this be if the Agricultural Revolution took place in the Age of Leo? After all, maize is a form of wild grass, much like it's cousins. So there isn't a good reason why it's ancestral wild grass is extinct.

The second hole in the puzzle of plant domestication is that we haven't been able to produce another cereal grain from wild grass in the whole history of the world! Maslin and mullet not withstanding. So, the question is, how did our ancestors perform such a feat? Sources say that Cain was a farmer, but how and where did the first and second generation of Adam's seed ever get these cereal crops and where did they come from if they had no prior experience with genetics? And even if you believe that Adam is a superstitious myth, where did a bunch of Natufians ever get their domestic cereal crops from wild grasses?

You-know-what has to come in the picture somehow. You can't think that the Natufians ever lacked experience in plant breeding. They had to have figured it out. They had to have genetically engineer the grasses if you ignore all the other possibilities. After all, wild wheat and barley have 7 chromosomes, and this increased to 42 in their domestic varieties -- their genetic code increased by a factor of 6! Sugar Cane, another grass, had only 10 chromosomes. But the domesticated variety has it's chromosomal count increased to 80. This is a factor of 8! What is going on here? How did the Natufians ever figure out genetics if they are unsophisticated? It had to be genetic engineering or the other -- who is regarded as superstition by many scientists.

Animal Domestication

How did we get a dairy cow from this?

How did we get a dog from a wolf? How did we get a dairy cow from a wild aurochs? Why are these two animals bred from aggressive stock -- one still living the other made extinct? After all, a bunch of Natufians are still going to get a wolf if they raise a baby wolf. And the Europeans are still going to get an aurochs if they raise a baby aurochs.

You have to change whole groups of genes to get Canis lupis familaris from Canis lupis. Similarly, you have to do the same to get Bos taurus from Bos primigenius primigenius. So how did they accomplish it? And why are we insulting our intelligence by assuming that the Natufians and the Europeans back in the New Stone Age were a bunch of people that accomplished this by crossbreeding? You-know-what had to have been accomplished by Natufians and Europeans to produce the docile dairy cow and the familiar dog.

The Wheel
I touched on the wheel beforehand. So I said it before, and I'll say it again. The wheel was not invented by the Sumerians! The Wheel came from the Neolithic Age, not the Sumerians. Why? Because there are etheric wheels in cave and primitive art everywhere. We are fools to ignore the fact that ancient human testimony called for a planetary constellation in our Northern Sky. All simple machines are pretty easy to figure out from Earth geography. Except the wheel.

In ancient times, the Age of Leo was known as the First Time by the Egyptians. A time when three planets were in a great constellation in our Northern Sky. The Artists did not get their inspiration of the wheel from the nature all around them. all they had to do was look up. The artisans only had to look up.

In an inspired act of art imitates nature, Artisans made the wheel after looking up and imitating what they saw by carving wood or stone. Disbelievers may scoff and say that humans invented the wheel by saying they saw a bone twirl in the air. This is nonsense, a modern myth inspired by the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey and the same book by Arthur C. Clark. Arthur C. Clark never did see the ancient cave art of the neolithic times, nor did he come to the conclusion that there was three planets in our sky in a great constellation. The Wheel was invented during the Age of Leo and not by the Sumerians (who are the descendants of Elam).

Racial Templates during the Age of Leo

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Race Relations in the Age of Leo means that there were several different races. Human DNA, however, was losing information from what it was in the Distant Past. Since the setting is in the Age of Leo, you can expect that there were several different races during the time of Atlantis. During the Age of Leo, humans had larger brains, bigger brain cases, and more robust faces.

Races in the Age of Leo pretty much include: Giant humans, Lemurians, Atlanteans, Half-Atlanteans, and Homo Sapiens. Other races: such as elves, halflings, and such; would be Dimensional Beings or Astronauts from other civilizations beyond the stars. These are Race templates for use in the game.

HUMANS

The Humans of Earth are split into four races during the Age of Leo. Homo gigantes which were a giant human (called Giants in the Earth in the Bible), the Atlanteans, the Caananites, the Khitanni, and Homo sapiens. Human characters range from scientists, to adventurers, to the occasional (and rare) 21st Century transplant in the form of a high school student.

Human Racial Template
Except for H. gigantes, all humans have the same template in game terms. In culture, the four human races have different tendencies. The traits are:

+2 to One Ability Score: Human characters get a +2 bonus to one ability score of their choice at creation to represent their varied nature. (1 point)
Medium: Humans are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size. (0 Points)
Normal Speed: Humans have a base speed of 30 feet. (0 points)
Bonus Feat: Humans select one extra feat at 1st level. (2 points)
Skilled: Humans gain an additional skill rank at first level and one additional rank whenever they gain a level. (3 points)
Languages: Humans begin play speaking The World Wide Language. Humans with high Intelligence scores can choose any languages they want (except secret languages, such as Druidic).
Total Value: 6 character points.
Final Cost: 0 character points.

Atlanteans

Atlanteans, which includes Lemurians, are those people which are descended from the loins of Seth and his wife, and also Eve his mother. They are a calm, nordic people who are white. The race of Atlanteans have great longevity, as in the case of Adam, who lived a thousand years before dying. They are inventive, relentless, and scientifically minded.

Physically, they represent the human norm. About six feet tall and about 150 lbs. in weight. A mighty people based in the Americas, Atlanteans have spread out forming colonies in Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia. The largest colonies of Atlantean culture are in Atlantis, Lemuria, and Zion. The Atlantean genes will live on in the descendants of Shem and his wife, and those Indo-Europeans that favor Japheth.

Canaanites

The Canaanites, despite what others would have you believe, are not the Beasts of the Field. They are descendants of Cain, some of his brothers, and Lilith -- Adam's third wife. Their features match those of the African. Black, impulsive, quick to feel emotion, the Canaanites had founded colonies in Mu and northern Africa. Although the true Canaanites are smiths and are able to work all manner of metals (the descendants of Cain), the greater Black race have destroyed an entire nation of people who lived in tents. As a result, the colony in North Africa was punished. Their nation had become cursed to be no longer green.

The Canaanites also have the distinction of creating the first instance of Organized Crime. Cain and his brothers created the first secret organization in which Cain planned and executed the first murder. Canaanites resemble the people of Kush. They are dark skinned, ranging from brown to black. They were the first city builders, building the city of Nod near the land of Mu. They range from 5 ft tall to about 6 ft 5 inches tall. The Canaanite genes will live on in the descendants of Ham, more specifically in those who would settle in India and sub-Saharan Africa.

The Egyptians, as we know them, favor their father Ham over the Canaanite, Egyptian princess he married. They will be white, with red hair and maybe a little blonde. However, they will be cursed according to the Priesthood.

The Khitanni

The Khitanni are the seed of Sarah, Adam's second wife. They have formed colonies in Asia, specifically Xian and Shan-gri-La as well as what we call China. They are an industrious people, able to copy most anything anyone puts out. They are also mystical, having beliefs in circular philosophies.

The Khitanni have yellow skin and distinct facial features. Their eyes are slits, they have black, straight hair, and they are about five feet six inches tall to about five feet eleven inches tall.
The Khitanni genes will live on in those Indo-Europeans who favor Japheth's wife and the Hittites. Eventually, colonies in Asia after the great flood will become present day China. To this day, the Chinese honor Noah in the form of a goddess named Nu-Wa.

H. Sapiens

H. Sapiens represents a mixture of these races and the "Beasts of the Field" spoken of in the Bible. They will make up the Heathen Nations spread throughout the world. H. Sapiens are the cave men, the stone age cultures of hunter gathers and farmers during the Age of Leo located in Europe and the Middle East. H. Sapiens include the Natufian culture as well as the Hunter Gatherers of Europe, Prehistoric Europeans. H. Sapiens evolved from monkey stock that may have been tinkered with to spur evolution (there are 250 genes in the human genome that cannot be accounted for).

Life is brutish and short for these people. However, they do produce fair daughters which attract men of the other races, above. H. Sapiens are characterized by their height, which varies between 3 feet (dwarves), to about seven feet tall. H. Sapiens are as smart, and as industrious as we are. H. sapiens genes live on in the RH Factor in the blood of most humans today, meaning that somewhere in the line of patriarchs there were intermixing with the "Beasts of the Field."

Homo Gigantes

Giant Humans, H. Gigantes, are a genetically engineered race by Atlantean or Khitanni design. Purposefully created, they are large of stature by doubling the human genome. H. Gigantes have 84 chromosomes instead of the usual 42. Giant humans were used to help build megalithic monuments including Baalbek. Giant humans may be of H. Sapiens stock instead of the stock of the other three races. These Giants are engineered to stand 12 feet to 20 feet tall.

Little is known about the Giants in the days of the Age of Leo. It is known that some of them became men of great renown, as the heroes of old. We have only skeletons and pictures of excavations, though, to prove that they exist. Called the Nephilim in the bible, they are not the product of Angels mating with the children of Men. Rather, they are genetically engineered purposefully to have 84 chromosomes. Question is, do the giants live on? Well, in the case of Goliath they did, although Goliath was only a dwarf -- nine feet tall -- compared to his mother and father and siblings. Which means someone did genetic experiments after the flood.

Giant Racial Template:

Of Large stature: Giants are of large stature (about double that of humans) and have the Giant subtype. (3 Character Points)
+2 to one Ability Score: Giants are the result of doubling the human chromosome. So they are still human in every way possible. (1 point)
Increased Speed: Giant humans have a speed of 50 feet. (Point cost: 2)
Bonus Feat: Giant humans also select one extra feet at 1st level (2 points)
Languages: Giants begin by speaking the World Wide Language. Giants with high intelligence scores may choose any language they want.
Total value: 8 points
Final Cost: 2

DIMENSIONAL BEINGS AND CROSSOVERS
For GMs who want a really weird game, their could have been other races that could exist in your game. Races such as elves, shapechangers, dwarves, and halflings are not at all impossible in a game based on pure fantasy.

Dragon Folk

Dragonborn by ~grandanvil on deviant ART

Dragon folk have the reptilian features of dragons with a humanoid frame. Appearing to be the descendants of a great Dragon God, the dragon folk have crossed into Earth either by dimensional gate crossing or by more fanciful means.

The Dragon folk have colonies in Europe, South Africa, and possibly Mu. Dragonfolk stand about six feet tall and range from golden in color to a rich red brown. They are mystics and warriors, capable of learning the Wizardly arts and the arts of the blade. There are no Dragon Folk fossils that have been found.

Dragon Folk Template:

Ability Scores: +2 strength (1 Character Point), +2 Charisma (1 character point)
Base Movement: Dragon Folk move at 30 feet. (0 Character Point)
Dragon Skilled: The Dragon Folk are highly skilled, and have one rank of Highly Skilled (1 point)
Dragon Training: Dragon Folk have one rank of Attack Combat Mastery (3 points)
Dragon Breath: Dragon folk have a special attack that is freezing, acidic, fiery, plasmatic, or poisonous. (damage 1d8, Flare, Spreading, Short Range, Toxic) (4 points)
Languages: Dragon Folk start out knowing Draconic. They can learn the World Wide Language also. (0 points)
Total Value: 9 points.
Final Cost: 3 Character Points.

Dwarves

dwarf by ~shonensan on deviant ART

Dwarves are from another world in another dimension. They are a stoic race that are found in colonies in Eastern Europe. More than any other race, the dwarves have acquired a reputation as dour and humorless craftsmen of the earth. It could be said that dwarven history shapes the dark disposition of many dwarves, for they reside in high mountains and dangerous realms below the earth, constantly at war with giants, goblins, and other such horrors.

Dwarves are a short and stocky race, and stand about a foot shorter than most humans, with wide, compact bodies that account for their burly appearance. Male and female dwarves pride themselves
on the length of their hair, and men often decorate their beards with a variety of clasps and intricate braids. A cleanshaven male dwarf is a sure sign of madness, or worse—no one familiar with their race trusts a beardless dwarf. If there are any Dwarven fossils, they would be no different from that of a small human's.

Dwarf Racial Template:

+2 Constitution (+1 point), +2 Wisdom (+1 point), –2 Charisma (-1 point): Dwarves are both tough and wise, but also a bit gruff.
Medium: Dwarves are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size. (0 points)
Slow and Steady: Dwarves have a base speed of 20 feet, but their speed is never modified by armor or encumbrance. (-1 point)
Darkvision: Dwarves can see in the dark up to 60 feet. (see darkvision) (+1 point).
Defensive Training: Dwarves get a +4 dodge bonus to AC against monsters of the giant subtype. (+2 points)
Greed: Dwarves receive a +2 racial bonus on Appraise skill checks made to determine the price of nonmagical goods that contain precious metals or gemstones. (+1 point)
Hardy: Dwarves receive a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against poison, spells, and spell-like abilities. (+1 point)
Stability: Dwarves receive one rank in Defense Combat Mastery. (2 points)
Weapon Familiarity: Dwarves are proficient with battleaxes, heavy picks, and warhammers, and treat any weapon with the word “dwarven” in its name as a martial weapon. (0 point)
Languages: Dwarves begin play speaking Common and Dwarven. Dwarves with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Giant, Gnome, Goblin, Orc, Terran, and Undercommon. (0 point)
Total Value: 6 character points
Final Cost: 0 Character Points

NEXT: More races of Atlantis favoring the fantastic side.

Thieves, Soulknives, and Inventors

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A continuation of occupational templates for Atlantis.

Mystic (Martial Artist class)

Girl MONK by *el-grimlock on deviant ART

Template cost: 15 points
Stats: Str 15, Dex 13, Con 13, Int 16, Wis 13, Cha 11

Attributes:
Combat Mastery +1, Damn Healthy! +1, Heightened Awareness +1, Highly Skilled +2, Speed +1, Special Attack: Raging Thunder Dragon Fist +1 (1d8 damage; Incapacitating, Extra Energy, Melee)

Choose 2 Defects:
Attack Restriction (Code of Honor) +1, Marked (Tattoos of Dragons around both arms) +3, Nemesis (Mystic from a Rival School) +1, Unique Character Defect (Poverty) +1

Skills:
Acrobatics +5, Climb +6, Craft: Votive Objects +7, Knowledge: Area (Lemuria) +7, Knowledge: Area (Atlantis) +7, Knowledge: Area (Khittan) +7, Knowledge: Religion (Mysticism) +7, Linguistics (World Wide Language) +7, Perception +5, Sense Motive +5, Swim +6, Unarmed Attack +1, Unarmed Defense +1

Feats: Combat Martial Arts, Power Attack

When Cain killed Abel in order to gain what he owned: his flocks and his wife; man's inhumanity to man had showed itself. Since then, man has always worked hard to find ways of killing each other. To our credit, we always worked out ways of defending ourselves from those that would do us harm. During the Age of Leo, this is not even different.

Wandering Mystics from Khittan (China) believe in a circular philosophy. Although they come from a barbarian Kingdom, they may wander to Atlantis or Lemuria or both to teach them the secrets of Mysticism. Some Mystics feel that they have an adventurer's heart and join an adventuring party to see more of the world and to increase their knowledge of cultures outside of Atlantis, Lemuria, or Khittan.

Necromancer (Dynamic Sorcerer class)

Template Cost: 15 Character points
Stats: Str 13, Dex 11, Con 9, Int 15, Wis 14, Cha 17

Attributes:
Aura of Command +1 or Exorcism (Undead) +1, Dynamic Sorcery (Class Feature) +1, Extra Energy +1, Highly Skilled +1, Magical Technique (Magical Blood) +1, Personal Gear +1, Pet Monster (Skeleton) +1

Restriction (Aura of Command to Undead) +2 Choose two Defects:
Easily Distracted (Corpses and Ossuaries) +1, Marked (scars) +1, Not so Strong +1, Not so Tough +1, Physically Unappealing +1, Reoccuring Nightmares +1, Skeleton in the Closet +1

Skills:
Appraise +6, Craft: Likenesses +6, Intimidate +7, Knowledge: Arcane (Spellcraft) +6, Knowledge: Biological Sciences (Human Anatomy) +6, Knowledge: Occult +6, Survival +3, Ranged Attack +1, Ranged Defense +1

Feats: Dazzling Display, Power Attack

Spells (Choose 12 slots of spells from 0 to second level, see Dyamic d20 Magic for DC casting costs), spells can come from these schools and from the Cleric list --
Abjuration, Divination, Conjuration, Necromancy, and Universal

Necromancy, the art of communicating with and summoning the dead, may have had its start in the Middle East. Excavations have found that the Natufian culture had carefully buried their dead within their own homes and removed the skulls sometime afterward. In Leonine Jericho and 'Ain Ghazal, the inhabitants there would plaster the skulls of their dead to create a likeness of the dead person. There was definitely an Ancestor Worship cult in the Middle East. This eventually spread to Europe with the building of Ossuaries, where the dead where kept.

So, Necromancers come from the heathen nations of Europe and the Middle East. While not necessarily evil, his or her grim demeanor often does not win them very many friends. Most would distrust the necromancer, seeing him as "unnatural" or even blasphemous in their dealings with the Spirit World. Nevertheless, necromancers can be quite useful, since they can create armies of minions from dead bodies, as well as gain information by speaking with the spirits of the departed. They will sometimes choose to become adventurers as a way to test their abilities, as well as to acquire powerful Items of Power to aid them in their grim research.

Thief (Adventurer Class)

Template Cost: 5 Character Points
Stats: Str 13, Dex 17, Con 10, Int 15, Wis 13, Cha 12

Attributes:
Art of Distraction +1, Sneak Attack (Special Attack 1d8; Accurate, Concealable, Melee) +1, Heightened Awareness +1, Highly Skilled +2, Organizational Ties (Guild of Thieves) +1, Personal Gear +1

Pick two Defects: Easily Distracted (Wealth) +1, Not so Strong +1, Owned by Organization (Guild of Thieves) +1, Wanted +1

Skills:
Acrobatics +7, Bluff +5, Climb +5, Craft: Traps +6, Disable Device +7, Disguise +5, Escape Artist +7, Knowledge: Area (City of Atlantis) +6, Linguistics (World Wide Language) +6, Sense Motive +5, Swim +5, Melee Attack (Dagger) +1, Melee Defense (Dagger) +1

Feats: Dodge, Power Attack

Since men became sensual and devilish there will be thieves who lie and steal. The thief is a lithe, roguish, and often acrobatic outlaw who lives by his or her wits, charm, and light fingers. Some thieves steal from anyone, while others prefer to rob only wicked folk. They make natural adventurers. Both their skills and their general demeanours are well-suited to a life of dungeon delving. In addition, thieves commonly have a weakness for wealth, which is often found in great abundance in ruins and similar locales, making them ideal places to explore — and loot. Thieves often have a sinister reputation. Even the noblest among them (and there are such unusual individuals) find it hard to convince ordinary people that they use their larcenous abilities only for good ends. Consequently, thieves are often unwelcome in civilized settlements. Agents of the law are never far behind them, making it hard for thieves to put down permanent roots.

Psychic Warrior (Adventurer Class)

Template Cost: 15 Character Points
Stats: Str 15, Dex 11, Con 16, Int 12, Wis 10, Cha 14

Attributes:
Aura of Command +1, Dynamic Sorcery (Psionics Based) +1, Extra Energy +1, Highly Skilled +1, Mind Shield +1, Metapsionics (Heightened Power) +1

Pick two Defects: Girl/Guy Magnet +1, Famous +1, Ism (Psionism) +1, Reoccuring Nightmares +1

Skills:
Autohypnosis +4, Climb +6, Intimidate +6, Knowledge: Arcane (Psionics) +5, Knowledge: Physical Sciences (Quantum Mechanics) +5, Sense Motive +4, Melee Attack (Crystal Sword) +1, Melee Defense (Round Shield) +1, Swim +6

Feats: Power Attack, Focused Sunder

Powers: Choose 3 1st level powers from the Psychic Warrior list in Psionics Unleashed! or the Expanded Psionics Handbook, energy points are analogous to Power Points.

In Atlantis, Psychic Warriors are trained to be shock troops and Marines. In effect, Psychic Warriors are the Atlantean answer to the U.S. Army Rangers and U.S. Navy Seals. They are often sent in when the battle needs winning. Psychic Warriors are trained by both Atlantis and Lemuria to turn the tide of battle for their armies. Psychic Warriors who leave the armies will often become mercenaries or adventurers in their own right. Fighting for whatever cause, or whatever side. Many adventuring Psychic Warriors are soldiers of fortune.

Engineer (Tech Genius Class)

Template Cost: 10 Character Points
Stats: Str 10, Dex 13, Con 12, Int 17, Wis 15, Cha 11

Attributes:
Aura of Command +1, Computer Scanning +1, Highly Skilled +1, Mechanical Genius +1, Personal Gear +1, Wealth +1,

Choose 2 Defects: Achilles Heel (wasp stings) +1, Concentration (Computer Scanning) +1, Nemesis (rival Engineer) +1, Significant Other +2

Skills:
Computer Use +7, Demolitions +7, Disable Device +5, Drive +5, Knowledge: Electronics +7, Knowledge: Physical Sciences (Higher Mathematics) +7, Knowledge: Physical Sciences (Geography) +4, Linguistics (World Wide Language) +7, Profession: Mecha Engineer +6, Sense Motive +3, Research +7

Feats: Endurance, Lightning Reflexes

Whatever they are telling you, they are wrong about Man's ability to create and invent. Mankind has had a big brain for at least 60 thousand years, perhaps more. Atlantean Engineers are every bit as smart, or smarter, than our Engineers. To say that the Stone Age lasted longer and there was a gradual evolution is a terrible conceit. Many artifacts that are out of place (including the World Wide Language itself) attest to man's ingenuity in prehistoric times.

Atlantean Engineers were able to build the Pyramids, carve the first lion statue (the Great Sphinx) and calculate Longitude. They were also able to build Weapons of Abomination (nuclear weapons) and create Nuclear Plants. Also among their accomplishments was domestication: Atlantean Engineers genetically engineered the grasses (rice, wheat, rye, barley) into domesticated forms and create the dog, the feathered Troodon, and the Dairy cow. They were able to perfect the crystal technologies that Atlantis was famous for. Adventuring engineers are tech geniuses: specializing in maintaining mecha, doing surveys for Megalithic building, or doing field experiments. Unfortunately, a fraction of Engineers are Mad Scientists.